Soviet negotiators, according to Ford administration sources, have rejected American requests to buy Soviet oil at a major discount from international prices. As a result, the sources said, prospects for an oil sales accord are dim. The disagreement is said to involve public relations and politics. In particular, Moscow is understood to be wary of doing anything that might seem to undercut Arab oil states and thereby cast doubt on its reliability as an ally of the Arabs.
U.S.-Soviet grain talks in Moscow recessed without agreement but with the Russians publicly admitting for the first time that their 1975 crop had been ravaged by drought. Charles A. Robinson, undersecretary of state for economic affairs, flew to Paris but he said he would be back Tuesday or Wednesday to resume negotiations for a long-term agreement to stabilize American grain shipments.
Sixty persons were wounded and more than 120 detained last night and early today in fighting, mainly between rival extreme left factions, that raged through the night in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto. The 120 were detained by soldiers who did not respond to the violence until three hours after shooting and stoning had begun. Then the troops had difficulty establishing control. In Lisbon early this morning, after a session that lasted more than 14 hours, the High Council of the Revolution announced its firm support of the government’s “efforts to solve the national crisis” and said it “vehemently condemns the acts of grauitous violence.”
British troops backed by armor and helicopters sealed the border with the Irish Republic in a major drive against the outlawed Irish Republican Army. British army officials said they picked up about 30 suspects in an overnight dragnet but released all but three after interrogation. Hundreds of British soldiers moved into the hilly South Armagh area, long an IRA stronghold, after two booby-trap ambushes of army patrols killed one soldier and injured four others.
The Spanish army said it turned 11 Basque terrorists over to a civilian court which — according to legal sources — released them for lack of evidence. Observers said the army may be trying to avoid the responsibility of trying and sentencing suspected terrorists because of the outcry last month over the execution of five terrorists convicted of killing policemen. Meanwhile, Spain gave a U.S. newsman, Joel Leslie Gandelman, a part-time correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and Newsweek magazine, five days to leave.
The Roman Catholic Church is withholding endorsement of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his government at a critical time. Churchmen have been conspicuously absent from government-sponsored rallies to combat a terrorist challenge at home and criticism abroad of the government’s repression of dissenters. General Franco ignored repeated appeals by Pope Paul VI for clemency for five convicted terrorists, who were later executed. Spain’s bishops have deplored excessive repression as “violence.”
A bid by a West German concern for a contract to build a nuclear power plant in South Africa has raised the possibility of new controversy over the Government’s policy on exporting nuclear equipment and technology. The Government will not have to decide whether to permit the sale, estimated at $720‐million, and grant an export credit unless Kraftwerk Union of Frankfort actually wins the contract next spring for the 1,000‐megawatt plant. A French company, Framatome, and the Swiss‐American General Electric‐Brown Boveri group are also bidding. Some members of the Bonn Government, including Research Minister Hans Mathöfer, have said they support the sale on economic grounds. At the same time the African National Congress, a black South African opposition group; has demanded in a setter to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that West German nuclear cooperation with South Africa be stopped.
A study of congressional views on foreign relations showed that members of the House strongly supported the United Nations and favored its peace-keeping operations, especially in the Middle East and Cyprus. However, the study also showed that most Representatives felt that the influence of the United Nations on American foreign policy was decreasing.
After a night of fierce clashes in the suburbs in which 40 people were reported wounded, a brief peace fell over Beirut today, only to be marred by shooting that erupted during what was to have been a peace meeting. The clash, which left one man dead and four wounded, upset moves toward ending three weeks of fighting. It occurred when a delegation from the Christian‐dominated Ain el Rummaneh district visited the Muslim neighborhood of Chiyah for a reconciliation meeting that had been arranged by a joint committee of Lebanese security officers and Palestinian guerrillas. The combatants on both sides had agreed to allow Lebanese security forces to move into the area to remove roadblocks and barricades. Members of the conciliation committee, led by Danny Chamoun, son of Interior Minister Camille Chamoun, supervised the operation. They also decided that delegations from both districts should visit each other to seal the reconciliation.
A brief mood of jubilation was marred by an argument between members of the delegation from Ain el Rummaneh and armed men from Chiyan. The argument led to shooting. A man believed to have been a member of the Christian right‐wing Phalangist party was killed, and four others were wounded. The two groups were separated but armed men took to the streets again and the removal of barricades was suspended. The Phalangist party has insisted that the man responsible for the killing be handed over to the authorities. A new ceasefire has been arranged in the northern port of Tripoli, and the situation there was reported to be generally calm.
Although the State Department said it knew nothing of a prospective meeting between President Ford and Syrian President Hafez Assad, the White House left open the possibility that the meeting might take place next month in Europe. The meeting apparently would be held after Mr. Ford attends a seven-nation economic summit gathering in France in mid-November. Initial word of the Ford-Assad meeting came from Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, quoted in a Cairo newspaper.
Both North and South Vietnam today criticized an American plan to send back 1,600 South Vietnamese refugees who have asked to return to their homeland. The refugees are at present on the island of Guam and American authorities earlier announced that the Vietnamese ship Thuong Tin was being made ready for them to sail to South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government has said the United States has no right to send the refugees back without its agreement. The North Vietnamese Communist party daily, Nhan Dan, said that the United States was intent on “violating once again the sovereignty of Vietnam.”
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, who has been ill for a almost 18 months, has received no foreign visitors in more than a month, indicating that his health may have deteriorated. The 77‐year‐old Premier, who was China’s chief executive officer for a quarter of a century, had been in a Peking hospital for treatment of an undisclosed illness. He has been variously reported suffering from heart disease and from stomach cancer. Until early last month, however, Mr. Chou was well enough to continue receiving heads of state and other foreign dignitaries in his hospital. He had been scheduled to see Edward Heath, the former British Prime Minister, on September 21, but Chinese officials told Mr. Heath that Mr. Chou’s doctors had canceled the meeting. Mr. Chou has shaped a government administration — headed by Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping — to insure a smooth transition if anything happened to him.
Indonesia raised the price of Sumatran light crude oil from the Minas oil field by 20 cents, to $12.80 a barrel, considerably less than the 10% boost set by the international oil cartel to which Indonesia belongs. Increases for other kinds of Indonesian crude will depend on their quality, harbor facilities and other conditions, a spokesman for the state-owned Pertamina Oil Corp. said.
Timor’s leftist revolutionary front set up a transitional administration here today to run the economic affairs of this war‐damaged Portuguese colony. The move came two months after the civil strife broke out in Portuguese Timor. The revolutionary front, also known as Fretilin, says it now controls the territory after a series of battles with other movements.
Sixteen Chilean refugees and their Brazilian leader arrived by plane in Algiers from Buenos Aires, where 10 of the refugees had released hostages they had held for 55 hours. Algeria offered the refugees temporary asylum. While at the Rome airport on the way to Algeria, Humberto Bernardo Cortes, one of the Chileans, said the group had acted to protest desperate conditions for refugees in Argentina.
President Isabel Martinez de Perón was preparing today to resume power in Argentina after a month‐long rest in Northern Córdoba province. A spokesman for the interim president, Italo Luder, the Senate speaker who took over the presidency on September 13. said last night that Mrs. Perón, 44 years old, would return from her leave of absence next week. The official statement coincided with an army announcement that 13 left‐wing guerrillas and one soldier had been killed in a clash in Tucumán province, 940 miles north of here. Informed sources said today that the guerrillas were cut down by machine‐gun fire from three helicopter gunships called in by infantry. A gunner aboard one of the helicopters was killed by the guerrillas. The official announcement that Mrs. Perón will definitely return next week surprised observers who noted the feeling of an influential sector of the ruling Peronist movement and key military men that he should prolong her absence because of doubts that she had the physical and mental stamina to lead the country out of its social, economic and political crises.
Ethiopia’s revolutionary government is arresting many suspected opponents, with military patrols on foot and in jeeps criss-crossing Addis Ababa day and night. A state of emergency has been in effect in the capital and surrounding region for more than a month and martial law also prevails in the province of Eritrea, where a separatist movement is waging guerrilla warfare. At least 64 persons were reported killed in one battle. Diplomats there conclude that the military and socialist regime is embattled throughout the country. The official government press reported that “four terrorists” were killed Wednesday in a gunfight in the city of Asmara, one of the government’s principal remaining strongholds in Eritrea.
Chad’s ruling higher military council asked the International Red Cross today to “refrain from any intervention” in attempts to free the French ethnologist, Francoise Claustre, from rebels in north eastern Chad. Red Cross approaches have been requested by the French Government in an effort to obtain the release of Mrs. Claustre a nostage of Toubou tribe insurgents for the last 18 months. A Government communiqué issued here overnight said France had “knowingly torpedoed negotiations” undertaken by Chad’s ruling council that “would result in Mrs. Claustre’s freedom.” The statement accused Paris of violating Chad air space and of delivering “war material” to the rebels, “thereby endangering the lives of thousands of Chadians.” The council asserted that Mrs. Claustre was not a prisoner of war but a hostage.
Americans should get a $37 billion income tax cut next year without a parallel cut in government spending, a report by the Senate Budget Committee staff said. Federal revenue will grow enough in the next five years to allow for a $20 billion cut on top of an extension of this year’s $17 billion tax cut into fiscal 1976, the study said. It said the increased tax cut was needed to “counter current high levels of unemployment.” It did not refer directly to President Ford’s demand that Congress restrict spending to $395 billion in fiscal 1976 to go along with his proposed $28 billion tax cut. But it said predicted government receipts caused by increased personal and corporate income between now and 1980 “would fully replace those lost in a sizable tax reduction.”
A new conservative organization, the Committee for the New Majority. has been formed by supporters of George C. Wallace and Ronald Reagan with the goal of enabling a third-party presidential candidate to get on the ballot in all 50 states next year. Its chairman, William A. Rusher, publisher of the National Review and a Reagan-for-President advocate, said the committee was a direct outgrowth of a Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington in February under the leadership of Senator Jesse A. Helms (R-North Carolina). The new group’s vice chairman is Eli Howell, a consultant to Wallace. In a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the committee reported three $1,000 contributions.
Vice President Rockefeller called for speedy federal intervention to aid New York City once Mayor Beame and the new agency that oversees the city’s finances enact a program to show how the city will end its budget deficit by 1978. In an address in Manhattan, Mr. Rockefeller went beyond his previous position on the city’s fiscal plight and well beyond a statement made by President Ford last week. Spokesmen for both men said that Mr. Rockefeller was speaking for himself and that his speech reflected no change in Mr. Ford’s views.
The prospect that Congress will eventually pass legislation to rescue New York City from financial collapse seems to be gaining, but there is not yet enough strength for such a bill to be approved. That is the conclusion derived from dozens of interviews with Senators and Representatives, staff members, lobbyists and observers on Capitol Hill. Many influential members of Congress believe that some form of aid to the city will be passed, but only with support from President Ford, who is not flatly committed to vetoing such a measure.
Presidents Nixon and Johnson reportedly got private reports from the National Security Agency on what prominent Americans were doing and saying overseas, apparently obtained from electronic bugging. Present and former government officials told The New York Times that the reports were not related to national security and did not go to the presidents through regular intelligence channels. Instead, the sources said, they were sent directly from the agency to the presidents and marked for “White House distribution only” to prevent their being circulated to other intelligence agencies. The security agency declined comment on the allegations, which are under investigation by both Senate and House committees.
Acceptance of integration in schools has grown sharply among parents since 1963, according to a Gallup Poll survey. Twelve years ago, 78% of white parents polled in the South and 33% in the North objected to sending their children to schools in which half of the students were black. In the most recent survey, 38% in the South and 24% in the North objected. Nationally, only 4% choose busing as the preferred means of racially integrating schools.
The grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan called the Klan’s 71-year-old imperial wizard “senile” after the wizard banished him and the grand dragons of four other states. Wizard James R. Venable of Atlanta said he had taken the action because the five had been conspiring against him and taking in members who were “not morally fit.” The Maryland dragon, Tony LaRicci, 47, a Baltimore factory worker, said Venable was getting too old and “should retire.” Also banished were the Klan leaders of North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and New Jersey.
A 17-year-old Ohio youth, kept alive by machines for nearly three weeks after doctors said his brain had died and in spite of his parents request that he be allowed to die, has been declared legally dead. Elyria Memorial Hospital, which had rejected the request of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carmen to end life support and let their son “die mercifully,” said Randal Carmen had died at 2:55 AM. Saturday. He had lapsed into a coma September 21 after being struck on the head during a neighborhood football game. Carmen said he had asked his attorney to pursue legal action to spare others from “going through what we’ve been through.”
The top prosecutors of 17 states have asked the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit the advertising of over-the-counter drugs on television until after 9 PM on the ground that such ads lead to drug abuse among children. The Attorneys General charged that the present system of voluntary controls adopted by the government last year had failed to protect the millions of young people who watch TV in the afternoon and early evening. Drug and TV industry spokesmen contend that a link between drug advertising and drug abuse has not been proved.
The Civil Service Commission, which is charged with insuring that government jobs are awarded on merit, has run a political referral system for such jobs, according to testimony by a commission official. In a sworn deposition, the official, Charles Ryan, testified that from 1969 to 1971 he processed job references from members of Congress, White House officials and even commissioners in his agency.
Organized crime has heavily infiltrated the pornographic movie business and is amassing huge profits from such successes as “Deep Throat,” “The Devil in Miss Jones” and “Wet Rainbow.” An inquiry by The New York Times has found that Mafia money and Mafia members are involved in many aspects of the business, including the financing and distribution of movies and the ownership of some theaters.
Tens of thousands of Vietnamese youngsters, with little knowledge of English, have begun entering public schools in the United States. Bilingual teaching materials are scarce and few adults with Vietnamese language skills have been hired to help. Yet, a New York Times study shows, the children have distinguished themselves for their ability to equal and surpass American pupils in mathematics and for the respect they show their teachers, who, under Vietnamese tradition, are outranked in esteem only by royalty.
Parts of the United States are sinking, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey, and the problem is expected to increase as greater supplies of underground water and petroleum are tapped in future decades. The report said that at least 4,300 square miles of land in the San Joaquin Valley in California have sunk more than a foot since the 1920s and the area around Baytown, Texas, near Houston more than eight feet in the same period. Other areas being affected are parts of Louisiana, Arizona and Nevada. Although the damage is permanent, a spokesman for the survey said the sinking can be slowed or stopped by such things as artificial recharges to replace withdrawn water or oil. But he said there is no way to raise the land back to its original level.
Lord Mountbatten, now 75, sat in his hotel suite in San Francisco and discussed with a reporter the famous men he has known. “If I had the power to raise them from the dead, I’d bring back Winston (Churchill) and Noel Coward,” the statesman said. “How the sparks would fly.” Mountbatten, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, supreme Allied commander in Southeast Asia during World War II and Britain’s last viceroy in India, had praise for President Harry S Truman also. “You knew Truman was the President and not a sort of shadow,” Mountbatten said. “He knew his stuff in the most extraordinary way.”
Bill Clinton, 29, and Hillary Rodham, 27, both professors at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, were married at their home on 930 West California Drive.
NBC aired the first episode of “Saturday Night Live.” Comedian George Carlin was the first host, and Billy Preston and Janis Ian were the first musical guests.
New York Islanders’ Bryan Trottier’s first career hat trick.
1975 World Series, Game One:
Boston’s Luis Tiant shuts down the Big Red Machine and scores the first run as the Red Sox win the opening game of the 1975 World Series, 6–0. The Sox score all their runs in the 7th. Ace pitchers Luis Tiant and Don Gullett were locked in a scoreless duel until the seventh inning. Tiant led off with a single and later scored Boston’s first run on a single by Carl Yastrzemski. Then the floodgates opened: Reds reliever Clay Carroll walked Carlton Fisk to force in a run, Rico Petrocelli slapped a two-run single, Rick Burleson had an RBI single, and Cecil Cooper ended the scoring with a sacrifice fly. Tiant finished with a five-hitter against a team that had scored an MLB-high 840 runs during the regular season. Ump Nick Colosi calls a balk on Tiant — for an illegal use of his leg.
Cincinnati Reds 0, Boston Red Sox 6
Born:
Nat Faxon, American actor (“Ben and Kate”), in Boston, Massachusetts.
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