Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany appeared before the British Labor Party conference in London today and urged Britain to remain in the Common Market. Speaking on the day after the governing party’s annual conference had embraced a strong anti‐Market resolution opposed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Cabinet, Chancellor Schmidt likened his appearance to that of a man who sought to convince members of the Salvation Army of the virtues of drinking. “Your comrades on the Continent want you to stay,” Mr. Schmidt said. “They believe that it is in their interest and in, yours to remain.” Mr. Schmidt, who won loud applause, stressed the need for cooperation to meet world‐wide energy and economic crises. He said he recognized that the Common Market provided a fair share of misgivings. But, he added: “The advantages of the European Economic Community have greater weight than the stresses and burdens… It’s not all that difficult being a politician in Europe,” he said with a smile. “All you have to do is satisfy the farmers, the unions and a few others and still manage to get re‐elected.”
In the view of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, “there are, if I see correctly, no bilateral problems between Germany and the United States minister going to Washington, let alone the Chancellor, but for me, the reason for going is to talk about economic problems with President Ford.” The West German leader made this remark in a recent interview about his trip to Washington and New York, next Wednesday through Saturday. His comment was characteristic — it left no doubt about who is in charge of the West German Government. Mrs. Schmidt is respected by opponents and supporters alike, but not well loved, and many in his Social Democratic party say they are afraid his insistence on running the whole government by himself could contribute to his undoing in the general elections of 1976.
An attempted assassination of Walter Leisler Kiep, treasurer of West Germany’s opposition Christian Democratic Party, failed when the gunman missed. Police said Kiep had left a sauna near his home in Kronberg near Frankfurt when a young man approached him. Becoming suspicious, Kiep went back into the sauna and slammed the door shut. The man fired three shots through the door but missed Kiep. No motive was immediately apparent.
Pope Paul VI awarded the $40,000 John XXIII Peace Prize to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Pope described UNESCO and the Roman Catholic Church as two bodies meeting “on the road to peace.” It was the second time the Vatican has awarded the prize established with funds from the $160,000 Balzan Peace Prize presented to the late Pope John in 1963. It went first in 1970 to Mother Teresa Boyzyiu for her work in charity.
The Military-dominated Portuguese Government continues to insist that it will carry out is pledge made when the dictatorship was overthrown — that Portugal’s first free elections in more than 50 years will be held next March.
The family of the late Sir Winston Churchill gathered in the quiet Oxfordshire village of Bladon today for a simple service commemorating the statesman’s birth 100 years ago. Sir Winston’s frail widow, Lady Clementine Spencer‐Churchill, who is 89 years old, walked to the parish church of St. Martin on the arm of her grandson, Winston Churchill, who is 34 and a Member of Parliament. Other family members present included Churchill’s actress daughter, Sarah, 56. Churchill is buried here, outside the walls of his birthplace, Blenheim Palace, beside his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, and his American mother, the former Jennie Jerome of New York.
Two armed Arabs seized a house in the village of Rihaniya in upper Galilee, shot an Israeli Muslim dead and later surrendered to Israeli forces. Military headquarters in Tel Aviv said that the gunmen were infiltrators from Lebanon and that they apparently believed they were in a Jewish village.
The Palestine Liberation Organization has appointed a representative to the Soviet Union and will soon open an office in Moscow, a Palestinian source said in Belgrade today. Yasser Arafat, head of the organization, discussed the matter with Soviet leaders earlier this week, the Palestinian said. Mr. Arafat arrived in Belgrade today for four days of talks with Yugoslav leaders, following his six‐day visit to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Government granted permission last August for the P.L.O. to establish an office in Moscow.
Egyptian officials said that Arab governments in their contacts with the United States have been pressing for February as the time when they want the peace conference in Geneva reconvened. The United States and Israel would like to have the conference called at a later date, but many Arab diplomats regard February as a deadline by which the United States must produce another Israeli military withdrawal. An Egyptian official said “the rush for Geneva is on, we are trying to expedite it, we think it is urgent, we need it to give new momentum to the search for a negotiated settlement.”
Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, was quoted today as having said that while the United States was determined to obtain lower world oil prices, no military intervention was contemplated to achieve this aim. In an interview in Washington with the editor of the English‐language Beirut newspaper The Daily Star, Mr. Simon said the United States was interested in a free and open market and a fair price for oil. “But talk of military intervention to secure the oil at lower prices is unthinkable and ridiculous,” he added.
The military Government of Ethiopia announced today that the deposed Emperor Haile Selassie had signed a letter authorizing the transfer of ” all his personal and family fortune” to aid drought and famine victims in his country. However, the wording of tonight’s announcement from the Provisional Military Administrative Committee tended to confirm the belief of many foreigners that the document signed may be legally defective. They feel that it will not necessarily give the military ready access to the former monarch’s wealth in Switzerland and elsewhere.
A Lebanese newspaper said that Iraq is the Middle East country that purchased shares in Daimler-Benz, the West German manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz automobiles. The Daily Star in Beirut quoted an informed source as saying the buyer was Iraq’s General Company for Land Transport. Earlier reports speculated that Iran had been the purchaser but an official Iranian source denied the reports and added that Tehran would have no reason to conceal such a deal.
India and Pakistan moved to end their 10-year ban on trade relations — dating from the 1905 war over the Kashmir issue — with the signing of a protocol stating that the ban would be lifted December 7. The decision to end the ban fulfills a crucial aspect of the peace agreement signed by the two countries in July, 1972, that provided for a renewal of relations broken when the two countries fought over the new nation of Bangladesh. Indian and Pakistani officials told newsmen that the question of resuming diplomatic relations was being considered but the resumption of trading need not wait for that.
The state radio in Dacca said today that 79 fishermen were still missing after the cyclone that struck Bangladesh Thursday. A Government official confirmed a death toll of six. Newspapers, however, reported that up to 500 were missing and that 28 had died. Two helicopters and several vessels of the Bangladesh Navy were reported searching for the missing fishermen in the Bay of Bengal.
Chen Po‐ta, once Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s political secretary and radical leader of the Cultural Revolution in the late nineteen sixties, is alive but broken politically and perhaps physically, according to a Chinese journal. Mr. Chen, who is 70 years old, was the leading Communist theoretician and fourth in the party leadership up to 1970 when he disappeared from the public scene. Mr. Chen was described as the man behind the late Defense Minister Lin Plao’s ambition to become chief of state. “Lin Piao, who likened himself to the heavenly horse galloping through the skies, died in a crash at Undur Khan in Mongolia,” the journal Study and Criticism, said. “Chen Pota has likewise fallen from the counter-revolutionary peak and has become a dog with a broken spine.”
Secretary of State Kissinger flew back to Washington from Tokyo after briefing Japan’s Foreign Minister, Toshio Kimura, on his talks with Chinese leaders in Peking. President Ford’s visit to China next year was discussed, together with international problems involving China, according to a Japanese Foreign Ministry official, who said that Mr. Kissinger also had promised Mr. Kimura that Japan would be kept adequately informed about future United States policies toward China.
The Philippine government released an intelligence report that said an American killer was hired through the Mafia in one of the several plots to assassinate President Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1972. The report said there were at least eight plots against Marcos’ life before martial law was declared in September, 1972. Government sources said the report was declassified because of protests by the families of two of the co-conspirators who are in jail
A terrorist group captured by Paraguayan authorities planned to assassinate President Alfredo Stroessner, using a radio signal to set off explosives in a truck parked on a street in Asuncion, La Tribuna newspaper reported there. The plot was attributed to students between 20 and 25 years old who had been studying in neighboring Argentina. They were linked to Argentina’s Marxist guerrillas known as the People’s Revolutionary Army.
Bus service returned to normal in Buenos Aires after owners of 14,000 buses yielded to Argentine government pressure and ended a crippling two-day strike that caused one death. Declaring the strike illegal, the government seized buses, arrested some leaders of the owners association and began legal action for fines and cancellation of operating permits. The owners said later they had agreed to resume service while continuing to negotiate a fare increase.
Mathieu Kérékou, the President of the Republic of Dahomey since leading a coup d’etat in 1972, surprised the West African nation’s citizens by announcing that Dahomey would become a “people’s republic” guided by the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and allied with the Soviet Union. On the first anniversary of his speech, he renamed the country as the People’s Republic of Benin.
Members of the United Mine Workers’ largest and most politically volatile coal-field district hooted disapproval and honked automobile horns in a protest caravan through Beckley, West Virginia, as union leaders appealed to them to ratify a proposed strike settlement with the mine operators. In a secret-ballot contract ratification vote that will be held Monday among most of the union’s active members, the miners are to have the last word on whether the mine operators have offered enough in their tentative agreement with Arnold Miller, the union’s president, who has insisted the companies have no more to give.
Waving flags and anti-Communist placards, more than 2,000 persons marched through the streets of Charleston, West Virginia, in a renewed protest against controversial school textbooks. The demonstration was the first in three weeks by clergy-led parents who believe a new series of textbooks for Kanawha County’s schools are obscene and un-American. “This is a national rally against those books,” said the Rev. Avis Hill, a leader in the protest.
About 5,000 persons, led by Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, marched and sang civil rights songs in a Boston rally supporting school integration. The marchers, most of them white, were told by Mrs. King that racism, not anti-busing sentiment, was behind opposition to a school desegregation program in Boston. The anti-busing campaign has led to street violence and massive school absenteeism.
A former assistant to J. Edgar Hoover his recommended that the Federal Bureau of Investigation be stripped of all authority over domesic security and foreign intelligence operations to keep the agency’s power within bounds. In a paper written for a conference on privacy that was made public this week, William C. Sullivan, who retired as the bureau’s third‐ranking official in 1971, declared that the agency “as it is now structured is a potential threat to our civil liberties, and should have its power and funds reduced. Mr. Sullivan also proposed a three‐year moratorium on bugging and wiretapping by all Federal agencies, during which an intensive study would be made to determine whether criminal justice and security-intelligence operations were seriously hampered by the limitation.
College fraternities and sororities, which fell on hard times during the social activism of the 1960’s, are enjoying a resurgence on many campuses. The organizations are different from those that many students shunned a decade ago: Fraternity and sorority life is now marked by more academic seriousness and even social consciousness, a survey of a dozen campuses from East to West finds.
The historic egalitarian purpose for which Congress established land-grant colleges more than a 100 years ago is being eroded by steeply rising tuition fees and inflation. The traditionally high quality, low-cost college education offered by land-grant colleges and universities is something that not even relatively affluent middle-class families can afford. College administrators all over the country, confronted with the prospect of raising tuition fees even higher in the face of declining enrollments, are watching with keen interest the fate of an unusual proposal by the president and regents of the University of Wisconsin that tuition fees be sharply cut. John Weaver, the president, believes the taxpayer should pick up the tab for rising costs.
U.S. Representative Wilbur Mills of Ohio, Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, caused an embarrassing scene when he arrived, intoxicated, at The Pilgrim Theatre in Boston, and walked on the stage where his mistress, Fanne Foxe, was performing as a stripper. The scandal followed an October 7 incident where he and Foxe were stopped by police of the U.S. Park Service while he was drunk. Mills stepped down as the Ways and Means Committee Chairman days later and retired from Congress after choosing not to run for re-election in 1976.
Some Alabama motorists “could be riding around in a time bomb” because they bought fake antifreeze containing explosive methyl alcohol, a police spokesman said in Montgomery, Alabama. Police said the bogus antifreeze, sold under the name “Winter Guardian” was made of nothing but colored water and methyl alcohol. Several days earlier, police uncovered a racket in north Alabama to sell fake antifreeze that contained colored water and salt, but Montgomery’s chief of detectives, Roy Holton, said the latest brand of phony antifreeze was more dangerous because “if the radiator hose popped off, then the alcohol would hit a spark plug and explode.”
A strike against Texas International Airline by the Airlines Employes Association was scheduled to begin at 6 AM today. The previous contract expired in August and a 30-day cooling off period ended this week.
The director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Associates program has been “reassigned” after a controversy over the cancellation of a speech by novelist Erica Jong. Robert W. Mason was reluctant to discuss his “reassignment” to an unspecified new job but conceded that it could mean that he would leave the Smithsonian altogether. The December 3 appearance of Miss Jong, the author of the sexually explicit novel “Fear of Flying,” was canceled by Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, who directed that no more “contemporary novelists or poets” be booked by the Associates.
Penny Hartley will be ready if the Army ever decides to assign women to combat. She proved her mettle by hiking five miles on a forced march in two hours, running two miles in 16½ minutes, doing 37 situps and 33 pushups in one minute, climbing a troop ladder into an airborne helicopter and rappelling off a 40-foot tower. Miss Hartley, an Army private, is the first woman to complete the 101st Airborne Division’s rugged air assault course. “It takes an unusual woman to desire to do this and then actually accomplish it,” said Maj. James Daily, commandant of the assault school at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. “She made it on her own, without any special treatment except to be allowed to use the WAC latrine.” Miss Hartley is assigned as a truck driver and said she took the course because “it was something to do. The course is really tough but I had encouragement from everyone in the class.”
Pioneer 11, after a coasting journey of almost two years, is plunging at ever increasing speed toward its crack-the-whip trip around Jupiter on Monday night. Its imaging system is sending excellent pictures and is expected to provide views of Jupiter’s polar regions that are a prime goal of the encounter. Early Tuesday morning, 22 minutes after midnight Eastern standard time, Pioneer 11 will come within 26,600 miles of Jupiter — one-third the distance of the fly-by of its predecessor, Pioneer 10 — and it will be traveling at 107,000 miles an hour relative to the planet.
Up to 11 inches of snow hampered holiday travel in the Midwest. The Iowa Highway Patrol reported that state highways were 50% to 100% snow covered, with scattered patches of ice, and ice was reported on many Oklahoma roads. The bad weather extended to below the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, which had sleet mixed with rain. Southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri had the heaviest snowfall, with 11 inches at Kirksville, Missouri, 9 at Wapello, Iowa, and 8 at Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa. The National Weather Service reported that three-fourths of the nation had temperatures below freezing. The storm was blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths — two in Iowa and four each in Oklahoma and Missouri.
Jerry Herman’s musical “Mack & Mabel”, about the romance between silent film figures Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, starring Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters, closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 66 performances.
“Good Evening” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances.
More than 20,000 persons watched the start of the 8th annual Barstow-to-Las Vegas motorcycle race, which attracted about 3,000 entrants in a number of classes. The race across the Mojave Desert caused both long-term and short-term ecological damage, according to a Bureau of Land Management spokesman. He said the bureau had, nevertheless, allowed the race to go ahead.
During a preliminary race for the following day’s Macau Grand Prix, West German driver Dieter Glemser lost control of his car, which ran into the crowd, killing a child and injuring 6 other people.
U.S. President Ford attended the 75th Army–Navy Game at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Navy defeated Army by a score of 19–0.
Born:
Marcellus Wiley, defensive end (Pro Bowl, 2001; Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Compton, California.
Nate Hobgood-Chittick, NFL defensive tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 34-Rams, 1999; St. Louis Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs), in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2017, of a heart attack).
Luther Broughton, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles), in Charleston, South Carolina.
Marina de Tavira, Mexican actress (“Roma”), born in Mexico City, Mexico.
Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer; in British Hong Kong.
Died:
Bert Gordon [Barney Gorodetsky], 79, American comedian.
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