[Ed: Angleton’s obsessive hunt for Soviet moles in the CIA probably did more damage than the moles could have — if they ever existed.]
Four official sources in Washington said that millions of dollars were being poured covertly into Portugal and Angola by East and West in the continuing struggle for control of the Mediterranean and for influence and raw materials in Central Africa. United States funds go to the Socialist and other Portuguese parties from the Central Intelligence Agency through West European Socialist parties and labor unions, the sources said, at the rate of several million dollars monthly. The Soviet Union and its East European allies are reliably reported to have poured from $50 million to $100 million into Portugal since April, 1974, and hundreds of tons of military equipment into Angola since March.
A leader of the second largest political party in the Portuguese coalition cabinet demanded today that the armed forces get out of government soon and open the way for the free play of electoral forces. The demand was made at A news conference held by Francisco de Sá Carneiro to announce that he would reclaim the post of secretary general of the Popular Democratic party that he had relinquished for health reasons early in the year. The Popular Democrats, a Social Democratic movement, hold two of the 15 ministries in the Government, which is led by Vice Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo as Premier and includes four ether military men. The Socialists have four ministries, Civilian Independents three and the Communists one. “The armed forces,” Mr. Sá Carneiro declared, “have neither legitimacy nor power to govern, and this is not their mission.”
Holland’s plans to radically reduce its sea-patrol aircraft fleet and scrap its biggest warship have been protested by North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, who believe the Dutch move would weaken NATO’s defense capability, informed sources said in Brussels. They said NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns had asked the Dutch government to reconsider withdrawal of 13 aircraft and the guided missile carrier De Zeven Provincien, now assigned to NATO.
Bombers blasted three targets in five minutes in downtown Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s second largest city. A bar, restaurant and dry goods store were hit. In Carrickfergus, 65 miles southeast of Londonderry, a Roman Catholic in his late 20s was in serious condition after being gunned down from a passing car as he stood in line for a bus. The British secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees, said the wave of bombings to drive Britain’s 14,000 troops from the province had turned the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army’s 7 ½-month ceasefire into a “mockery and travesty.”
Spanish military authorities have signed the death warrants of six alleged urban guerrillas and they could be executed this weekend, defense sources said. The sources said that among the death warrants were those of two women, aged 20 and 21, said by their lawyers to be pregnant. The cabinet is expected to take up the death sentences Friday and the executions then could be carried out in 12 hours, unless the chief of state, General Francisco Franco, grants clemency.
Spain and the United States are reported to be close to agreement on five more years of “friendship and cooperation” just at the time of one of the strongest campaigns to be mounted in the West against the Franco Government. The case of 11 political terrorists awaiting execution after much‐contested military trials has raised strong tensions in Spain and provoked a new wave of resentment in Western Europe. The imposition of a modified state of emergency, to combat terrorist attacks on the police, has created the feeling that the Government is under siege and has few if any friends at home or abroad. France has let it be known that she is seeking to organize an appeal to Spain by the European Economic Community to seek clemency for the condemned. The move would ostensibly be on humanitarian grounds but would reflect the strong Western Europe hostility to Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s authoritarian system.
Three members of the Rothschild banking family headed thousands of French Jews demonstrating in Paris against what they called officially organized harassment of Jews in the Soviet Union. The demonstrators dispersed after marching from the Place de la Republique to the Hotel de Ville. No incidents were reported.
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee today delayed any Congressional approval of 200 United States observers for the Middle East until the Administration made public all secret documents relating to the recent Sinai accord between Israel and Egypt. The demand threatened to delay for at least a week—and probably longer—action on the Administration’s urgent request for Congress to approve the sending of civilians to Sinai as cease‐fire monitors. Egypt and Israel have said the interim agreement will not go into effect without the Americans. But Congressional critics have demanded further information on promises of United States military and economic aid to the two countries. The Senate committee also decided during a closed session today to ask Secretary of State Kissinger or his top Middle East aide, Under Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, to meet with the panel tomorrow.
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon of Israel and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, met for three hours at the Soviet Mission to the United Nations. It was the highest-level Soviet-Israeli contact in nearly two years, and had symbolic importance. Israeli officials said the meeting had been arranged at the initiative of the Israelis and that Secretary of State Kissinger had been informed ahead of time.
Premier Rashid Karami announced this afternoon that at 20‐member committee had been formed to try to bring peace to Lebanon, which has been torn by outbreaks of political and communal violence since February. Mr. Karami also announced a new cease‐fire taking effect at 5 PM today. In the last week, several cease‐fires have been proclaimed only to be broken hours later. But this time, Mr. Karami said, all parties have agreed that armed men would abandon the barricades erected throughout the city. A coalition of leftist parties issued a statement calling on all members to adhere to the cease‐fire and to dismantle barricades. In some Muslim neighborhoods, Palestinian guerrillas were policing the cease‐fire, though armed men remained in the streets. A clandestine radio station operated by the right‐wing Phalangists said the party was demanding guarantees before it agreed to remove its barricades.
OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues.
Two Americans who had been held in South Yemen for more than two years have been released, Rep. Paul Findley (R-Illinois) announced. Findley said he had received word from South Yemen’s ambassador to the United Nations that Vincent Torhan of Summit, New Jersey, and Robert Kopp of San Francisco had arrived in the United States on Sunday. Findley said the release of the men was a goodwill gesture from the South Yemen government, and he hoped it would lead to establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and South Yemen.
Iraq’s Foreign Minister today termed the plight of the Palestinians “perhaps one of the supreme cases of injustice in the history of mankind,” and said the right approach toward a settlement to the Middle East problem would, be the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations. The minister, Saadun Hamadi, told the General Assembly that “the Zionists have resorted to mass killings to exterminate the Palestinians.” Diplomats described the speech as the harshest attack on Israel heard at the United Nations since last fall when the Palestine Liberation Organization was given the status of a permanent observer. To support his charge of genocide, Mr. Hamadi cited what he said were Israeli bombings of Palestinian refugee camps. He called the question of Palestine a “flagrant example of settler colonialism,” and the Israeli government a “racist regime, supported by the forces of imperialism,” principally the United States.
The six remaining members of SEATO, including the United States, have reportedly agreed to disband the organization.
The South Korean opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, believes his country will suffer “the fate, of another Vietnam” unless they present Seoul Government is changed, he wrote in a document released in Washington today. Mr. Kim, who faces sentencing in South Korea Friday on political charges, made this observation in a memorandum on the security situation in East Asia that he gave to Representative Stephen J. Solarz, Democrat of Brooklyn, in Seoul last month. “I don’t believe that our present situation is the same as the Vietnamese situation,” he wrote. “But if we don’t change the suppressive and corrupted rule early, we can’t avoid the fate of another Vietnam.”
The crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 150 in Indonesia killed 24 of the 60 people on board, and one on the ground, while attempting to land at Palembang in poor weather and fog. They were killed when an Indonesian jetliner overshot the runway in heavy fog at Palembang in south Sumatra, hit some coconut trees and burst into flames. Two others were missing and 37 persons survived, although many were injured, officials said. Three foreigners were listed among the dead but their nationalities were not immediately known. The Fokker 28, operated by the government’s Garuda Airways, was making a regular flight from Jakarta to Palembang.
The short-lived civil war in Portuguese East Timor ended as Fretilin drove back the UDT across the border into Indonesia and the province of West Timor.
The Panamanian Government has apologized to the United States for an incident yesterday in which demonstrators broke about 100 windows in the American Embassy in Panama City, the State Department reported today. The oceanside building was attacked by 600 to 800 rockthrowing youths, according to Robert L. Funseth, the department spokesman. They shouted anti‐American slogans and demands that the United States pull out its troops from bases in the Canal Zone. Embassy officials reported that the demonstrators also denounced Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama’s Chief of Government, for “complicity” in attempting to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty with the United States.
The French government has sent an envoy to bargain with Chad rebels for the life of a French archeologist threatened with execution. The emissary, accompanied by two Africans, was sent to the rebels’ hideout deep in the Sahara Desert to negotiate for the release of Francoise Claustre, captured 17 months ago. He carried a ransom offer of $2.2 million in cash and supplies, but had instructions not to bow to demands for weapons, the French government said.
The White House disclosed that the Secret Service, acting on intuition, had cautioned President Ford against mingling with the crowd from which a woman fired at him in San Francisco on Monday. Agents were said to have sensed that the crowd was not entirely friendly. The White House press secretary hinted broadly that Mr. Ford had already begun reducing his close contacts with large crowds.
Oliver Sipple, the disabled former U.S. Marine who had helped save President Ford from assassination, was “outed” by San Francisco Chronicle gossip columnist Herb Caen, who received information from gay activist Harvey Milk that Sipple was homosexual. Without specifically calling Sipple gay, Caen wrote that Sipple “was the center of midnight attention at the Red Lantern, a Golden Gate Ave. bar he favors”, and that Rev. Ray Broshears, head of the Helping Hands center and Gay Politico Harvey Milk, who claim to be among Sipple’s close friends, describe themselves as “proud — maybe this will help break the stereotype.” Sipple’s Midwestern family, who were unaware of his sexual orientation, would disown him. Sipple would later commit suicide.
President Ford said he hoped he would soon be able to drop his administration’s temporary moratoriums on further grain exports to the Soviet Union and Poland. His position was disclosed by Rep. George Mahon (D-Texas) after a meeting with the President attended by Senator Carl T. Curtis (R-Nebraska) and two farm leaders who gave Mr. Ford a grass-roots report on farm unrest. Curtis said, “We pointed out to (Mr. Ford) that he was in trouble (with farmers) over his export policy.” Mahon said Mr. Ford appeared “most hopeful” that a new U.S.-Soviet agreement on long-term grain sales would be reached soon.
In the second victory in a week for anti-busing forces, the Senate voted today to bar the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from ordering the busing of students beyond the school nearest their homes. Senate aides said, however, that the prohibition might be more symbolic than substantive, because the department had never ordered any wide-scale busing. The ban would not affect busing ordered by the Federal courts. Those orders have stirred most of the busing controversies, such as those in Boston and Louisville, Kentucky. By a vote of 51 to 45, the Senate added the antibusing amendment proposed by Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the Democratic whip, to a pending $36‐billion appropriations bill for H.E.W. and the Department of Labor.
Governor Byrne of New Jersey said he could support legislation authorizing withdrawal of life-sustaining medical procedures for terminally ill patients “under certain conditions.” He said he expected the legislature to start work soon on a bill to give the state its first statutory definition of death, as a result of the Karen Ann Quinlan case. The 21-year-old woman has been in a coma for five months and her adoptive parents are seeking court authorization to turn off the respirator that sustains her medically hopeless case. Mr. Byrne was not ready to specify his views.
The Senate Intelligence Committee disclosed that for 20 years ending in 1973, the Central Intelligence Agency opened foreign letters to and from prominent American political figures. including Richard Nixon and Senators Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy and Frank Church, the committee chairman. He announced later that it had unanimously agreed to ask Mr. Nixon for his testimony on a number of related matters, including whether he learned while in office of the mail-intercept program.
The Department of Justice has urged a House investigating subcommittee to hold off public hearings on two top secret tax intelligence programs because disclosure might disrupt several potential prosecutions, House and departmental sources said today. At this juncture it appears that the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee will comply with the request. It has not taken formal action on the matter. The two related programs. one code‐named Tradewinds and the other dubbed Haven, were set up nearly 10 years ago by the Internal Revenue Service to trace unreported investments by Americans in the Bahamas and several Caribbean states. Earlier this year, according to well‐placed Federal law enforcement officials, Donald C. Alexander, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, cut back support for the operations without explanation.
The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives approved today a basic change in the way that expenses for the care of children or other dependents can be used to reduce federal income taxes. The change would increase by 1.9 million the number of persons who might benefit from this section of the tax law. Most of these will be in low-income categories. The provision would also mean higher taxes for nine out of 10 of the 2.1 million persons who can benefit from the child-care deduction in the present law. Those who would lose out would include married couples with incomes in excess of $6,600 that use the present deduction, and every head of household with income in excess of $4,100.
Cities Service Co. has told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it made improper payments overseas, the Wall Street Journal reported. It said the oil company had admitted using subsidiaries to funnel $30,000 through a Swiss bank for “political purposes” and paying $15,000 to a lobbyist by means of a false invoice. The company said it also had set up a $600,000 slush fund for “business purposes” through kickbacks from brokers and suppliers. The company said it had amended its tax returns to delete the $30,000 as a business deduction and had examined the $600,000 fund for illegalities. For its voluntary admissions, the Journal said, Cities Service was not required by the SEC to disclose the names of persons or countries involved.
Two convicts, flashing knives and described as apparently “high on drugs,” seized control of the Indiana State Prison Hospital in Michigan City and took eight hostages. But they surrendered five hours later with the hostages unharmed. The convicts, David Erickson, 33, and James Kelley Jr., 28, gave up to Warden Leo Jenkins after a truce had been worked out. At one point they issued a list of nine demands, which included more lenient visiting rules, recreation area improvements and changes in the disciplinary board and educational programs.
Tucson Mayor Lewis Murphy threatened to dismiss striking firemen and police officers unless they returned to work in 24 hours. He told a news conference that a 12.5% salary hike, rejected by the police and fire associations Tuesday night, was the last proposal the city would offer. That included a 7% pay hike for all city employees plus a 5.5% cost-of-living increase due July 1, 1976. Murphy said the striking police and firemen were in violation of the law, their contract, their oath of office and a temporary court restraining order. Union leaders said all 800 strikers would go to jail if necessary. The city of 400,000 is virtually without fire and police protection.
A measure that would triple the Tennessee Valley Authority’s borrowing power to $15 billion has been approved by the House Public Works Committee. The money would be used largely to finance construction of new nuclear power plants. The bill by Rep. Robert E. Jones (D-Alabama), chairman of the committee, was approved unanimously without debate. At a public hearing last week, TVA officials testified the bill is urgently needed for the government-owned utility to expand its electric generating capacity to meet regional needs in the 1980s.
Residents of Florida’s Panhandle joined rescue workers and national guardsmen in mopping up after Hurricane Eloise. One state official estimated damage to the Florida area at $150 million. The death toll showed 34 dead in Puerto Rico, 8 in the Dominican Republic, 18 in Haiti and one man in Florida who died of a heart attack in a storm shelter. Florida Gov. Reubin Askew toured a 40-milewide path of destruction from Ft. Walton Beach to Panama City and said he would seek federal aid. Alabama put its losses at around $100 million. Reduced to a series of spirited autumn thundershowers now over Virginia, Eloise was a raging, 130 mph menace when it struck before dawn Tuesday.
Diana Nyad swam most of the way around Manhattan, giving up after 6 hours, 25 minutes because she was “cold, frozen and tired.” The 25-year-old graduate student started north in the East River, and rounded the Battery before asking to be taken from the water.
Dr. Andreas Gruentzig of West Germany made the first successful test of the technique of coronary angioplasty, in experiments on dogs. The first human angioplasty would take place almost a year later, on September 16, 1976.
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An error in the 11th inning opened the gates for the Braves, who scored the tying run on a single by Dusty Baker and the winning run on a pass with the bases loaded to defeat the Giants, 7–6. The Giants went ahead in the top of the 11th when Gary Thomasson and Bobby Murcer walked and Gary Matthews singled for his fifth hit of the game. In the Braves’ half, Thomasson dropped a line drive by pinch-hitter Biff Pocoroba, who scored the tying run with two out on Baker’s single. Marty Perez followed with a single, leading to the removal of Jim Barr (13–14). Gary Lavelle relieved and walked Darrell Evans to load the bases before passing Dave May on a 3-and-2 pitch to force in the Braves’ winning run. The game was to have been part of a doubleheader, but rain prevented the second contest.
Only one strike away from a no-hitter, Tom Seaver was foiled by a rookie’s single in a game that the Mets eventually lost to the Cubs in 11 innings, 1–0. Seaver pitched perfect ball for six innings before walking Don Kessinger to open the seventh. Then in the ninth with two out, Joe Wallis rapped an 0-and-2 pitch into right field for the hit that spoiled Seaver’s bid. The Mets, meanwhile, failed to score against Rick Reuschel, forcing the game into overtime. Seaver gave up a single by Manny Trillo with one out in the 10th. When George Mitterwald followed with a double, Trillo was thrown out trying to score from first base. John Milner batted for Seaver in the 11th and Skip Lockwood, who relieved, lost the game, walking Bill Madlock with the bases loaded to force in the Cubs’ run. Madlock was back in his starting spot at third base after suffering a fractured thumb when hit by a pitched ball September 9.
The Pirates, who played without five of their regulars, collected only six hits off Larry Christenson (11–5) and lost to the Phillies, 8–1. Rennie Stennett, Willie Stargell, Richie Zisk, Manny Sanguillen and Frank Taveras were given the night off by manager Danny Murtaugh. Dick Allen drove in three runs for the Phillies with a pair of singles. Greg Luzinski had three hits and produced the Phillies’ first two runs with a single in the first inning. The Pirates’ lone run counted in their half of the first when Omar Moreno singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Al Oliver.
Don Carrithers turned in his fifth victory for the Expos, all in complete games, beating the Cardinals, 6–2. The righthander, who had lost three times, did not register his first decision until August 5 after being on the disabled list for a month following his recall from Memphis (International). The Expos’ support for Carrithers included a homer by Larry Parrish.
Continuing to pile up victories, the National League West Division champion Reds defeated the Astros, 6–4, to bring their record to 105–54. The Astros scored their first two runs on wild pitches by Clay Kirby (10–6) before the Reds got going in the fourth on singles by Joe Morgan, Dan Driessen and Cesar Geronimo and a sacrifice fly by Bill Plummer. Morgan homered in the fifth and the Reds then clinched the decision with three runs in the sixth, two scoring on a single by Pete Rose with the bases loaded.
Steve Garvey drove in six runs with a single, double and two homers as the Dodgers routed the Padres, 14–0, behind the pitching of Doug Rau (15–9). Lee Lacy also rapped four hits including a triple, and batted in two runs. Ron Cey accounted for another pair with a homer to bring his season’s RBI total to 101.
Jim Palmer posted his 22nd victory of the season as the Orioles defeated the Tigers, 8–1, in the first game of a scheduled twi-night doubleheader. The second game was postponed because of rain. The victory enabled the Orioles to pull within 3 ½ games of the Red Sox in the East Division race. Rain washed out the scheduled twin bill between the Red Sox and Yankees in New York. The Orioles gained their decision over the Tigers with a five-run outburst in the fifth inning. Singles by Bobby Grich and Elrod Hendricks, plus an error by Jerry Manuel, accounted for the first run to break a 1–1 tie. An infield hit by Mark Belanger and pass to Al Bumbry then loaded the bases for Paul Blair, who doubled to drive in two runs. After Ken Singleton walked, Lee May rapped a single to add two more tallies.
Fritz Peterson’s string of 10 straight victories came to an end when the Brewers knocked out the lefthander in the second inning and defeated the Indians, 10–3. George Scott led the attack on Peterson, driving in a run with a double in the first and three more with a homer in the second.
Although defeating the Twins, 4–2, for their fourth straight victory and 10th in last their 14 games, the Royals were eliminated from the West Division race when the Athletics walloped the White Sox, 13–2. George Brett drove in three of the Royals’ runs, accounting for two with a triple in the third inning and rapping a single to score the tie-breaking run in the eighth.
The Athletics won their fifth straight West Division title, rolling over the White Sox, 13–2, to kill off the last mathematical chance of the Royals, who were their only remaining rivals in the race. Although both clubs had 13 hits, the A’s turned on the power to overwhelm the White Sox. Claudell Washington drove in four runs with a triple and single. Reggie Jackson rapped his 33rd and 34th homers of the season, accounting for three runs, while Sal Bando also had three RBIs with a double and two singles. Vida Blue, who pitched six innings, picked up his 21st victory.
The game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at Shea Stadium is postponed due to rain. The game will not be made up.
San Francisco Giants 6, Atlanta Braves 7
Detroit Tigers 1, Baltimore Orioles 8
New York Mets 0, Chicago Cubs 1
Milwaukee Brewers 10, Cleveland Indians 3
Cincinnati Reds 6, Houston Astros 4
Minnesota Twins 2, Kansas City Royals 4
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Montreal Expos 6
Chicago White Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 13
Philadelphia Phillies 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 14, San Diego Padres 0
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 826.19 (+6.34, +0.77%)
Born:
Nick Hague, American NASA astronaut (NASA Group 21, 2013; Soyuz MS-10 [aborted after liftoff], 2018; Soyuz MS-12, 2019; SpaceX Crew-9 [Starliner rescue], 2024-2025) and U.S. Space Force brigadier general, in Belleville, Kansas.
Kyle Turley, NFL tackle and guard (New Orleans Saints, St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs), in Provo, Utah.
Mario Encarnación, Dominican MLB outfielder (Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs), in Bani, Dominican Republic (d. 2005).
Died:
Earle Cabell, 68, American politician (48th Mayor of Dallas 1961–64, U.S. Congressman, 1965–1973).
Clive Morton, 71, British actor (“Goodbye Mr Chips”, “Moonraker”).
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