In sharp contrast to Secretary of State Kissinger’s expressed confidence in the outcome of the talks with the Soviet Union on strategic arms limitations, several authoritative administration officials say the talks are in trouble. Among the unresolved issues that some believe are of first-order importance are the Soviet Backfire bomber, the American air-breathing cruise missile and the definition of a large missile. Some of these issues arose because they were not properly considered at the Vladivostok negotiations last November.
Turkey has rejected an American proposal to reopen some U.S. bases for its soil before the two countries start negotiating a new defense agreement, diplomatic sources in Ankara said. Meanwhile, the United States began shipping F-4 Phantom lets to Turkey following the easing of the arms embargo. Officials said six F-4s, part of the 24 to be delivered this month, had left Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina on the first leg of the long flight.
Representatives of industrial and developing countries completed preparations early today for a 27-nation conference on world economic relationships to be held here in December. After three days of talks, agreement was reached on text that is to govern procedures at the conference, to be attended by the foreign ministers of eight industrial countries and 19 developing lands. The text outlines a general framework for each of four international commissions — for energy, raw materials, developrnent and finance — that are due to be organized at the conference. The industrial nations were represented at the three‐day preparatory meeting here by the United States, Japan and the European Common Market. The third world was represented by India, Brazil, Zaire and four oil-producing countries: Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Algeria and Iran.
Italy’s President Giovanni Leone called on parliament to restrict the right to strike and to root out corruption to keep the nation’s democracy from falling apart. “If the crisis we are experiencing is not overcome through our common will, there will be no winners, but only losers,” he said. It was the first time since 1963 that an Italian president — who is normally only a figurehead — had exercised his right to send messages to parliament.
Iceland’s unilaterally declared 200-mile fishing limit went into effect, with West German trawlers discreetly flouting the new law. Iceland’s coast guard office said 20 West German trawlers had been spotted fishing illegally off the southern coast. When challenged, the trawlers moved away, only to return later, the coast guard said. Government. Sources in Bonn said West German boats would ignore the new ban for the time being.
An ad hoc Congressional forum heard a warning yesterday that full-scale civil war would sweep Northern Ireland unless the United States stepped in to negotiate the end of the bloodshed. “The area will be in chaos and the militant majority, armed to the teeth, will descend on the minority to drive them to their death,” said City Council President Paul O’Dwyer, Irish-born and a passionate supporter of the cause of Ulster’s Roman Catholic minority. “The last and only hope lies in American intervention.”
Thirty-three Greeks, including former strong man George Papadopoulos, seven retired generals and police superintendents and a former cabinet minister, go on trial today accused of responsibility for riots at the Athens Polytechnic two years ago in which 34 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured. Some of the defendants, including Papadopoulos, face the death sentence if convicted. Papadopoulos was found guilty last August of high treason for his part in the 1967 coup, but his death sentence was commuted to life in prison.
A United Nations committee seemed tonight to be inching toward adoption of an Arab-inspired resolution equating Zionism with racial discrimination. The line‐up on the bitterly fought issue in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Comimittee was indicated this afternoon in three test votes on projcedural points. The black African delegations were split in the polling. The first vote was 72 in favor of the Arab thesis, 27 against, land 26 abstentions. Two later votes were 72 and 75 in favor. 24 and 22 against, with 28 and 26 abstentions. The Arab group promoting the resolution appears to be backed by Cuba, some Asian and black African delegations and the Communist powers. Opposed are the United States, the nine‐country European Economic Community. several Latin‐American and Caribbean countries and Israel.
Renewed violent clashes in downtown Beirut between right-wing Christian strongmen and Palestinians emptied the streets, closed banks that had reopened Tuesday and caused 12 reported deaths. It came as Arab foreign ministers were meeting in Cairo to consider the Lebanese crisis. Syria, Libya and Palestine Liberation Organization boycotted the meeting. The Christian Phalangist party in Lebanon is seeking to reopen the question of Palestinian guerrilla presence in the country. Part of the fighting was between right‐wing Christian gunmen and Palestinian guerrillas from the Tell al‐Zaatar camp here. The shooting here tapered off by 6 P.M., and by 10 o’clock the city was quiet. Similar patterns of shooting and calm have been common in the six months of communal strife that began in April.
France will supply Syria with between 15 and 40 Super Frelon helicopters in the first major arms deal the Damascus government has concluded outside the Soviet bloc in many years, informed sources said. But the sources stressed that the deal was in no way intended to alter Syria’s long-standing dependence on the Soviet Union for such mainstays as tanks, artillery and fixed-wing aircraft.
Japanese security authorities disclosed that a group of Japanese extremists calling itself “Wolf” had plotted to blow up a royal train carrying Emperor Hirohito in August of last year. The authorities said the disclosure of the first known plan to kill the emperor since the end of World War II had been withheld because of fears it might have encouraged other extremists to launch similar attacks. But they said it was decided to release the news after the emperor and empress had returned to Tokyo after a historic state visit to the United States.
Looking into the awesome excavation where a life-size Chinese pottery army was recently found is like looking back more than 2,000 years in time at an ancient battlefield. The site, near the tomb of a Chinese emperor who reigned from 221 to 207 B.C. and who was attended in death by pottery legions, is strewn with hundreds of realistic figures of fallen warriors and horses. Since their discovery, only relatively few Chinese — and apparently until now, no outsiders — have seen them here. No two warriors look alike. Most are in armor and long tunics, wearing varied types of headdress. They are almost six feet tall.
Senator Barry Goldwater urged President Ford today to drop plans for a visit to China and visit Taiwan instead. Senator Goldwater, a Republican of Arizona, who has said he might back Ronald Reagan for the Republican Presidential nomination over Mr. Ford, called on the President “to switch the interests of the United States government away from Communism and towards freedom in the Far East.” Mr. Goldwater said in a statement that the President should stop courting enemies of the United States and start paying attenion to its friends. He said that the Chinese attack this week on the United States’ refusal to ban a Tibetan exile group “is just another example of how useless it is to try and cozy up to the Chinese Communists.”
Australia headed for a constitutional crisis tonight after Prime Minister Gough Whitlam defied an Opposition ultimatum that it would stop the supply of money to his Labor Government until he called a general election. In what is almost certain to be a bitter and perhaps protracted battle, Mr. Whitlam’s Opposition rival — the Liberal‐Country party coalition leader, Malcolm Fraser — can use a slender majority in the upper house of Parliament to block the funds, needed to carry on day‐to‐day business. But Mr. Whitlam, in office for 34 months, went on television tonight to tell 13 million Australians that his government refused to bow to resignation demands from the Opposition.
Airport officials have rescheduled regular flights in Hay River, Northwest Territories, in Canada, to coincide with the bedtime of thousands of migrating birds that have congregated on the runway, Hugh Semple, manager of the Hay River Airport, doesn’t know what the birds are called, or even if they are flying north or south. But he said they arrived about a week ago and “are kind of a nuisance. They fly across the runway and they fly into aircraft taking off and landing.” The sparrow-sized birds have caused Pacific Western Airlines to reschedule its Hay River stop for the past three days.
President Isabel Martinez de Perón returned here today from a five‐week leave of absence despite efforts by most political factions to persuade her to step down. According to a government announcement, Mrs. Perón will resume full executive powers from Acting President Italy Luder at a ceremony tomorrow. Mrs. Perón left on an extended vacation in early September amid mounting political violence, dissension within her own party and a failing economy. There were also persistent reports by her own medical staff that she was physically and emotionally fatigued.
Leftist Peronists promised death for supporters of President Perón today, hours, after her return from nearly five weeks of isolation. In a communiqué to newspaper and broadcasting stations, the Montonero guerrillas said that they would “kill anyone” who gathers in the plaza outside the Government House Friday to show support for the President. The Montoneros were instrumental in the return of Juan Domingo Perón to the presidency after 18 years of exile, but they went underground year ago to fight the government of his widow. The Montoneros vowed to take power in Argentina weeks ago when they took hijacking that left 28 officially listed as dead, although unofficial tolls listed 47.
A behind-the-scenes effort by the State Department to shore up the government of President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire with an emergency infusion of $60 million has so far failed to win Congressional backing. In an extraordinary move strongly endorsed by Secretary of State Kissinger, the department has sought to persuade key members of Congress to approve granting of the aid now, bypassing the normal, time‐consuming Congressional review process. State Depirtment officials informed Congress privately that foreign aid legislation allows the Ford Administration to start the economic assistance program without formal Congressional approval. But, fearing that such an action might nevertheless cause a flare‐up with Congress, the Administration has pressed for informal assent from the chairmen of the authorization and appropriation subcommittees.
Jean-Marie Seroney, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, and another MP, Martin Shikuku, were arrested at their offices in the Parliament building in Nairobi on the orders of President Jomo Kenyatta, who was displeased at their criticism of the government. Plainclothes police entered the National Assembly building in Nairobi, Kenya, and took into custody two of parliament’s most persistent critics of Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta’s government. The officers waited around the building for several hours until parliament adjourned for the day before leading away Deputy Speaker John Seroney and legislator Martin Shikuku. Authorities did not say where the two had been taken or why they were being held. Both would remain imprisoned until after Kenyatta’s death in 1978.
President Ford’s chief of staff has asked the Secret Service for a full report explaining why the President’s limousine was struck broadside by another vehicle in Hartford. The Hartford police took the blame for leaving an intersection uncovered, which allowed the car that struck the President’s to go through.
The Hartford Police Department took the blame today for the traffic accident here last night involving President Ford’s limousine. The President was not injured. Police Chief Hugo J. Masini said that because a motorcycle policeman had slipped on his assignment, there was no one controlling traffic at the intersection where a teen‐ager’s car crashed into the President’s. ‘I want to assure him that it will not happen again in the city of Hartford,” Chief Masini said. The collision occurred shortly before 10 PM at Market and Talcott Streets, three blocks from the Civic Center, where the President had attended Republican fund‐raising event.
President and Mrs. Ford, celebrating their 27th wedding anniversary, invited 34 of their old friends to a buffet-style dinner at the White House. On the menu was beef stew with walnuts, the President’s favorite, and cake and sherbet.
President Ford said fairness to the taxpaying public guided his economic policies. He said 75% of the $28 billion cuts for 1976 he had proposed “will go to people,” with the rest to business to stimulate job-increasing growth. While the tax positions of low-income families and what he termed high-income Americans would be little affected by the cuts, Mr. Ford told the closing session of the National Assn. of Food Chains annual meeting in Washington they would provide “a long-overdue equity and relief to the middle class” that makes $8,000 to $25,000 a year.
A report from the special Watergate prosecutor’s office said responsibility for erasure of the key recorded conversation between former President Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, about the Watergate break-in in 1972 had not been established. It concluded that “a very small number of persons” were responsible but the investigators were unable to get enough evidence to prosecute any one individual. The report, also listing other unresolved questions, is not final because Attorney General Edward Levi has ordered the office to be kept intact for appeals and a few pending matters.
The Commerce Department reported a rise in business inventories in August following six months of massive inventory liquidation, as further evidence of economic recovery. Reflecting an earlier pickup in sales, both retailers and wholesalers substantially increased their stocks more than offsetting continued inventory reduction by manufacturers. This all but guarantees a strong rise in the gross national product for the third quarter. President Ford apparently had this forthcoming report in mind when he told the National Association of Food Chains, meeting here, that “very encouraging” statistics would be released soon. Mr. Ford did not elaborate, but he said the statistics would indicate that “we’re on our way to a sensible, long‐range answer to the peaks and valleys” experienced by the economy. The main purpose of the President’s speech was to arouse support for his proposal for massive tax and spending cuts. He again insisted that Congress could enact the plan “if there’s a will,” though Democratic leaders have said it is impossible to enact a ceiling on spending now for a fiscal year that does not begin until next October.
Twelve Presidential candidates have raised enough in private contributions to qualify for a total of more than $6‐million in Federal subsidies to help them run their 1976 primary campaigns, according to their own records. During the first nine months of this year, Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama collected enough from his supporters to make him eligible for nearly $2.5‐million in the new matching payments. For Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington, the figure is over $1‐million. Among the other Democratic contenders with major claims on the Treasury’s campaign fund are Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona, who says he is now eligible for $560,000; Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas, who claims $506,000, and former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia, who claims $400,000.
Leaders of the New Democratic Coalition, a self-styled “national coalition of progressive Democrats,” said they were considering legal action against Democratic Party Chairman Robert S. Strauss because of the party’s 1976 delegate selection rules. The coalition leaders said that if they decided to file suit it would say the rules violated the mandate of the 1972 Democratic National Convention by permitting direct election of delegates without requiring proportional representation. The move came one day after Strauss said just approved rules limiting floor fights and credential challenges would mean “a more harmonious convention.”
Senator Richard S. Schweiker predicted today that the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy’s assassination was about to collapse and said his subcommittee on intelligence was looking into three conspiracy theories. Senator Schweiker, Republican of Pennsylvania, said at a news conference here that the subcommittee had developed “very significant leads” about the murder and wants to investigate the following possibilities:
— That President Kennedy was killed by means of a Communist plot originating in Cuba or the Soviet Union.
— That the November 22, 1963, assassination was a result of a right‐wing conspiracy in the United States.
— That anti‐Castro Cubans, angry over diminishing support from the Kennedy Administration, planned the murder.
Senator Schweiker said he did not lean toward any particular conspiracy theory. “The only thing I’m certain about is that we don’t know the truth about the Kennedy assassination,” he said.
The Navy announced that official reprimands were given to two retired admirals who helped set up the First Navy Bank on the Pensacola Naval Air Station while they owned stock in it. Vice Admiral Malcolm W. Cagle got an administrative letter of censure and Rear Admiral James Ferris received an administrative letter of admonition. The Navy considers both to be strong punishment. The two retired in 1974. Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II said nine other officers who bought stock in the Florida bank in 1973 and 1974 were not considered guilty of misconduct.
Striking teachers and nonteacher-employees returned to the job under court order in Atlanta, while a teachers’ strike in Salt Lake City entered its third day. Salt Lake City officials said the walkout affected 2,400 teachers and 61,000 students in 72 schools. The dispute centered on salary increases and class time. In Atlanta, union officials said they had agreed to return because school officials had made bargaining concessions. At issue is the $240-a-year pay hike struck from the Georgia budget after the Legislature slashed education funds, as well as the demand of the two unions to be recognized in contract negotiations.
Marijuana is far more effective than any other drug in relieving the vomiting and nausea that plagues thousands of cancer patients undergoing chemical therapy, researchers say, and should be considered as a treatment for such side effects. In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard medical school researchers say they tested the effectiveness of the marijuana drug against a dummy drug in patients with a variety of cancers. In 12 of 15 cases involving marijuana, there was at least a 50% reduction in vomiting and nausea. In five cases there was no nausea at all. But there was no decrease with the dummy drug treatment.
The Interior Department is trying to acquire Matagorda Island off the Texas coast, part of the wintering home of the nearly extinct whooping crane. The Air Force, which has used the island as an aerial bombing range since World War II, announced a year ago that it would relinquish the property. Before the Interior Department can acquire it, all federal agencies must be notified that it is available for nonmilitary uses.
Proposed sale of offshore petroleum leases in the Gulf of Alaska was rescheduled for January, 1976, reflecting a one-month’s postponement in order to complete a required final environmental impact statement, the Department of Interior announced. Involved are about 330 offshore tracts totaling about 1.8 million acres beyond the 3-mile limit of state waters.
1975 World Series, Game Four:
At Riverfront Stadium, Luis Tiant throws 163 pitches in winning his 2nd game 5–4, and evening the Series at 2 games apiece. With the Reds leading the series 2–1, Luis Tiant pitched his second complete game win of the Series. More importantly, this win forced the Reds to win at least one of two games at Fenway Park to win the Series.
The Reds struck first off Tiant in the first on RBI doubles by Ken Griffey and Johnny Bench. The Sox, however, would get all the runs they needed in the fourth. Dwight Evans tied the game with a two-run triple, then Rick Burleson put the Sox ahead by doubling in Evans off Reds starter Fred Norman. Tiant, continuing his surprising hitting, singled Burleson to third. Burleson then scored on a Tony Pérez error on a ball hit by Juan Beníquez, while Tiant went to second. Carl Yastrzemski drove in Tiant with a single for what would turn out to be the winning run.
The Reds were able to counter with two runs in their half of the fourth on an RBI double by Dave Concepción and an RBI triple by César Gerónimo. The Reds had a shot at winning the game in the bottom of the ninth when, with two on and one out, Ken Griffey sent a deep drive into left-center that Fred Lynn made an over the shoulder catch. Joe Morgan then popped out to first on Tiant’s 163rd pitch of the game. Boston’s win tied the series at two games apiece and guaranteed a return to Fenway.
Boston Red Sox 5, Cincinnati Reds 4
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