The Soviet armed forces newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda hinted today at military dissatisfaction over one aspect of the tentative strategic arms accord reached a week ago at Vladivostok by President Ford and Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader. In a commentary, the paper attacked foreign military bases as “a source of war danger.” The passage was seen in some quarters here as a veiled expression of unhappiness in the Soviet military leadership over adjustments made by Mr. Brezhnev on the previously sharply contested issue of foreign bases serving nucleararmed aircraft. In explaining the agreement to work out a limitation on offensive nuclear delivery systems, Secretary of State Kissinger said at Vladivostok that forward‐based systems were not included because they were “not suitable for a significant attack on the Soviet Union.”
This apparent concession by Moscow on a matter it had considered vital was expected to cause controversy in Soviet military circles, even though nuclear‐armed United States strategic bombers were viewed as included in the “mix,” or variety, of weapons falling within the scope of the tentative agreement. Western diplomatic observers here believe that Mr. Brezhnev, in trying to work out the offensive arms agreement, will be facing skepticism from the Soviet military leaders similar to what President Ford may encounter from the Pentagon and its supporters in Washington.
Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, named more than 200 men and women it said were imprisoned around the world for their trade union activities – and suggested the total number could be more than 20,000. “Many of the prisoners have not been charged or tried, while some have been tortured,” Amnesty International said.
Greek and Greek Cypriot leaders said that they had agreed to take a “common line” in negotiations with the Turks over the future of Cyprus; but a communiqué issued in Athens after two days of talks did not explain what that line would be. As a result of the meeting, the Greek side now seems prepared to enter substantive negotiations for the first time since talks collapsed in Geneva last August, but in view of the political uncertainty in Turkey it is not clear whether the Turks are ready to talk. Another complication is that Turkish and Turkish Cypriot leaders feel that Archbishop Makarios is inflexible and unreliable, and they have threatened not to negotiate with him.
After more than a month’s delay, the State Department still has declined to rule for Congress whether Turkey violated United States aid laws during the Cyprus conflict by use of United States-supplied weapons. The department said that a legal determination now would jeopardize Cyprus peace efforts. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate refugee subcommittee, made public his correspondence with the State Department on this and other issues relating to Cyprus.
Two Soviet citizens accused of taking part in tortures and executions in a Nazi-run concentration camp in the occupied Crimea during World War II have been sentenced to death, according to Moscow reports. The Ukrainian party newspaper Pravda Ukrainy said a military court passed the death sentences on Sikhai Asanov, 51, and Enver Mehametov, whose age was not given.
The West German guerrilla group called the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility for the attempted assassination of a leading opposition Christian Democratic Party official. A young man fired three shots Saturday night at Walter Leisler Kiep, treasurer of the Christian Democrats and a member of parliament. The shots missed. Police said an anonymous caller said the Red Army Faction was responsible.
More than 500 Spaniards, who locked themselves inside a church in Bilbao to demand amnesty for political prisoners and exiles, interrupted a church service and sang the Basque nationalist anthem, informed sources said. They also told the congregation that more than 100 prisoners began a hunger strike last week at about 10 prisons. Most of the demonstrators were relatives of prisoners.
Defense Minister Shimon Peres said today that Israel knew the site in Lebanon where two Palestinians who killed an Israeli citizen yesterday had received their guerrila training. Mr. Peres assured the victim’s neighbors in the village of Rihaniya that Israeli forces would strike at the base. It has been Israeli policy. over the years to strike at Palestinian guerrilla bases and training camps across the borders but it was unusual for a high official to announce such retaliation in advance. Mr. Peres spoke at the funeral of Subhi Abzak, a Circassian who was shot in Rihaniya, three miles south of the Lebanese border, by infiltrators who raided his home. His wife, Samira, who is expecting their fourth child, was injured trying to come to her husband’s aid.
Rumors of an impending guerrilla campaign against Ethiopia’s military government spread through Addis Ababa after an explosion at a fuel depot at the airport. Official sources said they believed the blast was caused by dissidents. Many Ethiopians remain dismayed by the killing of Lieutenant General Aman Andom, former military chairman, along with 59 other influential leaders.
Tunisia’s President Habib Bourguiba said Tunisia will not hand over the four Arab hijackers of a British airliner to the Palestine Liberation Organization — or anyone else — against their will. He also said he wouldn’t put them on trial, according to a report in the Al Anwar newspaper in Beirut. The four gunmen hijacked the British Airways VC-10 in Dubai 10 days ago and landed in Tunis when no other Arab country would have them. The PLO has said it would try the men if they were handed over.
Officials of the United States and Iran held talks last week in Washington on a recent offer by the Shah of Iran to fully finance the reopening of the Lockheed production of C-5A military cargo planes and to purchase 10 of the planes that cost $55 million each. Iran’s proposal to finance the resumption of the plane’s manufacture preliminary to the purchase of some of them has been under discussion for more than six months, but this fall the Shah withdrew an original requirement that the United States commit itself to buy additional C-5A’s and thus assure at least partial repayment to Iran of the cost of getting production underway again. The new no-strings-attached proposal was much more attractive to defense officials in Washington than the earlier offer. It was confirmed meantime that Lockheed representatives had turned down a tentative Arab proposal last spring to purchase 41 percent of Lockheed’s common stock for $100 million.
Twenty three foreign journalists are still missing and unaccounted for in Cambodia. As the war here nears the end of its fifth year, no conclusive evidence has yet emerged of their whereabouts or their fate — although men in captivity described as journalists have several times been reported seen. Most of the newsmen disappeared or were captured by anti‐government troops in the early months of the war, in the spring of 1970, but three have joined the missing in the last year or so. All attempts to get information from the other side about what happened to these men, or to secure the freedom of hose who may still be alive, ave been fruitless. The North Vietnamese — who have never admitted the presence of their troops in though Cambodia, even though some of the journalists were known to have been captured by North Vietnamese soldiers — have stuck to their position that this matter has nothing to do with them and have referred all queries to the two opposing Cambodian sides.
A crisis over the funeral arrangements of former U.N. Secretary General U Thant began in Rangoon (now Yangon), after thousands of people were outraged at the lack of respect shown by the military government when U Thant’s body arrived at Mingaladon Airport without being received by an honor guard or government representatives. The anger was further compounded by the decision to bury U Thant, without a state funeral, at Kyandaw Cemetery, and led to protests by thousands of students.
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro said in an interview published in the current issue of the magazine Oui that he is “favorably disposed” toward Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger coming to Havana — but only as a tourist at present. Until the American “blockade” against Cuba is lifted, Castro said, there is no point in talking to Kissinger about normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian D. Smith gave a clear indication in an interview today that he is engaged in fresh talks to achieve settlement with the black majority in Rhodesia as well as an improvement of relations with his southern African neighbors. Both Mr. Smith and the leaders of the African National Council have in recent weeks hinted at secret negotiations but have noticeably avoided discussing their future relations in public. “Rhodesia has a part to play in this détente in southern Africa,” said Mr. Smith. “I’m prepered to accept this and I believe the people of Rhodesia would be prepared to accept this.”
President Ford has disclosed that he plans to appoint Nelson Rockefeller to head the Domestic Council following his expected confirmation as Vice President. In an interview with Newsweek, Mr. Ford said, “I want him to be a full partner, and that means obviously being in on the foreign policy, but I would say his main emphasis would be on the domestic side.”
President Ford will hold a news conference tomorrow at 4:30 pm PST. Ron Nessen, presidential press secretary, said that Mr. Ford would spend most of the day preparing for the briefing, which will be broadcast on radio and television. Tomorrow morning, Mr. Ford was to get a report from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on his recent talks in Peking. This morning, Mr. and Mrs. Ford took communion at St. John’s Episcopal Church, near the White House. It was the first time Mrs. Ford had attended religious services since she underwent cancer surgery September 28.
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz said he intended to remain in his job in spite of recent demands for his resignation. At a news conference in Chicago, Butz predicted that consumers would pay relatively high prices for sugar for another year or so despite a recent decline in raw sugar prices. The secretary dismissed as “a closed incident” the furore over his dialect joke about Pope Paul’s stand on birth control, President Ford ordered Butz to make a public apology but Butz said he doubted that the incident would make him abandon his well-known habit of telling jokes. “I’ve got a keen sense of humor and it’s hard to curtail it,” he said.
Coal miners began voting on a new contract in the three-week strike that has idled 120,000 miners’ and crippled coal production. The balloting began as United Mine Workers locals held meetings to discuss the pact approved last week by the union’s 38-member bargaining council. UMW President Arnold Miller extended the voting until Tuesday for locals needing extra time. The agreement calls for a 64% increase in wages and benefits over three years. If it is approved, the miners could be back at work this week.
All 92 people aboard TWA Flight 514 were killed when the Boeing 727 flew into the west side of Mount Weather, near Upperville, Virginia. The jet had departed from Columbus, Ohio and was approaching Dulles International Airport at Washington, D.C., in bad weather. The aircraft was flown by Captain Richard I. Brock (44), First Officer Leonard W. Kresheck (40), and Flight Engineer Thomas C. Safranek (31); the flight was being vectored for a non-precision instrument approach to runway 12 at Dulles, a heading of east-southeast. Air traffic controllers cleared the flight down to 7,000 feet (2,130 m) before clearing them for the approach while not on a published segment.
The jetliner began a descent to 1,800 feet (550 m), shown on the first checkpoint for the published approach. The cockpit voice recorder later indicated there was some confusion in the cockpit over whether they were still under a radar-controlled approach segment which would allow them to descend safely. After reaching 1,800 feet (550 m) there were some 100-to-200-foot (30 to 60 m) altitude deviations which the flight crew discussed as encountering heavy downdrafts and reduced visibility in snow. Shortly after 11 a.m. EST (UTC−5), the plane impacted the west slope of Mount Weather at 1,670 feet (510 m) above sea level at approximately 230 knots (265 mph; 425 km/h). The accident investigation board was split in its decision as to whether the flight crew or Air Traffic Control were responsible.[11] The majority absolved the controllers as the plane was not on a published approach segment; the dissenting opinion was that the flight had been radar vectored.
Later on the same day, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashed after taking off from New York City toward Buffalo, New York. The aircraft went down a few minutes later in New York’s Harriman State Park, killing the only occupants, its three crew members. The jet had been chartered to pick up the NFL’s Baltimore Colts, who had lost a game to the Buffalo Bills and were preparing to return to Baltimore. All three crew members on board died when the aircraft struck the ground following a stall and rapid descent caused by the crew’s reaction to erroneous airspeed readings caused by atmospheric icing. The icing occurred due to failure to turn on the pitot tube heating at the start of the flight.
Flight 6231 departed New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at 19:14 EST (UTC−5) for a ferry flight to Buffalo. As the craft climbed past 16,000 feet (4,900 m), the overspeed warning horn sounded, followed 10 seconds later by a stick shaker stall warning. The aircraft leveled at 24,800 feet (7,600 m) in a 30° nose-up attitude, until it started to descend out of control in a right-hand spin, reaching a vertical acceleration of +5g due to the aircraft being in a tight nosedown spiral with a bank angle between 70° and 80°. At 19:24:42, Flight 6231 issued a “Mayday” call to New York air traffic control, and stated “…we’re out of control, descending through 20,000 feet (6,100 m).” After giving interim altitude clearance, at 19:25:21, the controller inquired as to what the problem was, and a crewmember responded once more, “We’re descending through 12,000 feet (3,700 m), we’re in a stall.” The crew of Flight 6231 attempted to make one final transmission 19 seconds prior to impact, but it was not received. At about 3,500 feet (1,100 m), a large portion of the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer separated due to the high G-forces, making recovery impossible. Flight 6231 struck the ground in a slightly nose down and right wing-down attitude twelve minutes after take-off, at 19:25:57; there were no witnesses to the crash.
The chairman of the Republican Governors Association said President Ford should look “very carefully” at an increased gasoline tax to curb the nation’s reliance on Mideast oil. Governor Winfield Dunn of Tennessee, whose term ends this year, called on the President to display “strong, courageous leadership” but stopped short of urging him to adopt the increased gasoline tax proposal he has repeatedly rejected. Seventeen of the 24 GOP governors and governors-elect have gathered in St. Louis for three days of meetings.
Mandatory conservation measures, including a possible tax increase on gasoline, were supported by Rep. Morris Udall (D-Arizona) in a network television question and answer program. Udall, an announced candidate for president in 1976, said In his opinion “the first consideration of business is energy conservation.” He said he would support mandatory conservation measures including a tax on gasoline if it were part of an overall conservation program. He appeared on ABCs “Issues and Answers” program.
Texas International Airline spokesmen said about 90% of its scheduled flights were operating despite a strike by ground personnel. About 400 management and supervisory employees moved in when ground workers left their posts at reservations centers and terminals and set up picket lines. Representatives for the 1,100-member Airlines Employes Association announced the strike last Saturday after the airline had canceled its contract and put into effect a series of salary increases and fringe benefits without negotiations. The line serves 23 Texas cities, cities in nine other states and four cities in Mexico.
Near Abilene, Texas, six employees of Gulf Refining Company died when they were overcome by methane fumes in a trench while attempting to repair a pipeline leak. A seventh man managed to crawl from the nine‐foot hole where the men were working and was not seriously injured. The leak occurred about two miles from Abilene in an open field.
Two major oil companies were charged in New Orleans with dumping waste water and mud containing a high content of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from offshore rigs. Texaco, Inc. was charged with 12 counts of dumping water with excessive oil content and Exxon Corp. was charged with one count of dumping. 1,100 barrels of oil-saturated drilling mud from a drilling rig about 13 miles south of the Louisiana shore. The companies could be fined up to $2,000 on each count if convicted.
A huge storm — the National Weather Service said it was the “first real winter storm” of the season — shrouded the eastern half of the country in a patchwork of snow, sleet and rain, and a traffic jam of thousands of cars on highways in the New York City metropolitan area brought the Thanksgiving weekend here to a close. It was a glowering and rainy day in the city and even colder and more sullen in the suburbs, where afternoon sleet turned to snow. Overnight accumulations were expected to be washed away by more rain Monday.
Jacqueline Hansen broke the world record for endurance as she won the Western Hemisphere Marathon in Culver City, California, in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 54 seconds. Hansen’s time was two-and-a-half minutes faster than the previous record of 2:46:24, set by Chantal Langlacé on October 27.
South Africa is awarded the Davis Cup tennis title after India refuses to travel to South Africa for the final in protest of the South African government’s apartheid policies.
NFL Football:
New Orleans Saints 9, Minnesota Vikings 29
Green Bay Packers 14, Philadelphia Eagles 36
San Francisco 49ers 0, Cleveland Browns 7
San Diego Chargers 14, New York Jets 27
New York Giants 13, Chicago Bears 16
New England Patriots 26, Oakland Raiders 41
Kansas City Chiefs 17, St. Louis Cardinals 13
Baltimore Colts 0, Buffalo Bills 6
Los Angeles Rams 30, Atlanta Falcons 7
Houston Oilers 13, Pittsburgh Steelers 10
In yesterday’s action around the National Football League, two teams qualified for the playoffs next month, which was the primary goal of all 26, another dropped out and two more lost again to increase anxiety among their expectant fans. Furthermore, the weather was bad in several places and customers stayed away in large numbers. Minnesota, by beating New Orleans, qualified, as did St. Louis, although the latter lost to Kansas City. Green Bay, defeated by Philadelphia, was eliminated. Pittsburgh was upset by Houston while New England bowed meekly out in Oakland.
Fran Tarkenton threw his passes short, and he threw them long as the Vikings won the Central Division title of the National Conference for the sixth time in the last seven seasons by downing the New Orleans Saints, 29–9. Tarkenton peppered the Saints’ defense with 20 completions in 29 attempts for 319 yards and three touchdowns. John Gilliam, his favorite receiver, scored twice on 13‐and‐22‐yard plays and Stu Voigt, the tight end, caught a 4‐yard touchdown pass. One more big play, a 57‐yard Tarkenton pass to the other wide receiver, Jim Lash, set up the fourth touchdown.
The host Philadelphia Eagles battered the Green Bay Packers, 36–14. It was fumble, fumble, fumble for the Packers. They dropped the ball eight times; lost it five times and the Eagles then scored every time. In 11 previous games the Packers had been relatively surehanded with only eight fumbles lost. As for the Eagles, who had lost six in a row, they were glad to see the ball bounce their way for a change. It bounced out of the hands of MacArthur Lane and into the hands of Will Wynn, the Eagle defensive end, and Wynn then raced 87 yards to the Green Bay goal. It was his first touchdown. Roman Gabriel, who aches in a lot of places, sat this one out, and the surprise was that the No. 3 quarterback, Mike Boryla, a rookie, started and finished his first pro game.
The Cleveland Browns survived a mud wrestling contest with the San Francisco 49ers, winning 7–0. Those women wrestlers who performed in tanks of mud would have been at home on the floor of Cleveland Stadium. Football players fell all over one another and fans fired snowballs in the 33‐degree weather embellished by a 30‐knot wind. The event had three important plays. Eddie Brown, a rookie Cleveland cornerback starting his first game, intercepted a 4th quarter pass by Tom Owen at midfield and ran to the 49ers’ 24. A little later Ken Brown scored from the 1‐yard line. “I was the new man out there,” said the first Brown. “I was trying to avoid mistakes.” The third vital play came in the last 10 seconds. Dan Abramowicz of the 49ers caught his only pass of the contest. It stretched his record, which is so important to him, to 103 straight games in which he has caught at least one pass. The weather was so bad more people who had tickets, 29,365, stayed away than attended, 24,559. The stands were mostly deserted by the end of the game.
It might be a little late for this season, but the Jet juggernaut continued trampling the opposition yesterday, defeating the San Diego Chargers, 27–14, for its fourth straight victory. In achieving their longest winning, streak since 1969, the Jets shut down the San Diego offense, except for Don Woods, a rookie who ran for 142 yards and threw a touchdown pass, while the offense breezed through the Charger defense, the National Football League’s worst. Joe Namath, free of mental anguish now that his father is steadily improving from a gall‐bladder attack, completed 17 of 27 passes for 254 yards. One of the passes, a 4‐yarder, went for a touchdown to John Riggins, who scored two other touchdowns on runs of 3 and 2 yards as the Jets amassed a 24–0 half‐time lead. The Jets jumped on top early. Driving against a crazily swirling 23‐mile‐an‐hour wind which gusted up to 40 miles, the Jets moved 61 yards in six plays for their first touchdown. Riggins scored it, making a nice grab of Namath’s floating pass just off his shoetops. On the second touchdown drive, Riggins took a swing pass from Namath on second‐and‐20 and rambled 21 yards to the 5. He scored two plays later behind a block by Mike Adamle.
In what has become painful repetition, this time before a near-record number of no‐shows, the New York Giants dropped a 16–13 decision to the Chicago Bears today on a 24‐yard field goal by Mirro Roder with 36 seconds left. While Roder’s wind‐aided placement lacked the last-second drama of recent Giant losses to the Lions and Cardinals, dreadful weather conditions carved an equal imprint on the frozen, frustrated New Yorkers, who suffered their fourth straight defeat and 10th in 12 games this year. For the Bears the victory ended a five‐game losing streak. The weather conditions, which resulted in a chill factor of 12 degrees, were so difficult that the wind blew the ball off the tee three times before the opening kickoff. There were nine fumbles, 13 punts and 38 passes, which produced only 14 completions, by both teams. The Giants had a final chance at their 20 after Roder kicked off out of the end zone. Craig Morton completed a 15‐yarder to Bob Grim with 27 seconds left but was intercepted by Craig Clemons at the Giant 48 with 11 seconds showing.
The Oakland Raiders pounded the New england Patriots, 41–26. Ken Stabler had four more touchdown passes and the Oakland quarterback continues to lead the league with 24. He opened with a 67‐yard scoring completion to Cliff Branch, one of the swiftest of all receivers, and the Raiders went on from there. Branch now has league‐leading totals of 1,032 yards receiving and 11 touchdowns. Stabler had only five incompletions of 21 attempts while the Patriots saw their once-bright chances to qualify for the playoffs erode still further.
The St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs and it was a backward dive as they played poorly for the second week in a row, bowing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 17–13. Jim Hart, the St. Louis quarterback, who was the passer with the fewest interceptions in the league (5), saw two of his errant passes set up the Chief touchdowns. The interceptors for Kansas City were Willie Lanier and Mike Sensibaugh. The Cardinals’ running attack continued to diminish as Terry Metcalf and Jim Otis rushed for only 81 yards.
The Buffalo Bills managed two field goals in miserable weather against the visiting Baltimore Colts, and prevailed, 6–0. A lot of people tend to overlook John Leypoldt, the Bills’ kicker who has made good on 18 field goals this season, most of them from way, way out. Leypoldt, who never attended college and did his apprenticeship on United States Army teams, had the scoring summary all to himself in this game with two boots from 20 and 31 yards away in the second quarter.
The Los Angeles Rams routed the host Atlanta Falcons, 30–7. A league record was set for no‐shows, rheaning people who had purchased tickets for the game but did not show up. Those who did show up on a freezing blustery day numbered 18,648 and those who skipped it amounted to 40,202. Lawrence McCutcheon, the Rams’ runner, became the first one in his conference to gain more than 1,000 yards for the season.
A late, 34‐yard field goal by Skip Butler brought the Oilers their fifth victory in their last six games, as Houston upset the Pittsburgh Steelers at Three Rivers, winning 13–10. The kick also kept alive their slim hopes for the conference wild‐card spot in the playoffs. That’s a lot for a team which won two games the past two seasons.
Born:
Barry Sims, NFL tackle and guard (Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers), in Park City, Utah.
Robert Thomas, NFL fullback and linebacker (Dallas Cowboys), in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Richard Jordan, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions), in Holdenville, Oklahoma.
David Ludwig, American classical composer (Pictures from the Floating World; Paganiniana), and pedagogue (Curtis Institute, 2010-21; Juilliard School, 2021- ), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Ikey Owens, American keyboardist (The Mars Volta; Jack White), and producer, in Long Beach, California (d. 2014).
Salva Dut, Sudanese American activist (Water for South Sudan) and former ‘Lost Boy of Sudan’, in Southwestern Sudan.
Died:
U.S. Army Brigadier General Roscoe “Rock” Cartwright, 55, U.S. military officer and only the second African-American to rise to the rank of a general in the United States Army, was killed with his wife Gloria in the crash of TWA Flight 514.
Teng Daiyuan, 70, Chinese military leader and Chinese Communist Party politician. Teng, a former Minister of Railways in the People’s Republic of China, had fallen into disfavor during China’s Cultural Revolution.
Stephen Gill Spottswood, 77, American African Methodist Episcopal Zion bishop, and civil rights leader (NAACP Chairman, 1961-1974).
Sucheta Kripalani, 66, Indian freedom fighter and politician, died of a heart attack.
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner), 69, transnational Jewish scholar and author specializing in Mexican history and culture, died in a traffic collision.
G. Gould Lincoln, 94, American political reporter, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Lajos Zilahy, 83, Hungarian novelist and playwright.
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