The Soviet Union put forward today a draft for a treaty that would prohibit underground tests of nuclear weapons as well as the tests in the atmosphere, space and water prohibited by the 1963 test-ban treaty. The proposed test for “A Treaty on the Complete and General Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon Tests” was submitted by Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, in a letter to Secretary General Waldheim. Mr. Gromyko asked that it be placed on the agenda of the 30th General Assembly, which opens Tuesday. Moscow annually offers a disarmament proposal to the Assembly and the immediate Western response was that the Soviet Union had scored a clever initiative this year by producing a topic with wide appeal to nonnuclear countries. However, Western disarmament experts also emphasized that the Soviet proposal was completely unacceptable.
The text of the treaty states that it cannot become operative until it has the approval of all countries with nuclear weapons. Besides the Soviet Union, these are the United States, Britain, France and China. Apart from American objections, one Western specialist said, the Soviet proposal is unlikely to be acceptable to China or France. He said China almost certainly would dismiss the proposal as a propaganda maneuver as Peking has in the past. Neither China nor France has signed the 1963 test-ban treaty and both have continued atmospheric testing despite recurrent protests, especially from Pacific countries.
The British government, concerned about the race situation in Britain, proposed stronger laws to deal with discrimination in employment, housing, schools and clubs. The proposals, which go beyond the race relations act of 1965, Britain’s first such law, were contained in a white paper on race discrimination. They stiffen the provisions on job discrimination, allow individuals direct access to the courts to press charges of bias and make color barriers unlawful in the thousands of social, golf, squash and other sports clubs in Britain. One of the most powerful measures would affect the British working class. The measure would prohibit the 4,000 “working men’s clubs” — recreation and drinking clubs with 3.5 million members — from excluding members on racial grounds. Within recent years, the working men’s clubs, which are similar to pubs, have proved especially popular in Britain’s major cities.
In Portugal, the Communist and Popular Democratic parties have refused to meet, blocking an attempt by Portuguese Premier-designate Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo to form a new cabinet. The ruling Revolutionary Council met in the presidential palace to discuss possible ways out of the crisis.
Doctors, and agronomists, engineers and economists, business managers and specialists in tropical meditine have left Portugal by the thousands since the left-wing revolution in April, 1974.
Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, will go to New York to address the next session of the U.N. General Assembly on the Cyprus problem, the government said in Nicosia. The announcement came shortly after the fourth round of talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders under U.N. auspices ended in deadlock.
Northern Ireland’s constitutional convention reconvened today, but the major Roman Catholic political party boycotted the session and called for early adjournment. “There is nothing to be gained from further divisive debate,” the Catholic group, the Social Democratic and Labor party, said in a prepared statement. The statement followed the rejection last Monday by a coalition of three Protestant parties in the convention of any effective form of administrative power-sharing with the Catholic minority.
Of all the kidnapping episodes in Italy in recent months, none has so shocked Italians as that of Cristina Mazzotti, an 18-year-old high school student who was kidnapped and murdered even though her family paid a ransom of more than $1-million. The body of the student, the daughter of a wealthy grain dealer, was found 10 days ago in a garbage dump near Novara, about 30 miles west of Milan. The public reacted bitterly with calls for restoration of the death penalty and the police reacted with unusual speed and arrested 18 suspects. Rarely has public apathy over kidnappings here been so shaken. With 45 so far this year, most Italians had been reading the news of kidnappings with minimum interest. But the case of Cristina was different. She was a rather typical girl of her age, who did well in school and was out riding with friends when the kidnappers stopped the car and took her away. While most victims have been released after the ransom, she was murdered for no apparent reason.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger briefed senators on the new Sinai accord, and commitment of U.S. technicians to monitor the peace seemed assured. But congressional leaders moved cautiously to develop assurances that the technicians would not involve the United States in war. Kissinger described his closed meeting with the Senate Armed Services Committee as useful. Chairman John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) called it “profitable, but incomplete.” The secretary said he would be happy to return.
The United States has assured Egypt that it will make “a serious effort” to help bring about further negotiations between Israel and Syria for another accord on the Golan Heights. The New York Times learned today that in addition to the “secret” undertakings assumed by the United States on Israel’s behalf in the published and unpublished documents making up the recent Sinai agreement there was also an unpublished memorandum outlining American “assurances” to Egypt. The assurances, the source said, include the following:
— The United States pledged to Egypt that it would make “a serious effort” to help bring about negotiations between Israel and Syria through “diplomatic channels.” The impor, tance of this statement was to give President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt ammunition to rebut Syrian and other radical Arab charges that Egypt was not taking account of other Arab states.
— If Israel violates the Sinai agreement, the United States promised to hold consultations with the Egyptian Government on what to do. This is reportedly similar to a commitment also made by the United States to Israel in case of Egyptian actions contrary to the accord.
— The United States undertook to provide technical assistance to Egypt for the construction and operation of an Egyptian early‐warning system to be built in the eastern end of the Sinai passes that will be vacated by Israel. Israel will operate its own station at Umm Khisheib. At both stations. Americans will be present, if Congress approves, to check on their operations.
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has charged the Department of Commerce with aiding Arab nations that boycott both Jewish-owned businesses and firms that support Israel. The league, in a federal court suit filed in New York, alleges that the department has been circulating offers for Arab business opportunities to American firms that contain restrictive provisions against persons or companies supporting Israel.
Israeli planes struck at southern Lebanon this afternoon. Military headquarters here said the jets had attacked a guerrilla base beside a refugee camp three miles north of Tyre. The attack lasted 10 minutes and all the aircraft returned safely, it was reported.
Opposition from leftist leaders in the embattled city of Tripoli today delayed the deploying of army troops in a buffer zone east of the city. But by late afternoon, army units were reported to have begun occupying positions between Tripoli and the nearby town of Zgharta, which have been fighting for nine days. An uncertain calm prevailed in the area today. Premier Rashid Karami announced last night that the army had been ordered to separate the combatants but without entering either town.
The people of Zgharta, largely Maronite Christians. welcomed the army’s intervention. But Farouk al-Mukadam, a leading Tripoli leftist, said the citizens of the northern port city would never accept the use of the army, which he called a “repressive force.” He demanded the arrest of the Zgharta men who killed a Muslim from Tripoli on September 3 after an automobile accident, as well as the arrest of the murderers of 12 Tripoli men who were taken off a bus on Sunday night and shot.
The U.S. House created a 10-member select committee to investigate U.S. military and civilian personnel still officially listed as missing in action in North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The panel will not only cover those missing but also inquire into known dead whose bodies have not been recovered and determine the need for additional international inspection teams to find out whether servicemen are still held as prisoners. The committee will report its findings back to the House within a year.
The Senate voted to demand a full report from President Ford on the alleged forced removal of up to 1,400 residents from the British-owned island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, to make way for U.S. naval facilities. The demand came in an amendment to a State Department authorization bill proposed by Sen. John C. Culver (D-Iowa) and backed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts).
President Augusto Pinochet announced a slight relaxation in the provisions of virtual martial law in effect in Chile, but he said restrictions of individual rights would continue. General Pinochet spoke at a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the coup in which the military seized power and President Salvador Allende died. He said the state of siege clamped down on the country after the coup would be downgraded from a state of “internal defense” to a state of “internal security.” Persons convicted of security law violations now will be able to appeal to higher courts, he added.
European Common Market leaders appealed to Ethiopia’s military rulers to reprieve 12 women relatives of the late Emperor Haile Selassie who are reported to be facing execution today.
The Central Intelligence Agency explored ways in 1960 to poison Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, a former head of the agency’s clandestine operations said in Washington. In an interview, Richard M. Bissell said he decided not to implement plans “for various operational reasons.” He said that, to his knowledge, the CIA had nothing to do with Lumumba’s death in early 1961.
President Ford, evidently wearing a protective vest under his shirt, mingled with large crowds as he made a 118-mile political trip across southern New Hampshire on behalf of a local candidate for the Senate. At 13 communities and nearly as many crossroads along Highway 101, Mr. Ford called on thousands of friendly people who lined the way to vote for Louis Wyman, the Republican nominee in a rerun election with John Durkin, a Democrat. Mr. Ford walked freely among the crowds lining quaint town squares, main streets and outlying roads in the 118‐mile motorcade route from Keene, near the Vermont border, to Portsmouth by the Atlantic Ocean. The crowds giggled, cheered, squealed and applauded Mr. Ford and for the most part disregarded Mr. Wyman — on the President’s first encounter with large crowds since a woman aimed a 45‐caliber semiautomatic pistol at him last Friday in Sacramento, California.
Lynette Alice Fromme, who has been indicted for the attempted assassination of President Ford, interrupted an arraignment proceeding in Federal District Court in Sacramento when she told the judge “the gun is pointed, your honor, the gun is pointed — whether it goes off is up to you.” Her remark was not taken as a direct threat to the judge, but as a threat of more violence from the followers of the murderer Charles Manson, of whom Miss Fromme is one.
Congressional sources said that a House Appropriations subcommittee, responding to the new budgetary guidelines adopted by Congress, has cut the defense budget by the unusually large amount of about $7 billion. There were signs that the Defense Department was distressed by the size of the reduction and was seeking to overturn it before the annual money measure for the Pentagon is taken to the full Appropriations Committee later this month. The stage was thus being set for a test between the considerable influence of the Pentagon on Capitol Hill and the new budgetary procedures adopted by Congress. The defense budget is being considered for the first time within the context of the budget act adopted last year by Congress. Under the act, Congress, which in the past has dealt with the Federal budget on a piecemeal basis, sets overall goals for appropriations, sets guidelines on how much should be appropriated in specific areas, such as national defense.
The House unanimously approved stopgap legislation extending oil price controls through the end of October, but a partisan dispute in the Senate delayed action on similar legislation until next week. Meanwhile, there will be no regulation of oil prices even though the legislation rushed through Congress was intended to prevent a price rise.
W. A. (Tony) Boyle, former president of the United Mine Workers, was given three consecutive life sentences for ordering the 1969 assassination of a union rival, Joseph A. Yablonski, his wife and daughter. “All I can say is I’m innocent,” said Boyle, 73, in a firm voice as he stood erect and unsmiling before Delaware County Judge Francis J. Catania. He had been convicted in the same Media, Pa., courtroom 17 months ago on three counts of first-degree murder. Special prosecutor Richard Sprague had successfully prosecuted seven other men and a woman in the slayings. Boyle’s attorney said he would appeal.
A federal judge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, rejected the government’s attempt to jail two reluctant witnesses for their refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating the Patricia Hearst case. “The motion for a rule to show cause is premature and will not be granted,” said Judge R. Dixon Herman. He also cleared the way for defense attorneys to seek an investigation of alleged wiretapping and harassment on the part of the FBI agents during their pursuit of the fugitive newspaper heiress. U.S. attorneys had sought contempt proceedings against Micki McGee Scott, whose husband, Jack, is a target of the investigation and Martin S. Miller, a friend of the Scotts. The Scotts are suspected of renting a Pennsylvania farmhouse where Miss Hearst and others allegedly stayed last summer.
Boston police swept through a housing project in Charlestown after roving bands of antibusing demonstrators set fire to felled trees and trash in the streets and threw rocks and bottles. Trouble broke out at 10:30 PM in the tough, Irish neighborhood, which has been the source of much of Boston’s resistance to school desegregation. Two arrests were reported. The disorder came after a day in which school attendance inched upward amid reports of minor scuffles in the schools. But there were no outward signs of tension until nightfall.
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley is to be one of four co-chairpersons of the 1976 Democratic National Convention. National Chairman Robert S. Strauss recommended him for the job, along with Governor Jerry Apodaca of New Mexico, Governor Ella T. Grasso of Connecticut and state chairman Richard White of Nebraska. Strauss recommended that Rep. Corrine C. (Lindy) Boggs of Louisiana preside. Strauss also appointed two keynote speakers — Senator John Glenn of Ohio and Rep. Barbara C. Jordan of Texas.
Convicts went on a rampage when the kitchen at the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville ran out of pork chops and began serving baloney for supper. One prisoner was shot and wounded in the chest and head and two other prisoners and two guards were injured. Officials said a fire bomb was thrown into the prison post office and the commissary was looted of soft drinks before the sixhour disturbance was quelled.
Joseph Coors agreed under strong pressure to consider resigning as a director of Television News, Inc., if he is confirmed by the Senate for the Public Broadcasting Corp. board. He did so after Senator John A. Pastore (D-Rhode Island) told him he would be inclined to vote against him if he did not resign.
American farmers are still expected to harvest a record corn crop next month, though it may be smaller than the Agriculture Department or the grain trade had been expecting earlier. The Agriculture Department predicted that a record 1975 corn crop of 5.69 billion bushels and bumper soybean crop of 1.44 billion bushels would be harvested in October.
New and more comprehensive plans to insulate the nation’s economy from the effects of a possible default of New York City bonds have been made by the three federal agencies that regulate the nation’s banks. They include an arrangement under which the banks that own defaulted bonds would be permitted to postpone for about six months writing down the bonds’ value — a step aimed at preventing a shrinkage of the capital against which banks made their loans and, consequently, at preventing a contraction in general economic activity.
Serial rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo, at the time an officer with the Exeter, California police department, killed the first of 13 victims, shooting college professor Claude Snelling during a home invasion. Over the next 11 years, he would terrorize southern California, committing rapes and murders, and become known in the media as “Golden State Killer”, the “Original Night Stalker”, the “East Area Rapist” and the “Visalia Ransacker” before ceasing his criminal activity, and turning to calling and taunting his surviving victims. In 2018, DeAngelo would be arrested based on DNA evidence and sentenced to life in prison.
U.S. Navy ships discharge more than 500 billion gallons of raw sewage and flushing water into American rivers and coastal waters annually, Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) said Navy officials admitted that 268 of their approximately 500 ships have not yet been fitted with pollution control systems required by 1980. But they said all ships would have the systems by the deadline.
Heavy industrial users of natural gas in parts of Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, and West Virginia face fuel cutbacks totaling 28% this winter under a tentative distribution plan issued by a Federal Power Commission judge to the Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., a major distributor in those areas. The plan is subject to final FPC approval. Kentucky officials claim the plan could imperil as many as 12,000 jobs.
Major League Baseball:
After being idle for 11 days with back trouble, Luis Tiant (16–13) flirted with a no-hitter while pitching the Red Sox to a 3–1 victory over the Tigers. The Cuban veteran righthander held the Tigers hitless for 7 ⅔ innings before yielding a single by Aurelio Rodriguez. Tom Veryzer doubled in the same stanza. Billy Baldwin then homered in the ninth for the Tigers’ third hit. The Red Sox decided the outcome in the second with two runs on a triple by Jim Rice, infield out by Carlton Fisk, singles by Rico Petrocelli and Dwight Evans and a grounder by Rick Burleson.
At Shea, Catfish Hunter’s 21st victory was a breeze for the Yankee righthander, who defeated the Brewers, 10–2, and turned in his 28th complete game of the season. Graig Nettles smashed two homers, each with a man on base, and Ed Herrmann connected for the circuit with two aboard as the biggest blows in the Yankees’ 17-hit attack. For Catfish (21–13), it is his 10th straight complete game.
The league leader in earned run average, Jim Palmer (21-10) lowered his figure to 2.17 and posted his 21st victory as the Orioles defeated the Indians, 10–2. Ken Singleton and Tony Muser each hit a two-run double for the Orioles and Lee May contributed a homer. The Indians scored their runs on round-trippers by Oscar Gamble and Rico Carty.
Jerry Koosman (12–13) pitched a six-hit shutout and Dave Kingman tied the Mets’ record for most homers in one season for a 7–0 victory over the Pirates. Kingman’s clout in the fifth inning was his 34th of the year, equaling the club mark set by Frank Thomas in 1962. With two out in the second inning, the Mets took advantage of an error by Rennie Stennett to score three unearned runs off Jerry Reuss, one of them on a pass to Felix Millan with the bases loaded. Kingman’s homer and another bases-loaded pass to Bud Harrelson made it 5–0 in the fifth. In the sixth, when the Mets added their final pair, Mike Vail singled, hitting safely in his 19th straight game to equal the league’s previous longest streak this year by Millan.
The second-place Phillies pulled within five games of the pace-setting Pirates in the East Division race by defeating the Expos, 5–0, in a contest stopped by rain after 6 ½ innings. Larry Christenson pitched the shutout, holding the Expos to three hits. The Phillies jumped on Steve Rogers for two runs in the first inning on singles by Dave Cash and Larry Bowa, two wild pitches and a single by Greg Luzinski. A passed ball by Jose Morales and wild pickoff throw by Rogers resulted in another run in the third. After Mike Schmidt’s homer, the Phillies tacked on their final marker in the seventh on another passed ball by Morales.
The Cubs, continuing in their role of tough customers for East Division contenders, exploded for six runs in the first inning and defeated the Cardinals, 12–6. Starting with Bob Forsch, who was kayoed with two out in the first, the Cardinals used eight pitchers, tying the National League record. Manny Trillo and Rick Reuschel each hit bases-loaded singles in the Cubs’ initial outburst, driving in two runs apiece. The Cards, who had a homer by Lou Brock in the first, narrowed their deficit with four runs in the fourth, three scoring on a circuit clout by Keith Hernandez. But the Cubs pulled away thereafter, with two of their tallies counting on a triple by Jim Tyrone in the seventh inning.
Errors by Larvell Blanks and Tom House in the ninth inning enabled the Padres to defeat the Braves, 4–3. The Padres got off to a 3–0 lead, but the Braves picked up a run in the seventh and tied the score when Dusty Baker homered with a man on base in the eighth. However, in the ninth, Dave Roberts grounded to Blanks and reached second on the shortstop’s bad throw. House, the Braves’ relief pitcher, then fielded an infield hit by Bob Davis and threw wildly to first to allow Roberts to score the winning run.
Rick Rhoden (2–2) turned in the first complete game of his major league career and pitched the Dodgers to a 5–2 victory over the Reds with batting support from Steve Garvey, who drove in three runs with a homer and single. Rhoden scattered seven hits and struck out six. Pete Rose homered for one of the Reds’ runs.
A two-out single by Rob Andrews in the 12th inning scored Roger Metzger and gave the Astros a 4–3 victory over the Giants. Metzger led off with a pinch-single. After a sacrifice by Skip Jutze, Ken Boswell drew a walk. Wilbur Howard then struck out, but Andrews came through with his single to break the tie. Joe Niekro (5–4) got the victory in relief.
Detroit Tigers 1, Boston Red Sox 3
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Chicago Cubs 12
Baltimore Orioles 10, Cleveland Indians 2
Cincinnati Reds 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Montreal Expos 0
Milwaukee Brewers 2, New York Yankees 10
New York Mets 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Atlanta Braves 3, San Diego Padres 4
Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 3
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Born:
Steve Foley, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Texans, San Diego Chargers), in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mark Klepaski, American bass guitarist (Breaking Benjamin), in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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