In Vladivostok in the Soviet Union, U.S. President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed a Joint Communiqué pledging to limit both nations to an “agreed aggregate number” of nuclear missiles, with a specified number of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (SNDVs), intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) fitted with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs). Ford and Brezhnev reached tentative agreement at their meeting in Vladivostok to limit the numbers of all offensive strategic nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles through 1985. Secretary of State Kissinger said it was a “breakthrough” in the efforts to halt the arms race, and that the final agreement could be signed next summer, when Mr. Brezhnev visits the United States.
The Turkish Cypriot administration warned that it would move to protect its people in south Cyprus if fresh violence erupts among Greek Cypriots when Archbishop Makarios returns next month. The warning was interpreted as a threat that the Turkish army might occupy more of the island if it decided Turkish lives were endangered. Acting Cyprus President Glafkos Clerides had said earlier that rival Greek Cypriot groups who are for and against the archbishop’s return were preparing for action.
British police have been warned that Irish guerrillas plan to hit London with a big bombing attack today, informed sources reported. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army reportedly intends to launch the attack to coincide with an announcement by Home Secretary Roy Jenkins of emergency legislation to counter bombing. The new laws were prompted by blasts which killed 19 and wounded 184 in Birmingham last week.
More than 100,000 youths demonstrated at Athens Polytechnic on the first anniversary of a campus clash between students and security forces in which 23 people were killed and hundreds injured. The youths shouted freedom and anti-American slogans and marched to the U.S. Embassy. Police threw a cordon around the embassy.
Premier Sadi Irmak of Turkey presented to Parliament today a program for his new government calling for early elections and the establishment of an armaments industry. Mr. Irmak said that an armaments industry was needed because of the rising prices of arms, the insecurtiies of procuring arms from abroad and “restrictions developing in foreign military aid.”
An Icelandic patrol boat fired four shots at the West German fishing boat Arcturus and took it into the port at Reykjavik, according to a statement from the Nordstern shipping line in Bremerhaven, Germany. The statement said an Icelandic boarding party invaded the trawler to take it to port. The incident occurred within the 50-mile offshore fishing limit claimed by Iceland.
The status of the Spitsbergen island group in the Arctic Ocean north of Norway has emerged as a political issue in Oslo because of its strategic importance to the Soviet Union.
The call by President Ford and Mr. Brezhnev for a resumption soon of the Geneva conference on the Middle East was taken in a spirit of optimism in Cairo by moderate Arab diplomats. They expressed the hope that the prospect of early resumption of the talks would have a positive effect on the attitude of President Hafez al-Assad of Syria and possibly lead him to agree to a six-month extension of the expiring mandate for the United Nations peacekeeping force on the Syrian-Israeli front.
Secretary General Waldheim left for the Middle East today in an effort to win Syrian consent to a renewal of the United Nations Mandate for the international buffer force in the Golan Heights.
The Israeli Government today announced plans for a major new industrial center in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and several smaller projects on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
Four Palestinian guerrillas freed their remaining hostages except three crewmen on a hijacked British airliner and then threatened to blow the plane up after Arab nations apparently refused them sanctuary. The gunmen were joined by seven guerrillas who had been released from confinement in Cairo and the Netherlands and brought to Tunis in exchange for the freedom of 40 passengers and crew members aboard the plane, which was hijacked Thursday.
Two former Premiers, the head of the ruling military council and a grandson of former Emperor Haile Selassie were among the 60 aristocrats and former officials whose execution was announced by the military government of Ethiopia. A Radio Ethiopia broadcast said the executions were “an act of justice.” Most of those executed had been arrested during the seven-month anti-corruption drive by military officers that culminated in the overthrow of the Emperor on September 12.
The Indian Government has decided to prosecute two young Americans on espionage charges. Lawyers for the two insist that the defendants were involved in attempted narcotics smuggling, and were not engaged in spying. The two Americans, Richard W. Harcos and Anthony A. Fletcher, will face a closed trial beginning on December 16 in Calcutta City Sessions court. Persons involved in the bizarre case expect the trial to last several months, possibly a year. The two have been held by the Calcutta police since April 26, 1973. Last month, the prisoners were removed from prison and placed under house arrest, after United States diplomatic efforts and newspaper stories about their plight. If found guilty of violating India’s Official Secrets Act, the two men face 14‐year prison sentences.
South Vietnamese security forces brought under control again more than 600 prisoners who broke loose from their shackles and seized a navy ship taking them to jail on Côn Sơn island. Prison sources said the 520 convicts and 100 political prisoners were rounded up and reshackled within 24 hours. The ship sailed again for Côn Sơn, 140 miles south of Saigon.
While average Cambodians are worrying about how to pay for tomorrow’s astronomically priced food, or how to escape becoming the next casualty in their nearly five-year war, there are people in loftier circles, such as the presidential palace and the American Embassy, who are extremely nervous about a less tangible but perhaps just as crucial problem — Cambodia’s seat in the United Nations. The debate opens tomorrow. For the second year, China and more than 30 other nations have sponsored a resolution that would take the seat away from the Phnom Penh Government of Marshal Lon Nol and give it instead to the former Cambodian Chief of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Prince Sihanouk was deposed by Lon Nol in 1970 and is now the figurehead leader of a government in exile in Peking and of the insurgent army in Cambodia. Last year the attempt failed by only three votes, 53 to 50, and this year the vote — which could come quickly — is expected to be very close again. Present guessing in this worried capital and in the corridors of the United Nations building is that the Lon Nol Government may just squeak through. But the situation is fluid and diplomatic observers do not rule out the possibility of a Sihanouk victory.
General Chiang Kai-shek urged the people of Taiwan and the 1.2 million members of the ruling Kuomintang Party to depend on themselves and not on foreign relationships in efforts to regain control of the Chinese mainland. The 87-year-old president failed for the third straight year to appear at the party’s annual caucus meeting. He suffered a pneumonia attack in 1972.
A tropical storm intensified into a full typhoon in the Pacific and raced toward the Philippines. Typhoon Irma, located about 900 miles east of Manila with peak winds of 88 m.p.h., would be the seventh storm to hit the Philippines in two months. Weathermen said the storm was expected to hit coconut-producing areas southeast of Luzon late today.
The remains of “Lucy”, a female hominid from the species Australopithecus afarensis, were discovered in Ethiopia by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson. Found in the Awash Valley of the Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle near the town of Hadar, “Lucy” (officially “AL 288-1”), whose remains were carbon dated at 3.2 million years old, was the earliest example of an ancestor of homo sapiens who could walk upright on two feet.
Zambia is holding secret talks with South Africa as part of a diplomatic offensive aimed at resolving outstanding problems in southern Africa, informed sources said in Lusaka. Zambian envoys have been flying down to South Africa for the past two months for talks, the sources said. Reflecting a thaw in relations between the two nations, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda recently praised a speech by South African Prime Minister John Vorster which said his government wanted peace and cooperation instead of confrontation in southern Africa.
Negotiators for the coal industry and the United Mine Workers agreed “in principle” on a second version of a proposed contract that could end the miner’s strike in about 10 days if the union members approve it. Although none of the details were released, it was apparent that the mine operators granted increased union demands under government pressure.
The third highest official of the FBI under the late J. Edgar Hoover says the bureau, as now structured, is a potential threat to civil liberties and its power should be reduced significantly. William C. Sullivan, now retired, was, until 1971, assistant FBI director in charge of criminal investigations and intelligence. He proposed, in a paper submitted to a conference sponsored by a trial lawyers’ foundation, a three-year moratorium on electronic eavesdropping by any federal agency while a special commission studied all internal security and intelligence operations. Sullivan also proposed separating the domestic security function of the FBI from its criminal investigations.
William E. Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, says stronger protection is needed to safeguard intelligence secrets. “There are criminal penalties for people who reveal income tax returns or census returns, or even cotton statistics,” Colby said in a U.S. News & World Report interview. “But there are no similar penalties for persons who reveal the name of an intelligence officer or agent or an intelligence secret, unless they give it to a foreigner or intend to injure the United States. I think it’s just plain wrong for us not to protect our secrets better,” Colby said.
John D. deButts, American Telephone & Telegraph chairman, said it was ironic that the Ford Administration brought an antitrust suit against the company at a time when it faced more competition than ever. DeButts repeated AT&T’s determination to fight the federal action in a long legal battle. DeButts, interviewed on the television program Face the Nation, said, “We’re not going to seek a compromise. Any compromise…would adversely affect the consumer.”
Greyhound Bus Lines and the Amalgamated Transit Union reached a tentative agreement, ending a week-long strike by bus drivers and terminal workers. Buses began rolling shortly after. Terms of the nationwide, three-year contract were not disclosed, pending a ratification vote by the union, which could take several weeks.
Margaretta Rockefeller will undergo radical surgery this morning for the removal of her right breast, five weeks after an operation for cancer of her left breast, her husband, Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, announced.
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz predicted that by the end of this year food prices could be as much as 15% higher than last year and would continue to rise next year. But he said price controls on food would be “counterproductive” because “people don’t abide by them. They don’t work.” Butz said he favored dealing with Cuba, which used to be the main sugar supplier to the United States, “if we could solve the diplomatic problems.” The answer to high prices for food, Butz said on the television program Issues and Answers, is more production. That especially applies to sugar, which “is too doggoned high-priced.”
Tennessee farmers have begun unloading cheddar cheese at nearly half price to protest what they say are attempts by cheese processors to drive down the price of raw milk. About 20,000 pounds of cheese were sold from pickup trucks at Nashville’s farmers’ market on Saturday and more was brought on Sunday, officers of the National Farmers Organization said. The cheese sold in five-pound blocks at 95 cents and $1 a pound. Similar cheese brings upwards of $1.60 a pound in area stores. A spokesman said wholesale food firms had offered the farmers 65 to 68 cents a pound. Farmers have more than 100,000 pounds of the 5- to 8-month-old cheese still in storage.
A House-Senate conference committee has approved changes in a 1972 anti-sex discrimination law that would exclude fraternities and sororities from its regulations and would allow schools to continue separate gym classes for boys and girls.
As New York City has plunged deeper into debt in recent months, the financial community has begun to put pressure on the city to reduce its mammoth appetite for borrowed money. Bankers and brokers who are experts in city affairs are not worried about the city’s ability to pay off its debt commitment — there is no doubt that the city can and will do that — but they are convinced that the city’s debt is growing too fast for its own good.
Authorities continued their search for a Needles, California high school girl who disappeared November 20 on a trip from her home to a nearby grocery store. The search for Nikki Bunch, 16, has covered a 50-mile radius, extending at times into Arizona, according to Needles Police Chief Jim Maddox, who said he is now “morally certain” that the girl met with foul play. “I have nothing, really, to base this on,” Maddox said. “But knowing this girl and her reputation for reliability, I definitely feel there must be foul play involved.” Sadly, he is right. Her body will be found in a desert wash in 1976.
Charges by the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Sierra Club, San Francisco, that nuclear reactors are not as safe as claimed were discounted by an Atomic Energy Commission spokesman. Under attack by the two groups is a $3 million study, known as the Rasmussen Report, commissioned by the AEC. Saul Levine, who directed the study for the AEC, said the group’s criticism of the study’s form of analysis would have been correct for the 1960s, but “we have advanced the methodology considerably… our numbers are in touch with reality.”
Kennecott Copper Corp. said it will fight the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulations on emissions from its McGill, Nevada, smelter, saying they pose “an unnecessarily severe economic burden and are “completely without foundation.” The company said it would detail its opposition to the regulations at a public hearing in Ely, December 3. It noted that the state of Nevada approved Kennecott’s plan to control emissions in 1972.
A Lebanon, Missouri, manufacturer of charcoaled whiskey barrels has been convicted on federal criminal charges of violating the Clean Air Act and faces possible fines of $3.9 million, or $25,000 for each of the 157 days it was in violation. Environmental Protection Agency officials said it was “a landmark case, the first of its kind in the nation.” U.S. District Judge William R. Collison in Springfield, Missouri, said he would set the fine against the Independent Stave Co. in about three weeks. The firm said it would appeal.
“It is wrong for an unmarried mother to be Miss World,” argued Luz Maria Osorio, 18-year-old Miss Colombia. The angry Miss World contest entrant accused the London beauty show jury this weekend of having used “a double standard of morals” in choosing Helen Morgan for the title. Another entrant, Natividad Rodriguez, 19-year-old Miss Spain, also was upset. “We think Helen Morgan won because she is an unmarried mother,” she said. “We got the impression that it made the judges very sympathetic toward her.” Miss Osorio pointed out also that “last year they sacked Miss United States for not abiding by their rules” merely because of publicity over her relations with singer Tom Jones and two sports stars. Miss Morgan, 22, has an 18-month-old son and, as head judge Eric Morley pointed out, “Miss United Kingdom broke no rules by having a baby.”
[Ed: IMHO, being an unmarried mother is not ideal by any means — but being a catty little cow, is not exactly a pleasant look, either, ladies.]
Skynet 2, a British military communications satellite launched two days earlier at Cape Canaveral, was positioned in orbit over the Indian Ocean. The 961-pound satellite responded properly to commands from the U.S. Air Force Satellite Tracking Center at Sunnyvale, Calif., and eased into position 22,300 miles above earth. The satellite will provide top-secret communications for the United Kingdom’s forces in the British Isles, Australia and the Far East.
Johnny Weekly dies at age 37 in Walnut Creek, California in an auto accident. The reserve outfielder batted .207 in parts of three seasons with the Colt .45s.
24th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins.
In the Grey Cup, the championship of the Canadian Football League, the Montreal Alouettes defeated the Edmonton Eskimos, 20 to 7, before 34,450 fans in Vancouver.
NFL Football:
St. Louis Cardinals 23, New York Giants 21
Philadelphia Eagles 7, Washington Redskins 26
Minnesota Vikings 17, Los Angeles Rams 20
Kansas City Chiefs 6, Cincinnati Bengals 33
Buffalo Bills 15, Cleveland Browns 10
Denver Broncos 20, Oakland Raiders 17
Miami Dolphins 14, New York Jets 17
Atlanta Falcons 0, San Francisco 49ers 27
Chicago Bears 17, Detroit Lions 34
San Diego Chargers 0, Green Bay Packers 34
New England Patriots 27, Baltimore Colts 17
Dallas Cowboys 10, Houston Oilers 0
The New York Giants today were beaten for the ninth time in this season of woe and again it hurt. The contest was lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in the last three seconds when Jim Bakken, one of the older and better field ‐ goal kickers, booted the football through the upper middle section of the goal post from 36 yards away to give the Cardinals the victory, 23–21. The big play, the only one of a pedestrian game, came in the last quarter when Jim Hart, the Cardinal quarterback who endured his poorest performance of an otherwise fine season, threw a 45-yard scoring pass to Mel Gray, the small and swift wide receiver. That perfect pass gave the Cardinals a 20–14 lead. The Giants came back and went ahead with a creditable 64-yard drive that ended on one of the best plays of the Giants’ season. Two newcomers put it together, Craig Morton passing 17 yards to Walker Gillette, who was 5 yards into the Yale Bowl end zone. Then came self-destruction, a quality that the Giants have tried to invent this fall. Pete Gogolak botched the following kickoff. He tried to kick away from Terry Metcalf, the Cards’ diamond of a returner, but the ball hit Ken Reeves in the stomach and he ran it back from the St. Louis 30 to the New York 46. There were 71 seconds left. Gogolak was not the only botcher as Reeves got away from several tacklers. Hart. managed to complete three of five pass attempts, which gained 19 yards, and the marvelous Metcalf added 11 on a draw play up the middle. Those yards set up the kick for the 33-year-old Bakken.
The Washington Redskins thumped the Philadelphia Eagles, 26–7. The Redskins still trail the St. Louis Cardinals by a game for the lead in the Eastern Division, but they have a two-game advantage over other playoff bidders for a wild-card conference berth. The Eagles, losing for the sixth straight game, have not defeated the Redskins since 1967. Their only score came on a 3-yard touchdown, pass from Roman Gabriel to Harold Carmichael. Washington scored on two field goals by Mark Moseley, a 2-yard scoring aerial from Billy Kilmer to Jerry Smith, a 102-yard kickoff return by Larry Jones (for a club record) and a.3-yard touchdown run by Duane Thomas.
Succeeding where the mythical Sisyphus failed, the Los Angeles Rams kept pushing their burden uphill all afternoon and finally got it to the top in a 20–17 victory over the Minnesota Vikings that brought them to the brink of the National Football League playoffs. The Rams fell behind, 17–6, in the first half as Fran Tarkenton, the Viking quarterback, put on a brilliant performance. But even though they dominated the second half from the moment they received the kickoff, they didn’t get the touchdown that put them into contention until six minutes into the final quarter. And they had to go 69 yards for the winning score in the last four minutes, finally getting it on an 8‐yard pass from James Harris to Jack Snow with 1:14 left. Then, on the first play after the ensuing kickoff, they intercepted and ran out the clock. The victory made the Los Angeles won‐lost record 8–3. If New Orleans loses or ties its game with Pittsburgh tomorrow night, the Rams will be Western Division champions of the National Conference. Even if the Saints win, a tie in any of the three remaining games will be enough to make the Rams finish first.
The smallest Cincinnati crowd in three years — 49,777 — saw the Bengals keep their playoff hopes alive in a steady rain, as they routed the Kansas City Chiefs, 33–6. Despite the bad weather, Ken Anderson passed for four touchdowns and tied two club records. His four scoring aerials tied Greg Cook’s mark, set in 1969, and his 18 touchdown tosses equaled the number Anderson threw last season. The Cincinnati quarterback completed. 19 of 33 passes for 262 yards.
Thanks to O. J. Simpson, who does not mind mud, the Buffalo Bills are back in serious contention for a National Football League division crown. On a rain‐drenched field in Cleveland yesterday, Simpson sparked the Bills to a 15–10 victory over the Browns. Simpson, whose University of Southern California and -Pacific-8 career rushing records were broken Saturday by Anthony Davis, had one of his best days of the season. He gained 115 yards on 22 carries and ran 41 yards for a vital touchdown. “All my best games have been in the mud,” said O. J. afterward. “I used to practice in it everyday. I’ve always done well on off fields; they never handicapped me.” Rushing for more than 100 yards for the fourth time this season, Simpson moved to within 63 yards of the 1,000-yard mark. His 41-yard run into the end zone was his longest touchdown run this season. “We put the pressure on them with Juice’s big run,” said Coach Lou Saban. The Browns had taken a 3–0 lead on a 21-yard field goal by Don Cockroft, but Simpson’s scoring run put the Bills ahead to stay. His rushing also set up field goals of 41 and 42 yards by John Leypoldt. In addition, the Bills picked up 2 points when Brian Sipe, the Cleveland quarterback, was tackled in the end zone for a safety by Mike Kadish.
The Raiders, who last week clinched the Western Division title, not surprisingly, were victims of an upset by Denver, as the Broncos edged Oakland, 20–17. The Broncos’ Jon Keyworth and Otis Armstrong ran for almost 300 yards combined to snap Oakland’s nine-game winning streak. Keyworth ran 30 yards for the game’s first score. After field goals by Jim Turner, Denver’s final touchdown came on an eight-yard pass from Steve Ramsey to Jerry Simmons. Ramsey had replaced Charley Johnson, the starting quarterback, who was injured late in the first half. The Raiders. scored on touchdown passes of 34 and 7 yards from Ken Stabler to Fred Biletnikoff and a 21-yard field goal by George Blanda, Stabler, who completed 22 of 34 passes for 234 yards, has thrown 20 touchdown passes this season.
The Jets upset the Miami Dolphins, 17–14, at Shea Stadium yesterday as Joe Namath threw a 45‐yard touchdown pass to Rich Caster with 5 minutes left. It was Namath’s second touchdown connection with Caster on the day. Earlier, in the third quarter, Namath looked more like the quarterback who frequently had hurt himself with interceptions this season. In a bizarre combination of plays, Namath threw two passes that were intercepted within three plays (a fumble returned the ball to the Jets after the first one) and the Dolphins finally scored for the first time after the second steal by Nick Buoniconti. “I don’t know what I was thinking out there,” Namath said. “I wasn’t very sharp. My mind wasn’t all there.” Part of Namath’s mind was thinking about his 65-year-old father, John, who was taken critically ill Saturday. “I found out about it last night,” said the quarterback who at first was reluctant to disclose the news. His father stopped breathing and his heart stopped after a gallbladder attack complicated by emphysema, but doctors were able to revive him.
The San Francisco 49ers achieved their second straight shutout after seven straight losses, this time at the expense of the Falcons who lost their sixth straight game, as Atlanta bowed to San Francisco, 27–0. Atlanta converted only one of 11 third down attempts for a first down. Meanwhile, the 49ers had no trouble scoring, led by Tom Owen, their rookie. quarterback. Owen, a 13th-round draft choice from Wichita, hit Gene Washington with scoring passes of 5 and 53 yards in the first half. Manfred Moore dashed 88 yards for a touchdown on a punt return in the 4th quarter, and Bruce Gossett added field goals of 20 and 42 yards..
The Detroit Lions, who lost their first four games, won for the sixth time in their last seven contests, beating the Chicago Bears, 34–17. But they lost Bill Munson, their starting quarterback, for the season with a shoulder separation in the second quarter. Greg Landry filled in adequately. Altie Taylor, Steve Owens and Jimmie Jones ran for Lion touchdowns; Levi Johnson scored on an 18-yard pass interception, and Errol Mann booted two field goals to pull within 6 points of the Detroit career-scoring record (534 by Doak Walker).
The Green Bay Packers walloped the San Diego Chargers, 34–0, as the Packers’ defenders chalked up their first shutout of the season and the offense accounted for its highest point total in more than two years. John Hadl completed 14 of 22 aerials for 157 yards including a 24-yard touchdown pass to MacArthur Lane. Jack Concannon, Hadl’s fourth-quarter replacement, passed 56 yards to Steve Odom for Green Bay’s final score, Ken Ellis and Eric Torkelson took advantage of San Diego mistakes to score touchdowns. Ellis picked off an interception and ran 38 yards, Torkelson recovered a fumble and ran 29 yards. Dan Fouts, the Chargers’ quarterback, suffered a broken thumb in the second quarter and is out for the rest of the season.
The New England Patriots ended a three-game losing streak and moved to within one game of the Eastern Division leaders, as they downed the Baltimore Colts, 27–17. Jim Plunkett, who had suffered 13 interceptions in the four previous games, kept the ball out of Baltimore hands, hitting 17 of 26 tosses for 194 yards. He threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to John Tanner and scored himself on a 1-yard run. The other points for New England, playing without Sam Cunningham and Reggie Rucker, were scored by Mack Herron on a 1-yard run and John Smith on field goals of 33 and 28 yards. Baltimore lost for the ninth time in 11 games.
The Dallas Cowboys won a defensive struggle against the Houston Oilers, 10–0. The Oilers, who had won four games in a row, came down to earth against a Dallas defense that limited Houston to 81 yards on offense, a club-record low. The Cowboys sacked Dan Pastorini, the Houston quarterback, seven times to keep burning their slim hopes of gaining the playoffs for the ninth straight year. Dallas had offensive difficulties, too, but tallied on a 1-yard leap into the end zone by Doug Dennison and a 25-yard field goal by Efren Herrera.
Born:
Stephen Merchant, English actor and comedian (“The Office”; “Extras”; “Life’s Too Short”); in Hanham, Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Raymond Pace Alexander, 77, American civil rights leader, lawyer, and politician, first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, died of a heart attack.
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