The Defense Department is circulating an intelligence estimate asserting that the Soviet Union is using the policy of detente to gain dominance over the west in all fields, Administration officials said today. The document, titled “Détente in Soviet Strategy,” carries the seal of the Defense Intelligence Agency and is believed by State Department officials to represent the views of Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger. Requests for a comment on this by Mr. Schlesinger or his top aides were declined by the Defense Department. A high‐ranking State Department official who is familiar with the 10‐page study said it contradicted Secretary of State Kissinger’s views of Soviet strategic intentions. “I am very surprised they would put out what is a political estimate,” the State Department official said. A Pentagon spokesman said the study, dated September 2, was “not classified” but would go no further.
Former U.S. arms negotiator Paul H. Nitze told the National Space Club in Washington the United States and Russia would agree on a treaty to limit nuclear weapons by next spring but it would be “essentially worthless.” The primary reason, he said, is that it will not restrict “throwweight,” that is, the basic power of missiles in the two superpowers’ arsenal. Because of that, and leeways in the dimension of missile silos, Nitze said he did not think “the outcome will relieve our strategic problem.” The Soviet Union is known to have a vast advantage in throwweight, while the United States is ahead on multiple warheads and accuracy.
Rebel troops and loyal units faced each other with armored cars in the northern city of Oporto tonight after clashes between rival civilian demonstrators left at least 45 people injured. The northern military command sent five armored cars to take up positions on a bridge leading to an artillery barracks occupied by left‐wing troops, but the leftists responded by deploying two armored personnel carriers. A spokesman from the command said a small group of left‐wing civilians had opened fire with pistols at thousands of supporters of the center‐left Popular Democratic party who marched to the barracks to protest the take‐over. The leftists also stoned the marchers as they retreated from the barracks and 45 people were hurt, he said. Armored cars were sent in to protect the marchers. In another development the Portuguese Communist party today defended the present wave of revolutionary unrest in the army, calling it “a magnificent riposte” to reactionary and conservative forces.
Five persons were killed in Barcelona, Spain today when they were caught in an exchange of gunfire, according to an official police account. The incident early this morning in front of a police station that came under fire from still-unidentified assailants aggravated fears that Spain was in the midst of a prolonged cycle of terrorist violence, unofficial counterviolence and official repression. The hostile foreign reactions to events here, while defiantly rejected by the Franco Government and its supporters, are causing concern because of their possible effects on an already‐depressed economy. At 1 AM, according to an official report, the occupants of a car opened fire on the police station with automatic weapons and those inside fired back.
There were press reports that three Basques, identified as members of the terrorist organization E.T.A., were shot to death last night near St. Jean‐de‐Luz, in the French Basque country. There was no confirmation from French sources, however. E.T.A. is believed to use the French side as a refuge and as an organizational and training center. Spanish counterterror groups, often composed of policemen, have been active there in recent months, and several undercover Spanish policemen and detectives have been arrested by the French.
Test results from a fourth well in the Statfjord field in the North Sea have confirmed it is one of the largest off-shore oil reserves in the world, oil experts said. A statement issued by the Oil Directorate said the well in the Norwegian section of the North Sea showed a production of 6,225 barrels a day. Eight wells so far have been drilled in the Statfjord field.
The executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted overwhelmingly in Paris to soften the anti-Israeli action taken last November. It recommended procedures that would make it more difficult to bar Israel from its European regional group.
Israel possesses natural resources of up to 60,000 tons of uranium and has the ability to manufacture up to 60 tons of uranium fuel a year for nuclear reactors, Shimon Yiftah, a top Israeli nuclear scientist, said. An atomic power plant uses 30 to 40 tons of uranium fuel a year. Yiftah said Israel produced uranium from phosphoric acid at a chemical plant in the Negev town of Arad.
Heavy fighting in Beirut and northern Lebanon shattered the latest truce between warring Christian and Muslim factions proclaimed on Monday. At least 25 were reported killed in rocket and mortar attacks in residential districts of Beirut. In the north, 11 soldiers were reported killed trying to stop fighting between Muslims of Tripoli and nearby Christians of Zgharta. There was no mention of civilian casualties. A new truce was arranged here yesterday but clashes continued for hours after the 3 PM deadline and several fires were started in the business center. A new dusk‐to‐dawn curfew was imposed. The previous one had been lifted only last week.
Premier Rashid Karami met last night with President Suleiman Franjieh and Interior Minister Camille Chamoun to discuss the worsening crisis. The latest casualties raised the death toll here in the last three weeks to more than 400. In several rounds of clashes since last April, about 3,000 are believed to have been killed in various parts of the country and 10,000 wounded. Among the causes of Lebanon’s civil strife are demands by Muslims for a greater share of power, which is held principally by Maronite Christians, and better economic conditions for the largely Muslim poor. Of the somewhat more than 2.5 million Lebanese, about 800,000 are Maronites, or Eastern‐rite Catholics. The latest outbreak of fighting here started at the rival Beirut neighborhoods of Ain al Rummaneh, which is controlled by Christians of the right‐wing Phalangist party, and Chiyah, which is dominated by leftist Muslims.
Resettlement of Indochina refugees should be complete by mid-December, Julia Vadala Taft, the head of the resettlement program told Congress. Testifying before the House immigration subcommittee, she said 29,000 refugees remained to be resettled of the 137,000 who had entered the system. She said plans called for closing the Camp Pendleton, California, refugee camp by November 1. Two other camps will remain open until the last refugees are resettled, she said.
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer told a gathering of newsmen that during the Vietnam war the press had “a tendency to pick up Hanoi news and headline it when it was not correct.” Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until last year when he retired, told the audience at a Washington luncheon sponsored by the American Security Council: “You gentlemen as a group have a credibility gap with me.”
The Soviet Union has moved rapidly to enlarge its influence in Laos since the Pathet Lao takeover last spring ended the era of American dominance. An estimated 300 to 500 Soviet diplomats, pilots, engineers and technicians are active in communications, geological surveys and building a city of 200,000 on the devastated Plain of Jars. The Soviet build-up is part of an intense rivalry for influence in Laos with both North Vietnam and China.
Seven South Korean opposition and civil rights leaders demanded freedom for poet Kim Chi Ha, 34, now in jail pending trial on political charges. Among those signing the statement on Kim’s behalf were former President Yun Po Sun, former opposition presidential candidate Kim Dae Jung, major opposition New Democratic Party President Kim Young Sam and religious leader Ham Suk Hun. The poet Kim, who was freed from jail in February while serving a life term for anti-government activities last year, was arrested again on March 17 in connection with an article he contributed to a newspaper.
South Korean serial killer Kim Dae-doo, who murdered 14 people in the month of September and 17 total, was arrested the day after claiming his final victim, bringing an end to a killing spree that had started on August 13, 1975.
Chinese geologists attending a colloquium in this country say they have concluded from explorations in Central Asia that the Asian continent is the product of several continental collisions, one of which is still crumpling and twisting the landscape. They also reported that the process has enabled China to become one of the world’s richest sources of oil.
An official of Portuguese Timor’s left-wing Fretilin Party said that Indonesian forces temporarily overran a border town in the territory but were later driven out by Fretilin troops. He added that the town of Batugade was now surrounded by the Indonesians, who launched their attack from Indonesian West Timor. In Jakarta, an Indonesian Defense Ministry spokesman denied the report of an attack on Batugade.
Chilean refugees protesting against their living conditions in Argentina seized 14 hostages in the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then gradually released nine of them. Late tonight, the Argentine Government agreed to give the refugees safe passage out of the country. The police agreed to let alone for the night those remaining in the office while the United Nations searched for a country to take them. The Chileans, who burst into the office at midday, had freed fall eight women captives by nightfall. Shortly before midnight they released a man who they said had suffered an epileptic seizure. An Argentine Foreign Ministry statement pledged that the government would “guarantee the safety” of the refugees on their way to another country.
Two major left‐wing guerrilla attacks against the Argentine Army in the last few days have spurred the military into demanding a greater role in government and have sharply increased pressure on the vacationing President, Isabel Martinez de Perón, to resign. Last Sunday, left‐wing Peronist guerrillas, the Montoneros, staged the most spectacular guerrilla raid yet by simultaneously attacking an army garrison, a prison and an airport in Formosa, a city about 700 miles north of Buenos Aires. The battle, which continued intermittently through Tuesday, left at least 42 people dead, including 14 soldiers, 26 guerrillas, and some civilian bystanders. Military sources estimated that 200 guerrillas took part in the Formosa raid, which was aimed at freeing guerrilla prisoners and capturing military armament.
President Ford fully supports Daniel P. Moynihan’s use of the term “racist murderer” to describe President Idi Amin of Uganda, the White House said today. “The President believes Ambassador Moynihan and Clarence Mitchell said what needed to be said,” the White House press secretary, Ron Nessen, told reporters. In a speech at the Corrvention of the American Federation of Labor and Council of Industrial Organizations Friday, Mr. Moynihan, the chief United States representative at the Urrited Nations, used a phrase from a New York Times editorial terming President Amin a “racist murderer.” Mr. Moynihan indicated that he agreed with that appraisal. Mr. Moynihan was protesting a call for the extinction of Israel made by President Amin in the General Assembly on October 1.
Nothing short of a bloody uprising will topple white minority rule in his country, Rhodesian black nationalist leader Ndabaningi Sithole said. Sithole, in Nairobi to meet with government officials, said, “Talking to (Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian) Smith will serve no useful purpose at all. We have talked for 10 years and have got nowhere. Now is the time to fight. There should be no more talks with Smith.”
The Ford administration expects the President’s new tax and budget proposals to be a major issue in his campaign to retain his office. The White House press secretary, Ron Nessen, ridiculed as “nonsense” congressional statements that it could not enact the proposed $395 billion budget ceiling for fiscal 1977. He said that Mr. Ford would make it a political issue if Congress failed to do his bidding. At a news conference, Treasury Secretary William Simon said the country faced “a classic choice between freedom and socialism — ultimately, that is what is involved here.” Mr. Simon said the issue of cutting back the growth of Federal spending would be a major political issue in 1976. “It is the most important political choice of my lifetime,” he declared.
On Monday, President Ford proposed a permanent tax cut, of $28‐billion, to take effect on January 1, 1976, $11‐billion bigger than the current temporary antirecession tax reduction of $17‐billion. But the President said he would support the tax cut only if Congress pledged to cut anticipated growth of Federal spending by an equivalent $28‐billion in the fiscal year beginning next October 1. The President did not stipulate what mechanism could be used by Congress to place a ceiling on the budget for fiscal 1977 before the end of the current calendar year. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committe, Al Ullman, an Oregon Democrat, said the proposal that Congress impose a ceiling on the 1977 budget before it had a chance to examine what would be in that budget was “totally preposterous.”
President Ford proposed legislation to reduce government economic controls over domestic airlines. He said federal regulations caused excessive fares. The proposed measure is designed to make it easier for airlines to compete in prices and services. The Air Transport Association, representing most scheduled airlines, said it would adversely affect passengers, shippers, businesses, mail, employees and shareholders and also threaten the financial integrity of the airport system.
Women were allowed admission into the United States Service academies (at West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs, New London and Kings Point) for the first time, as President Ford signed legislation that included the requirement.
Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, eased his stand against federal intervention in New York City’s fiscal crisis, proposing five guidelines for congressional action. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress, he said he now felt city default could trigger a recession but thought this was unlikely. He said he no longer dismissed the idea of federal action. He said if Congress decided to act it should act quickly to avoid market uncertainty.
A Senate subcommittee heard sharply divergent testimony today on the proposed F-18 lightweight Navy fighter from admirals backing the project and the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, struggling against heavy odds for increased F-14 orders. The issue of future orders for the F‐I4 is of consummate importance to Gruman, Long Island’s biggest employer, because production now is due to run out by about 1980. The swing‐wing plane — its costs variously put between $13‐million and $20‐million depending on shifting Navy plans on production rates — is deemed, with its Phoenix missiles, to be perhaps the world’s most fearsome fighter. A total of 390 F‐14’s are currently planned for the Navy and 80 more for Iran. Vice Admiral William D. Houser, deputy chief of Naval Operations, said that it would cost about as much to buy 400 F‐18’s as an equal number of F‐14’s because research and development on the basically much cheaper F‐18 must still be carried out. But he stressed that fuel, maintenance and other operating costs of the F‐18 ran 35 to 40 percent less than F‐14 costs.
A one-day work stoppage by Puerto Rico’s unionized civil servants reduced telephone, water, electric and other services in San Juan and hobbled private industry, already hurting from a week-long shipping strike. An estimated 5,000 persons marched to the capital building in the old city. Despite repeated assurances from Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon and legislators that the new civil service law would offer job security and protection against political reprisals, the workers insisted it would leave them at the mercy of their bosses. Meanwhile, the maritime strike left the island with only a few days of food stocks.
U.S. traffic deaths dropped 18% in 1974 because Americans drove less, went slower and were more careful, the Transportation Department said. A report said Americans were traveling as much this year as they did in 1973, but not being killed at the 1973 rate. Traffic accidents killed 45,534 persons in 1974, compared to 55,084 in 1973. That was a reduction of 9,550, or 18%. The report said the lower speed limit contributed to the accident reduction because it meant “more time for the driver to make and carry out his decisions.” It said the United States had a traffic fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles driven of 3.65 in 1974, “by far the lowest in the industrialized world.”
The show business newspaper Variety said ABC newscaster Howard K. Smith kept a close liaison with the Nixon White House over a politically sensitive story uncovered by a network newsman — and then intervened to keep the information from being used on the air. It said the information, in the hands of the Watergate special prosecutor, was expected to become a part of a $3 million breach-of-contract suit filed against ABC by former White House correspondent Bill Gill. Variety said documents detail a 1971 Smith phone call to White House counsel Charles W. Colson concerning a Gill report. on the CIA. Smith denied it. “I don’t have the authority (to kill stories),” he said.
Houston’s City Council has passed a resolution urging parents to forbid their children to participate in Halloween trick-or-treating for candy and other food items. Council members cited the death last Halloween of Timothy Mark O’Bryan, 8, of nearby Deer Park, who died after eating powdered candy laced with cyanide. The boy’s father, Ronald Clark O’Bryan, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Earlier, Deer Park passed a similar resolution. The Houston Council urged instead that civic organizations provide supervised parties for the children.
The Bunge Corporation, a major grain concern, was judged guilty in federal courts in New Orleans and Houston of conspiracy to steal grain and conceal the theft. The company pleaded no contest and agreed to spend more than $2 million in the next three years on procedures to guard against future corruption. It faces possible heavy additional costs from civil suits.
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana agreed to make oil reserves available to independent refiners in the Rocky Mountain region for the next 20 years. The Federal Trade Commission said the settlement averted a threatened monopoly by Standard, fourth largest producer of domestic crude oil, in the Rocky Mountains. The commission had charged that Standard violated antitrust laws last spring with a $225 million deal to purchase oil reserves in Wyoming owned by Pasco, Inc.
Doug Jarvis played his very first National Hockey League game, with two assists for the Montreal Canadiens in a 9–0 win over the Los Angeles Kings, and then appeared in 964 consecutive games to set the NHL record, finishing on October 10, 1987 with a 4–2 loss for the Hartford Whalers against the New York Islanders.
The defending champions of pro basketball’s two rival leagues played in an exhibition game in Louisville, with the ABA Kentucky Colonels beating the NBA champion Golden State Warriors, 93–90. On October 5, 1971, the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks had beaten the ABA’s Utah Stars 122–114.
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