Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo of Portugal told his people that the nation’s economic plight made austerity inevitable. “We must produce more and consume less,” he said over radio and television. “We must work more and with more and better output.” He denounced the “interminable and sterile political discussions,” that, he said, “even with the best of intentions, bring counterrevolutionary results.” The speech, by the leader of Portugal’s sixth provisional government in 18 months, had been advertised as important. There had been rumors that he would announce measures to quell defiance in the armed forces, including the possible appointment of a new chief of staff to relieve President Francisco da Costa Gomes of this part of his duties. But the Premier made no such announcement. Instead he appealed briefly for discipline and authority, saying that otherwise his coalition Government, which was formed last month, could not even begin to govern.
With returns almost complete, the opposition Republican People’s party in Turkey scored gains in midterm parliamentary elections. Since the government failed to win a clear mandate, it appeared doubtful whether it would make unpopular decisions on such critical issues as Cyprus. “The Government will continue,” the Premier said today, and he went on to dampen speculation, that he might call elections in the spring. “As long as economic and political stability exists,” he said, “why should we go to early elections and change the government?” While the elections were not decisive, they showed a shift in voting patterns as many Turks deserted the splinter parties that have aggravated instability here in recent years. Analysts said today that this could signal the revival of two‐party system in Turkey and improve the long‐range political climate. With returns almost complete, Mr. Demirel’s Justice party, the main conservative force, had won 27 of the 54 seats at stake in the 181‐seat Senate, which has limited powers. This was loss of five seats. The party won four of the six seats contested in the 450‐sdai Assembly, which determines the government.
Junior doctors in Plymouth declared a 24-hour strike, the first of its kind in Britain, to protest cuts in overtime pay under a new contract negotiated with the government. The Plymouth protesters refused to deal even with emergencies, but senior doctors took over. A spokesman for the National Health Service said there was no cause for alarm. The strike affected about 2,500 beds and was indicative of the growing crisis within a government-run service beset by financial crisis and threatened with severe cutbacks and possible doctor layoffs.
Soviet sculptor Ernst Neizvestny appealed to President Nikolai V. Podgorny to halt Kremlin harassment of him and end what he called his “forced detention” in Russia. He said he sent the appeal after his request to emigrate to Israel was refused a second time. Neizvestny is one of Russia’s best known sculptors and graphic artists, although he has been in official disfavor for many years.
The Dutch-owned Ferenka Steel Cord Co. said it was powerless to meet the demands of the kidnappers of its chief executive, Tiede Herrema, because of the tough stance taken by the Irish government. In a message broadcast to the abductors who seized Herrema outside his Limerick home, the company appealed for his immediate release. The company said it had “intensive contact” with the Irish government in an attempt to gain the release of the three Irish Republican Army prisoners demanded by the kidnappers as ransom for Herrema. “But the Irish government has told us that there is no possibility of meeting this demand.”
The Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner exceeded noise limits at London’s Heathrow Airport on three out of four takeoffs during its recent endurance flying program, according to figures published by Trade Secretary Peter Shore. The British Aircraft Corp., cobuilders of the plane with Aerospatiale of France, pointed out that the Heathrow program was essentially one of proving and training flights during which noise at times was unrepresentatively high. The Concorde enters service January 21, when British Airways will fly it on the London-Bahrain route and Air France from Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Dakar.
President Ford signed a Congressional resolution today authorizing American civilians to operate early warning stations in Sinai. In putting his signature on the document that cleared Congress last week, Mr. Ford said: “I reaffirm today that we will not accept stagnation or stalemate in the Middle East.” Reading a statement being filmed and recorded for later use in news broadcasts, the President said that the United States must continue its diplomatic efforts with the nations of the Middle East “to sustain the momentum toward peace generated by the Sinai agreement.” He called the accord between Israel and Egypt “a significant step toward an over‐all settlement in the Middle East.” But he said none of the nations involved “see it as an end in itself.”
For the third time in 10 days, the General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee delayed today a vote on a proposed resolution that would condemn Zionism together with racial discrimination. Reservations in the group of African delegations on the advisability of equating the policies of Israel with those of white governments in southern Africa led to today’s postponement. The attempt to attack Zionism began early this month during a committee debate on a draft resolution for the program of a project called the decade for action to combat racism and racial dicriminadon. The project is aimed essentially at South Africa and Rhodesia, where black majoriIties have been denied access to political power. Cuba and nine Arab countries — not including Egypt — introduced an amendment requesting that the word “Zionism” be added to the words “apartheid” and “racial discrimination” where they occur in various paragraphs of the draft resolution.
As relative calm continued in Beirut, the Government announced tonight that Foreign Minister Philip Takla would head a delegation to a meeting of Arab foreign ministers that is expected to gather in Cairo this week to consider the Lebanese crisis. After a long Cabinet meeting, Mr. Takla said that only 4 of the 20 countries of the Arab League — Syria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Algeria — had not responded to an invitation to the meeting, which may be held on Wednesday. The idea for the meeting arose from a proposal by Kuwait that the Arab League consider ways to help Lebanon, which has been shaken by months of communal violence that has taken several thousand lives and ruined the economy. Syria, which has been mediating in the crisis, opposes the idea of involving the Arab League.
Of an estimated 35,000 prisoners in Indonesia alleged to be Communists, about 1,300 were released over the past year and more releases were planned at the rate of 2,500 a vear, according to sources close to the Jakarta government. The 1,300 were from the “B” category of prisoners, who number about 27.000 and are strongly suspected of having been involved in the attempted coup by the party in 1965 but who cannot be brought to trial for lack of evidence.
An opposition member of South Korea’s National Assembly resigned after a political uproar over her bitter criticism of the regime last week. Rep. Kim Ok Sun of the New Democratic Party had said in a speech that President Park Chung Hee overemphasized North Korea’s military threats in order to strengthen his hold on power. Meanwhile, Seoul agreed to a meeting with the North Koreans October 23 to try to arrange a resumption of Red Cross talks to reunite separated families.
Emperor Hirohito left for home from Hawaii at the end of what he said was an “unforgettable” two-week state visit to the United States. A 21-gun salute boomed out at Hickam Air Force Base, alongside Pearl Harbor, as the 74-year-old emperor and Empress Nagako mounted the steps of their Japan Airlines jet. He wore a lei of orange ilima flowers; she carried a bouquet of red anthuriums. Seeing them off was Governor George Ariyoshi, who heads a state of 800,000 population, one-fourth being of Japanese descent.
A 14-member delegation from China arrived today to open an embassy in Manila. China and the Philippines negotiated a friendship treaty during a visit to Peking in June by President Ferdinand E. Marcos. It carries a provision of noninterference in each others’ political systems. The Philippine Government is said to be considering the President’s brother-in-law, Benjamin Romualdez, to be ambassador to Peking. China will send Khe Hua, now director of the Asian department of the Foreign Ministry.
The Māori land march took place in New Zealand with 5,000 Māori people arriving at the Parliament Building in Wellington after having marched from Te Hāpua on the north side of the nation.
Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau said in a nationally televised speech that he would establish mandatory wage and price controls in order to bring inflation under control, and that an Anti-Inflation Board would enforce the new rules. The program, he said in a national broadcast, aims to cope with a more than 11 percent rate of inflation and a jobless rate of more than 7 percent.
Eleven pulp and paper mills in Quebec and New Brunswick were shut down by 7,000 striking workers. The latest strikes by the 55,000-member Canadian Paperworkers Union brought to 22,400 the number of striking CPU members across Canada. The strikes have slashed Canadian newsprint production to 55% of capacity. About two-thirds of the output is exported to the United States. The workers are striking for higher wages.
A masked gunman broke into Surinam Prime Minister Henk Arron’s home and held his wife and mother-in-law hostage for two hours. But he gave himself up two hours later. A government spokesman said the women were not harmed. Arron was at home when the gunman broke in but escaped through a back window and summoned the police. Police identified the gunman only as a man named Salomons. His motives were unclear, a spokesman said.
After a period of stability and economic gains, Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko is facing internal strains, caused mainly by the worldwide recession, as he prepares to observe his 10th anniversary as leader of the once deeply troubled Central African nation.
Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia today denied making any criticism “actual or implied” of Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa for the failure of settlement efforts in Rhodesia. In a statement, Mr. Smith also accused the news media of “gross distortion” of remarks he made in a television interview screened in London and Salisbury yesterday. In the interview, Mr. Smith discussed Mr. Vorster’s diplomacy to help arrange talks in August between the ruling white Rhodesians and black nationalist leaders. The talks failed to bring an end to the 10‐year‐old constitutional crisis, which began with Rhodesia’s declaration of independence from Britain. Mr. Smith said on television: “I go so far as to say that believe that if this new initiative had not been taken by Mr. Vorster and the four northern black African presidents, I believe we would have had a settlement by November 5.”
A House subcommittee, its chairman said, has begun an inquiry into the F.B.I.’s relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby before President Kennedy’s assassination. Representative Don Edwards of California, the panel’s chairman, said that the investigation “is not to reopen the Warren Commission” inquiry “but to set the record straight on just what went on.”
More than 200 middle‐rank Foreign Service officers have signed a letter supporting Secretary of State Kissinger in his refusal to allow the House Select Intelligence Committee to interrogate the officers on internal policy disputes. The letter, to Representative Otis G. Pike, a New York Democrat and chairman of the committee, declared that his demand for testimony from lower‐rank officers on policy options would damage the Foreign Service.
Attorney General Edward Levi disclosed that he had appointed a special committee in the Justice Department to develop means to coordinate and consider ways to improve law enforcement efforts against white-collar crime. The committee also has the task of considering changes that might make enforcement and prosecution in the area of corporate crime more effective. Mr. Levi made the disclosure in response to a letter sent him in August by four members of Congress and by Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate. and Mark Green, director of the Corporate Accountability Research Group. The letter urged Mr. Levi to set up a separate division in the Justice Department to combat what it called “a corporate crime wave.”
Governor George Wallace of Alabama, arriving in London to begin his first European tour, was accorded a correct and complete reception. Governor Wallace, expected to announce another bid for the Democratic presidential nomination soon, got a briefing on diplomatic problems from the American Ambassador, had a meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and got plenty of exposure, via TV, to curious Britons. The American diplomatic community and the people who run the British Government do not know how to assess the Presidential prospects of Governor Wallace. But they were taking no chances today.
President Ford’s top staff economic adviser took sharp issue with Vice President Rockefeller’s call for the federal government to aid New York City once the city comes up with a plan to balance its budget. L. William Seidman, assistant to the President for economic affairs and executive director of the Economic Policy Board, made it clear that Mr. Ford and Rockefeller differ significantly on the question of aid to the city. Seidman maintains that Mr. Ford is sticking by his firm, no-aid policy under any circumstances. Seidman also refused to say whether he or the President were angry at Mr. Rockefeller’s call for aid.
Democratic party officials, whose 1968 and 1972 national conventions were marked by strife, moved harmoniously to make their 1976 convention in New York a model of regulated decorum. Under rules adopted unanimously by the party’s executive committee, fewer persons will be allowed to challenge delegates’ credentials, with narrower grounds to do so.
The 1976 Democratic convention may not reflect total harmony. A group of prominent Democratic women announced the formation of an alliance aimed at insuring that both the party’s platform and its nominees back a long list of “women’s issues.” One leader called this a time to nominate a woman to be Vice President.
New York City’s fiscal crisis took an unexpected turn as Mayor Beame’s office asserted that the city’s debt, and therefore its budget-cutting burden, for the next two years might have been overestimated by up to $200 million. The Mayor’s budget aides said that revised figures indicated that earlier estimates of an $800 million deficit, to be closed with sharp austerities, might be reduced by up to $200 million.
Even if the nation’s economy recovers and inflation is slowed, New York City, according to a state Labor Department forecast, will have 313,000 fewer jobs by 1980 than it had in 1970. That would be a net loss of 8.2 percent. The city has already lost about 500,000 jobs from its June, 1969, employment peak, so that, given the brightest prospects, the latest forecast would assume a maximum recovery of not quite 200,000 jobs in the next five years.
The General Accounting Office reported that the federal government spent $2.6 billion last year to employ 169,625 persons for police, investigative and intelligence-gathering activities in 33 agencies. The cost totaled more than 8 percent of federal outlays and did not include expenses for the C.I.A., the National Security Agency or the Pentagon’s intelligence branches.
A Kentucky State Reformatory inmate, sentenced to 10 years in prison, has been freed on the strength of a “truth serum” test, according to the Louisville judge who sentenced him. Local lawyers say it is the first time results of the drug sodium pentothal have been admitted in court. Keith Edward Irvin, 19, was charged with an armed robbery at a seminary in 1974. He denied it, but four witnesses said he was one of two men who robbed the institute. Irvin passed two lie detector tests, failed a third one and was sentenced.
Men who smoke two or more packs of cigarettes a day shorten their lives 14 to 15 years, according to a college study. Female smokers cut their lives by 19 to 20 years. The report, written by Edinboro State College in Edinboro, Pa., dismissed as a “bunch of nonsense,” however, statistics that women usually outlive men. The study, which examined 4,000 men and women in northwestern Pennsylvania, also showed that cigar and pipe smokers live, on the average, a year longer than those who don’t smoke at all.
The Washington Post will file a civil suit against those believed responsible for damaging its presses during a walkout by pressmen and will refuse to allow anyone found responsible back in the plant, a Post spokesman said. He did not specify who would be named in the suit. Meanwhile, the newspaper published all of a basic 40-page edition at its own plant for the first time since all nine presses were damaged during the pressmen’s walkout October 1.
A woman was shot to death by police after she shot her son and then held police at bay for 30 minutes while her son lay bleeding, a Jacksonville, Florida, homicide detective said. Mrs. Mildred Duren, 55, was killed after she refused to let police help her son, Ricky Duren, 20, who was wounded in the head. Police said Mrs. Duren had four rifles and two shotguns. She had threatened to shoot her son if he left their trailer. When he walked out, she shot through the window. A police spokesman said patrolmen entered the trailer by a rear door and when Mrs. Duren turned a shotgun on them, they shot her.
Sixty percent of the persons responding to a recent poll supported paying for environmental protection Six persons in 10 said they believed it was more important to pay the cost of protecting the environment than: to risk more pollution by keeping prices and taxes down. The results of the poll, conducted by the Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, New Jersey, were reported in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Northwest Region weekly bulletin.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is studying a $287 million project to reduce the rising salinity of the Salton Sea while replenishing water pumped from underground to run geothermal wells just east of El Centro. The plan calls for the yearly transportation of 125,000 acre-feet of water 25 miles from the sea to the geothermal wells where it would be used to produce energy. Officials said the plan is needed because of estimates that salinity, caused mostly by runoff from farming activities, might kill all Sal-. ton Sea marine life by 1980.
The bicentennial American dollar coin was placed into circulation by the United States Treasury. For the first time, the dollar coin had no silver content; the 1974 coins had 40 percent silver. The dollar still had the image of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the obverse, with “1776–1976” beneath, but the reverse featured a new image, showing the Liberty Bell and the Moon.
9th Country Music Association Awards: John Denver wins.
NFL Monday Night Football:
After the Washington Redskins’ satisfying 27–17 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals tonight, the question for Billy Kilmer, the winning quarterback, was, “What took you so long, Bill?” Because or injuries to Roger Wehrli and Clarence Duren, the Cardinals had two greenhorns playing at safety and cornerback in their defensive secondary, and the Redskins had three of the most dangerous pass receivers in Charlie Taylor, Roy Jefferson and Jerry Smith. Kilmer did not address himself to the greenhorns, Jim Tolbert and Dwayne Crump, until the final quarter. The Cardinals had tied the score, 17–17, on two touchdowns by their spectacular little men who make the big plays, Terry Metcalf and Mel Gray. Metcalf returned the second‐half kickoff 93 yards and Gray scored on a 48‐yard pass from Jim Hart. Kilmer took his team 88 yards in 11 plays for the score that won the game between these contenders for the Eastern title in the National Football Conference. Six plays were passes, five of which were completed. It was a virtuoso performance by Kilmer and his receivers. They ran all kinds of routes — inside, outside and including an X, in which Jefferson and Taylor cross 12 yards deep. The gains came in chunks of 9 to 19 yards, and in fairness to Crump and Tolbert, perhaps not even 10 Hall of Fame players could have stopped the parade. The Redskins reached the 1 and from there the rookie halfback, Mike Thomas, leaped over for a touchdown. Mark Moseley kicked the conversion and later added a 34‐yard field goal, and Washington had an important victory, its third in four games.
St. Louis Cardinals 17, Washington Redskins 27
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Born:
Ed Ellis, NFL tackle (New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers), New Haven, Connecticut.
Darrel Scoville, Canadian NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames, Columbus Blue Jackets), in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Died:
Swede Risberg, 81, last surviving member of the eight baseball players banned for life for the Black Sox Scandal.
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