Secretary of State Kissinger said that 90 percent of the arrangements for a new accord with the Russians on limiting strategic arms had been concluded and that prospects were good for a full accord in a few months. Mr. Kissinger apparently took as optimistic a view as possible of the arms‐limitation talks, which have been more complicated and drawn out than President Ford or Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist leader, expected in Vladivostok a year ago. At their Vladivostok meeting the two leaders agreed on the framework for the new accord — that each side would have, in a new long‐term pact curbing offensive weapons, a maximum of 2,400 “strategic‐delivery vehicles” — bombers and missiles — and of that total, 1,320 of the missiles could have multiple independently targetable warheads, or MIRV’s. Their final communiqué said “favorable prospects exist for completing the work on this agreement in 1975.”
The U.S. Navy is declining in power, the chief of naval operations, Admiral John Holloway, said in an interview in U.S. News and World Report. He said the Navy could control the Atlantic to supply a war in Europe but that the situation would be far different in the Sea of Japan and the Mediterranean if the Soviet Union decided to intervene.
Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union for U.S. purchase of Russian oil have been interrupted for an energy conference in Paris, with the issue of prices and quantity unresolved, knowledgeable Administration energy sources report. The New York Times said in its Sunday editions that the Soviet Union had rejected a U.S. proposal to buy the oil at substantial reductions from international prices. Charles W. Robinson, representing the United States at the Moscow talks, left the Soviet Union Saturday to head the Producers-Consumers Energy Conference. One source, when asked if the Soviet Union had rejected a U.S. bid for a significant price break, said: “I don’t want to talk about specifics. The negotiations are still going on.”
Oliver Plunkett (1629–1681), the martyred Primate of All Ireland, was proclaimed a saint in the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Paul VI. Plunkett was the first Irishman to be canonized since the 13th century, when Laurence O’Toole had attained sainthood in 1225 AD. Pope Paul VI canonized Oliver Plunkett, an Irish archbishop who was executed by the British in 1681 on a charge of treason. Speaking in English at a mass in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope asked on behalf of the Irish people for “the precious gift of peace, so urgently needed today.”
Turkey held midterm parliamentary elections that could influence the political future of Cyprus and Ankara’s relations with Washington. Early returns indicated that the governing party was running about even with or slightly behind its leading challenger. For months Premier Suleyman Demirel has insisted that he could make no concessions on Cyprus, where Turkish troops still occupy 40 per cent of the territory, until today’s balloting was over and Congress lifted the arms embargo against Turkey. The embargo was ended last week and Washington and Ankara’s other allies are now expecting Mr. Demirel to compromise on the issue.
Doctors, plumbers aad a wide variety of other skilled Britons are emigrating this year in perhaps even greater numbers than aerospace experts did to the United States during the “brain drain” a decade ago. Companies that recruit Britons for work overseas attributed the exodus to the Labor Party Government’s avowed commitment to socialism; to British taxes, which are among the highest in the world, and to deep‐seated economic difficulties.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat confirmed death sentences on two men convicted of plotting to overthrow his government. The two, Saleh Abdallah Sarreya, a Palestinian. and Karem Anadoli, an Egyptian student, were sentenced for their role in an attack on the nation’s technical military academy in April, 1974. Eleven persons were killed and 27 wounded. Sadat commuted the death sentence on a third man, Tallal Ansari, also an Egyptian student, to hard labor for life. The three were among 92 persons tried.
A severe cholera epidemic is striking Bangladesh, which had an outbreak last year that was the worst in the territory’s recent history. Dr. George T. Curtin, an American epidemiologist, said in an interview that the admission rate at the hospital of the Cholera Research Laboratory here in recent days indicated that the epidemic could be more severe than last year’s. Then, there was extensive flooding in this densely populated country of 75 million inhabiting what was formerly East Pakistan. The epidemic is developing as the laboratory, which has won an international reputation for pioneering a simple life‐saving treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases, is trying to formulate a simple home remedy to reduce their toll.
An angry mob of Cambodians lynched General Lon Non, younger brother of President Lon Nol of the defeated Khmer republic, soon after victorious Khmer Rouge troops marched into Phnom Penh on April 17, it has been reported in Peking. Premier Long Boret and other government leaders were shot by firing squads, Cambodian head of state Norodom Sihanouk was told during his visit to the Cambodian capital last month. Members of Sihanouk’s entourage who returned to Peking described Phnom Penh as a “dead city.” estimating its population at no more than 50,000 now.
Another 1,200 Quebec nurses walked off the job, joining 6,800 others in a three-day wildcat strike that has left the Canadian province’s major hospitals with only emergency services. Quebec nurses, with starting salaries of $591 a month, have demanded the same pay as Ontario nurses, who earn $1,045 a month.
Legal proceedings were abandoned in Quito against 27 Ecuadorean army officers accused of taking part in an armed rebellion against the government. Eight of the accused-two generals and six colonels-and two defense lawyers were exiled to Panama; 19 others were set free. Twentytwo people died in the Aug. 31 rebellion.
Five crewmen of a Panamanian cargo ship were held under armed guard aboard another vessel off Florida after one of them reportedly admitted killing his captain and three other officers during a mutiny on the high seas. Manfred Opperman, captain of the West German ship that rescued them after their 220-foot vessel sank northeast of Cuba, said one man apparently killed the officers and the other crewmen went along with the plot. The crewmen, drifting in a liferaft, were rescued after a Coast Guard plane spotted the survivors and radioed the West German ship, the Lalli, to change course and pick them up.
The Ford Administration has told Chile that the United States will attend a proposed assembly of the Organization of American States in Santiago next year only if the Chileans cooperate with an international investigation of human rights. The setting of this condition was approved last week by Secretary of State Kissinger, Administration officials said. The Chilean military Government sent invitations last month to 24 members of the O.A.S. proposing that its next annual general assembly take place in Santiago. The initial reaction of a number of Latirt American and Caribbean countries to the invitation was extremely cold, especially because of their conviction that Chile tricked them out of an international investigation of human rights last spring, the officials said.
Just about every Argentine is asking whether Isabel Martinez de Perón will return from her month’s leave of absence and resume an active presidency. There are countries in which the answers to important political questions are not clearcut. In Argentina nowadays not even the questions can be phrased in a straightforward manner. When Mr. Perón took her vacation amid mounting terrorism, political dissension within her own party, a deteriorating economy and her own failing health, did she do so voluntarily or was she really squeezed out by the maneuverings of high officials in her own Government, as a number of political observers suggested? When Senator Italo Luder, a moderate Peronist, took over as interim President, did he believe, as he asserted, that Mrs. Perlin would return? If so, why did he feel he had the authority to dismiss the Ministers of Defense and Interior, as well as the presidential secretary, and declare a new and open style of politics? So the key question now is really, can Mrs. Perón hope to hold on to the presidency if she decides to return to Government House, as her spokesmen are now saying, by Friday?
Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa tonight rejected charges by Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia that he was to blame for the failure of recent attempts at peace between Rhodesian blacks and whites. Mr. Vorster said he had decided to take the initiative only after talks between Mr. Smith’s, white minority government and black nationalist leaders had ireached a deadlock. In a British television interview over the weekend Mr Smith said South Africa had blocked a possible settlement. “I go so far as to say that believe that if this new initiative had not been taken by Mr. Vorster, I believe we would have had a settlement by now,” Mr. Smith added.
President Ford attended church for the first time since two assassination attempts were made against him. Accompanied by Mrs. Ford and daughter Susan, the President drove two blocks from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church and sat on the aisle in a seventh-row pew with Secret Service agents sitting behind him. Mr. Ford chose not to shake hands with well-wishers but paused to wave to the crowd before departing. Aides said the President passed up the opportunity to play golf in order to work in the Oval Office and prepare for the week.
Two of Congress’ economic leaders criticized President Ford’s proposed $28 billion tax cut, saying it should not be made permanent and predicting it would not win congressional approval. Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said Mr. Ford’s proposal came at the start of the 1976 election year and sought to delay spending cuts until just before the November election. Proxmire spoke on ABC’s “Issues and Answers.” On the same program, Rep. George H. Mahon (D-Texas), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the proposed tax cut was too large. Both agreed that spending cuts could be made, especially in defense spending.
Senator Charles H. Percy (R-Illinois) has complained to Labor Secretary John T. Dunlop about long delays in the initial payment of unemployment compensation. Percy said in South Carolina 73% of new claimants waited. 28 days or longer in August for their first check. In Virginia, the figure was 64%, in Arizona, 61%, and in Wyoming, 58%. The unemployment program, Percy told Dunlop in a letter dated October 8, “is bogged down today by administrative footdragging, reams of red tape and a cavalier attitude toward the needs of the unemployed.” Percy said his own state was one of the worst offenders, with the first check delayed for more than 28 days for 55% of claimants.
In addition to their other problems, the nation’s business leaders have been told they should also worry about the future of democracy and free enterprise. Daniel P. Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the Business Council at its meeting in Hot Springs, Virginia, there were only about two dozen democracies and two dozen free enterprise countries remaining in the world. He said that represented a big decline compared to a quarter of a century ago. “Democracies are becoming a recessive form of government, like monarchies used to be-something the world is moving from, rather than to,” Moynihan said. One of the reasons for the decline, he said, was “the success of Marxism.”
Defense Secretary James Schlesinger set the stage for a defense budget battle in the Senate. In a letter to a Senate committee chairman, Mr. Schlesinger urged the Senate to approve a budget $2.6 billion higher than the $90.2 billion bill approved by the House. Mr. Schlesinger warned in a private letter to Senator John L. McClellan, Arkansas Democrat who is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, that House reductions in the Administration defense budget would provide “the lowest defense program in a quarter of a century” and continue a “dangerous” downward trend in resources available to the military services. The Schlesinger letter establishes the framework for an unusual battle shaping up in the Senate over the size of the defense budget for the current fiscal year. It will be a confrontation between the Senate Appropriations Committee, a traditional bastion of power, which has tended to support the cause of the Defense Department, and the Budget Committee, which will be seeking to defend the new budgetary procedures of Congress.
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan has contracted for his five-minute daily radio commentary to be heard over the Mutual radio network of more than 1,300 affiliated stations, starting October 20. The show, “Viewpoint,” now heard over 300 stations, would have to be dropped by Reagan should he become a presidential candidate, as now expected, because of the equal-time provision. But a spokesman said conservative guest commentators — such as Julie Nixon Eisenhower, William F. Buckley, Art Linkletter, John Wayne, Efram Zimbalist Jr. and Reagan’s daughter, Maureen — would sub for him.
As Emperor Hirohito spent the last full day of his official visit to the United States in Hawaii, thousands of his subjects took photographs of memorials to Americans killed at Pearl Harbor by Japanese pilots almost 34 years ago. Hawaii has become the main destination for Japanese tourists, and heavy Japanese investments in the islands have caused controversy and debate.
Broadway musicians voted to accept a new contract and end a 25-day strike that had darkened a dozen. theaters and lost $3.5 million in ticket sales. Show producers approved the agreement. The strike, the longest walkout ever to hit the Great White Way, put hundreds of singers, dancers, barmen and restaurant employees out of work. A union spokesman said members would return to shows according to their schedules beginning today. The new contract calls for a $90 weekly salary increase spread over three years. The old minimum was $290 a week. The number of musicians in each orchestra also was subject to certain long-term adjustments.
Tests given in the last six years as part of the largest federal education research project show males outscoring females in academic achievement. However, women showed a consistently higher achievement than men in writing and music.
Mankind’s use of underground resources is causing land to sink in some parts of the country in ways that are proving expensive and at times dangerous, according to experts of the Geological Survey. Most of the sinking results from the massive withdrawal of water, oil or gas from wells.
Oregon has “almost become a four-letter word” to the container industry since its ban on throwaway bottles went into effect — but such a ban could be enacted nationally if an independent study of the idea shows that benefits offset the costs, Assistant Federal Energy Administrator Roger W. Sant said in an address to members of the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Sant, assistant administrator for conservation and environment, said the independent study has now been completed and is being reviewed by FEA. He promised that the study would be “meticulously” assessed before FEA takes a position on a throwaway ban.
A rare species of birch tree, thought to have been extinct for nearly 50 years, was found by a botanist near Sugar Grove, Virginia. Douglas W. Ogle, a teacher at Virginia Highlands Community College, said he found the grove of round leaf birch in a high mountain valley. The trees have been positively identified by officials at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. The trees are on private land, but officials of the nearby Jefferson National Forest said efforts will be made to protect them.
Farmers trying to exterminate prairie dogs in southwestern Wyoming could cause coyotes to prey more heavily on cattle and sheep, a federal Bureau of Land Management biologist said. He warned farmers campaigning to exterminate the blacktailed prairie dog that coyotes prey on prairie dogs. “Attacks on livestock are lessened when there is natural prey in the area,” the biologist said.
Whether birds of a different feather will flock together is being studied and the result could advance the cause of whooping cranes, near extinction with only 49 known adults left in the wild. Six young whooping cranes, hatched and reared by sandhill cranes after their eggs were snatched from nesting grounds by wildlife officials in Canada, are now en route, migrating with the sandhills, to central New Mexico. The hope is the six will stay with the sandhills instead of following the usual whooping crane migration route, winding up in Texas. “If it works, it will be one of the most important techniques ever developed in the conservation of an endangered species,” said a U.S. Fish and Wildlife specialist.
The Willow Creek Community Church, which would become one of the first Christian megachurches (averaging 24,000 attendees per weekend in later years), held its first service, at a movie theater in Palatine, Illinois.
American Jacqueline Hansen runs women’s world record marathon 2:38:19 in the Nike OTC Marathon, Eugene, Oregon
1975 World Series, Game Two:
Down 2–1 in the 9th inning, the Reds rally to win the 2nd game, 3–2. Game 2 proved to be a very pivotal game as the Reds were on the brink of being down two games before rallying for victory in the ninth inning. Red Sox starter Bill Lee held the Reds to four hits and a run through eight innings. Johnny Bench led off the ninth with a double to right field. Lee was then replaced by right-handed closer Dick Drago. Bench moved to third on a groundout by Tony Pérez. After George Foster popped out for the second out, Dave Concepción hit a clutch single up the middle that Boston second baseman Denny Doyle fielded behind second base, but had no play at first as Bench scored to tie the game. After Concepcion stole second base, Ken Griffey hit a double into left-center field scoring Concepcion with the game-winner. Rawly Eastwick retired the Sox in the ninth to get the win and even the series. The Reds’ only other run scored in the fourth when Joe Morgan walked, went to third on a Bench single, and scored on a Pérez force out. The Red Sox sandwiched the Reds’ run with single tallies of their own in the first inning on an RBI single by Carlton Fisk, and in the sixth on an RBI single by Rico Petrocelli.
Cincinnati Reds 3, Boston Red Sox 2
NFL Football:
Richie Szaro, whose greatest football success came a New York schoolboy, played his first game in the National Football League yesterday and kicked a 20‐yard field goal with 22 seconds to play, giving the New Orleans Saints 20–19 victory over the Green Bay Packers at the Superdome. The Saints came back from a second-quarter 16–0 deficit. Mike Strachan ran for 105 yards for New Orleans and Alvin Maxson added another 90.
The Giants’ reappearance in New York City yesterday after a two‐year absence was flawed by two lost fumbles and an intercepted pass which enabled the Dallas Cowboys to win an untidy game, 13–7. But the unbeaten Coy boys, winning for the fourth time, knew they were in a game because half the New York team, the defensive half, played so well for so long. “We should have won,” said Spider Lockhart, the Giants’ intrepid little safetyman. “They couldn’t do a thing.” The wind was a handicap, especially to the Dallas passing game, but it was the turnovers, the Giant turnovers, which decided the game. Craig Morton, the indomitable Giant quarterback twice fumbled snaps from his center, Bob Hyland, and lost resulting fumbles at his 24 and 32 yard lines. From these came two field goals by Toni Fritsch for 6 points. Dallas needed seven more and they came after cornerback Mark Washington intercepted a pass by Morton in the fourth quarter nnd returned it 23 yards to the Giant 17‐yard line. The Cowboys then scored their touchdown on a 4‐yard pass from Roger Staubach to Jean Fugett and went ahead, 13–7. They needed something more and they produced it — a 78‐yard drive which consumed the last 10 minutes of playing time.
For a few days, at least, the Jets will torture themselves by replaying today’s game with the Vikings, a game that ended with the New Yorkers losing by 29–21. They will remember now they moved ahead by 21–20 in the final quarter after being given a second life on a blocked extra‐point attempt. The future looked bright for the Jets, a club that was an 8‐point underdog against what may be the best balanced club in the National Football League. But, suddenly a pair of “automatic” plays changed the game and helped give the Vikings 8 points, and sent the Jets to their second loss giving them a .500 mark. The Jets got backed up, and punter Greg Gantt had to kick from his end zone. The punt was blocked, the Vikings got a safety and took a 22–21 lead. After the free kick, it took the Vikings just nine plays to score the crushing touchdown, with Chuck Foreman getting his third of the game.
The Falcons beat the 49ers, 17–3. Steve Bartkowski, the rookie quarterback, passed the Falcons into an early lead before he suffered a third‐quarter injury. The Atlanta defense then helped insure the upset victory by intercepting four of Norm Snead’s passes. Bartkowski, who gained college fame at the University of California, threw 9 yards to Jim Mitchell, his tight end, for one score. He hit on five passes in a drive to the second touchdown and he took advantage of San Francisco errors to set up the third. The injury to the righthanded passer, who completed 9 of 20 passes for 96 yards, was believed to be a bone chip in the left elbow.
The Oilers blew out the Browns, 40–10. Dan Pastorini, under some pressure after three poor showings, threw for three touchdowns, all to Mack Alston, as Houston handed Cleveland its fourth successive defeat. The Browns led twice in the early going, but Pastorini connected on two short passes in a 17-point second quarter that clinched the Oilers’ third triumph in four games. Pastorini completed 9 of 11 passes in the first half and 12 of 20 for 124 yards in the game. Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, one of the conference’s leading kick returners, took the second‐half kickoff on his own 19, burst through a cluster of players at the 30 and outran Don Cockroft and Clarence Scott to break the game open.
Ken Anderson, the Bengal quarterback, and Essex Johnson, a question mark during preseason because of surgically weakened knees, kept Cincinnati unbeaten in four games, the best start in the eight‐year history of the franchise as they downed the Patriots, 27–10. Anderson, who had 16 completions in 31 attempts for 265 yards, engineered two touchdown drives in the closing minutes of the third quarter to seal the Patriots’ fourth successive defeat. Johnson ran 14 yards to set up a 12-yard touchdown sweep that gave the Bengals a 17–10 lead. Aided by a 53‐yard run, Mack Herron of the Patriots gained 109 yards rushing, the first time he has bettered the 100‐yard mark. Jim Plunkett, playing his second game since coming back from a shoulder separation, completed 6 of 20 passes for 59 yards, 50 in the second half.
The Bills beat the Colts, 38–31. Jim Braxton’s three touchdowns, the last a tiebreaker with 6:04 to play, and O. J. Simpson’s 159 yards rushing helped offset a four‐touchdown performance by Lydell Mitchell and give the Bills their fourth straight victory. Simpson carried on 32 of Buffalo’s 43 running plays and brought his yards‐gained total for the season to 697. He scored Buffalo’s first touchdown late in the second quarter and contributed long runs on two scoring drives late in the second. Joe Ferguson completed 14 of 26 passes for 253 yards, including a 32‐yarder to Paul Seymour to spark the winning drive. Mitchell ran for 107 yards in 19 carries and caught three passes for 53 yards.
The Steelers topped the Broncos, 20–9. Lynn Swann, the second‐year wide receiver, made two leaping touchdown catches that helped provide the Steelers with their third victory in four games. “Lynn jumps like he’s on a trampoline,” said Terry Bradshaw, the Pittsburgh quarterback who threw both passes. Swann jumped between two defenders at the goal line in the first quarter to catch a 43yard pass, giving the Steelers a 7–3 lead. On the first play of the second quarter, Bradshaw lofted a 9‐yarder that Swann tipped with one hand as he was bumped by Louis Wright, the defender, and then caught in the corner of the end zone. Bradshaw, in completing 16 of 26 passes for 191 yards, joined Bobby Layne and Jim Finks as the only Steelers to pass for more than 8,000 career yards.
The Lions rolled over the Bears, 27–7. Detroit’s defense and Bill Munson’s three touchdown passes in his first start of the season gave the Lions their third triumph in four games. Chicago was limited to 56 net yards in the first half and failed to get inside Detroit’s 20 until the fourth quarter. It was a bruising game in which four players, three of them Bears, had to be carried off the field. Detroit’s big injury was to Mike Hennigan, a linebacker, who suffered a torn ligament in his right knee that will require surgery. Munson finished with 19 completions in 30 attempts for 178 yards. He was 16 of 20 for 123 yards in the first half. Chicago averted a shutout when Gary Huff passed 8 yards to Bob Grim on the last play of the game. The Bears have scored only 12 touchdowns in their last 14 regular season games dating back to last year.
Mike Livingston spent six seasons waiting for Len Dawson to grow too old to play quarterback for the Kansas Chiefs. Although the 29-year-old Livingston finally got his chance to become the No. 1 quarterback this season, a shoulder injury kept him sidelined for the last two games, which the Chiefs lost under Dawson’s direction. Livingston got well just in time yesterday, and Kansas City, playing at home before 60,425 fans and a national television audience, battered the previously unbeaten Oakland Raiders, 42–10. It was Oakland’s worst defeat since 1961, when the Raiders were routed by Houston. 55–0. Livingston, regarded as one of the strongest running quarterbacks in the National Football League, threw three scoring passes and scored one touchdown himself to send the Raiders, the American Conference’s Western Division leader, to their first loss in four games.
Bob Griese passed to Nat Moore for third‐quarter touchdown and Norm Bulaich crashed through his former teammates’ tough rushing defense to pace Miami’s third victory in four games, as the Dolphins downed the Eagles, 24–16. After a close first half that ended with Miami leading, 10–9, Griese and the Dolphin offense took charge with two scoring drives. Griese’s 13‐yard pass to Moore came at the end of a 73‐yard drive and Bulaich, acquired from Philadelphia in a preseason trade, scored from the 7 after a 13‐play drive.
The Rams edged the Chargers in overtime, 13–10. Tom Dempsey kicked a 22‐yard field goal that provided the Rams with the overtime victory. It was the Rams’ third straight triumph after an opening‐game loss to Dallas, while San Diego was beaten for the fourth straight time. After regulation time ended with the score tied 10–10, the Rams moved from their own 14‐yard line to the Chargers’ 7, mainly on the running of Lawrence McCutcheon, Cullen Bryant, and Jim Bertelsen. McCutcheon was the game’s leading rusher with 112 yards on 20 carries. James Harris, the Ram quarterback, completed 15 of 26 for 226 yards.
Green Bay Packers 19, New Orleans Saints 20
Dallas Cowboys 13, New York Giants 7
New York Jets 21, Minnesota Vikings 29
Atlanta Falcons 17, San Francisco 49ers 3
Houston Oilers 40, Cleveland Browns 10
New England Patriots 10, Cincinnati Bengals 27
Buffalo Bills 38, Baltimore Colts 31
Denver Broncos 9, Pittsburgh Steelers 20
Chicago Bears 7, Detroit Lions 27
Oakland Raiders 10, Kansas City Chiefs 42
Philadelphia Eagles 16, Miami Dolphins 24
Los Angeles Rams 13, San Diego Chargers 10
Born:
Marion Jones, American track athlete and WNBA guard (Tulsa Shock); winner of five Olympic medals (3 gold and 2 bronze) in 2000, later disqualified for using performance-enhancing drugs, in Los Angeles, California.
Randy Robitaille, Canadian NHL centre and right wing (Boston Bruins, Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Islanders, Atlanta Thrashers, Minnesota Wild, Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa Senators), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Scott Von der Ahe, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts), in Lancaster, California.
Lex Lang, American actor (“Power Rangers”), in Hollywood, California.
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