Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, chief architect of America’s Indochina policy under former President Richard M. Nixon, said he always thought Indochina was a disaster for America — “partly because we did not think through the implications of what we were doing at the beginning.” Kissinger has recently moved to dissociate himself from the policy. But his latest remarks, made in an interview on National Educational Television’s “Firing Line,” were the first claiming to have always believed the United States wrong.
The General Assembly’s special session on the plight of the third world moved toward a grim end, with United Nations delegates working through the night in search of a formula for narrowing the chasm between rich and poor countries. The chief United States delegate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said that some progress had been achieved during the evening and that negotiations would continue. A shared economic future and a shared political community between the world’s advanced nations and the underdeveloped countries was urged by Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Appearing on the NBC program, “Meet the Press,” he said the United States was cautiously optimistic that agreement would be reached on proposals it has advanced at the current special session of the General Assembly to help Third World countries.
Portugal’s new center-left government, scheduled to be announced in a few days, will count on strong military support to reverse a widely denounced trend toward Communist domination of the country. The Premier‐designate, Vice Admiral José Pinheiro de Azevedo, said late last night that he had obtained the “total support” of the High Council of the Revolution, the supreme Military body. He made the statement after announcing agreement on a program that stressed democratic goals and need for authority. Speaking on a nationwide broadcast, he said: “The premier will dispose of effective instruments for the exercise of power.” There will be political support from the Socialist and Popular Democratic parties, which are expected to dominate the cabinet. The Communists are allowing party members to participate without officially representing the party.
Berlin police arrested one of West Germany’s most wanted anarchists in a predawn swoop only hours after an urban guerrilla bomb attack on the Hamburg railroad station injured 11 people. The arrest of 32-year-old Fritz Teufel was not believed directly connected with the Hamburg blast but it came as a swift police reply to the urban guerrillas. Teufel was one of eight guerrillas believed to have led the “June 2 Movement” which kidnaped West Berlin politician Peter Lorenz earlier this year.
Suspected leftist guerrillas killed a policeman in Barcelona in a new outbreak of political violence, the governor of the Spanish province announced. He was the 10th policeman killed in Spain this year and the first since the government enacted a law making the death penalty mandatory in the murder of policemen.
Families in Turkey are still digging in the rubble of last week’s disastrous earthquake in search of missing relatives. A relief official in the town of Lice, where the quake was strongest, said about 20 people were still trapped in the ruins. Army units left the area Saturday after digging out 2.348 bodies.
Soviet dissident writer Andrei A. Amalrik was released and given three days to leave Moscow after being detained by police overnight for staying at his wife’s apartment without a Moscow residence permit. “I don’t know what I’m going to do,” said the 37-year-old author, who was freed in May after spending five years in prison and Siberian exile. He said he had no place to live.
Moscow’s unofficial art community failed to go through with an exhibit of paintings in a vacant lot, planned for the anniversary of a show broken up by Soviet police a year ago. The nonconformist painters were scared off by the arrest last week of one leader and the detention in Leningrad of several painters who had planned to attend the show, artists said.
Rembrandt’s painting “The Night Watch”, dating from the 17th Century, was slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Wilhelmus De Rijk, an unemployed schoolteacher, was committed to a mental hospital at Middenbeemster after slicing the canvas with a kitchen knife, and would commit suicide in 1976. The Night Watch was also attacked on January 13, 1911 and on April 6, 1990, also by unemployed Dutchmen.
A contagion of political and communal violence has spread a mood of almost helpless foreboding in Lebanon. “We might just be watching the demise of a country as we know it.” a Lebanese analyst of Middle East business affairs said. Tension heightened in Beirut today. Scattered incidents of shooting and kidnapping broke out early in the day in the neighborhoods of Sinel Fil, Nabaa, Karantina and Dekwaneh and four persons were reported killed, two of them by stray bullets. Exchanges of machine‐gun fire were heard in the heavily Christian neighborhood of Ain al‐Rummaneh and the largely Muslim quarter of Chiyah. The two areas have been hot spots in past periods of trouble. In an apparent step to diminish the tension Premier Rashid Karami announced that leaders of a leftist coalition had agreed to withdraw a call for a general strike tomorrow. The premier said the leftists — led by Kamal Jumblat, a maverick Socialist leader — had reached the decision after a series of talks with government intermediaries.
The small leftist parties had originally called for the general strike after Mr. Karami last week ordered army troops to move to a buffer zone between the two northern towns of Tripoli and Zgharta. The strike call did not appear to arouse much popular support. Many people in Beirut, which was lashed by communal violence this spring and summer, are weary of political confrontation. A magazine survey of a cross‐section of Lebanese found that 61 per cent believed another major round of fighting was coming; 82 per cent said that if it did come it would resolve nothing. One of the problems in singling out winners and losers in Lebanon is that the combatants are not always clear. It is commonplace to hear Lebanese blaming “outsiders” for their travails. There is also a pervasive conviction that this little country’s destiny is harnessed to the uncertain course of Middle Eastern history. “There will never be peace here,” said a despairing Lebanese businessman, “until there is peace in the Middle East.”
For right‐of‐center Lebanese, the presence of 400,000 Palestinians in a nation of 3.5 million is the heart of the problem. The Palestinians are highly politicized, many of them well armed and constitute practically a state within a state. It is the Palestinians, they argue, who have upset Lebanon’s 30‐year political equilibrium, turned her southern frontier with Israel into a scarred, depopulated battle zone and radicalized Lebanese Muslims, who had been content with their niches in the country’s stratified, almost feudal political order.
The civil war in Portuguese Timor has created a food shortage that could become a major problem. The central committee of the left‐wing Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, known as Fretilin, issued an appeal for international assistance “as a matter of urgency.” The Fretilin leadership, which is in de facto control of the territory, said it would welcome rice, flour and powdered and condensed milk as well as med ical supplies and clothing. Red Cross teams have been delivering baby food, rice and medical supplies to remote areas, but a journey into Timor’s mountainous hinterland revealed severe shortages in every town.
Argentine President Isabel Martinez de Perón, her country nearly bankrupt and ravaged by political crises, left Buenos Aires today after tearfully handing over executive power to the Senate president, Italo Luder. Mrs. Perón left aboard an air force plane for the central province of Córdoba, where she is to spend a 45‐day leave of absence at a country club owned by the air force. Mr. Luder, 58 years old, took over as interim president last night at a ceremony in government house here. The 44‐year‐old Mrs. Perón, looking thin and strained, smiled tearfully as she told a nationwide television audience, “This is nothing more than a temporary farewell so that I can rest, because this year has been very hard.” Speculation persisted, however, that she might decide to step down permanently.
Ethiopian security forces searched Eritrea province for two Americans and six Ethiopians abducted by raiders who attacked a U.S. Navy station near Asmara. One of the Americans, who previously was unidentified, was Navy Electronics Tech. 3 Thomas C. Bowidowicz of Jersey City, New Jersey, the Pentagon said. The other was identified earlier as Army Spec. 5 David Strickland of Orlando, Florida. The Ethiopian government said nine Ethiopian civilians had been killed and 23 injured in the raid, believed to have been carried out by rebels seeking Eritrean independence.
A charge that Watergate-style campaign tactics were being used was made as the New Hampshire Senate election campaign headed into its final stages before Tuesday’s voting. Democrat John A. Durkin and Republican Louis C. Wyman bickered over a Republican letter sent to 70,000 licensed hunters in New Hampshire that said Durkin favored gun controls. Appearing with Wyman on ABC’s Issues and Answers. Durkin said Wyman knows he was opposed to gun control and was trying to mislead voters by digging into the bag of dirty tricks similar to those that came out during the Watergate scandal. Wyman in turn said Durkin had shifted his position when it became evident that most voters opposed the controls.
The National Organization for Women called on all women to go on strike October 29 to show the nation how much it depended on them. Davilyn Jones, coordinator for the strike, said October 29 — a Wednesday — had been designated as the day that “Alice doesn’t,” a reference to the Ellen Burstyn movie entitled “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” She predicted that thousands of women all over the nation would strike. She said women should not work or spend money on that day but should participate in rallies, demonstrations, marches and other mass events. Ms. Jones said the anti-NOW forces led by Phyllis Schlafly were planning a counteraction called “Alice does.”
Six women Episcopal priests celebrated communion in violation of church orders. They conducted the service at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cleveland, along with the Rev. Dalton D. Downs, who had been forbidden by his bishop to invite the women. During the sermon, the Rev. Suzanne Hiatt told the congregation of about 250 persons that the womens’ actions “tend to be arrogant because we presume to be right… but we also see great good coming out of all this trouble.”
Organized antibusing protesters will be allowed on the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, for the first time since violence broke out nine days ago in the court-ordered racial busing of the newly merged Jefferson County-Louisville school system. The schools enter their second full week of busing today. A newly formed group. Independent Taxpayers and Parents, has been granted a permit to hold a protest “death of freedom” march downtown this morning. The march will feature a symbolic coffin. The 925 national guardsmen called out still remain in the area and law enforcement officials will continue to ride buses as they carry students between the predominantly black inner city and the mostly white suburban areas.
Elizabeth Seton was canonized, becoming the first American Roman Catholic saint. In one of the most colorful ceremonies seen in Rome in years, Pope Paul VI, in a canonization mass today in St. Peter’s Square, declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton a saint. She is the first American-born saint. About 100,000 persons attended the ceremony. Among them were some 16,000 Americans.
The Department of Defense said that the per-plane price of the controversial F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, which is being bought by both the United States Navy and Iran from the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, had increased by $2 million this year, bringing the total cost of each plane to at least $20 million. The Tomcat will be the most expensive fighter plane ever built. The rise in price comes at a time when there are increasing congressional objections to the plane.
Mother and children were “doing fine.” said Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, Betty Ford’s press secretary, after Liberty became a mother of nine. President Ford’s golden retriever, with the aid of Mrs. Ford and daughter Susan, gave birth at the White House to four females and five males and all the puppies were “very cute.” But the occasion did not interfere with the President’s golf game. He was told of the first birth shortly before departing for Burning Tree Country Club and was back after 18 holes in time for the arrival of the last puppy. Liberty was mated last July with Misty’s Sungold Lad, a champion golden retriever of Medford, Oregon.
The new Federal Election Commission has suddenly become the target of the Senators and Representatives who established it because of what some of them regard as overzealousness in monitoring the office funds of Congressmen. The five-month-old commission is facing its first test of power by tackling the touchy issue of a little-known congressional financial ploy formally known as “constituent service funds,” which are more generally called “office slush funds.”
Despite a statement that $43 million being discussed doesn’t actually exist in the city’s budget, hopes rose slightly for settlement of the teachers’ strike that has crippled the New York City public school system. Teachers union President Albert Shanker reported that “there has been some progress” when meetings recessed to observe the Yom Kippur holiday. He told teachers to listen for announcements on radio and television. Hopes for a settlement had been dampened earlier when Controller Harrison J. Goldin said that $43 million listed in the city’s budget for the board of education did not exist. The teachers had hoped the money would be used for rehiring and to reduce class sizes, their two key proposals.
The sleek John Hancock Building towers gracefully over the Boston skyline, a symbol of the city’s economic power. But to Boston blacks, that symbol serves as a painful reminder of their own lack of power. And that reminder seems always to be visible from the black community — from the Roxbury ghetto, from the upward‐mobile Mattapan section of two and three‐story frame homes, and from the cozy suburbs, now home to most of the city’s “black Brahmins.” While they make up about a fifth of the city’s population of around 650,000, blacks here seem to wield less political, economic and social power than their counterparts in other cities. This is a result of the peculiar political history of the city, as well as disunity among blacks, a source of continuing frustration. Only one black has served on the City Council and none have ever served on the Boston School Committee, the all-white body that, as of the opening of school last week is presiding over a majority nonwhite system. To blacks, the fact that whites monopolize the committee is neither accidental nor the result of lack of political activity by blacks.
Some of the nation’s leading academic experts on big cities say that although New York City has temporarily weathered its financial crisis, its continuing survival depends on major changes in long-term relationships with the federal government. They believe that a takeover by Washington of the financing of the nation’s costly welfare system and an altered form of revenue sharing is necessary to help large cities survive national economic recessions.
A quietly developed plan that would enable thousands of state-inspected slaughterhouses to begin shipping meat through interstate commerce has the approval of the Department of Agriculture, but is under attack by members of Congress, consumer groups and members of the meat packing industry. Its critics say that the plan is an attempt to circumvent the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967. An Agriculture Department official said the plan was an effort to block a trend toward federal takeovers of state meat-inspection systems, which, he said, has resulted from the 1967 law.
The pro football game between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, scheduled at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, was canceled when the Patriots maintained their earlier refusal to play. On Saturday they had voted 39 to 2 to strike in protest over the lack of a contract between the National Football League Players Association and the N.F.L. Management Council.
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Led by Fred Lynn, Carl Yastrzemski and Rico Petrocelli, who batted in seven runs among them, the Red Sox rallied to defeat the Brewers, 8–6. Hank Aaron hit his 12th homer of the season and 745th of his career to help the Brewers take a 5–1 lead. Lynn, who had four hits, accounted for the first Red Sox run with a homer in the second inning. The Red Sox began their comeback in the sixth. A double by Cecil Cooper and singles by Yastrzemski and Lynn accounted for one run. After Jim Rice walked, Dwight Evans hit a sacrifice fly. Petrocelli then tied the score with a two-run double. The Red Sox put the game in their pockets with three runs in the seventh. Rick Burleson walked and safe bunts by Cooper and Denny Doyle loaded the bases for Yastrzemski, who broke the tie with a two-run single. Lynn followed with a single for an insurance counter. The Brewers’ Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott’s 47–year-old record by playing in his 242nd game as a teenager.
The Orioles gained their 10th victory in the last 12 games, beating the Tigers, 9–3, with the aid of two-run homers by Don Baylor and Elrod Hendricks, plus shutout relief work by Paul Mitchell. Hendricks homered in the second inning to pace the Orioles to a 4–0 lead before the Tigers rallied to kayo Mike Cuellar. Mitchell allowed only five hits in the last 6 2/3 innings. The Orioles put the game out of the Tigers’ reach with three runs in the fifth. After Bobby Grich singled to drive in Mark Belanger, Baylor smashed his homer.
Working with only two days of rest, Catfish Hunter gained his 22nd win of the season against 13 losses, pitching seven innings as the Yankees defeated the Indians, 6–2. Hunter’s departure broke his string of 10 consecutive complete games. Roy White got the Yankee scoring started with a homer in the third inning. After Thurman Munson was safe on an error, a double by Graig Nettles and single by Rick Dempsey netted two more runs. Hunter gave up back-to-back homers by Boog Powell and Rico Carty in the fourth, but then retired the last 12 batters before leaving the game. The Yankees added their other runs in the seventh, two scoring on a double by Sandy Alomar.
John Mayberry batted in two runs with a single in the first inning and Harmon Killebrew homered for two more runs to start the Royals off to a 10–4 victory over the Angels. Frank White added an inside-the-park homer in the second and the Royals made their victory certain with two more runs in the third on doubles by George Brett and Mayberry and a single by Fred Patek. Bob Allietta and Dan Briggs each hit his first major league homer for the Angels.
The Rangers, after overcoming a 5–0 deficit, rallied again for three runs in the 13th inning and defeated the White Sox, 9–8. Pat Kelly homered for the White Sox in their early attack on Jim Gideon, former University of Texas star, who made his major league debut. The Rangers finally caught up and tied the score at 6–6 in the ninth on a a single by Tom Grieve, pass to Joe Lovitto and single by Lenny Randle. Deron Johnson knocked in two runs with a single to send the White Sox ahead again in the top half of the 13th, but Toby Harrah started the Rangers’ rally with a single. After Dave Hamilton replaced Rich Hinton, Jeff Burroughs doubled, driving in Harrah. Burroughs scored on a single by Grieve, who took second on the throw home and then crossed the plate with the winning run on a single by Roy Howell.
After erupting for six runs in the first, the Twins needed a later pair of two-run innings before defeating the Athletics, 10–8. In their opening outburst, the Twins had singles by Jerry Terrell, Steve Braun and Tony Oliva, a double by Dan Ford and pass to Dave McKay before Danny Thompson homered with two men on base. Oliva and Johnny Briggs rapped run-scoring singles in the fourth. Braun and McKay then provided the winning margin with singles in the sixth, driving in a run apiece. Claudell Washington hit a three-run homer for the A’s and accounted for another RBI with a grounder, while Gene Tenace batted in two runs with a homer and single.
A homer by Ron Cey with a man on base in the sixth inning carried the Dodgers to a 3–2 victory over the Braves. Davey Lopes walked in the third, stole his 71st base of the season and scored the Dodgers’ initial run on a single by Lee Lacy. The Braves picked up a run in the fourth and went ahead with singles by Earl Williams, Cito Gaston and Darrell Evans in the top of the sixth. In the Dodgers’ half, Willie Crawford beat out a bunt and was forced by Steve Garvey before Cey hit his homer. Dour Rau (14–9).
The Cardinals, playing before the largest daytime crowd in St. Louis history, 50,548, chased Tom Seaver (21–9)in the third inning and defeated the Mets, 6–2. A Jacket Day promotion helped attract the record turnout. Seaver gave up a run on a triple by Bake McBride and a wild pitch in the first before being lifted in the third when the Cardinals tacked on a pair with singles by McBride and Willie Davis, an error on a pickoff throw, sacrifice fly by Keith Hernandez and single by Ted Simmons. Mike Vail singled for one of the Mets’ seven hits and extended his batting streak to 22 games. John Denny (10-5) got the win.
Back-to-back homers by Dave Rader and Steve Ontiveros in the seventh inning powered the Giants to a 4–2 victory in the first game of a doubleheader, but the Reds came back to gain a split by winning the second game, 8–3. Joe Morgan stole four bases in the lidlifter, including a theft of home in the sixth to give the Reds a 2–1 lead. The Giants tied the score in their half with a triple by Derrel Thomas and sacrifice fly by Bobby Murcer before Rader and Ontiveros rapped Gary Nolan for their round-trippers in the seventh. In the nightcap, Terry Crowley started the Reds’ scoring with a three-run homer in the first. The Reds did not break loose for their five other runs until the eighth. Singles by Pat Darcy, Pete Rose and Cesar Geronimo produced the first run in the outburst and Dan Driessen doubled for two more. After two walks loaded the bases, Darrel Chaney doubled to add another pair. Ontiveros drove in all three of the Giants’ runs with a double and single.
Mike Schmidt hit his 35th and 36th homers of the season, plus a single, and drove in four runs to lead the Phillies to a 13-7 victory over the Cubs. Dick Allen joined in the attack with a homer and single, batting in three runs. Steve Carlton (13–13) allowed only two runs on a homer by George Mitterwald while pitching the first eight innings for the Phillies. Randy Lerch relieved in the ninth and was roughed up for five runs, including a grand-slam homer by pinch-hitter Tim Hosley.
A pinch-single by Duffy Dyer in the eighth inning and an error on the hit enabled the Pirates to defeat the Expos, 4–3. Richie Zisk homered for the Pirates in the fourth, but the Expos held a 3–2 lead going into the eighth when walks to Manny Sanguillen and Bob Robertson led to the Pirates’ victory. Dyer, batting for Frank Taveras, drove in Sanguillen with his single and when Tony Scott bobbled the ball in right field, Miguel Dilone, running for Robertson, also crossed the plate with the winning marker.
With last-out help from Joe Niekro, J.R. Richard (11–9) pitched the Astros to a 4–2 victory over the Padres. Randy Jones (19–10), bidding to become the first 20-game winner in Padres’ history, was handed his 10th defeat instead after giving up all of the Astros’ runs.
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Boston Red Sox 8
Philadelphia Phillies 13, Chicago Cubs 7
Baltimore Orioles 9, Detroit Tigers 3
California Angels 4, Kansas City Royals 10
Atlanta Braves 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Oakland Athletics 8, Minnesota Twins 10
Cleveland Indians 2, New York Yankees 6
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Houston Astros 4, San Diego Padres 2
Cincinnati Reds 2, San Francisco Giants 4
Cincinnati Reds 8, San Francisco Giants 3
New York Mets 2, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Chicago White Sox 8, Texas Rangers 9
Born:
George Lombard, MLB outfielder (Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Washington Nationals), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Troy Davis, NFL running back (New Orleans Saints), in Miami, Florida.
Travis Scott, Canadian NHL goaltender (Los Angeles Kings), in Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Walter Herbert [Seligmann], 77, German-American conductor, impresario (Houston Grand Opera, 1955- 72; San Diego Opera, 1965-77), and world champion bridge player.
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