If their governments agree, military observers from the Soviet Union and other Communist countries of Europe will be able next month, for the first time, to watch a series of exercises by troops of the United States, Canada and West Germany. The exercises are aimed at improving Western defenses against the Communists. The West German Government sent invitations today to the embassies of 34 countries, Eastern and Western, for them to send “one or two members of their missions here as observers of the Certain Trek maneuvers, which wil be conducted in Bavaria from October 14 to 23. The invitations are apparently the first to be issued in accordance with the final document of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, signed in Helsinki in July by 35 states. More invitations are expected to follow in the next few days. If the Communists come — telephone calls to some of their embassies today brought no clear response on this point — they will be able to see how Allied troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization train to fight against them.
Military and political leaders trying to form a new coalition government are reportedly working on an economic and political program that is designed to slow the socialization of Portugal’s economy. According to high political sources involved in the complicated day and night meetings, the program is expected to result in a pause in socialization and even in a retreat in some cases from measures already put into effect. The negotiators are seeking to restore confidence in the still important private sector of the economy, to promote investment and to obtain financial help from Western Europe for the crisis‐ridden economy. This help was denied during the Premiership of General Vasco Gonçalves, when his government appeared to be leading the country to Communism. The political informants expressed confidence today that a government would he formed that would mark a significant turn in the Portuguese revolution by rejecting Communism and slowing the movement to socialism.
The commander of the Greek prison camp in which political prisoners were tortured during the military dictatorship was sentenced today to 23 years in prison. His predecessor and successor as commandant received sentences of 20 years. The Athens court martial imposed heavy sentences altogether on 16 officers and enlisted men and acquitted 13 others, mainly enlisted men, after a trial lasting 36 days. The court of five judges deliberated for nearly 10 hours before the presiding judge, Brigadier Damocles Digenopoulos, read the sentences. The 23‐year sentence was imposed on Major Nikolaos Patzizisis, who was described as the most ruthless of the commandants. His predecessor was Theodoros Theophyloyanakos, a colonel now reduced to the ranks, and his successor was Major Anastasios Spanos. They all were found guilty of recurrent abuse of authority, of inflicting grievous bodily harm and of using violence against superior officers.
The close of the special session of the United Nations General Assembly was delayed today by disagreements between industrial and developing nations. The special session on development and international economic cooperation began on September 1, and was scheduled to be concluded today. But a meeting, originally scheduled for tonight, of a committee that was to consider the draft of a final resolution was put off today until tomorrow afternoon. It is unusual for United Nations bodies to hold weekend meetings, and the rescheduling of the committee proceedings was a sign of the last‐minute difficulties. A United Nations spokesman said today it was hoped that the special session could wind up on Monday. He said that a consensus on a number of issues had been reached in committee meetings behind closed doors.
Italy, branding the new French tax on Italian wine imports illegal, decided today to take countermeasures that will be announced after an emergency meeting of the Common Market Commission in Brussels on Monday. After France imposed an average 12 percent tax on Italian wine imports yesterday, he market Commission called the special session to decide whether to approve France’s move.
Three members of a Spanish extremist leftwing group today were sentenced to death by a military court for killing a policeman. Defense lawyers said they would appeal the ruling. Sentenced were Manuel Antonio Blanco Chivite, Vladimiro Fernandez Tovar and Jose Humberto Saena Alonso. Two others. Pablo Mayoral Ronda and Fernando Sierra Marco, were sentenced to 30 and 25 years’ imprisonment respectively. The prosecution had requested that all five men be executed. The court’s decision was announced by the semi‐official news agency Cifra, which later placed an indefinite embargo on the report.
Representatives from the parliaments of 70 nations that have been meeting in London today adopted a resolution calling for total withdrawal of Israel from all occupied Arab territories and condemning her for what it described as acts of repression and violation of human freedoms in those territories. The vote was 483 to 215. Delegates from most Western countries voted against the motion, but they were outvoted by Arab, Communist and nonaligned nations in the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union.
The northern Lebanese towns of Tripoli and Zgharta were reported to he quiet tonight after about 2.000 army troops had settled into a buffer zone between them. Scattered outbreaks of communal violence were reported from the backward Akkar area north of Tripoli, near the Syrian border, but the army was said to have contained them. Beirut also remained relatively quiet, though motorists’ tempers flared as they waited for gasoline in lines that stretched for several blocks. The recent fighting around Tripoli, where Lebanon’s largest refinery is situated, has cut the flow of gasoline to Beirut to a trickle. Last night gunmen from the right‐wing Phalangist party reportedly fired their guns in the air to dispense angry motorists who descended on a gas station.
The Libyan leadership under Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has sent “tens of millions of dollars” to Lebanon in the last six months to support leftist Muslim groups fighting Christian forces there, according to United States officials. The officials said they had “hard evidence” that Libyan agents had acquired control of three Beirut newspapers and in addition were giving substantial sums of money to Lebanese politicians and were more generous to them than to Palestinian guerrilla groups. Colonel Qaddafi’s motives are not entirely clear to American analysts, but they are aware that he has publicly expressed dislike for the dominant Christian elements in Lebanon.
The new Bangladesh Government says the staggering economic and social situation of the country was the fault of the regime of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in a coup on August 15. In a 2,700-word white paper published today on the economic situation, the Government of President Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed said that during the Mujib regime an “economic oligarchy was created resulting in financial anarchy” and inflation rose by 400 percent. The white paper prepared by an economic task force set up by the new President, said the previous regime gave rise to a handful of “congenitally corrupt millionaires,” causing large‐scale-suffering among people.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian Head of State, has presided over his first Cabinet meeting since his return Tuesday after five years of exile in China and said he was “very satisfied” with the reconstruction work, Radio Phnom Penh reported today. The broadcast said the Cabinet meeting was held Wednesday.
A burst of gunfire echoed and re‐echoed today through the hot, humid air of Dili, East Timor as the leftwing Timorese Liberation Front held a victory celebration. Officials of the front, which is also known as Fretilin, said their troops had emerged victorious from the fighting that began after the rival Timorese Democratic Union had staged a coup against the Portuguese colonial administration on August 11. Fretilin, the officials asserted, firmly controls most of Portuguese Timor, with resistance encountered it only a few small pockets. “Today we are celebrating a victory of the Timorese people over their enemies,” the front’s 40‐year‐old president, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, said to about 150 troops gathered‐ on a barracks parade ground. “But this day must also be the starting point of peace, progress and cooperation with our neighbors.”
A South Korean Government prosecutor demanded a five-year prison term today for South Korea’s leading opposition figure, Kim Dae Jung. Mr. Kim, charged with violation of election laws, was the opposition Presidential candidate in the 1971 election. Mr. Kim vigorously defended himself in the absence of his lawyers, who had boycotted this morning’s session on the ground that the judges were “too prejudiced” to give him a fair trial. Mr. Kim was abducted from Tokyo two years ago.
Chile’s military Government ordered today the release of three former Cabinet ministers and nine other members of the civilian government overthrown in the September 11, 1973, coup.
President Isabel Martinez de Perón will take a leave of absence from office, beginning tomorrow, and hand over her duties to the President of the Senate, Italo A. Luder, the government announced today. The announcement by the President’s press secretary said Mr. Luder, a constitutional law expert and a political follower of Mrs. Perón, would be sworn in as Acting President at 7 PM tomorrow. Foreign Minister Angel F. Robledo said yesterday that the President would notify Congress she would take a leave. Military sources said Mrs. Perón would rest at an air force resort in Cordoba Province in the northwest. The announcement followed weeks of speculation that Mrs. Perlin, thin and suffering from exhaustion in recent weeks, would leave office. During the more than 14 months she has been in office, political violence has taken an estimated 633 lives. In the latest incident, troops bombarded a guerrilla hideout with mortars today and found the body of a kidnapped oil executive in the rubble, apparently executed by his captors, the police said.
The French Government announced today that it was ready to pay $2.2-million in ransom for a kidnapped Frenchwoman held by Muslim rebels in northern Chad for 16 months.
Joshua Nkomo who headed the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union before it was disbanded, was expelled last night from thd African National Council, throwing negotiations on the future of Rhodesia into confusion. Although not unexpected, the expulsion of Mr. Nkomo will hamper efforts to bring Rhodesia’s Prime Minister, Ian D. Smith, together with the council; which has spoken for the country’s black majority. Mr. Nkomo’s removal along with two other senior council officials was ordered by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, president of the council, who accused Mr. Nkomo of collaborating with Mr. Smith. The council said in a statement that thedecision was made to “protect the integrity, unity and security of the A.N.C. and the future of the people of Zimbabwe,” which is the nationalists’ name for Rhodesia.
The police in St. Louis said that they had chased and failed to capture a man believed to have been carrying a .45 caliber pistol near the Kiel Auditorium shortly before President Ford arrived there to deliver a speech to a church group. The Associated Press reported that a policeman said he had seen the man on a catwalk inside the auditorium an hour before the President was to arrive. Mr. Ford was heading for, or was at, a television station 10 blocks away at the time. The police also said that they had received two telephoned threats that a bomb would explode in the auditorium, but the threats apparently were a hoax. Mr. Ford made public a statement that said his encounters with crowds were “an important part of my job,” and would not allow the government of the people to he held hostage at the point of a gun. “In any job, you know, there’s a risk of some kind,” he said. “I feel that you have to balance and weigh the risks as to my own personal security against what is a very important aspect of our political life in America. It’s helpful to me to meet with the people, shake hands with them, get their questions, and it’s just as important for them to have me say hello and to answer their questions.”
President Ford ordered the House Select Committee on Intelligence cut off from all classified documents and forbade administration officials to testify before the committee on classified matters. His order followed the committee’s decision on Thursday to publish four words from a 1973 intelligence agency quotation over the objection of intelligence officials. His actions appeared to place the White House on the most serious collision course with Congress regarding investigations of the intelligence agencies since the sweeping inquiries began earlier this year. The words were made public along with about 400 others last night, but neither committee members nor Government officials would identify the phrase at issue.
However, intelligence sources said the four words were “and greater communications security,” which were part of a one‐paragraph intelligence summary concerning Egypt, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency and dated Oct. 6, 1973, the day the 1973 Arab‐Israeli war broke out. The paragraph was one of five assessments by United States intelligence agencies concerning the Middle East written early in October, 1973. These summaries indicated that the agencies did not expect hostilities, only days and hours before the, war began. The House committee voted 6 to 3 in closed session yesterday afternoon to make the summaries public, including the four words at issue.
When the possibility of Americans being sent to Sinai surfaced during recent Middle East negotiations some members of Congress expressed concern over “another Vietnam,” but so far no significant opposition has developed in Congress to the Administration’s request to station 200 Americans in the Sinai passes. Both Congressional leaders and Administration officials said today that only a few members of Congress opposed the actual request to send volunteers to the Sinai to help monitor the recent EgyptianIsraeli agreement. The majority of Congress has apparently accepted Secretary of State Kissinger’s main argument that there is no real alternative to stationing the Americans at the early‐warning system.
Several members of Congress, however, have expressed concern privately to Mr. Kissinger about the high “price” the United States will have to pay in economic and military aid to both sides — estimated at $3‐billion — and what, they regard as excessive secrecy in handling of the unpublished aspects of the agreement. Mr. Kissinger and others have apparently been persuasive in arguing that the American civilians who will be in Sinai will not be similar to Vietnam advisers but more analogous to United Nations peace‐keeping observers who will report to all sides and take no part in any hostilities.
The First National City Bank of New York, reacting to the sustained upward trend in interest rates in the credit markets, raised its prime lending rate from 7¾ percent to 8 percent, the highest it has been since early March. Banks in other cities announced similar increases, and it appeared that the rate increase would be nationwide in a week or two.
A car belonging to the son of a reputed Mafia figure, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes may have been used is the apparent abduction of the former International Brotherhood of Teamsters union president, James R. Hoffa, will remain in the custody of the government, a judge ruled today. Federal District Judge Thomas P. Thornton said that the car in whose back seat and trunk trained dogs seemed to have detected Mr. Hoffa’s scent should be kept in F.B.I. custody and that the owner should appear before the federal grand jury investigating Mr. Hoffa’s disappearance. The car’s owner, Joseph Giacalone, son of Anthony Giacalone, was scheduled to appear before the grand jury. On the day Mr. Hoffa disappeared, young Giacalone, 22 years old, reportedly lent his car to Charles O’Brien, a teamsters organizer who was reared by the Hoffa family. Mr. O’Brien is regarded by Mr. Hoffa’s son, Jame P., as a prime suspect in his father’s disappearance.
American Airlines yesterday sued Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, and the estate of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Democrat of New York, for nearly $360,000, United Press International reported. Ethel F. Kennedy, widow of the assassinated Senator; his brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and his sister, Patricia Lawford, as executors of the estate, were named as defendants in a suit for $269,000 for plane fares and charters for Robert Kennedy and his aides. In a separate suit, American said that Mr. Humphrey and his representatives, and individuals connected with United Democrats for Humphrey and Citizens for Humphrey, had had been provided transportation based on a contract of May, 1968. The suit said that Mr. Humphrey owed $90,186.
Carl Kalin, 73-year-old former Yonkers man, is in Rome with his wife to attend the canonization rites tomorrow for Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, who will be the first native-born American to be declared a saint. Mr. Kalin attributed his recovery from a brain disease 12 years ago to the intercession of Mother Seton. It was this recovery that was accepted by the Vatican as the final miracle required for the canonization of Mother Seton, who was born in New York in 1774.
A New York state judge yesterday found Albert Shanker and other teachers’ union leaders in “willful violation” of a no-strike court order, but held off imposing penalties, including a possible 30-day jail term, until Tuesday in an apparent attempt to get stalled settlement efforts moving again.
Arthur O. Sulzberger publisher of The New York Times, said tonight that there was “increasing conflict” between the government and the judiciary, on one side, and the press, on the other, over the issue of secrecy. “Unhappily, across the country, we are witnessing the dangerous rise of the publisher-judge,” Mr. Sulzberger said. These judges, he said, “undoubtedly out of the best of motives have taken it on themselves to decide what must not be printed.” Mr. Sulzberger’s remarks were in an address tonight to the annual meeting of the Second Judicial Circuit of the United States, which embraces New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
The case of In re Quinlan, which would lead to a landmark decision in permitting the “right to die” for persons kept alive by artificial means, was filed by the father of Karen Ann Quinlan in the Superior Court in Morris County, New Jersey.
“Wish You Were Here,” the new album by Pink Floyd, was released in the United Kingdom, and would go on sale in the United States the next day.
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Forced into overtime, the Orioles broke away with two runs in the 11th inning and defeated the Tigers, 6–4. The Orioles scored their first four runs in the second, three coming on a homer by Elrod Hendricks. The Tigers came back with a two-run smash by Tom Veryzer in the fifth and tied the score when Ben Oglivie hit for the circuit with a man on base in the eighth. Al Bumbry walked in the 11th and scored the Orioles’ tie-breaking run on a single by Tony Muser and double by Jim Northrup. After an intentional pass to Lee May, Ken Singleton hit a sacrifice fly to add an insurance tally. Mike Torrez (18–8) got the win over Joe Coleman (9–17).
The Royals, after collecting 18 hits and breezing to a 10–2 victory, exploded for five runs in the third inning and beat the Angels again, 7–2, to sweep a twi-night doubleheader. In the opener, the Royals jumped on Bill Singer for five straight singles by Jim Wohlford, Cookie Rojas, George Brett, John Mayberry and Al Cowens to score three runs in the first inning and that was more than enough for Dennis Leonard. The Royals’ later scoring included two RBIs by Amos Otis with a pair of doubles and three RBIs by Bob Stinson on a sacrifice fly and single. The Royals’ 18 hits represented their season high. In the nightcap, the Royals salted away the verdict for Al Fitzmorris with five runs in the third on a walk to Stinson, singles by Frank White, Wohlford, Rojas and Brett and a double by Mayberry.
Jorge Orta drove in four runs with a single and homer, making it possible for Rich Hinton to gain his first victory of the season as the White Sox defeated the Rangers, 5–2. Hinton gave up two hits while pitching four innings in relief of Jesse Jefferson. Rich Gossage worked the last 2 ⅔ innings, did not allow a hit and recorded his 25th save of the season. Fergie Jenkins (16–16) took the loss for Texas.
Erupting for six runs in the sixth inning, the Twins gained a 7–6 victory in the second game of a twi-night doubleheader for a split with the Athletics, who won the first game, 11–4. Bill North rapped three hits, drew a walk, drove in two runs and scored four in the A’s victory. Claudell Washington also had three hits, with three RBIs and three runs scored, while Sal Bando batted in three runs with a pair of singles. The Twins had the game’s only homers by Phil Roof and Steve Braun. In the nightcap, Eddie Bane, returning to the Twins after nearly two years in the minors, gained his first major league victory. Paul Lindblad, working in relief of Sonny Siebert, suffered his first defeat of the season after being a winner in nine games. In the Twins’ big inning, Dave McKay drove in two runs with a double and Jerry Terrell plated a pair with a triple. Billy Williams had a three-run double in the eighth when the A’s chased both Bane and Tom Johnson before Tom Burgmeier came in to save the game.
The games between the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees at Shea Stadium and the Milwaukee Brewers and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park are postponed due to rain. Both will be made up tomorrow.
Lynn McGlothen (15–11) scattered seven hits and pitched the Cardinals to a 5–1 victory over the Mets. A wild pitch by Jon Matlack, after Luis Melendez and Ted Sizemore singled in the third inning, gave the Cardinals their first run. Melendez and Ted Sizemore singled again in the fifth and Reggie Smith plated a run with a single. After the Mets picked up their lone tally in the sixth on a single by Dave Kingman and triple by Rusty Staub, Mike Tyson iced the Cardinals’ victory with a two-run double in their half of the inning. Mets’ rookie outfielder Mike Vail hit safely in his 20th straight game, longest streak in the National League this season.
Bob Moose came up with a surprise performance, pitching 7 ⅓ innings of scoreless relief, and Dave Parker smashed a three-run homer to lift the Pirates to a 6–3 victory over the Expos. Moose, who was sent back to the minors earlier this year, gained his first major league victory since April 14, 1974. The Expos knocked out John Candelaria in the second inning, scoring their runs on a walk, a single by Gary Carter, double by Don Carrithers, single by Jerry White and a wild pickoff throw. After the Pirates narrowed their deficit to 3–2, Al Oliver singled, Willie Stargell walked and Parker poked his homer in the the fifth. The victory enabled the Pirates to extend their East Division lead to 5 ½ games over the Phillies, who were idle.
A sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Tito Fuentes in the ninth inning produced the only run of the game to enable the Padres to defeat the Astros, 1–0. Dan Spillner, who started for the Padres, was replaced with two out and the bases loaded in the top half of the ninth. Dave Tomlin retired Cliff Johnson on a pop fly to end the Astros’ threat. Bobby Tolan delivered a pinch-single to open the Padres’ half and moved to second on a balk by Jim York. After a sacrifice by Dave Roberts, Jerry Turner drew a walk before Fuentes batted for Tomlin and ended the game with his sacrifice fly.
Phil Niekro (15–12) pitched a four-hitter and Dusty Baker drove in the Braves’ runs with a homer and single to account for a 2–1 victory over the Dodgers. Baker hit his homer in the second inning. Ralph Garr walked in third, stole second and, after an error by Steve Garvey, counted an unearned run on Baker’s single. The Dodgers’ tally off Niekro in the seventh also was tainted.
Although John Montefusco (13–9) struck out 12 batters in eight innings, raising the rookie’s season total to 202, the Reds were able to defeat the Giants, 6–3. Pete Rose scored his 100th run of the year for the Reds in the first and drove in one with a single in the second. The Reds clinched their victory with three runs in the eighth on a double by Johnny Bench, triple by George Foster, a hit batsman and double by Doug Flynn. Montefusco was 25 strikeouts shy of the National League record for rookies set by Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1911. But Fred Norman (10–4) got the victory.
Baltimore Orioles 6, Detroit Tigers 4
California Angels 2, Kansas City Royals 10
California Angels 2, Kansas City Royals 7
Atlanta Braves 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Oakland Athletics 11, Minnesota Twins 4
Oakland Athletics 6, Minnesota Twins 7
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Houston Astros 0, San Diego Padres 1
Cincinnati Reds 6, San Francisco Giants 3
New York Mets 1, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Chicago White Sox 5, Texas Rangers 2
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 809.29 (-3.37, -0.41%)
Born:
Luis Castillo, Dominican MLB second baseman (World Series Champions-Marlins, 2003; All-Star, 2002, 2003, 2005; Florida Marlins, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets), in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic.
Mark Johnson, MLB catcher (Chicago White Sox, Oakland A’s, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals), in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Jude Waddy, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Tre Thomas, NFL defensive back (New York Giants), in Houston, Texas.
Died:
Doc Alexander, 78, American College Football Hall of Fame guard (Syracuse; All-Pro 1921, 1922; Rochester Jeffersons; NFL Championship 1925; NY Giants)
General Mohammad Khatam, 55, Chief of Staff of the Imperial Iranian Air Force and Iran’s most decorated pilot, was killed in a hang gliding accident.
Berwind P. Kaufmann, 78, American biologist.
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