A committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved an Arab-sponsored draft of a resolution to equate Zionism with racial discrimination. The vote, 70 to 29 with 27 abstentions, indicates that the General Assembly will concur. The draft resolution next goes to the General Assembly for debate and a vote later in the session. Today’s vote, in the Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, indicates that the draft will win approval of the Assembly. Even if the ‐Assembly ratifies the draft resolution, however, it would not be binding on member states. While the resolution will have no immediate practical effect, according to Western diplomats an indirect consequence may be a lessened Western commitment to African causes. Earlier, the United States deplored the draft as “obscene” and warned that it would imperil the work of the United Nations.
President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France and Leonid I. Brezhnev concluded talks today and called jointly for a worldwide disarmament conference. They also agreed on cooperation between their countries in industry, energy, tourism and other fields. In remarks to newsmen outside the French Embassy, where he was going to lunch, the Soviet Communist Party leader sought to dismiss speculation that severe illness had forced him to cancel his Wednesday session with the French President. “I am well,” a French newsman heard him say. “Does my face seem to be the face of a man who is ill?” Earlier in the day, he told reporters that he had a slight cold. In a news conference, Mr. Giscard d’Estaing portrayed the discussions as “very, very cordial, useful and positive.
Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who has been named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, called today for a general political amnesty in the Soviet Union. He said this was an essential ingredient of detente and safeguard for the future of the West. In a statement read in his behalf at the start of a threeday hearing here on alleged repression in the Soviet Union, Dr. Sakharov said that such an amnesty would provide decisive support for the relaxation of both internal and external tensions.
The prestige and policies of President Valery Giscard d’Estaing are the principal issues to be judged Sunday in a French parliamentary byelection that both the Giscard Government and the leftist Opposition think has national political significance. Mr. Giscard d’Estaing, who was elected to a seven‐year term last year, had asked that France judge his performance only after he had been in office for 500 days, a period that ended last week.
Mutinous troops accused Portugal’s northern military command today of reneging on an agreement and threatened armed revolt unless the situation changed. They said they were seeking support from other military units around the country. The new confrontation in the northern city of Oporto came up only hours after the ruling Revolutionary Council vowed to take immediate steps to halt the spread of anti‐Government activities and mutinies within the armed forces. “We cannot be held responsible for anything that might happen within a brief period,” a spokesman for the mutinous group said. “The fighting committee is in constant session with all its organization on alert, which at any moment could result in an explosion. This could include military action.” The new crisis erupted after the northern command ordered leaders of the mutiny furloughed pending discharge from the service.
There was a strange combination of resignation, fatigue and pride in his expression. The speaker, Dr. J. Barradas de Carvalho, is a professor of history, a veteran Communist and an inveterate commentator on his remarkable country. “With 10 percent of the clash, the emotion, the strains we have here in Portugal, the Spaniards would be in a civil war” he said. “With 30 percent‐yes, I think it’s about that‐the French would be fighting each other. But don’t think it will happen here. Things will go on and on…” The tension is great, nerves are stretched day after day by the persistent, unanswered question on everyone’s mind: — whether the country will take the road to some form of democracy or to authoritarianism, and whether the decision will ultimately be made peacefully.
The 34-year-old American helicopter pilot who flew through police gunfire last August and lifted three East German refuges from Czechoslovakia to the West, was sentenced in absentia today to 10 years in prison. A Czech court in Ceske Budejovice found Barry Meeker guilty of being a “paid employee of an organization professionially engaged in kidnapping.”
Former President George Papadopoulos and 32 other Greeks today pleaded not guilty to charges concerning clashes at Athens Polytechnic in November, 1973, in which 34 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured. Earlier, the Athens Civil High Court overruled an objection by Mr. Papadopoulos that the court was not competent to try him, as a former head of state. The defendants are charged with premeditated murder, attempted murder, causing dangerous bodily harm, illegal detention and other offenses.
A man was shot to death tonight after he was lured by a telephone call to house in North Belfast that had been taken over by three gunmen, the police reported. A man and his wife who occupy the house were held as hostages while the phone call was made, the police said. A short time later the victim knocked at the door and one of the gunmen opened it and killed the man, according to the police. The gunmen left the hostages unharmed, the police said.
Five scientists will receive the 1975 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. The physics award will be shared by James Rainwater, an American; Aage Bohr, a Dane, and Ben Mottleson, a Chicago-born scientist who is now a Danish citizen. The chemistry prize will be shared by John Cornforth, a Briton, and Vladimir Prelog, who was born in Yugoslavia and is now a Swiss citizen.
Secretary General Waldheim reported today that the expanded role of the United Nations peace‐keeping force under the new Sinai agreement would require 750 more soldiers. He also said that the force would need four helicopters ind other aircraft and four vessels for naval patrol operations. Mr. Waldheim’s report to the Security Council, as expected, recommended the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Emergency Force, which the Sinai agreement between Egypt and Israel specified should be renewed annually instead of for shorter terms as in the past. The mandate expires October 24 and the Council is to meet next week to renew it. Mr. Waldheim proposed that the additional troops — there are now 3,987 — should come from five of the countries now supplying men — Finland, Ghana, Indonesia, Senegal and Sweden.
Moroccans flocked to recruiting stations today in response to a call by King Hassan II for a march of 350,000 unarmed people to take over the Spanish Sahara. This procedure for claiming the territory, which Spain is preparing to relinquish, was announced yesterday by the King hours after the International Court of Justice had ruled that both Morocco and what is now Mauritania had some ties to the tribes in the area when it became a Spanish colony in 1884. But the ruling, a nonbinding consultative opinion requested by the United Nations General Assembly, also said that the court could not “establish any tie of territorial sovereignty” over the disputed territory for either of the two countries.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s press secretary says the Cambodian chief of state has been “double-crossed” by his country’s Communist leaders and some of them “want to get rid” of him, the Far Eastern Economic Review reported today. The Review, a weekly regional news magazine, said that the press secretary, Nouth Cheoum, also said Prince Sihanouk was apprehensive about leaving Peking, where he had lived in exile since 1970, to return to Cambodia in September following the Communist takeover. The Prince stayed in Cambodia only a short while and is now back in Peking. The press secretary quoted Prince Sihanouk as saying: “My decision to return to Cambodia does not express the fact that agree with the cruel policy of the Red Khmers, but I must sacrifice myself for the honor of China and His Excellency Chinese Premier Chou En‐lai who helped so much Cambodia and myself.”
(Ed: DUH. Sihanouk was one dumb son of a bitch. OF COURSE the Communists betrayed him. What else?)
Groups of American Congressmen and Congressional staff aides have received all‐expensepaid trips to Taiwan from a foundation that appears to have close links to the Chinese Nationalist Government. Because the organization, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, is registered as a private, nonprofit corporation, the free trips do not seem technically to violate a Congressional ruling against accepting travel and living expenses from a foreign government. But a close examination of the foundation suggests that it serves largely as a front for the Nationalist Government in an effort to gain Congressional support against a possible move, by the Ford Administration to normalize relations with Peking.
In her first public appearance since her return from a leave of absence, Argentine President Isabel Martinez de Perón told thousands of followers today that she would carry on as head of state. The crowd had gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Juan Domingo Perón’s rise to power. Mrs. Perón urged her followers to maintain “the unity of our forces so as not to permit anybody to destroy our national movement.” The Peronist movement has recently been torn between those who urge unquestioning loyalty to Mrs. Perón and growing number of dissenters who feel that a stronger civilian figure should replace her.
With a stern warning to dissident members of Kenya’s single party, President Jomo Kenyatta appears for the moment to have quelled the latest eruption of rebellious legislators. The 84‐year‐old President, who is referred to here as Mzee, or the wise old man, reportedly told a closed session of parliament yesterday that “people appear to have forgotten that the hawk is always in the sky and ready to swoop on the chickens.” Mr. Kenyata left little doubt that it was he who was the hawk and that the chickens were the rebellious legislative members of his party who during the last year have raised periodic challenges to what they consider to be abuses of power by a clique around the President.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold three days of public hearings next week on the opening of domestic first‐class mail by the CenAral Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a committee source disclosed today. The committee has held open hearings on the C.I.A.’s mail interceptions, as have other Congressional panels. But the committee source said that the hearings next week would be “broader” than those in the past. He declined to elaborate, except to provide the names of witnesses scheduled to testify. They are Gordon Stewart, Thomas Abernathy and John Glennon, all of whom were involved in a mail‐interception study by the C.I.A. Inspector General in 1969 and 1970; former Postmasters General J. Edward Day and John A. Gronouski; former Chief Postal Inspectors Henry Montague and William J. Cotter, and three F.B.I. officials, W. Raymond Wannall, Donald E. Moore and William Brannigan. A second committee source said the Senate panel, headed by Senator Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat, was not ready to proceed with hearings on the structure and performance of the dozen or so agencies that make up the Federal intelligence community.
The government filed civil suits against the six largest cigarette makers, accusing them of inadequately displaying federal health warnings in their advertising. The companies are Philip Morris, American Brands, Brown & Williamson, R.J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers and Lorillard. The suits, filed in United States District Court by the Justice Department at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, charged the six companies with having violated consent orders agreed to on March 30, 1972. The Justice Department’s suits said all six companies had failed to display the warning on vending machine panels, counter racks, shopping bags and store signs that carried the brand names of cigarettes.
William and Emily Harris pleaded not guilty to 11 criminal charges, including kidnapping, robbery and assault, and their trial was tentatively set to begin November 24. Patricia Hearst, a co-defendant, was not present at the hearing.
New York City escaped financial default by hours when the teachers’ union, in a dramatic shift, agreed to provide $150 million from its pension funds for the city’s borrowing needs today and in the weeks ahead. In the most tense episode of the city’s fiscal problems, Albert Shanker, president of the teachers’ union, announced that the union would reverse its opposition to using its retirement reserves to buy $150 million worth of new city bonds. Minutes later, the bond sale was pressed and $95 million in loans were speeded to the city treasury for payment of the day’s expenses, which included the redemption of $453.1 million in short-term notes. A major bank stayed open late to complete the whirlwind transaction.
The financial markets gave investors a taste of what default by New York City might mean. As the day started, stock prices on major exchanges declined sharply in sluggish trading, and bond trading all but vanished. Currency trading in Europe virtually halted and world gold prices rose in anticipation of a city default. Then, in mid-afternoon, after word was flashed that default had been averted, pent-up pressure on the New York Stock Exchange set off a sharp rally, and within minutes the day’s losses had been erased.
As New York City had hovered on the brink of default, President Ford firmly denied federal aid to rescue the city. At 12:25 AM, Mayor Beame had made a futile telephone call to Mr. Ford for help. Treasury Secretary William Simon said in an interview that the administration had an open mind on any congressional action.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, under the pressure of a lawsuit challenging its impoundment practices, announced it would release $264.1 million in the next two years to help moderate income families buy housing. The program is designed to provide 250,000 new and rehabilitated dwellings for families with earnings of $9,000 to $11,000 a year at a subsidized interest rate of 5 percent.
At the same time, the Commerce Department reported a 2 percent decline in housing starts in September from August figures. Industry specialists predicted sluggish growth for this year and next.
Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has ordered what his department termed “a broad inquiry” on the entertainment of Pentagon officials by defense contractors. The Air Force, meanwhile, imposed stricter auditing standards on the Northrop Corporation, a major defense contractor that has been accused of charging improperly some of its expenses to the Defense Department.
The Justices of the United States Supreme Court voted 7–1 not to assign any decisions to the ailing Justice William O. Douglas, and to postpone resolution of any cases where his vote would be important, after the ailing Douglas had been observed falling to sleep during arguments. Douglas did not participate in the vote, and Byron R. White, who wrote a protest to his brethren on the Court, was the only dissenting vote. Douglas was hospitalized again two weeks later and retired from the Court.
The first Space Shuttle main engine test is conducted at National Space Tech Labs, at Pearl River, Mississippi.
Two ldaho law-enforcement officers said today that investigations had linked Thomas E. Creech to nine murders in Western states. But they said there was no verification of Mr. Creech’s statement that the murders were connected with religious sacrifices.
Brigham Young University, one of the nation’s largest private schools, intends to challenge new Federal regulations dealing with sex discrimination and run the risk of losing its Federal aid. The Provo, Utah, school will announce in newspaper advertisements today that it disputes the legality and constitutionality of parts of the Health, Education and Welfare Department’s Title IX rules dealing with sex discrimination. Compliance notices from colleges and universities are due tomorrow. Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, president of the Mormon‐run school, said the new rules “infringe on religious freedom.”
The Baltimore Claws, newest team in the American Basketball Association, played their third and final exhibition game, losing to the Virginia Squires, 100–88, before a crowd of 500 people. The team folded three days later without ever playing a regular season game.
Major League Baseball:
Charles Finley fires manager Alvin Dark. Dark had guided the team to the Divisional title the past two seasons.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 832.18 (-5.67, -0.68%)
Born:
Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadien, Nashvillle Predators), in New York, New York.
Larry Chester, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers, Miami Dolphins), in Hammond, Louisiana.
Héctor Almonte, Dominican MLB ppitcher (Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos), in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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