Voters in Greece overwhelmingly approved the end of the monarchy and endorsed maintaining the government as a presidential republic, with almost 70 percent in favor. Greece voted decisively to become a republic and to eliminate her monarchy that was established in 1832. The votes were running about 2 to 1 in favor of “uncrowned democracy,” as it was designated on the ballot. This means that King Konstantine, who has been in exile for seven years, will be stripped of his title. He was the sixth member of his dynasty to reign as King of the Hellenes.
In a pessimistic appraisal of the effect of President Makarios’s return to Cyprus, Rauf Denktaş, leader of the Turkish Cypriote community, said that the President’s speech gave only “very, very slight hope” for a settlement between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots. Mr. Denktaş, in his opening remarks at a news conference, expressed measured appreciation of what he considered positive aspects of the Archbishop’s address. But then he proceeded to a detailed discussion full of pessimism. “I was trying to give Archbishop Makarios and myself some encouragment,” he said finally, after being asked whether his opening remarks were meant to be sarcastic.
On the specific issues dividing the two ethnic communities, Mr. Denktaş reaffirmed the two demands that President Makarios yesterday declared to be unacceptable to the Greek Cypriots. Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots insist on the division of the island into two separately administered zones within a federation. To establish these zones, the Turks demand — and have largely effected since the Turkish Army’s invasion last summer — population transfers to group most of each community into the two separate zones created by the war.
The paramilitary Irish National Liberation Army and its political wing, the left-wing Irish Republican Socialist Party, with a stated goal of removing Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and uniting with the Republic of Ireland to create a socialist republic, were founded at the Spa Hotel in Lucan, Ireland by Seamus Costello and others.
Heads of government of the nine European Common Market countries open a two-day summit conference today in Paris, called at the special insistence of France. Prime Minister Harold Wilson is expected to press for the terms which he feels will be necessary to Britain’s continued membership in the market. Also under consideration may be a regional development fund which could benefit Ireland, Italy and Britain. Energy coordination is also likely to be discussed. President Valery Giscared d’Estaing met with advisers today to complete preparations for the two-day European summit meeting beginning tomorrow, which will bring new faces, new problems and a new style to the intense year-end diplomatic activity.
The Swiss people overwhelmingly rejected higher taxes in a weekend referendum. The government called the referendum because it said it needed more revenue to reduce a big deficit in the projected federal budget, and to avoid a possible economic recession. The electorate, however, backed another recommendation — that the country’s two houses of parliament can only authorize new expenditures when a majority of their members vote for it. At present, parliament can pass new financial legislation or approve new spending by a majority of members attending the debates.
The Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have refused to send delegates to the Nobel Prize award ceremonies Tuesday, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said. The refusal reportedly was due to the scheduled presence of exiled Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Pope Paul VI went to the heart of old Rome to pray beneath a bronze I statue of the Virgin Mary on the 120th anniversary of the dogma of Immaculate Conception. The 77-year-old Pontiff rode in an open limousine from the Vatican to the Piazza di Spagna and prayed for several minutes at the base of the marble column holding the statue. “Smothered as we could be by the shameful licentiousness of vice and pornography, let us show we can defend ourselves by enjoying a feast day like today’s-all pureness, all beauty, all love,” the Pope said.
Progress toward peace in the Middle East “may be overdue,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said as he arrived in Washington for talks with U.S. officials amid reports that Israel may be prepared to make withdrawals in the Sinai, even without political concessions from Egypt.
U Thant, former Secretary General of the United Nations, was buried in Rangoon, Burma today at a site chosen by students in defiance of his relatives, who wanted him buried elsewhere in the city. Mr. Thant, who died of cancer in New York on November 25 at the age of 65, was interred in a hastily constructed mausoleum near the site of the former student union building at the University of Rangoon. The building was demolished during student riots in 1962. While Mr. Thant was being buried, thousands of Burmese were lining another funeral route to a mausoleum that his relatives had built with the help of Burmese authorities near the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma’s most sacred Buddhist shrine. It is in the heart of Rangoon.
For the second day, the Saigon command reported widespread fighting today in the Mekong Delta as well as several major clashes in Tây Ninh Province west of Saigon. The command said that 168 of 270 alleged cease‐fire violations by the Communists that were recorded for the day had taken place in the delta, including 31 ground attacks and 104 shellings of military and civilian targets. The upsurge of fighting follows a November 25 directive by the Communist command to its troops to check purported “rice‐looting” by the Saigon side as the important winter harvest approaches. Though worded defensively, the directive was seen as warning of the current fighting, in which both sides are vying to control people and rice fields. The duration and scale of the attacks will indicate whether the Communists are doing more than routinely pursuing the annual “rice war.”
The Saigon command reported mortar and rocket attacks against seven district seats in the delta and against Mộc Hóa, the sleepy capital of Kiến Tường Province. In Tây Ninh Province, just above the delta, the capital, Tây Ninh city, was hit by 20 rounds of 82‐mm. mortar shells, which, the command said, wounded three soldiers and two civilians. Eight miles northeast of the provincial capital, the command said, the Communists fired 800 rounds of assorted heavy weapons into units of the regional forces and staged ground attacks. The attacks were halted, apparently with the help of artillery and air strikes, and the command said that 100 opposing soldiers had been killed. Government casualty figures were not furnished.
The most serious fighting in the delta was reported from Kiến Tường, which borders on Cambodia. The North Vietnamese Fifth Division is said to be infiltrating troops there. The Saigon command said that Communist troops had penetrated into the market of Tuyên Nhơn, a district seat in the Plains of Reeds, but were thrown back, leaving behind 15 dead and nine weapons. Four miles north of Mộc Hóa, government troops supported by armored personnel carriers reported killing 41 of their enemy and capturing nine weapons. The Saigon command said its forces had no casualties.
More than 500 paramilitary and other police armed with automatic weapons raided two university campuses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and arrested “two to three dozen” student leaders who were asleep in their rooms, police sources said. Among those seized in the predawn room-to-room searches at the National University and the University of Malaya was Hisamuddin Rais, a leader of the violent anti-government student demonstrations that began last Tuesday.
In Seoul, South Korea, the opposition members of the National Assembly‐ended a three‐day sit‐in today and were met by about 800 riot policemen outside Parliament. They were dragged into black police jeeps and taken to their homes. A free‐for‐all broke out on the broad avenue in front of the Assembly building as the 59 representatives resisted attempts by the policemen to manhandle them. One Assembly member said the police were resorting to tough measures so as to have a basis later for charging them with disorderly conduct. Kim Young Sam, the president of the New Democratic party, who has been spearheading the widening protest movement against the restrictive 1972 Constitution, said that “our will to fight against this oppressive dictatorship has now become stronger. He said his party, often divided by internal conflicts, had succeeded in displaying solidarity to the nation. The 47‐year‐old Mr. Kim has surprised both the government and the public with his vigorous anti‐government campaign recently. He again today took issue with the government’s view that there was a threat of imminent aggression from the Communist regime in North Korea. “The Soviet Union and China are not likely to support Pyongyang in another war,” he said.
Takeo Miki, head of the liberal wing of Japan’s ruling party, was elected prime minister by parliament. He takes over the reins of a country plagued by a 25% annual inflation rate and an economic recession. Miki’s election was a foregone conclusion since the Liberal Democratic Party holds an absolute majority in parliament.
Costa Rican President Daniel Oduber said that American financier Robert L. Vesco will be permitted to stay in Costa Rica despite a public campaign to expel him as an undesirable. Vesco has been in Costa Rica since 1972 to escape U.S. prosecution on charges of making an illegal $200,000 contribution to the reelection campaign of former President Richard M. Nixon.
The long-divided black Rhodesian liberation movement signed an agreement in Lusaka, Zambia, to unite and to prepare for “any conference for the transfer of power to the majority that might be called” with the white minority Rhodesian government of Prime Minister Ian Smith. The agreement represented an important preliminary step toward a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia, which the nationalists prefer to call Zimbabwe, since it should create a common front and a negotiating team among the black nationalist forces. President Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia, who watched the ceremony, referred immediately afterward to a statement by the Rhodesian Government yesterday that rejected black proposals for early constitutional talks “on the basis of immediate majority rule.”
The Democratic Party completed its mid-term conference in Kansas City with the adoption of a party charter, the first by major political party in American politics. The document was happily embraced by most of the party’s delegates — from Southern state chairmen and leaders of the more liberal industrial unions to the mass of Democratic governors and the half-dozen presidential aspirants already competing for the 1976 nomination under rules affirmed in the charter.
A special committee of the Republican Party, at a meeting in Washington, proposed measures that would encourage states to select women, young people and members of minority groups as delegates to the party’s national convention. The committee also approved a proposal that would give party officials more control over the financing of Republican presidential campaigns. The proposals are subject to the approval of the Republican National Committee.
Two tape-recorded allusions by Richard Nixon to an apparent “slush fund” gathered from campaign contributions has been described by Watergate investigators as central piece of evidence in the government’s inquiry into the affairs of Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, Mr. Nixon’s closest friend.
President Ford will be asked this week to approve a budget increase for foreign food assistance and to settle an inter-agency fight over how much aid individual countries would get. Government sources said that the proposals would be forwarded to the President by Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
U.S. energy policy should emphasize conservation, slightly higher consumer prices, increased coal use by utilities and industry and incentives to raise domestic production and research, the Committee for Economic Development said in Washington, D.C. It said oil imports should be held to about 10% of domestic consumption to avoid widespread impact of any future embargoes. The 67-page energy study said, “The era of cheap energy has ended abruptly with serious consequences both for the United States and the rest of the world.” The CED is an independent research organization of 200 business executives and educators, primarily university presidents.
The Ford Administration is substituting wishing for policy in the energy crisis and failing to curb gasoline consumption, says Rep. Lee Aspin (D-Wisconsin). He said in Washington that the Federal Energy Commission had estimated the 50% rise in the consumer price of gasoline in the last year should have resulted in a 6% decrease in gasoline demand. Instead, he said, current estimates show gas consumption has decreased only 1% from a year ago. The congressman said, “If voluntary consumption were working, the fall in consumption would be more than anticipated. In fact, it is not.” He said the FEA figures demonstrate “what happens when wishing is substituted for policy. The Administration hoped that it could do nothing but talk and consumption would magically decrease. That hasn’t happened.”
Higher fuel prices and a slumping economy reduced the rate of state tax revenues in 1974, the Commerce Department reported. Tax income for all 50 states totaled $74.1 billion in 1974, compared with $68.1 billion in 1973. The 8.9% increase was below the 13.7% jump reported the previous year. The cost of goods and services for states increased 10.9% during 1974, putting pressure on state governments to make ends meet, the department said. Federal tax receipts for the 1974 tax year, which ended June 30, were $264.9 billion, an increase of 14% over 1973.
Stalled contract talks between mine construction workers and the coal industry threatened to keep many of the nation’s coal mines shut, despite last week’s settlement of a 24-day strike by miners. Unless they got a contract, the 6,000 mine construction workers said, they would start picketing work sites. Because miners traditionally have refused to cross picket lines, the 120,000 miners may not go back to work. Chief federal mediator W.J. Usery Jr. was meeting with both sides in the dispute. The construction workers’ contract expired along with the United Mine Workers pact Nov. 12 but they were not part of the agreement reached last Thursday.
An increase in planted acreage and favorable fall weather have raised prospects for the United States’ largest wheat harvest ever, agricultural specialists will be told during a four-day conference on the farm economy that opens tomorrow.
President Ford has recommended that Congress declare 1,740 acres on Assateague Island near Ocean City, Maryland, an official wilderness. The action would prevent automobile traffic and development on the Atlantic Coast island. Ford also recommended denial of wilderness status to the 8,000-acre Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, also in Maryland. The state Department of Natural Resources said designating the Blackwater marshland as a wilderness would interfere with wildlife management activities. Both Maryland parcels were proposed for wilderness designation under the 1964 Wilderness Act. Mr. Ford’s recommendations appeared to be a compromise with sportsmen.
New York City Mayor Abraham Beame defended the appointment of his rabbi to a $32,000-a-year provisional city job and described the rabbi as “a capable man.” The appointment of Rabbi David Haymovitz to a Human Resources Administration post was criticized by John DeLury, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Union. DeLury said municipal unions would not cooperate in solving the city’s budget crisis unless Beame fired political appointees before dismissing career civil servants. “I’m going to tell you, rabbis are going to go before sanitation men go,” DeLury said.
Mayor Beame of New York, feeling that the Democrats in Kansas City had overlooked many of the problems of cities, said that he and other Democratic mayors would begin a concentrated drive for a strong urban program in the party’s 1976 presidential convention platform. He said he would lead regional meetings of the Northeastern Democratic mayors, with the first in Wilmington, Delaware, next month.
Two women priests were permitted to celebrate the Eucharist in public worship services by an Episcopal rector despite opposition from his bishop. The Rev. L. Peter Beebe, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, Ohio, had been prohibited by the Rt. Rev. John H. Burt from allowing the women to celebrate the sacrament because the church does not sanction women priests. The Rev. Alison Cheek, 47, of Annandale, Virginia, and the Rev. Carter Heyward, 29, of New York City, conducted the services. The women were among 11 ordained in Philadelphia July 29.
The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public suggestions for a planned revision of its 10-year timber management plan for the Angeles, San Bernardino, Cleveland and Los Padres National Forests in California. Officials said revision is needed because of increasing recreational demands, limited number of coniferous forests available and watershed problems. Scheduled for completion in spring, 1976, the plan is to aid the Forest Service in protecting remaining forests and wildlife and carrying out reforestation while accommodating recreation programs.
The launching of West Germany’s Helios satellite from Cape Canaveral was delayed by a problem in the Atlas Centaur booster rocket. The shot I was rescheduled for Tuesday morning. Engineers discovered a malfunction in the booster pump of the rocket but said they expected to repair it with no major problems. Helios is a complex satellite designed to study the sun’s influence on earth and space. It is designed to fly within 28 million miles of the sun, closer than any satellite has been before. A twin Helios craft is to be launched next November,
The Soyuz 16 spaceflight returned to Earth after a successful test by Soviet cosmonauts of the docking ring and other mechanisms needed to safely connect with a U.S. spacecraft for the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz mission.
The Italian musical Aggiungi un posto a tavola (Add a seat at the table) premiered in Rome.
NFL Football:
Miami Dolphins 17, Baltimore Colts 16
Philadelphia Eagles 20, New York Giants 7
Green Bay Packers 6, San Francisco 49ers 7
St. Louis Cardinals 0, New Orleans Saints 14
Detroit Lions 23, Cincinnati Bengals 19
Chicago Bears 21, San Diego Chargers 28
Pittsburgh Steelers 21, New England Patriots 17
Houston Oilers 14, Denver Broncos 37
Buffalo Bills 10, New York Jets 20
Oakland Raiders 7, Kansas City Chiefs 6
The Miami Dolphins edged the Baltimore Colts, 17–16. The Dolphins, who had many early season problems, still have a shot at a third consecutive Super Bowl championship, but Coach Don Shula admitted that the triumph over Baltimore was “not exactly a ho-hum victory.” Miami methodically built a 14–0 lead on a 4-yard scoring pass from Bob Griese to Howard Twilley and a 1-yard touchdown plunge by Larry Csonka. But they needed a 27-yard field goal by Garo Yepremian to hold off the Colts who closed strongly with field goals of 26, 40 and 20 yards by Toni Linhart and a 2-yard touchdown pass from Bert Jones to Bill Olds with only 62 seconds left to play. The Colts tried an onside kickoff, but the Dolphins maintained possession and ran out the remaining time. “I never doubted we’d win it,” said Shula in reference to the division championship. “I’ve always kept the faith.” The Dolphins lost two of their first five games, but only one of the next eight.
Maybe Mike Boryla will wake up soon and realize that rookie quarterbacks are supposed to bomb out in bad weather. Unfortunately for the New York Giants, the 23‐year‐old Boryla took to the chilly rain, wind and mud of Yale Bowl like a duck and directed the Philadelphia Eagles to a 20–7 victory today. “You take a kid from California and don’t let him know he shouldn’t perform like that,” Coach Mike McCormack said proudly of the 6‐foot‐3‐inch, 205‐pound Stanford graduate, who completed 23 of 34 passes for 240 yards and one touchdown. Last week, under similar wet conditions, Boryla hit 16 of 32 for 138 yards and two touchdowns in a 36–14 triumph over the Green Bay Packers in his first pro start. The setback was the fifth straight for the Giants and their 11th loss in 13 games. It also completed a “home” season without a victory at Yale, although only about 20,000 fans of the 46,889 who purchased tickets braved what McCormack termed “as bad a weather condition as I’ve ever seen.”
The San Francisco 49ers edged the Green Bay Packers, 7–6, on a 4th quarter touchdown. Veteran quarterback Norm Snead relieved rookie Tom Owen and directed the 49ers on a 71-yard drive which produced the game’s only touchdown, a two-yard burst by Delvin Williams, and Bruce Gossett added the extra point to produce the victory. San Francisco’s defense permitted only two Chester Marcol field goals of 43 and 29 yards, and over the last four games had allowed only 13 points and one touchdown. Williams’ touchdown had been set up by a controversial pass interference call against Ken Ellis of Green Bay and a 17-yard run by Sammy Johnson. Ellis was called for interference on Gene Washington on the Green Bay 21-yard line. Johnson then fought his way to the 4-yard line and two plays later Williams scored.
The New Orleans Saints upset the St. Louis Cardinals in a 14–0 shutout. Three rookies — Alvin Maxson, Paul Seal and Larry Cipa — and a tenacious Saints’ defense denied the Cardinals a chance to wrap up the Eastern Division crown. Maxson ran 66 yards for a touchdown in the opening period and Seal, a tight end, took a handoff and ran 7 yards for New Orleans’ other score. Cipa, a third-string quarterback, started because of injuries to Archie Manning and Bobby Scott. He ran well and completed 7 of 17 passes for 87 yards. The shutout was only the second in the Saints’ eight-year history and the first the Cardinals have suffered since October, 1971. Maxson set New Orleans rushing records with his 6-yard scoring dash and the 148 yards he gained on 22 carries. The Saints sacked Jim Hart four times, but the St. Louis quarterback managed 16 completions in 39 passing attempts for 150 yards.
The Detroit Lions downed the Cincinnati Bengals 23–19, as Detroit kept its playoff hopes faintly flickering as Greg Landry rifled an 8-yard scoring aerial to Charlie Sanders with 29 seconds remaining in play. The Bengals, who were eliminated from contention, played most of the second half without Ken Anderson, the league’s leading passer, who suffered knee injuries and back muscle spasms after taking a hard fall. Wayne Clark, his replacement, almost became the hero when he drove the Bengals to a touchdown with 87 seconds to play. Ed Williams capped a 55-yard march with a 2-yard scoring run that gave Cincinnati a brief 19–16 lead.
The San Diego Chargers defeated the Chicago Bears, 28–21. Two long passes from Jesse Freitas to Harrison Davis, lifted the Chargers from a 21–14 deficit entering the final period. The first toss (43 yards) resulted in a touchdown that tied the score and the second (30) yards) put the Chargers on the Chicago 2-yard line to set up a 1-yard scoring smash by Bo Mathews. Don Woods of San Diego gained 75 yards to run his total for the season to 1,057. He is the seventh rookie in N.F.L. history to surpass 1,000 yards.
Franco Harris carried the Pittsburgh Steelers into the National Football League playoffs today. The broad shouldered, 230‐pound fullback smashed at the New England Patriots’ defense for 136 yards, his second highest rushing total of the season. Complemented by the usual iron‐clad Steeler defense, the Pittsburgh team turned back the Patriots, 21‐17, and clinched first place in the Central Division of the American Conference as Cincinnati lost. The Steelers, who went 39 years before qualifying for a playoff berth, made the N.F.L.’s select round of eight for the third season in a row. They will be host to the conference wild card team, the Buffalo Bills, at Pittsburgh December 22 in the postseason play. How far the Steelers can go in the playoffs is a conjectural matter depending a lot upon Harris whose power running has represented most of his team’s offensive ability in recent weeks. Against the Patriots, who lost for the fifth time in their last six games, the Gold and Black was hardly awesome. Two New England fumbles, an intercepted pass, a 16‐yard Patriot punt and an end‐zone sacking of Jim Plunkett for a safety were of immense help. The Steelers found themselves ahead, 21–10, midway through the final period and the last New England touchdown, with 71 seconds remaining, therefore, had no meaning.
Otis Armstrong, the league’s rushing leader, gained 183 yards and scored three touchdowns to power the Denver Broncos to a 37–14 victory over the Houston Oilers. He broke both Floyd Little’s record of 166 yards gained in one game and Little’s mark of 1,133 yards gained in a season. With one game left, the second-year pro from Purdue has accumulated 1,265 yards.
Adding another chapter to his storybook career, Joe Namath rallied the New York Jets to their fifth straight victory yesterday, a 20–10 conquest of the playoff‐bound Buffalo Bills, in what was perhaps the quarterback’s last game as a Jet at Shea Stadium. After saying before the game “I don’t think I’ll be back,” Namath erased a 10–6 deficit on the windy, rainy afternoon with a 36-yard touchdown pass on which Jerome Barkum made a brilliant leaping, one-handed catch with 4 minutes left in the game. Then two minutes later, Ralph Baker, who came to the Jets in 1964, a year before Namath, intercepted a pass that bounced off O. J. Simpson’s knee when Al Atkinson hit him from behind and chugged 67 yards down the muddy field for the clinching touchdown. The outcome not only kept alive the hottest streak in the National Football League but it also shattered the Bills’ chances of dethroning the Miami Dolphins as the American Conference’s Eastern Division champions. Buffalo, however, already had gained a postseason berth as the wild-card team and will face Pittsburgh in the American Conference playoffs December 22. Miami will be at Oakland in the other A.F.C. contest December 21. The Jets aren’t going anywhere but home after the season, but they can even their won-lost record at 7–7 if they beat Baltimore next Sunday in what could be the last chapter in Namath’s 10-year Jet career.
The Oakland Raiders squeaked past the Kansas City Chiefs, 7–6. The Raiders, cruising into the playoffs, won on a 10-yard scoring pass from Daryle Lamonica to Cliff Branch in the final period, Lamonica, who was playing in only his second game of the season, replaced Larry Lawrence, a rookie who twisted his right knee early in the game. The Raiders rested Kenny Stabler, their normal starter at quarterback. Jan Stenerud had given Kansas City a 6–0 lead with field goals of 50 and 27 yards, but missed another 50-yard attempt in the final minutes. A crowd of 60,577 braved 27-degree weather and a brisk wind to watch Oakland run its won-lost record to 11–2, the best in the league.
Born:
Tony Simmons, NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts, New York Giants), in Chicago, Illinois.
Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), in Sharon, Massachusetts.
Died:
Ali Mansur, 88, former Prime Minister of Iran 1940-1941 and 1950
Robert Duffy, 71, American college football coach and lawyer.
Hugues Panassié, 62, French jazz critic, record producer and impresario, died of a heart attack.
[Ed: Jesse Freitas is a sad story. He ultimately lost the battle for Chargers’ quarterback to the more talented Dan Fouts. He then struggled with mental illness for years and was in and out of jail. He died in his car, homeless in 2015.]
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