President Ford signed into law a measure approved by Congress last week that partially lifts the embargo against shipments of U.S. arms to Turkey. Lifting of the ban had been a top-priority Administration aim since it was imposed early this year by a Congress angered by Turkey’s use of U.S.-supplied material in its conflict with Greece over the island of Cyprus.
East Germany and the Soviet Union signed a new Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, although their 1964 Friendship Treaty still had nine years to run. The 20-year treaty was to run until 1995, although East Germany would end in 1990 and the Soviet Union in 1991. The revised treaty of friendship that no longer mentions the reunification of Germany. The new pact, replacing one negotiated in 1964, is the first such treaty revision since the signing last July in Helsinki of a European declaration that describes postwar boundaries as inviolable.
Left-wing troops and their civilian supporters moved into the compound of a sympathetic artillery regiment in the north of Portugal today after demonstrating all night outside the locked gates of the local transport regiment, which was disbanded for insubordination over the weekend. The dissidents said they would stay put until the transport regiment was restored. The incident, in the town of Oporto, was a challenge to the regional military commander, Antonio Pires Veloso, who replaced a pro‐Communist officer a month ago after a series of barracks upheavals. General Veloso had ordered commandos into the barracks of the local transport regiment, ordered conscripts to report for different duties and disbanded the regiment. This was his response to a regimental vote rejecting orders transferring two officers and five men whom he considered troublemakers.
The head of a kidnaped Dutch executive’s firm offered his own private jet as a getaway craft if the abductors would accept a ransom for Tiede Herrema, 53, managing director of the Ferenka steel plant outside Limerick, Ireland. Hugh Krayenhoff, chairman of Ferenka’s parent company, Akzo, said in Dublin, “We are ready to do anything,” but police expressed pessimism about the fate of Herrema, who was abducted Friday. The kidnappers have demanded the release of three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
A Spanish court ordered a Dutch tourist held today on charges of assaulting the son-in-law of Generalissimo Francisco Franco by smashing a door against his nose. Officials dropped charges against three other Dutch tourists arrested in the same incident; which diplomats said reflected the wave of antiforeign feeling in Spain, a favorite of tourists, in reaction to protests against executions of Spanish revolutionary terrorists. The tourists were arrested Sunday in the seaside resort of Marbella. The national news agency, Cifra, said they had made insulting remarks about Spain that touched off a violent argument with Dr. Cristóbal Martínez‐Bordiu, Marquis De Villaverde, a 53‐year‐old surgeon married to General Franco’s only daughter, Carmen.
A luxury Madrid hotel, the Hotel Suecia, was attacked tonight by Francoist youths who smashed furniture and glass, shouting “Long Live Spain!” witnesses said. Guests, among them foreign correspondents, scattered as the group armed with clubs charged through the ground floor. In a reference to Premier Olof Palme of Sweden, who has condemned Spain’s execution of five terrorists, they painted “Olof assassin” on the walls of the hotel.
Britain announced here today that she would represent herself at the forthcoming conference of energy producers and consumers in Paris and not go as part of the Common Market delegation. The position, announced by Foreign Secretary James Callaghan at a meeting of Common Market ministers here, was viewed by the other member countries as posing a strong threat to the success of the French-sponsored conference and also to further community cooperation in energy policy. Mr. Callaghan cited Britain’s large oil reserves in the North Sea as a reason that she wanted to do her own negotiating, arguing that her interests as a potential major oil producer could not be properly looked after by a delegation most of whose members must depend largely on enegry imports.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved by a vote of 10 to 2 the stationing of 200 American technicians in the Sinai passes to monitor the Egyptian-Israeli agreement. It had heard Secretary of State Kissinger assert in open session that congressional approval of the American presence did not imply anything more. But, his appearance left some confusion as to what it signified. Mr. Kissinger conceded that the administration did regard as binding on it some of the undertakings in its memorandum of agreement with Israel. He insisted that these undertakings were consistent with current policy.
Rival Christian and Muslim militiamen clashed with mortars and machine guns in suburban Beirut and the fear-gripped capital quickly shut down. Police said at least four more persons were killed and another wounded, boosting the casualty toll in three weeks of sporadic clashes between right-wing Christian and leftwing Moslem militias to at least 375 dead and more than 650 wounded.
An armed Filipino man believed mentally deranged over the unsolved kidnapping of his 4-year-old daughter surrendered tamely seven hours after attempting to hijack a Philippine Air Lines jetliner with 70 persons aboard. Authorities talked him into giving up by promising to investigate the kidnapping of his daughter and by telling him none of the countries that would be needed as stopovers for his planned flight to Libya would give the plane permission to land. All 65 passengers, including three Americans, were released unharmed.
The British Columbia government cracked down on the worst labor turmoil in provincial history and ordered thousands of strikers in four industries back to work within 48 hours for a 90-day cooling-off period. The labor movement immediately charged the government with “strike-breaking.” The emergency legislation orders an end to a 12-week strike that has crippled the $3 billion-a-year forest industry; a strike-lockout that has closed 125 Vancouver-area supermarkets for five weeks; rotating railway strikes and a truckers walkout that has cut off propane gas for 1,400 residents of Nanaimo.
The President of Mexico, in an official visit to Unit ed Nations Headquarters today, told the advanced societies that they could not ignore the developing nations and warned the developing countries against revolutionary “mythology,” radical oratory and moralizing. In an address to the General Assembly, President Luis Echeverría Alvarez said that the advanced societies could not expect to maintain their well being if they ignored the plight of the developing nations.
The House backed down from its earlier stand that U.S. negotiators could not “surrender” any rights in its talks over the future of the Panama Canal. The House voted 212 to 201 to accept compromise language in a $7.5 billion appropriations bill for the State, Justice and Commerce departments that it was merely the “sense of Congress” that U.S. interests be protected in negotiations on a new canal treaty. The bill contained funds for the canal negotiating team.
Despite the impatient and fiery rhetoric of Panama’s military Government, delays in the conclusion of a new United States-Panama treaty on the Panama Canal appear to be generating a mood of apathy and cynicism in the Panamanian population. “The Government keeps promising there will be a new treaty in a month or two, but nothing happens,” one young officeworker said. “I don’t have any faith in the negotiations. I don’t think the Americans will ever leave Panama.” After living with almost 40,000 Americans in the Canal Zone for over 70 years and sitting through 13 years of sporadic and unproductive negotiations to replace the 1903 canal treaty, many Panamanians have difficulty sustaining anger or impatience over the United States’ large military and civilian presence in Panama.
At least 28 persons were reported killed today in clashes between leftist guerrillas and Argentine security forces. Sixteen guerrillas and four soldiers were killed about 40 miles southwest of Tucumán, where the Marxist People’s Revolutionary Army has a major stronghold, security sources said. Tucumán is 715 miles north of Buenos Aires. It was the worst clash between guerrillas and security forces in the Tucumán area since February 9, when the army stepped up its campaign against guerrillas there. Four people were killed in the Buenos Aires suburb of Haedo—a policeman, a retired air force corporal and two extremists. Four guerrillas were killed at Formosa, 575 miles to the north, where the death toll on both sides stands at 45 in three days of guerrilla warfare.
Meanwhile, Acting President Italo Luder flew to Córdoba today, presumably to meet with President Isabel Martinez de Perón amid growing controversy over whether she should take back her powers. Official sources confirmed Mr. Luder’s trip but declined to say if he would actually meet with Mrs. Perón, who turned power over to Mr, Luder September 13 to take a leave and seek to recover her health. The Peronist party has said that Mrs. Perón would return October 17, but speculation has grown recently over whether she will resume her office. Peronists are divided over the advisability of her return. Mrs. Perón’s physician said last week that she was in “perfect health” and would return to Buenos Aires soon.
The chief delegate of Uganda, Khalid Younis Kinene, in a statement at the General Assembly tonight rejected what he said were “wild allegations” by the United States against his country and its President, General Idi Amin. The Ugandan declared that his government was cooperating with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in an investigation of the “criminal disappearance of persons.” A United States representative, Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., told the Assembly yesterday that according to the International Commission of Jurists between 25,000 and 250,000 people had disappeared in Uganda since General Amin seized power in 1971.
More jobs will open to blacks in white-ruled South Africa in an effort by the government to boost production and combat 17% inflation, according to a declaration signed by government and business leaders and white trade unions. The manifesto also calls for price and wage restraint. Job training at all levels would be increased under the agreement, upgrading white workers and, in some cases, replacing them with blacks.
Five days after President Ford vetoed an extension of the federal school lunch and nutrition program, both houses of Congress voted to override. Congress easily overrode President Ford’s veto of a $2.7 billion extension and broadening of the school lunch and child nutrition programs. After the House of Representatives had voted 397-18, the Senate followed with a 79-13 vote to extend them.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee where all tax legislation starts, Representative Al Ullman of Oregon, called President Ford’s proposed package of tax and expenditures reductions “totally preposterous.” His chief criticism was that Mr. Ford wanted Congress to commit itself now to major reductions in next year’s federal budget before anyone has any idea what that budget will look like.
President Ford defended the feasibility of his proposal of a tax-and-budget cut at a regional conference on the economy in Knoxville, Tenn. at which he said he was trying to “sell” it to the American people. Without mentioning Representative Ullman by name, he said he disagreed with its critics in Congress and said he believed Congress could handle both spending restraints and tax reductions.
The Senate Interior Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Senate confirm Thomas S. Kleppe to be interior secretary. It agreed to require Kleppe to divest himself of all holdings in natural resource companies within the next nine months. Committee Chairman Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington) said a final vote on the nomination could come this week. Kleppe, 56, currently is head of the Small Business Administration. Kleppe, a millionaire and former North Dakota congressman, set up two blind trusts in 1971. It was disclosed that securities in natural resource companies make up 20% of the trusts’ assets.
The field of Democratic candidates for 1974’s first presidential primary in New Hampshire next February 24 grew more crowded when Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana decided to enter and R. Sargent Shriver indicated he might follow suit. Indications are that as many as seven Democratic hopefuls will enter the primary. In 1972, only 88,854 Democrats voted in New Hampshire, which makes for intense competition since the margin between victory and defeat will be small. Others expected to run are former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma, Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, Pennsylvania Governor Milton S. Shapp and former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford.
“I find it necessary to dismiss the public defender as co-counsel,” Lynette Alice Fromme told Federal District Judge Thomas J. MacBride today. The statement came as Miss Fromme, who is charged with attempting to assassinate President Ford, appeared before Judge MacBride to seek a ruling forcing the United States Attorney’s office to release to her all evidence the prosecution intends to use in her trial starting November 4. She was seized here September 5 after allegedly pointing a loaded 45‐caliber pistol in the direction of President Ford as he was walking through a crowd from his hotel to the State Capitol. Miss Fromme 26 years old, follower of Charles Manson, the convicted murderer, asked that E. Richard Walker, the Federal public defender, be replaced by his assistant, Robert Holley.
Two lawyers in New York will present oral arguments next week to three judges of the Federal Court of Claims sitting in Washington, linked by Picture phones so that those at either end of the connection can see as well as hear each other. It will be the first use of this device in an actual court proceeding, under the sponsorship of the Appellate Judges Conference.
Representative Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, proposed legislation to provide $7 billion in federal loans and loan guarantees to New York State to ease New York City’s fiscal crisis. But he said the legislation would not go forward unless city and state got an “ironclad” agreement from holders of city and Municipal Assistance Corporation securities to defer sufficient interest and principal payments to allow repayment of the federal loan.
Under pressure from federal civil rights authorities, the New Jersey state police agreed to try to increase tenfold by 1979 its complement of blacks and Latin Americans. Under an agreement filed in federal court in Trenton, the police said they would try to bring the number of minority group members to 14% within five years. There are now 23 black and Latin American officers on the force of 1,765 officers. The 14% figure is based on the percentage of black and Latin American peoples in the New Jersey population. The agreement also calls for increased efforts to attract women to the force. At present there is one woman officer.
Editorial and advertising employees of the Washington Post voted to continue crossing the picket lines of three striking craft unions. Union pressmen went on strike last Wednesday night, disabling much of the equipment in the pressroom as they left. Union mailers walked off the job Monday night and were joined the next day by photoengravers. In voting to cross the picket line, Newspaper Guild members expressed bitterness over the pressroom sabotage. Pressmen and Post negotiators met in closed session for the first time but results were not known. The Post has repaired one press with nonunion machinists and has been printing sharply curtailed editions at nonunion plants outside of Washington.
More than 60 percent of the bankers polled at the current meeting of the American Bankers Association said they believed that the New York City’s financial crisis had worsened to the point that it faced certain default of some of its securities. Mayor Beame had appealed to them Monday to urge Washington to help the city regain its financial integrity, but the bankers still felt that the federal government should assume no role in the crisis.
Americans can expect to pay $1 or more a gallon for gasoline in the future, according to Maurice Granville, chairman of the board of Texaco, Inc. But Granville said he could not predict when prices will hit that level or how much over $1 they will go. Granville, in a press conference and speech in Detroit, said the extent of the price increases will depend on the government’s willingness to relax controls on the oil industry. He warned that the industry cannot generate the capital needed to invest in the capital improvements that would reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil under the present system of oil and natural gas price controls.
Coast Guard negligence was solely responsible for a 100,000-gallon oil tanker spill in Hussey Sound, outside Portland, Maine, in 1972, a federal district court ruled in Portland. Judge Edward T. Gignoux said navigational buoys placed by the Coast Guard were off the mark by as much as 215 feet when the Norwegian tanker Tamano punctured its hull on a submerged ledge, resulting in a massive release of commercial oil. The judge said Coast Guard crewmen aboard a buoy tender were inept and inexperienced in setting and verifying the buoys in Hussey Sound. Settlements of $2.5 million already have been paid to the state of Maine, clam diggers and boat and shoreline owners by the vessel’s owner, Wilhelm Wilhelmsen of Oslo, Norway, and its charterer, Texaco, Inc.
A medical examination would be required for anyone about to buy a hearing aid under a regulation proposed by the Food and Drug Administration, the agency said. A task force representing several departments recommended last week that the FDA issue a requirement for “medical clearance before an individual is sold a hearing aid.” The FDA proposal, to be issued soon, would require such examinations “to assure that medically treatable conditions which may affect hearing are identified and treated before an aid is purchased.” The exam would be waived under certain conditions.
A San Francisco urologist has developed a technique of microscopic surgery that he says has thus far proved completely effective in reversing a vasectomy, a means of male sterilization ordinarily regarded as permanent. Dr. Sherman Silber of the University of California said he had operated on 24 men, and that the wives of the first 16, who were operated on more than three months ago, have become pregnant.
Dick Moss, attorney for the Players’ Association, files a suit in behalf of Dodgers pitcher Andy Messersmith, contending that Messersmith, having completed his renewal year, now qualifies as a free agent. The All-Star pitcher will finally sign with the Braves after furious bidding.
John Lennon, formerly of The Beatles, won the right to stay in the United States after a four-year legal battle to avoid deportation, as a panel of a U.S. Appeals Court ruled 2–1 to reverse an INS order of deportation. Two days later, Lennon would celebrate his 35th birthday and the birth of his son, Sean.
American League Divisional Championship Series, Game Three:
The Red Sox match Cincinnati with a 5–3 win and 3–game sweep over Oakland. After three consecutive championships, the Athletics’ dynasty came to an end, as the Red Sox took the third game, to sweep the series, their first series win since 1918. Boston starter Rick Wise allowed three runs (two unearned) on six hits in 7 ⅓ innings of work. Both Denny Doyle and Carlton Fisk collected two hits with one run and an RBI, and Rick Burleson went 2-for-4 with one run scored to pace the Red Sox. On just two days’ rest, Ken Holtzman started for Oakland and was tagged for four runs on seven hits in just 4+2⁄3 innings to take his second loss in the series. Dick Drago earned the save for pitching 1 ⅔ innings of shutout ball for Boston while Carl Yastrzemski made two great defensive plays in left field and collected two hits. Sal Bando went 2-for-4 with two RBIs while Reggie Jackson went 2-for-4 with one RBI for the Athletics. This game, and Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, were the first LCS games ever played at night; both were regionally televised by NBC.
Boston Red Sox 5, Oakland Athletics 3
National League Divisional Championship Series, Game Three:
The Reds complete their sweep of the LCS with a 5–3 win. The only drama of the Series came in Game 3 played at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium. The home team sent left-hander John Candelaria to the hill to try to stem the Red tide and the 21-year-old rookie responded magnificently. He yielded a home run to Dave Concepción in the second inning, but going into the eighth had a 2–1 lead, the result of Al Oliver’s two-run homer in the Pirate sixth inning off Gary Nolan. Candelaria struck out the first two batters in the eighth. That gave him a total of 14 for the game, a new playoff record. Concepción’s circuit clout had been the only Reds hit to that point.
But, inexplicably, he lost his control and walked Merv Rettenmund, a pinch-hitter. Pete Rose then blasted a home run to put the Reds ahead, 3–2. When Joe Morgan followed Rose’s homer with a double, Candelaria left the game. The Pirates tied the game in the ninth when relief pitcher Rawly Eastwick walked in the tying run with two out. But it all served to merely delay the inevitable. The Reds got three hits and two runs off veteran Ramón Hernández, the third Pittsburgh hurler, in the top of the tenth. Ken Griffey hit leadoff single, moved to second on a balk, then to third on a groundout before scoring on Ed Armbrister’s sacrifice fly. Pete Rose singled before Morgan’s RBI double padded the Reds’ lead to 5–3. Pedro Borbon retired the Pirates in order in the bottom of the inning as the Reds clinched their third pennant of the decade. This game, and Game 3 of the 1975 American League Championship Series, were the first league championship series games played at night.[4] Both were regionally televised by NBC.
Cincinnati Reds 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
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