Premier Carlos Arias Navarro of Spain angrily denounced international protests over the execution of five terrorists and called on the Spanish people to unite behind Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the government. He termed the foreign protests “an intolerable aggression against Spanish sovereignty.” In the rebellious Basque provinces, the second day of a general strike protesting the executions had even bigger participation than Monday, when more than 100,000 responded.
Portugal’s Premier called off the military occupation of leftist-controlled radio and television stations early today, reversing a move he made two days ago to counter rising threats of disorder. A statement issued by the Information Ministry said the soldiers would leave all stations, except Radio Renascence, where it was said, staff members and soldiers had not met the terms of the occupation. “We hope that this withdrawal will not be exploited,” the Premier, Vice Admiral Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, said in the official statement. He added he was “confident that it would not be, necessary to reimpose emergency measures to defend authority, revolutionark discipline and the revolution itself.” Premier Azevedo ordered the occupation early Monday. At the time he called the measure “temporary” and said it would probably be over within 48 hours. But he also Said then that there was a “real emergency” and that the measure had been taken to avoid imposing a state of emergency that would have meant the suspension of civil rights.
The left wing of Britain’s Labor Party succeeded in ousting Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healy from the party’s policymaking national executive. Healy had become unpopular with the rank-and-file because of his firm policies in fighting inflation. Eric Heffer, a critic of Healy’s policies, was given his Labor Party post. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned the convention in Blackpool that any relaxation in the attack on inflation would be fatal to the country and to the Labor government.
Three gunmen claiming to belong to the Black Liberation Front again. demanded in London that they be provided with a plane to fly them to the West Indies in exchange for six Italian hostages, but Scotland Yard refused. The raiders had seized eight hostages in a bungled armed robbery at the Spaghetti House restaurant and earlier had released two. Italy’s consul general in London offered to take the place of one of the remaining six hostages, but police refused to agree. A woman member of the Black Liberation Front told the three gunmen that they had been disowned by the group and should free the hostages and give themselves up.
An oil slick 20 miles long and 12 miles wide trailed the crippled Greek tanker Pacific Colocotronis, which sprang a leak 20 miles off the coast near the northern Dutch port of Den Helder. The vessel, bound for the West German port of Wilhelmshaven from Algeria, reportedly had lost about 1,500 tons of oil and the Dutch feared the slick may reach land if the wind veers.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under pressure from President Ford to act quickly to approve the stationing of Americans in the Sinai passes, urged Mr. Ford today to certify that no secret assurances to Israel or Egypt were being withheld from Congress. The committee voted unanimously to ask Mr. Ford to inform the committee “of all the assurances and undertakings by the United States on which Israel and Egypt are relying in entering into the Sinai agreement and that there are no more assurances or undertakings.” Earlier, Mr. Ford had asked the leadership in the Senate and House to complete action on the sending of 200 civilian technicians to Sinai “as early as possible” — and no later than Friday — because otherwise actions to put the accord into effect, slated to begin next Monday, will be delayed. “Delay in Congressional action will, therefore, delay implementation of the basic agreement,” Mr. Ford said in his letter. “It will risk causing the lengthy and difficult negotiations on the entire five‐month implementing timetable to be reopened. It will prevent a lessening of the risks of war. If for any reason, the agreement should fail, the responsibility would be heavy indeed.”
International flight schedules from Tel Aviv were disrupted when more than 2,000 El Al airline workers staged a two-hour walkout to protest new government economic measures. The workers at Ben-Gurion Airport called for immediate wage negotiations after the weekend devaluation of the Israeli pound by 10%.
Heavy fighting erupted anew between Muslims and Christians in eastern Beirut, but normal business activity resumed in other parts of the Lebanese capital. Eight people were killed in shooting in the suburbs, police sources said. Three members of the Druze religious sect were shot to death in a bus in a Christian suburb and five bodies were found nearby. The violence followed a two-day lull and an announcement by Premier Rashid Karami that stepped-up security measures would accelerate a return to normal life.
The United States today vetoed the admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations in an action that found it isolated from its friends as well as its critics. The Vietnamese states, in separate votes in the Security Council, received 14 of the 15 votes, but were blocked by the single negative vote of the United States. The rejection had been anticipated since the United States last month vetoed their entry because the Security Council had refused to consider the admission of South Korea, pending since 1949. However, third‐world countries supported by the Communist members revived the Vietnam issue in the General Assembly, which on September 19 voted 123 to 0 to ask the Council to reconsider and act favorably on the two Vietnam requests. The United States abstained in the Assembly along with eight other countries that habitually vote with the United States on political matters.
Amid heavy security measures, Emperor Hirohito left today on a jet airliner for his first state visit to the United States. Concerned that Japanese radicals might try to disrupt the start of what is to be a 15‐day goodwill trip, Japanese authorities assigned 19,000 policemen to guard the Emperor’s route from the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo to Haneda International Airport at the southern edge of the city. A specially fitted Japan Air Lines DC‐8 is carrying the Emperor, Empress Nagako and 37‐member entourage led by Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda to Williamsburg, Virginia, with a fueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska.
Emperor Hirohito stepped off a Japan Air Lines jet plane at Patrick Henry Airport near Williamsburg, Virginia this morning to begin a 15-day visit to the United States. Never before has a reigning Japanese monarch made a formal visit to the United States. Emperor Hirohito did touch briefly in Alaska in 1971 while on his way to Europe. Both Japanese and American officials accompanying the Emperor’s party said today that his presence on American soil was an official Japanese acknowledgment of the excellent state of relations between the two nations and a token of future goodwill. The Emperor also indicated today that his visit here was another symbol of Japan’s acceptance of the outcome of World War II. His spokesman announced that he Japanese Consul General in Atlanta, Kazuo Chiba, acting in the Emperor’s name, today placed a wreath at the grave of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of the postwar occupation, in Norfolk, Virginia.
China’s Premier Chou En-lai did not attend a ceremonial banquet in Hong Kong marking the 26th anniversary of the People’s Republic, raising fears that his health may be failing. The 77-year-old premier, who has never been known to miss National Day activities before, has been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness since early summer. But until now he has been able to attend important functions, including the National Day banquet last year.
Indonesian troops, in a strike across the border, wiped out a rebel base in Portuguese East Timor, informed sources said today. The raid, involving 30 Indonesian soldiers, was against a base of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) in the Aditu district. All Fretilin soldiers defending the base were killed in the fighting and their leader was captured, the sources said. The Indonesian force suffered no casualties and withdrew after the attack, the sources said. It was believed to be the first attack by Indonesian troops in Portuguese Timor.
The United States has decided to let 1,600 Vietnamese now on Guam to go back to their homeland as they have requested, Despite the new Saigon government’s apparent reluctance to accept them, it was assumed that they would not be turned back. About 100 other refugees now in the United States are due to be flown to Guam to join those now there in sailing home.
A trailer truck, making a sharp turn on a mountain road 25 miles west of Mexico City, plowed into a crowded bus, causing an explosion and fire that killed as many as 45 persons, reports reaching the Red Cross said. Police reported that the collision occurred in heavy mist, and that the bus slid off the road into a 200-foot-deep ravine before bursting into flames. It was believed to be carrying about 80 passengers.
Ethiopia’s military government declared a state of emergency, banning all strikes and threatening “stern action” against a growing wave of antigovernment work stoppages designed to force revolutionary action beyond what the government is prepared to undertake. The government’s measure gave police and armed forces the right to search and arrest suspects without warrants. Persons carrying arms or encouraging antigovernment action were singled out in the decree.
President Ford said in Chicago that he would continue traveling across the country, not in a foolhardy spirit but by every prudent and practical means. Before leaving Washington he had asked Congress for $13.5 million more this year for Secret Service protection. It would cover additional agents and also additional travel costs for those guarding Democratic presidential candidates beginning today.
Secret Service officials told Congress that on the morning of Sara Jane Moore’s alleged attempt to shoot President Ford she tried five times to telephone the agents protecting him. An 8 AM call to the Secret Service reached only an answering service. She tried twice later that morning and also called the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the San Francisco Police Department. But the agents who had questioned her the night before had not even been told she was trying to reach them until after the shooting incident about 3:30 PM.
The banking community showed a growing unwillingness to buy the $500 million in short-term notes that New York State is due to issue as a crucial element in averting New York City’s fiscal default. Governor Carey failed to persuade State Controller Arthur Levitt to make voluntarily the $125 million investment from pension funds in Municipal Assistance Corporation bonds that was barred by the State Court of Appeals as a mandatory measure. Market prices of New York State-related bonds dropped again in reaction.
The United States Attorney for New Jersey and the Internal Revenue Service are embroiled in a dispute over each other’s handling of an allegation that Gerald Ford may have received an unusual payment around 1968 from leaders of the National Maritime Union. Neither agency is believed to have any evidence at this stage that the alleged transaction involving President Ford as a congressman did occur.
The Central Intelligence Agency gave the House Select Committee on Intelligence the bulk of the national security documents it had subpoenaed. Committee sources said the move appeared to resolve its two-week stalemate with President Ford.
While Henry Kearns headed the government’s Export-Import Bank in 1972 he promoted the apparently highly profitable sale of stock he had placed in a blind trust and received some of the proceeds. This was disclosed in a letter from the Assistant Attorney General heading the Criminal Division to Senator William Proxmire, who published it. The letter found insufficient evidence to support criminal charges, but Mr. Proxmire said this “outrageous” decision should be overturned.
Pentagon officials conceded unofficially that several military officials of the Defense Department apparently violated rules by accepting hunting invitations from a defense contractor that was trying to sell jet fighters to the government. Top Pentagon officials and members of Congress, including the chairman of the Senate air power subcommittee, accepted the free duck and goose hunt weekends from the Northrop Corp. But the Pentagon played down the incident. “Nobody sold his soul for a duck,” said one officer. “The thinking here is that these people were kind of dumb and used poor judgment.” Senate investigators, however, said they would press for more information.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was withholding from its investigators information on commissions it paid foreign officials. SEC Commissioner Philip A. Loomis Jr. told a House international relations subcommittee, “We are having difficulties in obtaining… names, countries and amounts of payments.” The panel is investigating alleged bribes made by U.S. international corporations to public officials of foreign countries. It claims 111 companies have made such illegal payments.
A top General Motors Corp. manager, his wife and three sons were released unharmed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a reported $54,000 ransom was paid to their abductors, police said. Three armed men invaded the home of William E. Schulenberg and held the family for more than 13 hours. Police said Schulenberg, 48, a manager for the GM Hydramatic Division, was held in the house while he raised the money from friends and his wife and sons were kept in the trunk of a car for eight hours. Mrs. Schulenberg and two sons were returned home just before the ransom was paid and the third son freed three hours after the payoff.
Five days before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the FBI warned its southern offices of a plot to kill the President, a former FBI code clerk told CBS Evening News. FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley, however, denied it. William S. Walter, a code clerk in the New Orleans office of the FBI in November, 1963, said the message stated a revolutionary group might attempt to kill President Kennedy during his November 22-23 trip to Dallas. Kelley said 53 FBI employees had been questioned and none had supported Walter’s claim. After two investigations, “no evidence was developed which would support Mr. Walter’s allegation or indicate its plausibility.” Kelley said.
Annual automobile inspections could save as much as $1.5 billion per year in wasted fuel while decreasing pollution and reducing the accident rate, three automotive experts testified before the House subcommittee on Surface Transportation in Washington, D.C. The experts were Frederick J. Mancheski, board chairman of Echlin Manufacturing Co.; Dr. Robert Brenner, president of the Institute for Safety Analysis, and Robert M. Lucas, vice president and general manager of Marquette, the performance and safety test division of Applied Power, Inc.
As many as 4,000 premature human deaths and 4 million days of illness were caused by automobile emissions last year, a U.S. Department of Transportation official reported in Houston, John W. Barnum, deputy transportation secretary, speaking at the annual meeting of the International Oil Industry-TBA Group, which includes suppliers and marketers of such products as tires, batteries and auto accessories, said a joint study by his department and the Environmental Protection Agency indicated fuels can be improved with regard to economy while meeting statutory emission standards to reduce the problem significantly by the end of this decade.
Eighty-five congressmen petitioned the Ford Administration to take strong steps to cut down the noise levels of nearly 2,000 jetliners in regular commercial service. In letters sent to the heads of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, the House members urged that airlines be required to equip all planes built before 1969 with sound absorbing material to reduce noise around airports. A decision whether to issue a rule requiring the alterations, known as a retrofit rule, is expected to be made soon by James E. Dow, acting administrator of the FAA.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has argued for years that blacks are genetically inferior to Caucasians said the principle of equal employment opportunity could lead to “business decay” for the nation. William Shockley, professor emeritus at Stanford University, told the Downtown Kiwanis Club in Minneapolis that the courts were operating under the assumption that all races were equally intelligent — an assumption he terms the “national egalitarian lie.” Shockley, whose 1956 Nobel Prize was for his work in semiconductors, has had his black-inferiority theory widely disputed by scientists.
Republican Mayor Ralph J. Perk and Democrat Arnold Pinkney, school board president, surged far ahead in Cleveland’s nonpartisan primary election to pick two mayoral candidates and will face each other in the November 4 general election. Perk, seeking his third term, was running slightly behind Pinkney. Officials said the showing of Pinkney, who is black, was apparently helped by a strong black voter turnout.
Five people drown in a flash flood in a sewer and water tunnel at Niagara Falls, New York.
The prototype of the AH-64 Apache helicopter made its first flight. The Apache, an attack helicopter that could fire armor-piercing shells, withstand anti-aircraft fire, and fly missions under adverse conditions, would become a U.S. Army aircraft in 1985.
The cable television pay channel Home Box Office (HBO) dramatically increased its number of subscribers by bringing the “Thrilla in Manila” to home viewers at no extra charge. The boxing match, between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, actually began at 10:45 in the morning of October 1 in the Philippine capital, but was seen in the United States at 7:45 p.m. Pacific time and 10:45 p.m. Eastern. Previously, fights on closed-circuit television had been available only to people who purchased tickets to view the event at a theater, and, true to its name, HBO provided the alternative of watching a big box office event at low cost in one’s home.
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Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan MLB shortstop, third baseman, and second baseman (MLB All Star 2004, 2007, 2008; Seattle Mariners, Detroit Tigers), in Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela.
Marion Cotillard, French film actress (“Inception”, “La Vie en Rose”), in Paris.
Glenn Fredly, Indonesian actor, producer and R&B singer in Jakarta, Indonesia (d. 2020).
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