Secretary of State Kissinger said Congress’s failure to approve the Vladivostok arms control agreement could spur a new arms race and pose “extremely serious” consequences to relations with the Soviet Union. Mr. Kissinger, arguing at a news conference in favor of the tentative accord that puts a ceiling on long-range missiles and bombers and on missiles with multiple warheads, said the Russians made “very major concessions” at Vladivostok. He said that if approval of the accord faced the same kind of bitter debate that held up the granting of trade benefits, “the Soviet Union would be able to conclude only that political detente with us faces domestic difficulties of an insuperable nature.” Approval of trade concessions to the Soviet Union, promised by the Nixon Administration in 1972, was held up for two years because of a campaign led by Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington, to link the concessions to liberalized Soviet emigration policies. A compromise has apparently resolved the issue.
In an opening statement, Kissinger said it was “absolutely essential” for the House of Representatives to follow the Senate’s example and extend until February the deadline for cutting off military aid to Turkey. He said aid to Turkey was given because of her strategic importance and that a cutoff would thwart his efforts to help bring about a Cyprus settlement. The House is not expected to follow the Senate’s example.
Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet Communist party, and President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France completed three days of talks in Paris and issued a communique calling for stepped-up efforts to conclude the current European security conference with a 35-nation summit meeting. Both said in statements that their talks had provided an “extremely important” new momentum for peace in Europe as well as for French-Soviet relations. The joint communique reflected a close alignment of French and Soviet positions on major international issues, including the Middle East and the role of the United Nations.
Tens of thousands of jubilant Greek Cypriotes in Nicosia greeted President Makarios of Cyprus when he returned to the capital from which he fled for his life in a coup last July. Joyful cheering greeted the Archbishop as he stepped on the second-floor balcony of the Palace of the Ethnarch of Cyprus. In his speech from the balcony, the Archbishop said that he would not accept partition of the island between its ethnic Greeks and Turks. But he did offer amnesty to those Greek Cypriots who ousted him in the coup in July. After the coup, instigated by the former military regime in Greece, Turkey invaded Cyprus and, overconting Greek and Greek Cypriot forces, seized about 40 percent of the island, making refugees of about a third of the population of more than 600,000. The reversal of the coup also brought about the fall of the junta in Athens.
The Greek people will decide tomorrow between restoration of the monarchy or establishment of a republic. Political analysts in Athens generally believe that the voters will choose a republic, but they are not sure whether the vote will be decisive enough to bury the issue that has disrupted Greek political life for most of this century. Speaking for the republican side, Prof. George Koumandas asked a national television audience for an overwhelming victory that would “get rid of, once and for all, the nightmare of national division.” King Constantine, who has been in exile for seven years, made two emotional broadcasts, pre-recorded in London, emphasizing his desire to return to Greece and “unify” the nation. These have reportedly increased his support, particularly in provincial areas.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said Britain will remain in the European Common Market only on favorable terms and the public will have the final say at the ballot box. He told leaders of his Labor Party that he will seek major changes in Britain’s terms of membership in negotiations at the European summit talks in Paris this week.
British Leyland Motor Co. has suspended all dealings with Israel and is prepared to establish a $115 million auto assembly plant in Egypt, according to the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Lord Stokes, Leyland’s board chairman, will meet with Egyptian Premier Abdel Aziz Higazi today to discuss the project and has already affirmed that the company has stopped dealing with Israel, the paper said.
Spain and the Vatican have agreed on a draft to update the concordat regulating their relations since 1953 but there are still details that have to be worked out, officials said in Madrid. Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican’s specialist in foreign affairs, and Spanish Foreign Minister Pedro Vortina discussed the draft during the past three days, but no specifics were disclosed.
Arab diplomats today termed “unfair” and “regrettable” yesterday’s speech by the United States representative criticizing the recent trend in the United Nations toward dominance of the organization by a broad coalition of developing countries. Third‐world and neutral diplomats said today that Western criticisms of the present majority in the world organization had clearly been concerted by the United States and its allies in what appeared to be an attempt to regain lost positions. Arab and other third‐world delegates canceled weekend projects and today were consulting and requesting instructions from their governments on formal responses to the speech by John A. Scali, the United States representative, and similar criticisms by the delegates of France, Britain, West Germany and Belgium.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is in trouble. There has been a backlash following votes in UNESCO’s general conference last month excluding Israel from membership in the organization’s European regional grouping and withholding cultural aid from Israel. The move was led by Arab and Communist delegations. Since then the United States Senate has voted to withhold American financial support from UNESCO until the anti-Israeli resolutions are repealed. The United States supplies about a quarter of the organization’s biennial budget of $170‐million. The Swiss have reduced their contributions to UNESCO, and other nations appear to be ready to follow suit.
Israeli forces today fired with machine-guns on the town of Al‐Naqoura in southern Lebanon, seriously wounding a 16‐year‐old Lebanese youth, local residents said. They reported the shooting lasted 15 minutes. Explosions were heard from time to time inside Israeli territory, they added. Early yesterday, Palestinian guerrillas attacked a northern Israeli settlement.
Israeli forces today hunted for a lone Arab guerrilla, the survivor of a team of two who attacked the northern kibbutz of Rosh Haniqra yesterday. One guerrilla was shot dead and an Israeli civilian was severely wounded in the raid few hours before dawn. Security forces said today that the attackers swam to Israel from Lebanon. The dead guerrilla wore a rubber frogman suit. Two small, surfboard‐like rafts, used to transport equipment, were found today on the shore near Rosh Haniqra, some three miles from the Lebanese frontier, an army spokesman said. The footprints of two men led up the beach to the northwestern corner of a security fence surrounding the kibbutz, said the spokesman. The raiders cut a hole in the fence and moved inside.
Six Persian Gulf oil countries have agreed to a French proposal for a meeting between oil exporters and oil-consuming countries to discuss energy, the Middle East Economic Survey reported. But Kuwait’s minister of petroleum and finance, Abdel Rahman Attiki, said in Cairo that the acceptance was on condition that prices of food, raw materials and manufactured goods would also be discussed. The other countries are Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Iran.
The Saigon command reported a five-month high in Việt Cộng attacks during a 24-hour period — 273 ceasefire violations. U.S. analysts said the Communists were apparently seeking to undermine further the position of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Government casualties were listed at 71 dead, 292 wounded and 86 missing, with 210 Communist troops listed as killed.
The United States and Japan have reached an agreement whereby Japan will reduce by a fourth its annual catch of fish from the eastern Bering Sea and the northeastern Pacific in the next two years, Japan said. The agreement reached after two weeks of negotiations in Tokyo, is to be initiated Tuesday.
Voters in Australia’s state of Queensland took a sharp swing to the right in electing a new state legislature. It was a blow to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his federal Labor administration. With more than 80% of the Queensland vote counted, Labor Party leader Percy Tucker conceded defeat with the loss of at least 22 seats to the right-wing National and Liberal parties.
Ignoring a minor shooting incident between police and intruders, several Latin American leaders began a weekend summit meeting in Lima, Peru, to draw up a declaration calling for a “new era of authentic independence.” Represented at the summit are Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Panama, Colombia and Cuba.
Argentine leftist guerrillas have freed Eric Breuss, the Austrian manager of a steel factory who was kidnaped last July 23. Police said they found Breuss in the northwest city of Cordoba bound and gagged and wrapped in a banner of the People’s Revolutionary Army. In further violence, a Communist student at the University of La Plata was dragged from his home and shot to death by men believed to be members of a rightist death squad.
Hopes for a quick settlement of the prolonged Rhodesian dispute, and of a general white-black détente in southern Africa, were seriously dimmed today when the white minority regime of Rhodesia rejected proposals put forward by black leaders meeting in Lusaka, Zambia.
Two orbiting cosmonauts prepared today to return to earth in their Soyuz 16 spacecraft, winding up what has been described here as a successful rehearsal for the Joint Soviet‐American rendezvous in space planned for next July. It was not reported exactly when or where the craft was to land. Previous Soviet landings have taken place in the vast steppes of Soviet Central Asia. In anticipation of the descent, Colonel Anatoly V. Filipshenko, the spacecraft commander and Nikolai Rukavishnikov, the flight engineer, a civilian, increased their cabin pressure back up to the sea level atmosphere of 14.7 pounds a square inch normally used in Soviet space missions. After achieving orbit last Monday, the crew trimmed the cabin pressure to roughly 10 pounds a square inch and correspondingly increased its oxygen intake to make the atmosphere closer to that of the American Apollo craft, which uses pure oxygen at a pressure of only five pounds a square inch. This was done to test conditions allowing more rapid acclimatization for Soviet cosmonauts passing through the docking module to the Apollo spacecraft during next summer’s link‐up.
The Democratic mid-term conference in Kansas City, attended by 1,911 delegates, moved toward adoption of the first national party charter after a last-minute compromise headed off the possibility of a walkout by militant blacks. The protest among blacks and women over a paragraph of the charter dealing with minority participation in party affairs had threatened to result in a disruptive floor fight and possibly a walkout. After a series of caucuses and negotiating sessions, enough legalistic hairs were split to restore at least a semblance of intra-party harmony.
President Ford undertook with about a dozen advisers his first detailed examination of what is to be a “national energy policy.” The policy and related presidential decisions will be announced next month, possibly as part of the State of the Union message. Emerging from a briefing for newsmen after the meeting were the following: except for natural gas, there is no current energy shortage, and the short-term goal of the government’s policy is still to cut imports by about 15 percent, or one million barrels a day, by the end of 1975.
The deepening slump in the auto industry may make 1974 the worst sales year the industry has had since 1970, according to analysts. They say automakers should sell about 425,000 cars in December, off 26% from 1973 and the worst non-strike December in 15 years. If the slump continues, the industry will have sold 8,885,000 cars in 1974, almost 23% below the record 11,440,000 sold in 1973 and the lowest since the 8,394,800 sold in 1970. The slump has brought sharp cutbacks as the auto makers attempt to bring their production in line with inventories.
Mine union bargainers in Washington, D.C., worked against a deadline of midnight tonight in shaping a contract for 6,000 mine construction workers who have disrupted a return to work by 120,000 coal miners, contending they were neglected in a major contract signed with the soft coal industry. United Mine Workers officers met with striking construction men in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Illinois in an effort to avert nationwide picketing, which would halt a resumption Monday of full-scale coal production.
Two Democratic senators would run President Ford a close race if the 1976 presidential election were held now, according to the Gallup Poll. In test races Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie received the support of 45% of registered voters to 48% for Mr. Ford. Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson received 42% to 47% for Mr. Ford. Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama, the third Democrat tested, did not do as well. The test race showed him losing by a 39% to 53% vote.
The package bomb that killed a United Parcel Service worker in Pittsburgh apparently had been sent by a faction in a motorcycle gang feud and had been meant to explode in a cycle shop in Leechburg, Pennsylvania, police officials said. The blast killed John Metz, 38, and injured eight other men. Pittsburgh police said the package, about twice the size of a shoebox, failed to reach its destination because it was not addressed properly.
A recount of Nevada’s U.S. Senate race upheld Republican Paul Laxalt’s victory over Democrat Harry Reid by 612 votes. The net change from November 5 was a gain of 12 votes by Reid. There were indications that Reid would appeal the election to the U.S. Senate.
His nerves frayed by fear, a black man who was viciously beaten by a gang of whites in south Boston six weeks ago said he was moving back to his native Virginia so he could forget. Colly Seabron, 48, a resident of Boston 21 years, was dragged from his delivery van and beaten during a period of violent protests by whites against busing to achieve school integration.
Getting away from the Washington pressures of his long confirmation hearings, Vice President-designate Nelson A. Rockefeller was spending the weekend in Texas. He combined the business of a land-buying expedition near Harlingen in the lower Rio Grande Valley with the pleasure of taking his two sons, Nelson Jr., 10, and Mark, 7, on a camping trip. The agent in the land acquisition is Frank Yturria of Harlingen, at whose ranch the Rockefellers are staying. Rockefeller told newsmen he had made the trip “to take a good rest and just get out into God’s country.”
A scheme to embezzle $2.5 million from the Los Angeles city treasury was broken up by arrests made by agents of the Los Angeles County District Attorney, who proceeded on information developed by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee headed by Senator Henry Jackson, Washington Democrat. The arrested men were identified as Bernie Howard, a New York City accountant, and Morton Freeman, a Los Angeles area businessman. Mr. Howard has been linked in Senate hearings with Carmine “the Doctor” Lombardozzi, a Brooklyn gangster and associate of Carlo Gambino, reputed New York Mafia boss.
The Randolph–Sheppard Act, a United States law titled “Vending facilities for blind in Federal buildings”, took effect. With a stated goal of “providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in striving to make themselves self-supporting”, the new law required that blind persons should be given priority in licenses to operate vending facilities on federal property. Vending facilities were defined as automatic vending machines, cafeterias, snack bars, cart services, shelters, and counters.
A study of the nation’s 20 busiest airports has produced a suggestion that towing jetliners, rather than having them taxi on their own power, could result in a saving of 400 million gallons of airplane fuel per year. The study, by Lockheed Air port said that such a procedure at Los Angeles International Airport alone would cut fuel consumption from 49 million gallons per year to 12 million gallons. A fringe benefit, the study indicated, would be an 85% reduction in jet exhaust pollution.
Relaxing clean air standards may lead to increased respiratory illness in young children, according to Dr. Paul F. Wehrle. He voiced his concern at a San Francisco meeting called by the American Medical Association. Wehrle maintained that children are not as free from the effects of smog as once believed. His warning was connected with proposals to permit factories to use high-sulfur fuels because of energy shortages.
Fanne Foxe, the Argentine stripper and friend of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Arkansas), is getting an $11,500-a-week raise. Mike Pinter, owner of the Club Juana in Orlando, Florida, said that the Tidal Basin Bombshell (formerly the Argentine Firecracker) would bump and grind at his 200-seat topless bar for two weeks at $15,000 a week. The booking will be the first since Miss Foxe walked off a New York stage, where she was making $3,500 a week, after learning that Mills had been admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital. Pinter said that Miss Foxe, 38, would be introduced at each of her 23-minute, three-times-nightly performances by her two teenage daughters. “She likes to be introduced by relatives or friends,” Pinter said.
Mrs. Katherine O’Hara, 65, widow of the novelist John O’Hara, was killed when her car ran off a rain-slick road and struck a utility pole in Princeton, New Jersey. She was wearing a mink jacket and slacks and was believed to have been on her way to a party, police said. She and O’Hara were married January 31, 1955. The author died on April 11, 1970. He wrote such books as “Appointment in Samarra,” “Butterfield 8,” and “From the Terrace,” as well as numerous other books and short stories.
In the 1974 Grantland Rice Bowl, played at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens defeated the previously unbeaten UNLV Rebels by a score of 49–11.
NFL Football:
Cleveland Browns 17, Dallas Cowboys 41
Atlanta Falcons 10, Minnesota Vikings 23
Roger Staubach, booed early in the game, wound up throwing three touchdown passes today as the Dallas Cowboys kept their National Football League playoff hopes flickering with a 41–17 victory over the Cleveland Browns. Dallas now has an 8–5 won‐lost record and longshot hopes at a National Conference wild‐card berth. The Cowboys’ only chance is to defeat Oakland next Saturday and hope that the Washington Redskins lose their final two games. The Redskins play Monday night against Los Angeles and next Sunday against Chicago. The loss dropped the Browns’ record to 4–9, the worst in the club’s history. It also assured them of a last place finish — their first ever — in the American Conference Central Division. Staubach, booed after he failed to move Dallas on its second possession in the nationally televised game, silenced his critics with successive touchdown passes of 35 and 43 yards to Golden Richards in a 68‐second span of the first quarter. It gave Dallas a 14–0 lead, and the Cowboys never trailed. Both times Richards worked his way into the clear behind Cleveland’s defensive back, Van Green. Staubach, knocked out of the Washington game on Thanksgiving Day and replaced by a rookie, Clint Longley, who led Dallas to a story‐book victory, finished his work today with a 42‐yard scoring pass to his tight end, Billy Joe DuPre, in a 21-point third period for Dallas. Before that, however, the Browns had threatened to stage a comeback. Mike Phipps, making his first start in six games as the Cleveland quarterback, narrowed the deficit in the second quarter to 14–7 with a 41‐yard touchdown pass to Steve Holden. Dallas led, 20‐10, at halftime after Staubach’s two passes to Richards and field goals of 39 and 19 yards by Efren Herrera.
Dave Osborn scored on runs of 10 and 3 yards to lead the playoff‐bound Minnesota Vikings to a 23–10 National Football League victory over the Atlanta Falcons today. Osborn, the 10‐year veteran, pounded out 93 yards in 23 carries and caught six passes for 39 yards in the contest played in near‐freezing weather. Minnesota, the Central Division champion in the National Conference, raised its won‐lost record to 9–4. It took a 7–0 lead late in the first period when Osborn burst through four tacklers to score from the 10‐yard line. On the following kickoff, Atlanta drove 64 yards in eight plays, tying the score when Art Malone went over left tackle from the 1. Minnesota grabbed the lead for good in the second quarter on Fred Cox’s 21‐yard field goal. The Vikings made it 16–7 in the third period when Osborn went over right tackle from 3 yards out, capping a 60‐yard drive in 13 plays. Cox’s attempted extra point was blocked. Nick Mike‐Mayer kicked a 37‐yard field goal for the Falcons and Stu Voight, Viking tight end, caught a 10‐yard pass from Bob Berry to complete the scoring in the fourth quarter.
Born:
Annette Salmeen, American biochemist, Rhodes Scholar, and swimmer (Olympics, gold medalist, women’s 4x200m relay, 1996), in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Al Harris, NFL cornerback (Pro Bowl, 2007, 2008; Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, St. Louis Rams), in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Anthony Frederick, NBA small forward (Indiana Pacers, Sacramento Kings, Charlotte Hornets), in Los Angeles, California.
Mike Bell, MLB third baseman and pinch hitter (Cincinnati Reds), in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2021, of cancer).
Alex Rădulescu, Romanian tennis player, in Bucharest, Romania.
Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born British singer (All Saints) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Moussa Ibrahim, former Minister of Information of Libya and spokesman for Muammar Qaddafi; in Sirte, Libya.
Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist, in Seoul, South Korea.
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