Portugal’s left sought to mobilize its forces to confront the government after Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo, who said the country was in a state of “de facto emergency,” ordered troops to radio and television stations. In a communique broadcast on most of the stations, Premier Azevedo said “some information organs, especially radio and television,” had undertaken a “provocative campaign of seditious attitudes that endanger the revolution.”But some soldiers sided with the broadcasters. A telephone check round the country showed that nearly all military units had been placed on alert, with leaves canceled, guards posted at barracks and civilians excluded. In the northern part of the country, where broadcasting studios were not occupied, troops were on reduced alert. The occupation order prompted an organization called the United Revolutionary Front to issue a call to workers to “mobilize against the counterrevolution, occupy plants and businesses and stop all work.” Various leftist groups called for a demonstration at Rossio Square for midday. But the call for what amounted to a general strike was scarcely heeded, and the demonstration fizzled.
Tens of thousands of Basques went on strike in northern Spain in protest against the execution on Saturday of Basque separatists convicted of killing policemen. In Madrid, the cabinet held an unusual Monday meeting to survey the damage done to the country’s international position after an outcry in Europe and other parts of the world, After the meeting, an official said that no further trials would be held “in the near future.” In the little Basque town of Zarauz, hundreds of people attended a requiem mass for Juan Paredes Manotas, who was executed by a firing squad near Barcelona after having been convicted of killing a policeman during a bank holdup in July. He was the first member of the Basque nationalist organization E.T.A. to suffer such a fate. A short while later, a fellow E.T.A. member, Angel Otaegui, Echeverria, was shot in Burgos. Then three members of an urban guerrilla group called the Revolutionary Anti‐Fascist Patriotic Front met the same fate in Army barracks north of Madrid.
The U.S. Army will begin the movement of 10,000 troops to Europe this week with equipment for an exercise intended to demonstrate Western strength against a Soviet army prepared, if war comes, for a blitzkrieg. The Soviet forces have been organized and trained for short, intense war of large-scale, high‐speed operations designed to overwhelm the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces, according to a study published by the Brookings Institution. The study emphasizes the Soviet high command’s devotion to an offensive doctrine rather than the steady growth of Warsaw Pact forces, which has been going on since 1968, warns that the size and capacities of these forces are an obstacle to East‐West détente and argues against one‐sided cuts in North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. United States military sources agree with Jeffrey Record, the author of the study, that Soviet doctrinal and structural stress on blitzkrieg operations is more important today than the Warsaw Pact’s long‐standing superiority in men and tanks and the geographical advantages that the Soviet Union would possess in a war with the United States in Western Europe.
The United States and Poland agreed in principle on a long-term grain trade agreement. Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz and Poland’s minister of agriculture announced the agreement as U.S. officials headed back to Moscow to attempt to complete negotiations on a long-term Soviet-American grain deal. Conclusion of that deal has been viewed as a key to ending a temporary moratorium on additional 1975 grain sales to both the Soviet Union and Poland. Butz said the amount of grain involved in the Polish agreement would be negotiated when he visited Warsaw for further talks on Nov. 25–28.
The General Motors Corporation will manufacture trucks in Poland for sale throughout the world, according to commercial sources in Warsaw. General Motors, it was said, will soon start work on a large plant in Lublin, in eastern Poland. This will be one of the largest manufacturing ventures undertaken in Eastern Europe by an American company.
A Hungarian airliner, believed to be carrying 64 passengers and crewmen, came down in the sea two miles off the Lebanese coast near Beirut, police sources said. Although there were believed to be no survivors, another plane was searching the area. The Hungarian plane was on a regular flight from Budapest and was about to land at Beirut. An airport source said that one or two of the passengers were Americans but that most were Arabs.
U.S. and Soviet journalists permanently accredited to each other’s capitals will be able to obtain one-year visas for multiple exits and entries starting October 1, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow announced. The agreement with Russia makes the United States the only non-Communist country whose correspondents in Moscow have such visas. The 35 signatories to the Helsinki accords pledged to grant multiple visas to foreign reporters.
Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger said France recognizes the need for standardization of arms even though it will remain outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He made the comment after conferring for 90 minutes with French President, Valery Giscard d’Estaing in Paris. It was the first official visit of a U.S. secretary of defense to France since 1971. Schlesinger met today with President d’Estaing and French defense officials in a visit American officials hope will remove some of the abrasiveness in military relations between the United States and France. The Defense Ministry, which extended the invitation, was obviously intent on impressing Mr. Schlesinger with the nuclear and conventional forces it has developed.
The United States has agreed to sell a new Air Force fighter to four European countries without a legally required guarantee that they not sell the planes to other nations, Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) said in Washington. The congressman said the $2.1 billion deal with Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway is thus an apparent violation of the law. Under the proposed transaction the United States would sell 379 F-16 fighters to the four countries.
McDonnell Douglas Corp. said “no improper payments” by it were involved in the payments reported by Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin). Aspin has said formerly secret documents supplied to him by the Pentagon show agents collected at least $18.7 million from six American firms including McDonnell during the past two years for sales of military equipment which totaled about $500 million.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
The Ford Administration’s efforts to speed Congressional approval for the stationing of 200 Americans in the Sinai passes ran into a new roadblock today that threatened to cause further delays. Senator Clifford P. Case, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee and the leader of the so‐called “middle‐roaders” on the committee, warned that the Sinai agreement might be imperiled if the Administration did not agree to “authenticate” a document setting forth all American assurances to Israel and Egypt evolving from the Sinai accord. The issue of full documentation of the agreement, which first developed several weeks ago as a seemingly minor question, has now ballooned into a major conflict. The Administration, as part of the Sinai agreement worked out by Secretary of State Kissinger, agreed to station 200 Americans in the demilitarized Sinai passes if Congress approved the action. The carrying out of the Israeli withdrawal in Sinai has been delayed pending Congressional action.
The Credentials Committee today accredited the delegation of Israel, together with representatives of most other members of the 141‐country U.N. General Assembly. Libya registered “strongest reservations” on the acceptance of Israel and hinted at possible “further steps.” The remarks by the Libyan member of the nine‐nation Credentials Committee, Mansur R. Kikhia, were interpreted by diplomats as hinting at a possible move by radical Arab governments to oust Israel during the Assembly session. But diplomats said that after the committee’s decision the prospects of such a move on the Assembly floor were poor. For some time, hard‐line Arab governments have been pressing for Israel’s ouster from the United Nations.
The people of Beirut ventured into bomb-shattered streets for the first time in nearly two weeks to start clearing away the rubble of the fourth round this year of Lebanon’s Muslim-Christian civil war. More bodies were found in the ruins, bringing the death toll in two weeks of fighting to at least 338. The ceasefire generally held firm despite occasional bursts of gunfire. Crowds gathered in the heart of town to see the damage, which has officially been estimated to run to hundreds of millions of‐dollars. Banks and many shops, however, remained closed pending additional security measures promised by the authorities. Steel‐helmeted policemen patrolled in jeeps and armored cars to inspire confidence regarding the ability of the government to maintain law and order.
A British expedition conquered Mt. Everest for the second time in three days last Friday, but one of the members of the team was killed before reaching the 29,028-foot summit, the world’s highest, the Nepal Foreign Ministry said. A brief message said that Peter Boardman, 23, and a Sherpa guide set foot atop Everest on Friday. Sir Edmund Hillary said the latest conquest of Everest “was an astonishing effort during the monsoon,” in a message received in Katmandu, Nepal.
The Security Council deferred a vote on North and South Vietnam’s renewed applications for U.N. membership after hearing a growing chorus of demands that they be admitted. The United States is expected again to exercise its veto when the resolutions are put to the vote today. The United States has served notice that it will block entry of the two states as long as the council “unjustly” bars South Korea.
Eighteen opponents of the Communist led Pathet Lao were arrested tonight after conducting the first protest demonstration since the Pathet Lao seized power from the old coalition Government last spring. Sporadic gunfire was beard in downtown Vientiane as 50 or more Pathet Lao soldiers moved in to stop the demonstration and take some of the leaders away in trucks. The demonstration, by 400 to 500 people, was held to demand the release of a promient politician arrested last night and to protest forced attendance at re‐education classes held by the Pathet Lao. The arrested politician was Bong Souvannavong, a former Minister of Education and a widely respected owner of several private schools. He also heads the small Lao National Union party.
A Philippine admiral forced some 40 Muslim pirates today to surrender unconditionally and release a Japanese freighter and 29 hostages they seized Friday. Rear Adm. Romulo Espaldon said at a news conference in Zamboanga, 500 miles south of Manila, that one of a fleet of 11 navy ships fired a warning shot across the how of the hijacked Suehiro Maru when it tried to break through the blockade. “We told them we would board the ship if they did that and this meant there would be fighting and we would have killed them all,” Admiral Espaldon said. “We felt only a show of force would force them to give up.” Both rebels and hostages — 26 Japanese crew members and three Filipinos — transferred from the Suehiro Maru to a Philippine Navy boat that took them into this port.
The United States and Canada have won agreement from the 15 other nations of the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries for a sharp reduction of fishing in the North Atlantic. David H. Wallace, chairman of the U.S. delegation, said the commission’s week of meetings in Montreal included “some of the most successful in the commission’s 25year history.” The catch quota in the fishing area was cut by more than 10%.
President Luis Echeverria Alvarez has urged that the United Nations impose a political, diplomatic, economic and communications boycott on Spain in retaliation for the execution of five anti‐Government guerrillas. In a letter to Secretary General Waldheim last night, he proposed that a special meeting of the Security Council be called to consider punitive measures against the Government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The Mexican Government also canceled all commercial airline flights to Spain and all communications and trade links.
When President Ford travels to the Midwest today and Wednesday he will ride in a variety of motorcades but is expected to have very little contact with the general public. That became apparent with the announcement of a tentative schedule for Mr. Ford’s visit to Chicago and Omaha that indicates the President will have a minimum of direct meetings with crowds. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the Republican National Committee would pay the cost of Mr. Ford’s travel to and from Chicago because of the political nature of events there. The Omaha leg of the journey, he said, will be financed with federal funds.
Democratic Presidential candidates who collected more than $100,000 in campaign contributions during the first half of 1975 are going to be offered Secret Service protection this week. The Federal Election Commission informed the Treasury Department today that six men qualified under this new interim standard: Senators Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas and Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona, Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama and former Governors Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Terry Sanford of North Carolina. Mr. Sanford declined the protection, at least for the time being, Assistant Treasury Secretary David R. Macdonald said tonight. Mr. Macdonald said that Mr. Sanford, the president of Duke University in North Carolina, believed that the appearance of Secret Service agents with him on the campus would cause an unnecessary stir.
White House aides are saying privately that President Ford has successfully blunted a challenge by the right wing of the Republican party to his nomination in 1976 and predict that he will soon adopt a slightly more moderate stance to broaden his electoral appeal. The aides concede that former Governor Ronald Reagan of California could still cause serious problems for Mr. Ford in primary elections if he decides to contest the nomination, particularly in New Hampshire and Florida. But they say that Republican conservatives will not rally solidly around Mr. Reagan as they did with Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona in 1964. President Ford, his aides say, commands at least as much support among the conservatives as Mr. Reagan, and his strength is growing.
Justice William O. Douglas returned to the Supreme Court in a wheelchair to join in the first formal business of the 1975-76 term. A court spokesman said the nine justices assembled to sift through more than 800 appeals that had accumulated during their summer recess. In their week-long closed conference the justices will decide which cases to review and which to drop from the docket. Those decisions will be announced next Monday at the court’s first public session of the new term.
When they were arrested by surprise in San Francisco, Patricia Hearst and her friends, Wendy Yoshimura and William and Emily Harris, had lists of business executives in the San Francisco area and lists of banks, some with floor plans, according to court records based on search warrants. Guns were found in the apartments occupied by Miss Hearst and Miss Yoshimura and Mr. and Mrs. Harris. The Harrises possessed a large variety of arms, in addition to hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
The Ford Administration has dropped plans to name ex-Washington Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Wilson, who was informed of the decision last Thursday by Deputy Attorney General Harold R. Tyler Jr., said, “I’ll go back to minding my own business — what I was doing before they brought this up on June 5.” Reasons given by Administration sources varied from “the general notion that confirmation would be debilitating” to an ongoing investigation of an electronic listening device used by Washington police at the request of the Secret Service four years ago when Wilson was chief.
President Ford is expected to name Roderick Hills, now a counsel to the President, as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, succeeding Ray Garrett Jr., who has resigned. Mr. Hills’s wife, Carla, is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
The House Select Committee on Intelligence voted to seek a resolution from the House supporting its demand for full access to classified documents and other materials the committee has subpoenaed from William Colby, Director of Central Intelligence. The Ford administration has agreed to provide the materials, but with certain omissions. Representative Otis Pike, the committee’s chairman, made clear that if the House approved the resolution, and the withheld Information was still not available, he would favor asking the House to find Mr. Colby in contempt of Congress.
Striking teachers and the Boston School Committee accepted a tentative new contract granting teachers a 6% pay increase and ending a oneweek strike that had halted court-ordered integration of the schools. At first School Committee Chairman John J. McDonough said a dispute remained, involving the length of the work week for the 5,000 teachers. The teachers agreed to work an extra 70 minutes every two weeks to talk to parents and attend meetings. The committee had sought an extra 45 minutes a week. But agreement was reached on the work-week clause after several hours.
Nineteen of the world’s largest airlines — all but four of the major trans-Atlantic lines serving New York — pleaded no contest in Federal District Court in Brooklyn to criminal charges of illegal fare-cutting and were fined a total of $655,000.
Governor Byrne asked the chairman of the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee to review the triple-murder convictions of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter and John Artis and to recommend whether pardons should he granted. At the same time, Assemblyman Eldridge Hawkins of East Orange said that he had received strong legislative support for a plan to investigate possible prosecutorial and police mishandling of the controversial case.
The Chicago Tribune abandoned its standard practice of phonetic spelling of certain common words after 41 years. Since January 28, 1934, the Tribune had set out to simplify spelling for 80 common words, including the rendition of “phantom” as “fantom” and “rhyme” as “rime”. After expanding the list in 1949, the Tribune had reversed some decisions, such as spelling “sophomore” as “sofomore”, “out of concern for schoolchildren who might be confused”. It retained, however, such spellings as “thru”, “altho” and “thoro” (for “through”, “although” and “thorough”). Finally, the paper announced in a September 29 editorial that “Today we are adopting a new stylebook. Thru, tho and thoro are abandoned. Regretfully we concede they have not made the grade in spelling class… Sanity some day may come to spelling, but we do not want to make any more trouble between Johnny and his teacher.”
The integrity of Valley Forge “is under siege,” a Pennsylvania congressman told a national parks and recreation subcommittee. Rep. Richard T. Schulze (R-Pennsylvania) said urbanization of the area has caused industrial pollution of the creek that flows through the park. During heavy rains, he said, it overflows and threatens to erode the foundation of what was once George Washington’s headquarters. On the southwest boundary of the park, Schulze said, an 865-acre tract of undeveloped woodland that contains several revolutionary army encampment sites is threatened with development as a high-density housing project.
The feasibility of drilling for natural gas on city property to ease the energy shortage will be studied by officials in Cleveland. Mayor Ralph Perk said he ordered the study after talking to Mayor Jack Hunter of Youngstown, where similar drilling will be undertaken. Utilities Director Raymond Kudukis said the known natural gas reserves under Cleveland are in shale 400 to 1,800 feet deep. If economically feasible, the officials said, the drilling could help keep jobs and industry in Cleveland.”
Electric arc steelmaking furnaces cause about 21% of the steel industry’s air pollution, said the Environmental Protection Agency as it announced standards for new or modified models. The standards do not apply to arc furnaces now in operation. Polluting emissions will be reduced by more than 95% under the new requirements, the EPA said. EPA estimated the standards would be applied to about 15 new or modified arc furnaces yearly.
The U.S. Forest Service warned hunters that a substantial quantity of incendiary tracer ammunition-some of it unmarked-has been distributed to gunshops throughout California, Irl Everest, fire prevention officer for the Forest Service in San Bernardino, California, said: “Wherever this ammunition lands, it’s like an instant match.” Use or possession of tracer ammunition is illegal. Officials cautioned hunters buying .30-06, .303 and 7.62 mm. ammunition to make sure it is not tracer ammunition.
Singer-actress Marlene Dietrich, celebrated for years as the “glamorous grandmother” and the lady with the most publicized legs in show business, fell and fractured her left leg. At the opening of her one-woman show at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Sydney, Australia, Miss Dietrich, 72, clutched the curtain as she came on stage, took one step and fell. At first, Miss Dietrich returned to her hotel before a doctor apparently realized the seriousness of her injury and had her taken to a hospital.
American television game show “Three for the Money,” hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV; it is cancelled after 8 weeks.
Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television’s first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan.
Singer Jackie Wilson, most famous for his 1967 hit, “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”, collapsed after finishing a concert performance of his 1958 song, “Lonely Teardrops”, taking place at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He would never regain consciousness, remaining in a coma for more than eight years before dying on January 21, 1984.
Casey Stengel, who won a niche in baseball’s Hall of Fame by managing the New York Yankees to unsurpassed triumphs and the New York Mets to amazingly popular losses, died late tonight.
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Denver’s opportunistic defense bottled up Green Bay’s ground game and the Broncos’ substitute quarterback, Steve Ramsey, directed a makeshift offense to a 23–13 victory over the Packers tonight in a National Football League came. Ramsey replaced the injured Charley Johnson late in the first half after the Broncos had also lost their star running back, Otis Armstrong. Ramsey passed 10 yards to Jack Dolbin for a touchdown in the third period and moved Denver into position for the clinching score, Jim Turner’s third field goal of the game. But the high‐powered Bronco defensive line and clutch interceptions by Jim O’Malley and Randy Gradishar, linebackers, were also responsible for sending Coach Bart Starr’s Packers to their second defeat in two games. John Brockington, Will Harrell and the rest of the usually potent Green Bay runners were held to only 71 yards, forcing John Hadl to go to the air. Hadl connected with Harrell for the Packers’ first touchdown, a 4‐yard pass on the second play of the fourth quarter to cap a nine‐play, 60‐yard drive. And in the closing minutes Hadl directed Green Bay through the air to the Denver goal line. Brockington bolted over from the 1 to cut Denver’s lead to 16‐13. Green Bay got the ball back with 51 seconds left, but then came the crusher. Hadl threw a pass over the middle, Gradishar picked it off at the Packer 44 and, escorted by a cordon of Broncos, ran into the end zone for the touchdown that put the game out of Green Bay’s reach.
Green Bay Packers 13, Denver Broncos 23
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Born:
Heather Pease, American synchronized swimmer (Olympic gold medal, 1996), in Monterey, California.
Nathan Daughtrey, American classical marimba player, composer (“Limerick Daydreams”), and educator, in North Carolina.
Died:
Casey Stengel, 85, American baseball outfielder and manager, of cancer.
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