African and Arab delegates denounced Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the chief United States delegate to the United Nations, in the General Assembly for his use of the term “racist murderer” to describe President Idi Amin of Uganda. Mr. Moynihan had done so in a speech in San Francisco last Friday in protesting a demand for the extinction of Israel made by President Amin. Speaking today on behalf of the 46‐member African bloc, Tiamiou Adjibade of Dahomey declared that if Mr. Moynihan confused his work in the United Nations with defense of Zionism, he should “go to Israel as soon as possible.” In the name of the 20 members of the Arab League, Mansur R. Kikia of Libya accused the United States delegate of having violated traditional diplomatic courtesy. Mr. Moynihan was not present during the attacks, but Clarence Mitchell Jr., a member of the American delegation, responded later with a speech terming President Amin’s remarks “an affront to millions of citizens of the United States.”
Now that the United States Congress has partly lifted the arms embargo against Turkey, the Government of Premier Suleyman Demirel is starting to feel mounting pressure from Washington and its European allies to make concessions on Cyprus. A Western diplomat summed up the situation: “It’s up to Turkey now.” Premier Demirel has reportedly told President Ford that after Senate elections here next Sunday he will try to find the basis for a Cyprus settlement, but diplomats here and in Athens remain pessimistic. Turkey’s paralyzing political problems are likely to continue, and may even get worse if Mr. Demirel’s Justice party fares badly. Most evidence indicates that the Turkish side wants to keep most of the territory it controls to guarantee the prosperity and security of the Turkish Cypriots, to provide room for their expansion and to protect the southern coast of Turkey. There is no talk of major concessions; the Turks seem prepared to wait for the Greek side to weaken under the burden of 180,000 refugees.
In an effort to reduce the danger that fighting will erupt there, the Portuguese leadership has reportedly decided to disarm civilians who have obtained military weapons. This was reported today by two military members of the Cabinet who are also members of the High Council of the Revolution, the supreme policymaking body. One informant said that a few dozen guns had already been recovered from extremist groups. But there are believed to be thousands of army weapons, particularly Portuguese-made G‐3 machine guns, in civilian hands. Neither the decision nor the first move has been made public here. The willingness of some troops to side with anti‐government leftists drew a warning during the day from Portugal’s President, who denounced the growing wave of dissidence in the armed forces as counterrevolutionary. In a special message to the troops, the President, General Francisco da Costa Gomes, said it was counterrevolutionary for them to put their weapons and their actions at the service of any political party or clandestine group, “however progressive they may be.”
The Spanish Cabinet met in special session today under Premier Carlos Arias Navarro to discuss possible measures to deal with the resurgence of terrorist action that resulted in the death of three civil guards in the Basque country yesterday. No new measures were announced. In their absence, what appeared to be some extreme-right groups, backed by or linked with the police and civil guard, were taking matters into their own hands. Near Elorrio in the Basque country, a bar owner was killed last night by unidentified persons after he had served them drinks. The owner, Ignacio Echave Orobengoa, was the brother of Juan José Echave, who was a well‐known militant in the Basque nationalist organization, E.T.A., and now runs a restaurant in the French Basque city of St. Jean de Luz. Basque terrorists were accused of blowing up a LandRover yesterday near Onate, killing three civil guards and injuring two.
The foreign ministers of Western Europe’s Common Market decided today to suspend trade negotiations with Spain. The ministers also agreed to offer Portugal a $187-million loan to aid her faltering economy. The decision to freeze talks on the liberalization of trade between Madrid and the European community followed a wave of protest in European cities against the execution of five convicted terorists last week in Spain. Foreign Minister Mariano Rumor of Italy, who is chairman of the Common Market Coundil, said in a statement after the meeting here today that the time members of the community “deplore the recent executions carried out as result of procedures which violated the principles of rule of law and more particularly the right to defense.” Before the executions last week the nine had sent a joint plea of clemency to the Spanish Government on humanitarian grounds. Mr. Rumor said the community “deeply regretted” that the Spaniards had not heeded this and other appeals.
A policeman was killed today in a bomb explosion in a bar Limavady in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. An employee of the bar was seriously injured.
American and Soviet grain negotiators in Moscow are snagged over the difficulty of devising mutually acceptable escape clauses in a proposed long-term grain sales contract, informed Washington sources said. They indicated that the United States has agreed to supply, and Moscow is prepared to buy between 6 and 8 million tons of U.S. wheat and corn each year for the next five years. The escape clauses, the only serious unresolved point of difference, would govern adjustments to those purchases as dictated by either U.S. or Soviet harvests or both.
Scarcity of funds, poor planning and ignorance within its own ranks are troubling the International Red Cross, according to an expert study of the organization. The study said the Red Cross enjoys an excellent public image and the goodwill of most national and international authorities, has access to resources and expertise far beyond its own, and is considered indispensable in certain of its functions. But the study also reported “an increasing inability to act as a movement and other serious problems.”
The American Jewish Congress challenged Attorney General Edward H. Levi to stop the Arab boycott against Israel from working in the United States. The Jewish group said it was “time that the government found effective means of enforcing the antiboycott policy expressed in the Export Administration Act.”
Egypt celebrated the second anniversary of the start of the 1973 war with Israel today with a military parade during which Mirage-3 fighter planes, bought from France earlier this year, were shown for the first time as they flew over the line of march. The parade also included British-made helicopters and American-made jeeps carrying soldiers with Soviet SAM‐7 ground‐to‐air missiles strapped to their shoulders. The bulk of the equipment was Russian. It included M1G17 and MIG‐21 fighter‐bombers, helicopters, Antonov transports, Tupolev medium‐range bombers, armored personnel carriers, antitank guns, artillery, and ground‐to‐air TOW missiles. The American jeeps were understood to be part of a consignment that arrived some three months ago. The United States has also promised to sell trucks to Egypt.
India and the United States held the first session of their joint commission on educational, economic and technical cooperation today at the State Department, and afterward Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan called on President Ford. As described by both Indian and American officials, the meetings underlined the desire of both governments to develop a better relationship. The commission was established last year in an agreement signed in New Delhi by Secretary of State Kissinger, but the start of its sessions was delayed after the United States decided last winter to lift its embargo on sales of arms to Pakistan.
The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam said that Vietnamese evacuated by the United States prior to April 30 when the country fell to the Communists must apply for repatriation and that the government would consider and settle each case separately. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said earlier that South Vietnam condemns the U.S. move to repatriate 1,600 refugees without Vietnam’s authorization.
China could “tear an arm or a leg” off the Soviet Union in a brief nuclear exchange but lacks the technology and the supply facilities to fight a successful conventional war with her Communist rival, according to American and other military experts. Assessing Chinese strength after 10 years or tension with the Soviet Union, the experts, believe that only a Soviet invasion could tip the balance in China’s favor. Such an invasion, they say, would enable China to exploit her massive trained manpower, her vast expanse of territory and the ingrained aptitude of her forces for using terrain in defense. But, the assessment goes on, weaponry based on the technology of the nineteen‐fifties, insufficient research and development, and strikes and slowdowns delaying industrial growth argue against Chinese success in an all‐out war with the Soviet Union.
Hijackers commandeered a Philippine jetliner carrying 71 persons on a domestic flight, had the pilot put down at Manila airport and demanded the plane be refueled and flown to Libya, officials said. They said the airport’s military commander was negotiating with the hijackers. The Libyan destination indicated that the hijackers possibly were Muslim Filipino rebels.
A series of earth tremors toppled about 300 houses and injured dozens of people in the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 450 miles south of Mexico City, authorities reported. They said at least five villages were abandoned by residents who feared the Angostura Dam, the country’s largest, had been damaged. The Federal Electricity Commission sent technicians to check the dam, but their first reports did not indicate any damage. The strongest shock registered 5.5 on the Richter scale.
The DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional), secret police agency of Chile, attempted to assassinate former Interior Minister Bernardo Leighton and his wife Anita, who were in exile in Italy. Former Chilean Vice President Bernardo Leighton and his wife were shot in the head near their home in Rome where they had resided in selfexile since a 1973 coup in Chile. Both were reported in critical condition. Leighton had been openly critical of the Chilean military regime and a few days ago criticized the execution of five convicted guerrillas in Spain. The Leightons were seriously wounded but survived a machine gun attack by paid gunmen.
Italo Luder, serving as Acting President of Argentina during a leave of absence by President Isabel Perón, signed Decree 2772, giving the Argentine armed forces authority to “annihilate subversion” (“aniquilar la subversion”) by any means necessary against guerilla insurgents. Argentina’s acting President Italo Luder set up an internal security council including commanders of the armed forces after a daring guerrilla operation in Formosa province that took at least 28 lives, official sources reported. The establishment of the council, political sources said, gives a virtually free hand to the armed forces to handle guerrilla attacks as they see fit.
President Ford, in a TV address, proposed to put $11 billion in additional tax cuts into effect next year and to make permanent, with major changes, the $17 billion of anti-recession tax cuts enacted last spring. But he conditioned the proposal on a congressional commitment to reduce total federal spending by $28 billion in the next fiscal year. In a televised speech, the President said his proposal, which would benefit both individuals and businesses, would constitute “the biggest single tax cut in our history.” In his speech, Mr. Ford said that he would not hesitate to veto any tax cut enacted by Congress if Congress did not also take steps to set a ceiling on its spending. He asked Congress to pledge the whole Federal expenditures to $395‐billion in the next fiscal year, ending October 1, 1977.
For the first time in American television history, major TV networks declined a request to interrupt programming to broadcast a speech by a U.S. President. The nationwide address by President Gerald Ford was carried only by the ABC Television Network. Two of the three major television networks, CBS-TV and NBC-TV, refused to carry President Ford’s speech, saying that if they did they would have to give equal time to other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination.
A dispute arose today in Congress over whether approval of the Administration’s request to station 200 American civilian technicians in Sinai would also bind Congress to support other United States assurances to Israel and Egypt. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, George W. Ball, a former Under Secretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, said approval of the request to send Americans to monitor the new Egyptian and Israeli lines in the Sinai passes would amount to tacit acceptance of economic, political and military assurances made by Secretary of State Kissinger to help achieve the Sinai accord. Mr. Ball’s statement caused considerable discussion within the committee. Senator Jacob K. Javits, Republican of New York, insisted that the Congress would make it clear in approving the stationing, of the technicians, that this did not commit the Congress to approving anything else.
Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger apparently let slip that President Ford’s 15-month budget request for US intelligence agencies was about $3.4 billion. Schlesinger told reporters that $344 million in intelligence cuts made by the House in a $112 billion Defense appropriations bill “went deeper than they did elsewhere, amounting to something in excess of 10% — approximately 10% of our intelligence requests.” That would be a request of $3.4 billion for the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Army, Navy and Air Force intelligence units.
A court-appointed panel of firearms experts has found no evidence that more than one weapon was used in the 1968 slaying of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. However, the seven‐member panel, in a three‐page “comprehensive joint report” released by a state court today, said that it had been unable to determine whether three of the bullets it examined were fired from the pistol used by Sirhan B. Sirhan, the convicted assassin. The experts said that the deterioration of the bullets over the years had made identification impossible.
Postponents of the so‐called “second‐gun theory” considered the identification of two of the three bullets crucial in determining whether anyone besides Mr. Sirhan fired a weapon in the Ambassador Hotel pantry that night. The two bullets — one removed from Senator Kennedy’s body and one taken from another victim — showed in ballistics tests what some investigators have said are apparent differences in the identifying markings left by a gun barrel. The inability of experts to say positively whether all three bullets came from the Sirhan gun appeared to leave unanswered at least one question raised by some observers.
Terence Hallinan resigned as Patricia Hearst’s top defense counsel, apparently clearing the way for F. Lee Bailey to lead her defense to a charge of armed bank robbery. The defense is now expected to base its case on the ground that Miss Hearst is emotionally too frail to stand trial. Albert Johnson, one of Mr. Bailey’s Associates, told a news conference today, “I do not believe she [Miss Hearst] is competent to stand trial. She cannot cooperate in her defense.” Mr. Johnson said the court would again be asked to let Miss Hearst go to a clinic for psychiatric help financed by her family. This proposal was rejected by the court when Mr. Hallinan made it. The defense must still deal (somehow with the dilemma that arose from the filing by Mr. Hallinan on Sept. 23 of an affidavit signed by Miss Hearst, which said she was so mistreated after she was kidnapped by the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army that she was in a daze during her 18 months on the run, and remembers little of what happened.
Officials of the Washington Post announced plans to bring in nonunion machinists to repair presses damaged when members of the pressmen’s union went on strike a week ago. Mark Meagher, a Post vice president, said the step was taken reluctantly after failure to get approval from the machinists union for its members to do the work. A sharply curtailed edition of the Post has been printed since Friday at plants outside the Washington area. But Meagher said the point had been reached where the outside plants “are no longer able to fully sustain their workload.” Management and the union are scheduled to meet today for the first time since the strike began.
A man armed with two steak knives was arrested Saturday night in the Hotel Robert Treat in Newark after threatening to kill President Ford, who had left the hotel a half-hour earlier, police said. James Speller, 33, of East Orange, was charged by federal authorities with threatening to kill the President. Newark police said Speller also was being sought on an assault and battery warrant at the time of his arrest. Speller also was in the news on Labor Day when, armed with a razor, he threatened to jump off the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. He was talked down by a rabbi.
On the opening day of a new term, the Supreme Court agreed to a full review of the new law on campaign financing. The Court accepted the case just 2½ weeks after challengers had appealed a lower court decision upholding most parts of the statute. The Court, which convened with all nine Justices on the bench, also set the stage for a review of the legislative reaction to its 1973 rulings striking down anti-abortion laws as unconstitutional.
In an early ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed the rights of states to tax railroads at a higher rate than other industries. The Justices upheld a Tennessee law providing higher levies for the carriers, which most states list as utilities, not industries.
A search for the body of former Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa stemmed from a hoax developed by a former convict from Los Angeles who demanded $125,000 to pinpoint the location of a grave that never existed, according to law enforcement sources in Detroit. “This guy demanded $75,000 to find Hoffa’s body, and a number of people agreed to pay it. The figure went up later to $125,000. I don’t know whether the money has been paid. I suspect it has,” one source said. Some authorities have speculated that Hoffa was killed because of his attempts to regain control of the union. Published reports have identified the informant as Harry Hall of Los Angeles. But Hall, also known as Harry Haller, has denied he was the tipster.
Kansas City officials and striking firemen agreed to attend a meeting called by federal mediators in an attempt to end a four-day-old walkout by nearly 900 fire fighters. About 800 volunteer firemen and national guardsmen have been answering alarms. Officials have called for a grand jury investigation into what they say have been numerous acts of arson and sabotage. Union officials said they were ready to order the firemen back to work but would not do so because Mayor Charles B. Wheeler Jr. had balked at total amnesty. Meanwhile, the state of Missouri filed a civil damage suit against the striking firemen, asking for $150,000 in actual damages so far, $30,000 a day as long as the strike continues and punitive damages of $60,000 a day.
A bill to restrict the free mail privilege of former members of Congress was passed by the House and sent to the Senate. Active members of Congress have franked, or free, mail on concerns of the government and the nation. The privilege extends until April 1, after their departure from Congress. Some former members have been criticized for their use of the right. The bill would restrict former members’ use of the franked mail to official business relating to the closing of their offices.
Antiwar activist Philip F. Berrigan was released in East Hartford, Connecticut, without bond on charges of defacing military jets by allegedly spray-painting and splashing what was said to be human blood on four planes. The excommunicated Roman Catholic priest and 21 other demonstrators were ordered to appear in court October 20 on charges of marking jets on display at an air show Saturday. Berrigan said the group had attempted “to, extend a reminder to people to break through the frightening amnesia as to what the meanings of these planes were.”
The Justice Department filed lawsuits designed to establish the principle that a director of a major bank cannot also simultaneously be a director of a major insurance company without violating the antitrust laws. The department argued that the two businesses were competitors in many ways. In two separate lawsuits, the Justice Department challenged directorship arrangements involving three of the nation’s largest banks — the Bank of America, Bankers Trust and Crocker — and four of the largest insurance companies — Prudential, Metropolitan Life, Equitable and Mutual Life.
Many European economic specialists warned that the value of the dollar abroad, the international level of interest rates and even world stock markets might be affected by financial default by New York City.
Diana Nyad, a 25-year-old marathon swimmer, swam around Manhattan Island in her second attempt in 11 days. Her time was 7 hours 57 minutes.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Charles Young scored two touchdowns, including one on a juggling, fingertip catch of a 42‐yard pass from Roger Staubach, to lead the Dallas Cowboys to a 36‐10 victory over the Detroit Lions tonight. The triumph kept the surprising Cowboys unbeaten through the first three weeks of the National Football League season. It was the Lions’ first defeat, tarnishing their regular‐season debut in new dome‐covered Pontiac Stadium. It was Staubach’s passing, much of it out of the “shotgun” offense, that made up virtually all of Dallas’s attack. Drew Pearson was the prime target early in the game, gathering in passes that set up three field goals by Toni Fritsch.
And in the end, when Dallas bombed Detroit into submission, it was Staubach and Pearson again. First Staubach threw the 42‐yarder to Young eight seconds into the final quarter. Young took it a step ahead of Levi Johnson on the left sideline, bobbled it for a few steps, then clutched it as he crossed the goal line. Pearson put the game out of reach with 9:06 left, catching a 46‐yard pass, but not from Staubach. It was from Robert Newhouse, the front end of a halfback‐option play. Less than three minutes later, Staubach and Pearson teamed for a 37‐yard touchdown pass. And again Johnson was the victim. The ball was underthrown and Johnson tipped it into Pearson’s hands in the left corner of the end zone. The Dallas offense wasn’t the only controlling factor, though. The defense, headed by the 250‐pound tackle, Jethro Pugh, ruined Greg Landry’s passing. Eleven times Pugh and his mates sacked the Detroit quarterback, inflicting 84 yards in losses. Landry, who retired to the sidelines in the closing minutes, completed only 7 of 28 passes for 85 yards. Staubach, meanwhile, was given all the time he needed to throw. He had precision, hitting on 11 of 18 for 212 yards.
Dallas Cowboys 36, Detroit Lions 10
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 819.55 (+6.34, +0.78%)
Born:
Peter Pellegrini, President of Slovakia since 2024, Prime Minister 2018 to 2020, in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia.
Joel Makovicka, NFL fullback (Arizona Cardinals), in Brainard, Nebraska.
Jon Haskins, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers), in Des Moines, Iowa.
Jeff Farnsworth, MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers), in Wichita, Kansas.
DeMarco Johnson, NBA power forward (New York Knicks), in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Died:
Chiura Obata, 89, Japanese-American artist, in Okayama Prefecture.
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