President Ford arrived at Fort-de-France, Martinique, for talks tomorrow and Monday with President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France on a wide range of political and economic issues. He was accompanied by Secretary of State Kissinger. Mr. Giscard d’Estaing, who arrived in the French West Indies two days ago, met Mr. Ford at Lamentin Airport this afternoon, and in a brief ceremony, the two Presidents stood on a white platform flanked by rows of French sailors and addressed a crowd of several, hundred Martinique citizens and officials. Both expressed the hope that the long‐time friendship between the two nations would help bridge recent differences that Mr. Giscard d’Estaing attributed to changed circumstances. “Our two countries have in various respects and to various degrees certain responsibilities to bear belonging to the community of liberal democracies,” Mr. Giscard d’Estaing said.
The Senate passed and sent to the White House a $3 billion military construction authorization bill. It still has to pass the bill providing funds for the construction. The authorization bill includes expansion of the Diego Garcia naval base in the Indian Ocean, urged by President Ford because of Soviet fleet expansion in that area.
Two new-type Soviet missiles landed in the Pacific at the end of 6,000-mile test flights, the Pentagon announced. The solid-fuel SS-16s fired down the Soviet test range are the lightest of four new types of Russian missiles. A Pentagon spokesman indicated they carried single warheads. It was Russia’s fourth series of long-range missile tests into the Pacific this year.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314 was adopted as a non-binding recommendation to the Security Council on the definition for the “crime of aggression” for an individual nation.
The island of Malta has become a republic with Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo taking over as head of its government in place of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. The Mediterranean nation has been an independent member of the British Commonwealth since gaining its independence in 1954. Sir Anthony was sworn in as governor general during a colorful ceremony in the ancient Palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John, who once occupied the island.
Premier Konstantine Karamanlis won his first vote of confidence today since his resounding victory at the polls three weeks ago. Parliament gave its approval to his Government’s policies by a vote of 217 to 78, with five deputies absent. It was a roll call vote with deputies voting along strict party lines. Mr. Karamanlis presented his Government’s program Wednesday and three days of debate followed. The Premier was in no danger of being voted down since his supporters hold 220 of the 300 seats in the single chamber ruling house. But there was some apprehension that the confidence vote would bring into the open a split between monarchists and republicans in his New Democracy party. It didn’t.
Sweden is prepared to erect a nuclear research institute in Libya to provide instruction in the field to help the country develop a nuclear power program, according to a joint communique issued at the end of a six-day visit to Sweden by a Libyan delegation. Officials said the Swedish government, which has one of the world’s largest per capita nuclear power programs, had rejected a Libyan offer to join an oil refinery project.
The United States and Rumania announced today they had signed accords for cooperation and exchange in culture, education, science and technology — the first postwar agreements of any kind between the two governments. The five‐year cooperation agreement is intended to help develop collaboration between universities, research institutes, libraries, museums and other cultural and scientific activities of Rumania and the United States. Under the two‐year exchange program, the two countries will exchange researchers, teaching staff, artists and journalists — “several hundred people” year in all.
Premier Jacques Chirac won control of the leadership of the Gaullist party during a turbulent extraordinary meeting of the party’s Central Committee. While delegates to the party’s National Council in a meeting hall a few miles away grumbled about the delay in the opening of a council session, the Central Committee thrashed out the issue of its leadership in a sunrise session at a central Paris hotel. The secretary general, Alexandre Sanguinetti, resigned in favor of Mr. Chirac, because of dissensions within the patty.
A flash fire raced through a home for the elderly near Nottingham, England, killing 18 of 48 residents caught asleep in their beds. Police said most of the victims were invalids in their 80s. A spokesman said 19 persons were injured in the blaze — 14 residents, two ambulance attendants, two policemen and a fireman. Cause of the fire, which burned for three hours before being brought under control, was not immediately known.
Israel reported that her forces intercepted and killed four Arab gunmen and apparently thwarted an Al Fatah plot to liberate the Most Rev. Marion Capucci, the Greek Catholic Archbishop in Jerusalem, who was sentenced to prison last week for smuggling guns to Palestinian guerrillas.
Ninety‐two defendants accused of involvement in an attack on a military academy in Cairo last spring pleaded not guilty in court today and won postponement of their trial for another month. The presiding judge granted the postponement in response to a request by the defense for more time. The defense contended that the defendants, almost all of them young men in their twenties, were religious fanatics who had been “hypnotized” by the alleged ringleader, Saleh Abdullah Sariyah, a Palestinian who had been an employee of the Arab League here. The defense suggested that except for Mr. Sariyah the defendants should be sent to a mental hospital. Mr. Sariyah and six others face the death penalty. The trial will resume December 18.
United States Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan is leaving India in a melancholy mood. He says that his own task is finished but that relations with India seem fragile and thin. Moreover the 47‐year‐old Harvard social scientist, who has worked for four United States Presidents is convinced that the United States is paying too little attention to India. “This is a democracy — a huge Asian democracy — and there aren’t many around,” he said in an interview. “Half of the people on earth who live in a society with civil liberties live in India. If that disappeared, you would know it.” “I can understand the fascination with China but I don’t understand the corresponding disinterest here,” said Mr. Moynihan, whose nominated successor is William B. Saxbe, the Attorney General.
Mr. Moynihan arrived in New Delhi nearly two years ago with a single task: to improve relations with India, which had plunged following Washington’s support of Pakistan in the 1971 war in Bangladesh, the former eastern wing of Pakistan. Relations with India, he say, are now “in an equilibrium state.” “In the past our relations were volatile and unstable, up and down,” he said. “We’ve now reached a kind of plateau. We’ve regressed to a kind of stable perception of one another.” Seated on the lawn of Roosevelt House, the embassy residence, Mr. Moynihan expressed some disenchantment with persistent anti‐Americanism here, his own lack of contact with intellectuals and even with Government officials, the relatively thin texture of United States economic links to India and the socialist rhetoric here “that makes too little distinction between socialist regimes which provide for individual liberty, and those which destroy individual liberty.”
Tây Ninh, a provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon, was hit by rockets as it became the target of a force of Communist troops estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 men. Heavy fighting was reported 10 miles from the city as North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng soldiers attacked a series of outposts, including one in which a South Vietnamese platoon of 30 men was reported wiped out.
In Seoul, 40 legislators were involved in a brawl that broke out on the floor of the National Assembly of South Korea after former Foreign Minister Chung Il-hyung called on President Park Chung Hee to resign, calling his regime an “Orwellian type of total dictatorship.” “Our people are tired of his 13 years of leadership which, I am afraid, have now reached a limit,” said the 70‐year‐old Mr. Chyung, a senior member of the opposition, New Democratic party. “I wonder if he is willing to step down.” The incident came as the Assembly was beginning a session scheduled for questioning of the Government on amendment of the 1972 Constitution and on national security. Several Cabinet members, including Premier Kim Jong Pil, left hastily as the fighting became serious.
The South Korean government expelled an American missionary, the Rev. George Ogle, a Methodist, accusing him of having disrupted social order and fomenting anti-government demonstrations. Dr. Ogle was put aboard a Korean Air Lines plane for Los Angeles as a group of about 100 supporters protested against his expulsion.
Premier Takeo Miki warned the Japanese people today that they were confronted by “unprecedented trials from within and without the country” and asked them to have “courage, wisdom and perseverance” to overcome the difficulties.
Private Teruo Nakamura, a Taiwanese-born member of the Imperial Japanese Army, became the last combatant from World War II to surrender, more than 29 years after the end of the War. Nakamura had been stationed on Morotai, at the time an island in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), when U.S., Australian and Netherlands forces recaptured the island in the Battle of Morotai. Initially part of a group of soldiers determined not to surrender, Nakamura evaded capture until a pilot accidentally spotted his hut, prompting a search by the Indonesian Army and his arrest.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos ordered the release of another 454 political prisoners, bringing to 1,076 the number of prisoners released during the week. They were among 5,234 persons detained under the martial law decree Marcos issued in September, 1972. Marcos said the releases were under his policy of “reconciliation, solidarity and brotherhood.”
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam set out on a five‐week tour of Europe and Asia today in the face of criticism from newspapers, his political opposition and members of his own party who say, he should stay home at a time of economic and political crisis. As he departed demonstrators at Sydney airport chanted “don’t come back.” The 14‐nation tour — Mr. Whitlam’s 12th trip overseas since he came to power 23 months ago — has been under fire for weeks.
Peru’s leftist military regime announced the nationalization of all privately owned international Telex and telegraph services, effective March 1. Transmission of news was not affected by the order. The action affects Cables West Coast Co., a subsidiary of Cable and Wireless Ltd. of England, and All America Inc., a subsidiary of the U.S.-based International Telegraph and Telephone Corp. The Peruvian Telephone Co., another ITT subsidiary, was nationalized by the regime several years ago.
A persistent drought in the most fertile grain-producing areas of Argentina has led to fears among agricultural experts here that the country will not be able to relieve significantly the worsening food situation elsewhere in the world.
Bishop Abel Muzorewa, president of Rhodesia’s African National Council, said today he had been given no indication either here or at talks last week in Zambia that Rhodesia’s white Government was prepared to alter its policy of minority rule. In his first interview since returning from Lusaka, the Zambian capital and scene of talks by black African and Rhodesian nationalist leaders last week, the Bishop said: “We don’t know whether they have changed their minds or not. That’s why we are looking forward to meeting them at a conference as soon as possible to find out.” “But we are trusting that they will change their minds on this issue,” the Bishop said in a telephone interview. The Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian D. Smith, said earlier this week that the guerrilla war in the northeast of the country would cease, political detainees would be released and a constitutional conference would be convened to plan Rhodesia’s future.
A United Nations report says that the economic situation of blacks and other ethnic minorities in the United States has improved significantly in recent years, diminishing the social basis of racial discrimination.
The Senate, voting 56 to 27, blocked an anti-busing filibuster and then voted 55 to 27 to nullify a House-approved amendment to a $8.6 billion appropriations bill that would have curbed government enforcement of desegregation orders. The key vote was a closure vote, which required a two-thirds majority to end debate on language revising the House amendment, and was only the 19th such success in the Senate’s history.
Senior administration energy planners went into seclusion at Camp David to work out for President Ford recommendations about how to achieve a quick reduction of crude oil imports. In private conversations, there was a noticeable lack of optimism that the government would take decisive action or that a large reduction would be achieved. “I won’t bet exactly how it’s going to come out,” one planner said, “but what I will bet is that it’s too little, too late.” Officials also have begun to work on an equally prickly policy problem, one that could become the subject of a major national debate in 1975. It is how to encourage development of high-cost domestic energy supplies, such as shale oil or liquefied coal, without locking the American economy into high, across-the-board energy costs.
Sponsors of a federal strip mine control bill that seems certain of final pre-adjournment passage in Congress on Monday, despite President Ford’s announced intention to veto it, began a campaign to persuade the President to change his mind or, if that is not possible, to muster enough strength in Congress to override any veto.
The Senate Finance Committee, meeting in private, approved legislation today that would preserve beyond the present December 31 expiration date some special tax advantages accorded to the railroad, coal and real estate industries.
The Senate Finance Committee approved a last-minute bill to provide direct cash payments to poor working families with incomes under $5,600 a year. The measure providing cash payment — called a “work bonus” — was one of several riders the committee tacked on to minor tariff bills and sent to the Senate floor for consideration in the final week of the 93rd Congress. Any family earning less than $4,000 a year would be entitled to a federal payment equal to 10% of earnings, paid four times a year. The bonus would diminish as earnings rose above $4,000 a year.
Chanting, “We say, we say no to racism,” 15,000 to 20,000 blacks and whites marched through the streets of downtown Boston today to protest the turmoil that has accompanied court‐ordered busing for school desegregation here. There was a brief, club-swinging clash with the police as marchers attempted to push past barricades down a fashionable shopping street, but generally the march was peaceful. The march, called by an ad hoc coalition of civil rights, liberal and left‐wing groups, was billed as a “march against racism” to protest the stoning of buses and the actions of the Boston School Committee in maintaining what the demonstrators called a segregated school system.
Pan American World Airways and other U.S. international carriers may be given up to $296.5 million in extra payments for carrying airmail under legislation passed 221 to 54 by the House of Representatives. The measure would also require that all U.S. government-financed travel be on U.S.-owned carriers whenever possible. The Senate has passed a similar bill that did not increase air mail payments. A compromise measure must be worked out in a HouseSenate conference committee.
A gunman forced a pilot to fly him to Cuba in a twin-engine aircraft, federal officials said. The plane landed in Havana after a flight from Peter O’Knight Airport in Tampa, Florida. Officials said the hijacker, using the name Robin Harrison, had called the Tampa Flying Service to charter a plane. When he arrived the man pulled a pistol on pilot Frank Haigney, 30, and ordered him to fuel up a plane and take off. Haigney activated a special hijacking code in his radio transmitter to let air controllers know what was happening. When he later asked for clearance from Tampa to Miami and “possibly farther south,” controllers gave him bearings to Havana’s Jose Marti Airport.
Striking dairy workers in New York voted nearly 2 to 1 to end a 10-day walkout that had cut off milk supplies for 10 million consumers in New York City, much of Long Island and parts of Westchester County. The truck drivers and plant workers. voted 1,130 to 602 to go back to work, assuring resumption of normal deliveries Monday. Full terms of the contract were not disclosed. The strike began after management had sought to improve productivity.
The recount of gubernatorial ballots was called off in Ohio by Governor John J. Gilligan after nearly complete returns showed former Republican Governor James A. Rhodes maintaining his lead. The tally, with 11,145 of the state’s 12,831 precincts counted, gave Rhodes 1,493,699 votes to Gilligan’s 1,482,179. Robert Tenenbaum, Gilligan’s press secretary, said the Democratic governor did not want to waste any more state money by continuing the recount.
A multimillion-dollar damage suit against the U.S. government arising from the Tuskegee, Alabama, syphilis experiment has neared settlement out of court, U.S. Attorney Ken Vines said in Montgomery, Alabama. The class-action suit, originally seeking $1.8 billion in damages, was brought by 40 survivors of 600 Macon County black men used as guinea pigs in a federal experiment that began in 1932 and ended in 1972. The details of the settlement, expected to be brought to the U.S. District Court for approval within two weeks, were not disclosed.
Prosecutors in a 1972 trial of three black activists for burning a stable have conceded that they did not disclose to defense attorneys the fact that two key state witnesses were each given $4,000 in cash from the Federal Government to obtain their testimony.
Walter Lippmann, the retired columnist and author who was dean of American political journalism in the 20th century, died at a nursing home in New York. He was 85 years old. His career spanned six decades and he was for millions of readers the conscience of the nation through the trials of the Depression, wars and international confrontation. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 and 1962; the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and Overseas Press Club awards for interpretation of foreign news in 1953, 1955 and 1959.
The Ford Foundation, the country’s wealthiest philanthropic institution, whose income from its investments has been declining, announced that it will reduce its annual grants over the next four years from $208 million to $100 million. This means, according to the foundation’s president, McGeorge Bundy, that “important” programs in each of the foundation’s six areas of interest “will be out of business.”
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ordered a postponement in the effective date of new government rules reducing the amount of time plastics workers can be exposed to vinyl chloride until the matter can be studied further. The regulations, which would have gone into effect January 1, reduce worker exposure to airborne concentrations of vinyl chloride to an average of one part-per-million over an eight-hour shift. The present allowable level is 50 ppm. Government attorneys argued that at least 13 liver cancer deaths in the plastics industry had been traced to exposure of workers to vinyl chloride.
Impounding of $10 million in federal funds earmarked for upgrading forest programs such as reforestation was protested by the Western States Legislative Forestry Task Force, which ended a two-day meeting in San Francisco. The group adopted a resolution which will be taken to the state legislatures of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana calling for Congress and President Ford to begin pumping money into reforestation of timberlands. Unemployed lumbermen would carry out the reforestation program. The task force is composed of four legislators from each of the five states.
A snowstorm swirled into the midcontinent, blocking some highways. Up to eight inches of snow fell in central Nebraska and drifting snow at Grand Island cut visibility to 30 feet on U.S. 30 and other highways. Snow was dumped across much of the upper Plains, the Mississippi Valley, the upper Great Lakes area and on parts of New York and New England.
The disaster film “The Towering Inferno” is released, starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.
NFL Football:
Dallas Cowboys 23, Oakland Raiders 27
Minnesota Vikings 35, Kansas City Chiefs 15
Cincinnati Bengals 3, Pittsburgh Steelers 27
The Oakland Raiders’ 47‐year‐old George Blanda threw for a touchdown on his first National Football League pass since 1972 and kicked two field goals tonight in a 27–23 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Blanda went in at quarterback late in the third quarter and on his first play connected with Cliff Branch for a 28‐yard score. It was the 236th touchdown pass of Blanda’s 25‐year pro career. He then added the point that gave Oakland a 24–9 lead. Ken Stabler, who started at quarterback, had two touchdown passes, his 25th and 26th of the season, in the second period. He completed 11 of 17 passes for 131 yards in preparation for the playoffs, then sat out the second half. The Cowboys got 60 yards from running back Charley Young, and two late touchdown runs by Doug Dennison. Roger Staubach passed for 266 yards. Ray Guy nailed down the AFC punting title with a 42.2 yard average.
Fran Tarkenton and Bob Berry, sharing equal playing time, each threw two touchdown passes today as the playoff‐bound Minnesota Vikings breezed to a 35–15 National Football League victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Tarkenton, with his team trailing 6–0, hit Sam McCullum with both of his scoring passes, one a 34‐yarder and the other a 10-yarder that was deflected into McCullum’s hands. Berry, who took over at the start of the second half, passed 7 yards to Ed Marinaro midway through the third quarter for a touchdown and 3 yards to Oscar Reed for another score in the fourth. With a minute remaining, Brent McClanahan ran 6 yards into the end zone for Minnesota’s final touchdown. Emmitt Thomas, the league’s interception leader, picked off a Tarkenton pass on the last scrimmage play of the first half and ran 73 yards for Kansas City’s only touchdown. Jan Stenerud, who kicked field goals of 37, 32, and 29 yards, missed the extra‐point try.
Terry Bradshaw tossed two touchdown passes and Franco Harris bulled past the 1,000‐yard rushing mark for the season in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 27–3 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals today in their regular‐season National Football League finale. The Steelers, the American Conference champions, take a 10–3–1 won‐lost‐tied mark into the playoffs against visiting Buffalo next Sunday. It marks the third straight year Pittsburgh has won 10 games in a season and each time it has made the playoffs. Harris, who gained 79 yards in 17 carries, finished the season with 1,006 yards, the second time in his three‐year career he has topped the 1,000‐yard mark. The Bengals, who ended the season with a disappointing 7–7 record, were forced by injuries to use a makeshift contingent. The Steelers eased to a 17–0 half‐time lead on Bradshaw’s two scoring passes and a.short field goal by Roy Gerela. On their opening drive the Steelers had a chance to score, but instead of attempting a 44‐yard field goal at the Bengals’ 27, they chose to punt, sparking a chorus of boos. But Lynn Swann quickly opened things up, taking a Dave Green punt on his 13‐yard line and racing 69 yards to the Cincinnati 18. Five plays later, Bradshaw hit John Stallworth with a 5‐yard touchdown pass. Swann returned three punts for 102 yards, giving him 578 yards for the season, 34 short of the NFL record of 612 yards set by Roger Bird of Oakland in 1967. Stallworth set up the second Steeler touchdown, taking a flare pass and racing 59 yards to the Cincinnati 24. Four plays later Bradshaw hit Gerry Mullins, a regular guard but an eligible receiver on this play, with a 7‐yard scoring pass. L. C. Greenwood, a defensive end, blocked a 38‐yard field‐goal attempt by Horst Mulhlmann of Cincinnati late in the first half. Cincinnati then held on four downs but lost the ball again when Doug Dressler fumbled on the first play. With two seconds left in the half, Gerela kicked a 26‐yard field goal. Mulhmann scored the Bengals’ only points on a 32‐yard field goal in the third period.
Born:
Billy Koch, Team USA and MLB pitcher (Olympics, bronze medal, 1996; Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland A’s, Chicago White Sox, Florida Marlins), in Rockville Centre, New York.
Brad Chartrand, Canadian NHL centre and right wing (Los Angeles Kings), in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Sammy Williams, NFL tackle (NHL Champions, Super Bowl 35-Ravens, 2000; Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers), in Magnolia, Mississippi.
Died:
Walter Lippmann, 85, American journalist, political commentator and newspaper columnist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, died of a heart ailment. U.S. President Ford issued a statement declaring that, “With the death of Walter Lippmann, we have lost a great American. As a newsman, political analyst, and author, Walter Lippmann played a major role for more than half a century in the development of public dialog and in shaping a new standard of journalism. Mr. Lippmann’s contributions to the good society which he envisioned for his country will long be remembered.”
Alexander Burns Wallace CBE FRSE FRCSE, 68, British plastic surgeon and medical journal editor known for his 1951 creation of the “Rule of Nines” in measuring the percentage of skin surface area caused by burns.
Kurt Hahn CBE, 88, German educator, founder of Gordonstoun.
Bob Herwig, 60, American college football center and inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame, died of a heart attack.
Hugo Rogers, 75, American politician, leader of Tammany Hall from 1948 to 1949, died of a heart attack.
American backpacker Charles Dean, 24, and Australian backpacker Neil Sharman, 23, were executed by Pathet Lao guerrillas in Laos. Dean was the brother of future U.S. politician Howard Dean.
Joanne Stefani Germanotta, 19, the subject of many of the works of her niece, singer Lady Gaga (stage name for Stefani Joanne Germanotta) and namesake for Gaga’s popular album “Joanne”, died of complications from lupus.
Fritz Szepan, 67, German footballer who played 34 games as a forward for the Germany national football team from 1929 to 1939
John M. Comley, 79, former justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Fulton Freeman, 59, former United States Ambassador to Mexico and Colombia, died of a heart attack.
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