President Ford and the leaders of France, West Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan and possibly Canada will hold a three-day economic conference in France in mid-November. The summit parley was first suggested in July by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France. He said that the Western nations must coordinate their economic policies more closely to deal with inflation, recession, monetary turmoil and relations with the third world. Ford and the leaders of several other major Western nations will hold a three‐day economic summit conference in the Paris area November 15 through 17, it was announced today In Paris and Washington. The precise site of the meeting was not disclosed, but French sources said it would probably be held in the Chateau of Rambouillet, a hunting castle owned by the French Government about 35 miles southwest of Paris. Although the United States, largely through the speeches of Secretary of State Kissinger, has been stressing for months the interdependence of the world’s economies, Washington was initially lukewarm to President Giscard d’Estaing’s proposal for an economic summit.
The award of a Nobel Peace Prize to Andrei D. Sakharov has given his crusade for democratic reform new impetus, cheered his embattled fellow dissidents, and presented the Kremlin with a headache unlike any since Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was expelled 20 months ago. Moscow’s displeasure with the award was indicated today in a commentary by Tass, the official press agency, that assailed Dr. Sakharov as “a man who has taken a stand against his own country and its peaceable policy” and asked, “Who is to profit by this?” Yet before the prize was announced yesterday., the mild‐mannered physicist looked like a problem Soviet authorities could control. The small human‐rights movement that Mr. Sakharov represented had seemed destined for extinction or at the least a state of impotence. Its sparse ranks had been decimated by emigration and exile, by trials and imprisonment. New reprisals were expected. Supporters in the West had seemed to lose interest in the plight of Soviet dissidents as they turned to problems nearer home which many here felt would encourage further repression on the part of the Soviet authorities.
The Department of Agriculture released a new estimate of record wheat and corn harvests that seemed to be large enough to allow resumed sales to the Soviet Union. The sale of American grain to the Soviet Union and Poland was suspended last summer after their large purchases raised fears that American consumers might face a new round of rapidly rising food prices. President Ford immediately lifted the embargo on grain sales to Poland and said at a news conference in Detroit he hoped for agreement soon on resuming long-term sales to the Russians.
Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative party today termed Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s policies a “disaster” and pledged to reverse the Labor party’s economic program. Addressing the final session of the annual Conservative party conference, Mrs. Thatcher said in a major speech that the Labor party’s social welfare programs were floundering, that “empty promises and penal taxation” were ravaging small businesses and that the nation’s values were under siege. To a burst of applause from the 3,000 party delegates, Mrs. Thatcher said: “We are witnessing a deliberate attack on our values, a deliberate attack on those who wish to promote merit and excellence, a deliberate attack on our heritage and our great past.”
The White House and the State Department today announced an $85-million package of emergency economic aid for Portugal after Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes met with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger at the White House and later separately with Mr. Kissinger.
Israel formally signed in Jerusalem the Sinai accord with Egypt, setting in motion her withdrawal from about 1,900 square miles of Egyptian territory within five months. Egypt signed the agreement September 22. In a first step to carry out the accord, the Israeli government surrendered the oil field at Sudr, on the Gulf of Suez, to three American technicians representing Egypt. From today, the 15,000 tons of oil per month pumped from the seven wells at Sudr will be Egyptian. The Jerusalem ceremony and the subsequent transfer of the wells at Sudr represented the culmination of an arduous diplomatic process, that began more than a year ago when Secretary of State Kissinger ‘first began discussions with the two sides on the possibility of achieving a new interim agreement on Sinai.
When news of the final Senate approval on the technicians reached Israel early this morning, a formal signing ceremony was hastily arranged at Government House, the baronial headquarters and Jerusalem residence of the commander of the United Nations forces in the region. Avraham Kidron, director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and Major General Herzl Shafir, chief of the Israeli General Staff, operations branch, signed the document for Israel in a simple 10‐mibute ceremony. Lieutenant General Ensio Siilasvuo, the chief coordinator of the United Nations peace‐keeping missions in the Middle East, signed as a witness.
Viewed through the shimmering heat waves rising off the salt flats, “Outpost Budapest” has the low, hulking shape of a Mayan temple. Its ziggurat profile bristles with slowly twirling radar antennas and thick coils of barbed wire. In the distance, the apartment towers of Port Fuad and Port Said poke into the midday haze. Two years ago this week, this heavily fortified position near the northern entrance of the Suez Canal was the only one of the chain of Israeli outposts known as the Bar Lev line that held out against the surprise Egyptian assault across the canal. Its defenders, led by a controversial reserve captain who later spearheaded the postwar protest movement in Israel, beat back two determined Egyptian attacks. Beyond its obvious strategic value, Budapest has become a symbol in Israel of both the ultimately successful resistance to The Egyptian assault and the protest movements that led to the political downfall of former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and the Government of former Premier Golda Meir.
Influential Arabs in countries other than Egypt have grave misgivings about the Sinai disengagement agreement. They believe it removes Egypt from the Arab front against Israel and is an obstacle to peace rather than a step toward it. Despite disclaimers by Anwar el‐Sadat, the Egyptian President, these, critics — Syrians, Palestinians and Lebanese — contend, that Egypt, the most populous and militarily powerful Arab country, has been broken out of the Arab front. They assert that, with American encouragement a psychological and political demobilization will take place in Egypt, with the result that the average Egyptian will become inward‐looking and no longer concerned with the fate of the Palestinians, which is at the heart of the Arab conflict with Israel. It will take another war to reverse this trend, the critics of the Sinai agreement say. The critics in Damascus and Beirut also charge that neither American nor Israeli attitudes have changed as a result of the agreement. They insist that the publication of the secret American‐Israeli understanding revealed that the United States remained totally committed to Israel, to the point of having given Israel veto power over any contacts between Washington and the Palestinians.
The Islamic Conference, a group of 42 countries with a common religious and cultural heritage, gained permanent observer status in the United Nations today.
Gunmen continued to control the entrances and exits of the Lebanese capital of Beirut today while government officials and Palestinian guerrilla leaders exerted fresh efforts to bring about what Interior Minister Camille Chamoun described as a “decisive end to the crisis.” Clashes in Beirut’s suburbs during the night died down at daybreak but snipers remained active in the Ain el Rummaneh, Chiyah, Sin el Fil and Al Nabaah areas and kept the entire city paralyzed for the 20th day. The police said that 17 bodies were recovered in various parts of the capital today, raising the number of dead in the last three days to 80. The business center was a scene of charred rubble with smoke still rising from buildings and stores blown up or set afire. Lebanese security patrols have taken over in parts of the business district from bands of armed civilians.
Fighting flared this afternoon, with rival Christian and Muslim factions exchanging rocket and mortar fire. In the evening shooting broke out in a suburb of the northern city of Tripoli, and continued 45 minutes. Several mortar shells fell near an army barracks. There were no reports of casualties. The situation in Tripoli was described by the state radio as relatively calm but unsafe because of the large numbers of armed men in the streets. Hopes for a truce rose after a quick trip to Damascus yesterday by Premier Rashid Karami, where he met with President Hafez al‐Assad and Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader. Mr. Arafat came to Beirut with Mr. Karami and took an active role in moves to end the fighting. He met for two hours today with Interior Minister Chamoun who announces later that all parties concerned had agreed to cooperate in restoring order.
A parliamentary committee of South Korea’s National Assembly today approved a motion seeking to oust an opposition legislator who criticized president Park Chung Hee and his policies on the assembly floor early this week. If it passes the lull session successfully sometime next week, Representative Kim Ok Son, a member of the minority New Democratic party, will be the first National Assembly member in this country’s history to lose a seat for a political attack on the government. The government supporters in the Assembly appeared confident, however, that they could get the two‐thirds majority necessary to deprive Miss Kim of her seat.
Ten Chilean and Brazilian refugees freed five hostages tonight from a United Nations office and later boarded an airliner with seven of their relatives for a flight toward asylum in Algeria.
Soldiers from Mozambique killed a white Rhodesian and wounded another in an ambush just inside Rhodesian territory, the government said today. The incident, reported to have occured yesterday, was the first evident involvement of newly independent Mozambique in the nearly three-year-old guerrilla war in Rhodesia. A statement from the Rhodesian security forces headquarters said that in follow‐up operations Rhodesian troops were believed to have killed one of the attackers and to have wounded others. Mozambique’s President, Samora M. Machel, who led his country to independence from Portugal last June 25, has often declared his support or African insurgents seeking black majority rule in Rhodesia.
President Ford, accelerating his attack on what he called a “can’t-do Congress,” said here tonight that his plan to cut both taxes and Government spending next year would offer special help to lower-and middle-income Americans.” At a news conference and a Republican fund‐raising dinner in Cobo Hall in Detroit, the President sought to generate political pressure on Congress to go along with both elements of the tax‐ and spending‐cut plan he outlined Monday. He said that the proposal to enact permanently the $17-billion of temporary 1975 tax cuts, along with $11‐billion in new tax reductions would give greatest assistance to “the hard‐working, industrious people who deserve a tax break.” Congressional complaints that it was not possible now to set a $395‐billion spending ceiling for the fiscal year that begins on October 1, 1977, he added, amounted to “whining and whimpering” and prompted him to tell aides, “That sounds like a can’t‐do Congress.”
Financial pressures are taking a toll on the large field of 1976 Democratic presidential contenders, threatening to narrow the race even before the election year begins. Financial reports filed with the Federal Election Commission showed that Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, Representative Morris Udall of Arizona and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina spent more than they received in the third quarter of the year.
Senator John G. Tower, Republican of Texas, announced today that President Ford had agreed to meet with “antibusing leaders in Congress to discuss how to stop the courts from ordering the busing of school children to achieve racial balance. Mr. Tower said that he had asked for the. White House meeting to discuss a constitutional amendment he is proposing. The amendment would say: “The right of students to attend the public school nearest to their place of residence shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin.”
The police chief of suburban Jefferson County in Kentucky said today that he had made a “strong recommendation” to the Secret Service last week that a planned visit to Louisville by President Ford be canceled because of possible security risks posed by crowds of antibusing demonstrators. Mr. Ford had planned to speak here next Thursday night at a $100‐a‐plate fundraiser for Robert Gable, the Republican candidate for governor in next month’s election. In his news conference last night, the President said that the appearance had been called off and cited the sometimes tumultuous antibusing climate here as the reason.
Governor George Wallace of Alabama is to travel to Europe today on a two-week fact-finding journey that he hopes will convince voters that he is healthy enough to run for president and is well informed on international, as well as national, issues. Mr. Wallace, who, aides say, is nearing the time when he will officially announce his fourth candidacy for the Presidency, plans to visit the capitals of Britain, Belgium, Italy, West Germany and France. He also will stop in West Berlin and in Edinburgh, the Scottish city from which some of his ancestors came. In most countries, the Governor plans to meet with top national leaders, but the list was not complete late today. His first stop will be in London, where he will see Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
The Justice Department argued in an unusual brief filed in the Supreme Court late today that the Federal Elections Commission should not have been given power to enforce campaign laws because it is a branch of Congress. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork argued that it was too early for a true constitutional test because the commission had not created a live issue by trying to use its broad campaign police powers. But Mr. Bork said that if the Supreme Court did make a ruling on other issues relating to the commission, it should also decide that Congress in the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act gave the commission powers the Constitution reserves for the executive branch of government.
The Congressional Budget Office said that an effort to force New York City rapidly toward a balanced budget would speed the exodus of businesses and middle- and upper-income families from the city. A 34-page analysis also said that the effort would make it harder for the city to finance even a trimmed level of public services and suggested that the state or federal government pay some expenses, particularly welfare payments, now borne by the city.
William Proxmire of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said after a hearing that support in the Senate for federal aid to New York City was “gaining momentum.”
Treasury Secretary William Simon acknowledged that a crucial element of his plan to meet the city’s financial plight — a moratorium, or stretching out of the city’s debt — would require a change in the country’s bankruptcy law.
Opposing legal briefs were filed in Superior Court in Morristown, New Jersey today in the fight over the life of Karen Anne Quinlan, the young woman in a coma. The state contended that removal of the respirator sustaining her breathing could constitute homicide; her parents asserted that she had the right to die; the hospital she is in asked for immunity from prosecution in any suits, and the physicians attending her questioned whether any court had any right to intervene at all. Miss Quinlan, 21 years old, has been in a coma for six months. Her physicians say her condition is irreversible and her parents have petitioned the Superior Court for permission to remove the respirator.
Mayor Beame’s administration got an oral pledge from the regional office of the federal Labor Department for funds to rehire more than 2,000 municipal workers who have been laid off. Those to be rehired are expected to include 450 sanitation men, 100 Parks Department laborers, 688 para-professionals in the schools and 800 participants in a federal job-training program.
The New York City Budget Bureau estimated that it would cost the city $66.4 million to buy and rehabilitate Yankee Stadium. That is $42.4 million more than the original estimate made in 1971 by Mayor John Lindsay and nearly $10 million more than has already been spent.
With a police helicopter overhead and police sharpshooters patrolling rooftops, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako took a fast tour of rain-drenched San Francisco yesterday just like any tourists with an 18car motorcade. JapaneseAmerican speakers recalled that the first 12 Japanese immigrants to this country arrived there in 1867, and one stop for the visitors was the city’s new Nihon-Machi, or Japan Center, a high-rise housing and commercial complex with a peace pagoda.
“Airmail” was ended in the U.S. as a separate form of mailing letters domestically and internationally, bringing a close to an era when delivery would be made more quickly by paying additional postage to guarantee that the mail would be carried by airplane, rather than by train or truck, to its destination. By 1975, the U.S. Postal Service was transporting all interzone mail by airplane.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remarried, with a civil ceremony taking place in the African nation of Botswana. Although their first marriage lasted from 1964 to 1974, the second union would end in 1976.
Ken Russell’s surreal biographical musical comedy film “Lisztomania”, starring Roger Daltrey as 19th-century Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, and soundtrack arranged by progressive rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman, premieres
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Born:
Plácido Polanco, Dominican MLB second baseman, third baseman, and shortstop (All-Star, 2007, 2011; St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, Miami Marlins), in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Died:
Norman Levinson, 63, American mathematician.
Lillian Walker, 88, American film actress (“An Embarrassment of Riches”).
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