The Central Intelligence Agency has given Portuguese Socialists millions of dollars to offset Soviet support for Communists, Administration and congressional sources said. The exact figure was not disclosed but one State Department official said the amount has ranged from about $2 million to nearly $10 million a month since June. The report was denied by Portuguese Socialist Party chief Mario Soares, who said in Paris it was “completely false.”
Thousands of rebellious leftist soldiers and civilians forced Portuguese authorities to release two soldiers, arrested for distributing propaganda leaflets, from a besieged military prison near Lisbon. Officials agreed to free the pair after an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 demonstrators converged on the town of Trafaria. Elsewhere, at the edge of Lisbon, two people were killed when a bomb destroyed a car, authorities said.
A large anti-government demonstration was held in Lisbon tonight under the sponsorship of an extreme leftist group of soldiers. Some 3,500 uniformed soldiers, navy men and airmen and at least 25,000 civilians supporting them marched in a peaceful demonstration. Except for a dozen or so military policemen armed with automatic rifles, none of the marchers carried weapons. Denouncing what they see as a shift toward the right by the new coalition Cabinet, the demonstrators shouted, “Portugal will not be the Chile of Europe!” This was a reference to the overthrow of the leftist Government of President Salvador Allende Gossens by right‐wing military coup. The organization of discontented privates and noncommissioned officers, called United Soldiers Will Win was formed two weeks ago after the pro‐Communist Premier, General Vasco Conçalves, was forced out of office.
In early September a battalion of American paratroopers jumped into an area just south of the Moselle River near Trier to set up a bridgehead in a training exercise. A Belgium army officer jumped with them, and they carried Belgian radio equipment besides their own. During the next two days the United States troops, who had been lent to a Belgian brigade for the exercise, talked with their Belgian commander through the liaison officer, using his equipment. This was not for reasons of language or protocol but a matter of technology. Despite 26, years of partnership in the years Atiantia alliance, units from the different national armies stationed in West Germany do not have a common communications system with which they can talk to each other over a secure line that the enemy cannot intercept.
It has proved too expensive to procure such a system, so the procedure of exchanging signal units is used instead. Not only do small units that are attached to others in the field have this problem. According to an officer at the traning base in Bergen-Hohne, the commander of, for example, all the Belgian troops in West Germany has similar difficulties talking directly with the British, Dutch or West Germany commanders on his flanks. This is one of hundreds of, standardization problems, ranging from planes and tanks to stretchers and tire pumps, that bedevil the North Atlantic forces in West Germany, made up of units from six national armies. Planners believe that with a better communications system the problems raised by other standardization problems could be overcome in part.
A Spanish official today rejected protests abroad against death sentences passed on 11 urban guerillas. Antonio Maria de Oriol, chairman of the advisory Counoil of State, spoke as the Cabinet met to prepare for a session tomorrow that may spell the weekend execution of six guerillas, including two women said to be pregnant. “In the present circumstances, I feel obliged to proclaim that we shall not admit foreign interference in any form,” he said at a council ceremony.
The Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill that would give the United States jurisdiction over fishing rights in waters within 200 miles of its coastline. The bill is similar to one approved by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. The Senate bill gives preferential treatment for U.S. fishing boats in the 200-mile zone and authorizes fishing by foreign boats for any surplus that the American boats cannot handle.
Oil-exporting nations are expected to go into a third, unscheduled day of talks today in Vienna with differences over the size of a price increase described as tremendously wide. The leader of the Saudi Arabian delegation, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, left Vienna suddenly after what appeared to be almost a breakdown of the conference of ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Saudi sources said he was flying in his private jet to Geneva and from there to London to be able to confer privately with his Government. There was no explanation why Sheik Zaki would have to leave Vienna to have a secure telephone conversation with officials in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. But he said he would return for today’s meeting. Ministers from the 12 other OPEC delegations received word of the flight only after Sheik Zaki had left Vienna. Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister Mofia Tonjo Adobo, said he was surprised but understood that Sheik Zaki had got instructions from Saudi Arabia’s King Khaled.
Despite urgent pleas by President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger, the Administration has failed to win speedy Congressional approval for the stationing of 200 American technicians in the Sinai passes to monitor the new Egyptian-Israeli accord. Both houses of Congress are still expected to approve the sending of American civilians to Sinai by an overwhelming vote, but questions dealing with side issues relating to the extent and publication of American undertakings to Israel and Egypt have produced a delay. The delay, a cause of concern to the Administration, became evident today when the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives postponed action until next Wednesday or Thursday at the earliest. This means that the House will probably not vote before the week of October 6. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is still locked in dispute with the Administration on officially making public four documents listing American assurances to Israel and Egypt. The documents were published by The New York Times last week and in part by other papers.
Isolated shooting incidents and two bombings in Beirut hardly dented the latest cease-fire between rival militias today as the nation’s leaders met to chart a permanent peace between leftist and rightist factions. The weeklong conflict has killed at least 225 people and wounded more than 350, with the final count likely to be much higher. The latest casualties brought to 3,200 the number dead or wounded in six months of fighting between Muslim leftists and Christian rightists. After appeals for militia units to leave the streets, gunmen in most areas went home. Barricades remained up. however in the downtown area and elsewhere. Two explosions were heard here in the late afternoon. destroying two cars but injuring no one. The bombings were believed to he the work of militia squads retaliating for previous blasts that wrecked shops. Premier Rashid Karami presided over the first session of a 20‐man reconciliation committee named yesterday to seek a political solution to the conflict.
The compromise worked out last week to break the crisis over Jordan’s desire to purchase 14 batteries of Hawk antiaircraft missiles illustrates the problems that arise from the United States policy of trying to influence both sides in the Arab-Israeli dispute and the delicacy of Jordan’s position in trying to appear to her Arab neighbors as more than a client of the United States. The $350‐million Jordanian purchase from the United States seemed gravely imperiled last Thursday when the Jordanian Government angrily denounced the restrictions on the deployment and use of the missiles imposed by the Ford Administration at the demand of pro-Israel forces in Congress. A formal Amman Government statement attacked the conditions of the sale as “unique and abusive of Jordan’s national pride.” But just 24 hours later the State Department announced in Washington that the “misunderstanding” had been cleared up and the deal would go through.
The next step toward peace between the Arabs and the Israelis “will have to involve the Palestinians,” according to Prince Saud ibn Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Prince Saud, who is in New York for the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, said Wednesday that it was “inconceivable” that negotiations could proceed much further without Palestinian participation.” Speaking at his suite in the Waldorf Towers the 35‐year‐old son of King Faisal who was assassinated last spring, said: “The whole problem in the area stems from disregard of Palestinian rights. Continuing to disregard their legitimate views will not help the cause of peace.”
Indonesian troops went into action for the first time in embattled Portuguese East Timor, killing 15 insurgents of the Fretilin group, one of several contending for control of the colony. The five-hour clash broke out, Indonesian officials said, when Fretilin units crossed into Indonesian territory on the north coast and fired at least 20 mortar shells. Three civilians were reported killed in the attack before the invaders were forced back across the border.
North Korea rejected a U.S. call for a conference of the United States, China and the two Koreas to discuss ways of keeping the Korean armistice. At a news conference at the United Nations, Ambassador Kwon Min Jun said the U.S. proposal “cannot become a subject of any discussion.” He revived an old proposal, repeatedly shunned by Washington, that North Korea and the United States conclude a peace treaty.
A power failure lasting about 1 ½ hours blacked out about 50% of Mexico City, leaving hundreds of people trapped in subways and elevators. The government-owned electrical company said the power break was caused by an overload from too much demand.
Four persons were killed and 29 injured when Ethiopian security forces opened fire on workers at the Addis Ababa International Airport. A government statement said the shooting took place while police and security agents were attempting to arrest an Ethiopian Airlines employee who they said was distributing anti-military pamphlets. The person took refuge in the airline’s compound near the main airport building and other employees refused to hand him over, the statement said.
The House narrowly defeated a move to reimpose the embargo against importing Rhodesian chrome ore. By a 209-187 vote, the House rejected the bill that would have repealed the Byrd amendment that allowed Rhodesian chrome to be brought into the United States in violation of U.N. sanctions.
U.S. President Ford sent a personal letter of thanks to disabled former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Oliver Sipple, who had stopped Sara Jane Moore’s assassination attempt earlier in the week. “I want you to know how much I appreciated your selfless actions last Monday… you acted quickly and without fear for your own safety”, Ford wrote, adding, “By doing so you helped to avert danger to me and to others in the crowd. You have my heartfelt appreciation.” Earlier in the week, Sipple had been “outed” by leaders of San Francisco’s gay community, who suggested that the President had hesitated in thanking a gay man for saving his life.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton announced to the National Press Club that a statistic called the “T-Dollar” would be used in future press releases, with the idea that every one billion dollars in federal spending was $14.06 in federal tax money for each American household. “When the average consumer reads that government has appropriated $10 billion for this or that program, this astronomical sum has no meaning whatsoever for him. He can’t relate to it. Nothing in his personal experience prepares him even to differentiate between $1 billion, $10 billion or $100 billion. All are equally meaningless”, Morton said. The figure of $14.06 was derived by divided one billion by the 71,120,000 households in the United States.
Restoration of the oil price controls that expired September 1 and their extension through the middle of November was agreed on by President Ford and leaders in Congress. The agreement removed the threat of an abrupt rise in prices, but it did nothing to lessen the differences between Mr. Ford and Congress over a long-term energy policy.
Representative Otis Pike, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, challenged the Ford administration’s right to withhold classified information from Congress and charged the executive branch with “contempt of Congress.” He said that he would ask the House to act on the question next week and that if the House backed him, he would name an official to be found in contempt. It is possible that President Ford would be named.
The Federal Bureau of investigation committed at least 238 illegal burglaries against dissident American groups and individuals from 1942 to April, 1963, according to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Mr. Church said the F.B.I. had provided the committee with the figure, and that there were “numerous” but uncounted burglaries between 1952 and 1966.
Two days before Patricia Hearst signed an affidavit in which she said she wanted to be admitted to bail because she was eager to go home to her parents, she told a high school chum that she feared becoming “a prisoner in my parents’ home,” court documents here disclosed today.
Currency taken in a California bank robbery in which a woman customer was killed was found in the San Francisco apartment of Patricia Hearst and Wendy Yoshimura and some investigators believe that Miss Hearst was in the bank when the robbery occurred, sources close to the investigation said. Guns, including two automatic carbines, and ammunition were also found in the apartment.
Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania became the eighth Democrat to announce his candidacy for the presidential nomination. He made the announcement in Washington, confirming an intention disclosed two months ago. His platform will be “common sense” in government management, with emphasis on a businesslike approach, executive leadership and managerial skill. Mr. Shapp, 63 years old, made a fortune as a businessman before he entered politics. He is Jewish and is believed to be the first Jew to seek actively the presidential nomination of a major party.
The Federal Communications Commission reversed a long-held policy by ruling that radio and television broadcasts of candidates’ news conferences and political debates will no longer trigger equal-time access for all their opponents. The 5-to-2 ruling, over the Democratic National Committee’s objections. could have important and immediate effects on the 1976 campaign.
The House Civil Service Committee overwhelmingly rejected a resolution to approve an 8.66% raise for federal white-collar workers that would have included congressmen and other top government officials. The action appeared to end any chance of Congress overturning President Ford’s recommended 5% raise. The rejected resolution would have disapproved Mr. Ford’s 5% raise recommendation and adopted the 8.66% level proposed by a federal pay advisory panel. The Senate last week failed to disapprove the 5% increase. The 5% raise would cost $2 billion a year. The 8.66% raise, more than $3.5 billion.
The United States will propose next week that a world grain reserve of 30 million metric tons be set up and held by individual countries as a hedge against future shortages and famine, government documents show. A draft of the U.S. proposal, to be presented Monday and Tuesday at a meeting of the International Wheat Council in London, calls for each participating country to be “free to determine how its reserves will be maintained” and to make available information on its own harvest prospects and needs.
At least 50% of the grain sent overseas through New Orleans, the nation’s largest grain shipping port, in recent years has been improperly graded, a former grain inspector said. Testifying in Washington before two Senate agriculture subcommittees. Clarence P. Baker Jr. said such misgrading occurred every week during the 13 years he was an inspector. By misgrading, inspectors approve shipments with a lower quality rating than that for which a purchaser is paying. Baker and another former inspector, David B. Frey, testified in the investigation of the grain export industry, detailing what they and a federal prosecutor described as a pervasive system of corruption.
Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel disclosed that he had been told formally by the U.S. attorney for the state that he is a criminal suspect in the federal grand jury investigation of political corruption. Democrat Mandel, 56, successor to Spiro T. Agnew, made the announcement at his weekly news conference but refused to discuss the matter beyond issuing a brief statement acknowledging receipt of a letter from Jervis S. Finney, the federal prosecutor in Baltimore.
The Senate in a partial comeback for the civil rights bloc voted 44 to 34 to narrow the scope of the broad anti-busing and anti-desegregation rider attached to a money bill for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. The action leaves intact a ban on HEW issuing busing orders but it nullifies language that would have prohibited HEW from using other methods, not involving busing, to force desegregation of school systems. As the bill now stands HEW would be forbidden to threaten withholding of school-aid funds as a method of forcing schools to bus students for racial purposes. This ban does not affect the power of the courts to order busing.
Senate Majority Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia predicted that Congress would reject President Ford’s proposal to create a $100 billion federal corporation to underwrite development of new energy sources and to free the country of dependence on foreign oil. Byrd ridiculed the plan, outlined by the President in a speech Monday, as a “public relations effort” and one that would create a huge “new layer of bureaucracy” and get the government directly involved in the energy business.
For the second time, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled that an ethics code for newspaper employees affects working conditions and is subject to collective bargaining. In issuing the ruling. Administrative Law Judge Samuel M. Singer ordered Peerless Publications, Inc., publisher of the Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Mercury, to rescind its Code of Ethics and General Office Rules governing editorial employees. He said terms of employment embodied in the rules must be negotiated with the employees’ union, which filed unfair labor practice charges against the publisher last year. A similar ruling came in January in a case involving the Capital Times Publishing Co. of Madison, Wisconsin.
A five-mile-long, half-billion-dollar convoy of barges carrying equipment essential to the development of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope was forced by the worst Arctic icing conditions in 77 years to turn back at the start of a 180-mile trip from Point Barrow to the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay. As a result, full production in the oil fields by late 1977, as scheduled, could be delayed at least several months.
Banking officials in Washington believe that 100 of the nation’s 14,000 banks are holding such large quantities of New York City bonds and notes that they would be in serious trouble if the city defaulted. Their information was based on a recent survey by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of the 9,000 banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System. The survey found that about 60 of these banks hold New York City securities with a value equivalent to 50 percent or more of their total capital — a situation that would put them In an extremely weak position in the event of a default.
Pink Floyd’s concept album “Wish You Were Here” reaches No. 1 in the US, goes on to sell 13 million copies.
Two of the most successful teams of the 10-team American Basketball Association, the Denver Nuggets and the New York Nets, applied for membership in the then 18-team National Basketball Association for the 1976–77 NBA season. ABA Commissioner Dave DeBusschere was preparing to announce a network television contract when the news came, bringing negotiations to a halt.
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The Twins were led at bat by Lyman Bostock and Craig Kusick in posting a 5-2 victory over the Royals. Bostock collected a single, double and triple. Kusick homered and singled. Bill Butler (5–4) gets the win over Paul Splittorff (9–10).
The White Sox, facing a lineup of second stringers, easily defeated the Athletics, 8-2, behind the five-hit pitching of Wilbur Wood (16–20). Manager Alvin Dark rested all of the A’s regulars. The White Sox jumped on Craig Mitchell, making his first major league appearance, for two runs in the first inning on a double by Jerry Hairston, single by Bill Melton, a walk and a single by Bill Stein. Mike Norris, who had been out since April 20 with an arm injury, relieved in the fourth when the White Sox kayoed Mitchell and added three runs on two walks and singles by Ken Henderson, Bucky Dent and Hairston.
The game between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park is postponed due to rain. This game will be made up tomorrow.
The game between the Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore is postponed due to rain. This game will not be made up.
Ex-Giant Willie McCovey smashed his 22nd and 23rd homers, one more than last year, and drove in three runs as the Padres defeated the Giants, 8-6. McCovey’s blows helped the Padres erase a 3-0 deficit and take a 7-3 lead. After the Giants rallied for three runs in the eighth, Dave Winfield homered in the Padres’ half to assure victory. The Giants had a homer by Steve Ontiveros in their scoring. Dave Tomlin (4–2) gets the victory in relief.
Minnesota Twins 5, Kansas City Royals 2
Chicago White Sox 8, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 6, San Diego Padres 8
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 820.24 (-5.95, -0.72%)
Born:
Matt Hasselbeck, NFL quarterback (Pro Bowl, 2003, 2005, 2007; Seattle Seahawks, Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts), in Westwood, Massachusetts.
Dat Nguyen, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys), in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.
Declan Donnelly, British TV star (“Ant and Dec”), in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom.
Daniel Hyde, British actor (“Hollyoaks”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Bob Considine, 67, American newspaper columnist.
Chester C. Davis, 87, controversial director of the U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration during the Great Depression, former Federal Reserve Board member, and food administrator during World War II.
Joachim Wendler, 36, West German aquanaut, from a gas embolism while returning to the surface of the Gulf of Maine from the Helgoland Habitat.
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