Spain’s General Francisco Franco has been ordered to bed by his doctors because of the return of the circulatory ailments that forced his temporary abdication last year, Newsweek magazine said. Aides reported Saturday that Franco, 82, was in bed with a mild attack of the flu. Newsweek said that when aides reported his presence at a cabinet meeting last week, he was actually in bed, unconscious and under treatment.
The Irish Republican Army has established a link with the kidnapers of Tiede Herrema and are negotiating for the release of the Dutch businessman, IRA sources said in Dublin. The kidnappers had threatened to execute Herrema unless the Irish government frees three IRA members serving prison terms in Ireland. Meantime, a massive search operation was concentrated in the Dublin area.
About 50,000 people from all over Britain marched through central London to support proposed legislation to curb Britain’s liberal abortion laws. But six women bound in chains paraded in front of the altar at Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral during Mass to protest the Catholic Church’s involvement in the antiabortion campaign.
Three years after delegates of 113 nations gathered in Stockholm at a United Nations conference to combat global environmental problems. they have a mixed view of the results. They believe that much has been accomplished but acknowledge that progress so far represents only minuscule gains on ever-accelerating problems.
The Sakharov Hearings, organized by a group of East European refugees living in Denmark, ended in Copenhagen with a call for a new international convention to protect political prisoners throughout the world. The three-day inquiry, held in the name of Soviet Nobel Prize winner Andrei D. Sakharov, focused on alleged repression in the Soviet Union. It heard 24 witnesses whose testimony will be put at the disposal of the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
Despite the smooth treatment Western newsmen have generally been accorded in Eastern Europe since détente became a diplomatic catchword, correspondents are finding direct coverage of the workings of Communist power almost as difficult as in cold war days. The Western correspondents no longer work in constant fear of arrest and even long imprisonment. Direct censorship has disappeared. Provocations, blackmail and extortion directed against newsmen have largely ended. Western European and Amercan correspondents are sometimes ostentatiously followed by police plainclothes men in the Soviet Union and its bloc, seemingly more to intimidate them than for other reasons.
A Turkish officer assigned to the United States military base here recently demanded the keys to the weapons storeroom. The American commander, Lieutenant Colonel John T. Norris, refused to yield them and heated words were exchanged. Within days, the Turkish officer was transferred. This incident illustrates the experience of the American military in Turkey since July 29, when Ankara retaliated against a Congressional embargo on arms sales to Turkey by placing the 25 American installations here under Turkish command. Many problems have arisen, but most of them have been settled amicably. The Americans do not like the situation, but they feel they can live with it. The last two and a half months have probably set a pattern for the future. The Turkish commanders are almost certain to remain on the bases and many special privileges once enjoyed by American personnel will not be reinstated.
Some nations have a mixed reaction to a successful American program that uses space platforms to survey the world for mineral resources and any environmental changes. A United Nations committee has been asked to recommend that the project be put under international control.
The global fertilizer shortage is now ended. But continuing high prices have caused a drop in fertilizer usage — and hence in potential food production — in the poorest nations. During the shortage, from 1972 to 1974, manufacturers increased prices for some common fertilizers by up to 1,000 percent and profits are still soaring.
The labor dispute that has grounded Israel’s El Al airline for almost a week will have far-reaching social repercussions for the nation, Transport Minister Gad Yacobi told the cabinet. He cited the impact of a protracted walkout by 600 maintenance workers on the government’s wages and income tax reform policies. Meanwhile, El Al has chartered a number of foreign aircraft and has urged other airlines to use jumbo jets to accommodate the extra passenger load.
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon today deplored a United Nations committee vote equating Zionism with racism, but he expressed satisfaction that the Arabs did not muster their majority with the usual ease. Reporting to the Cabinet in Jerusalem, Mr. Allon said the Arabs had met unwonted resistance in the vote in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee of the General Assembly. He said delegations from all continents had withstood pressures and supported Zionism or abstained. The vote in the committee was 70 to 29 with 27 abstentions. Mr. Allon contrasted this with a vote of 126 to 1 with 2 abstentions in a committee vote against racial discrimination.
A day of relative calm ended in a fresh outbreak of fighting in Beirut, and police said eight persons were killed and 17 wounded. The government-run radio urged residents and businesses, however, to prepare to resume normal activities. In the latest outbreak, the city was rocked by explosions and machine-gun fire. Security forces were reported trying to contain trouble spots and bring gunmen under control. Some fighting spilled into the Ras Beirut section of the city, where many foreigners live, but the main front was Bechara el-Khour Street — a major dividing line between Christian and Muslim neighborhoods. From the volume and intensity of the explosions, the night appeared to have been one of the most violent that the city has seen since factional fighting broke out in Lebanon in April.
The Arab League Council in Cairo agreed on a new round of talks on cooperation with the European Common Market next month and promised to study an Iraqi proposal for an Arab economic summit. League Secretary General Mahmoud Riad said member states would fix a date for the summit after further discussion of Iraq’s call for the meeting to coordinate and develop Arab resources for Arab lands.
Morocco brushed aside Spanish protests today and went ahead with plans for a peaceful march by 350,000 volunteers led by King Hassan II into Spanish Sahara to back Morocco’s claim to the northwest African territory. The official Moroccan press agency said today that nearly 362,000 volunteers had signed up for the march at recruiting offices throughout the country since King Hassan issued his call for volunteers on Thursday.
China’s Foreign Minister, Chiao Kuan-hua, in a speech welcoming Secretary of State Kissinger to Peking, warned him publicly for the first time of the danger of the American policy of detente with the Russians. Mr. Kissinger responded diplomatically that American-Chinese relations “would threaten no one” and then made clear that Washington would stand up to Moscow if the security of third countries was threatened.
Venezuela plans to announce a new price list for its oil exports this week to bring the revenues in line with the 10% increase announced by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. A major supplier of U.S. oil imports, Venezuela currently exports more than two million barrels of oil a day at an average price of $13.50 a barrel.
With the date for the independence of Angola now only weeks away, the people of Portugal are hearing constant talk linking the strife in the West African territory with reports of an impending effort to overthrow the government here. Events in Angola, scheeduled for independence November 11, have impinged for months on life in Portugal as hundreds of thousands of Portuguese. settlers have come back from the territory, trying to establish new lives with few resources and finding few prospects of jobs or housing.
Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of one faction of Rhodesia’s African National Council, flew to Mwanza, a town on the shore of Lake Victoria, for talks with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere on the future of the ANC movement. He and his chief backer, Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, are expected to brief Nyerere on nationalist developments in Rhodesia since Joshua Nkomo set up a rival ANC faction in Salisbury last month.
The Ford administration is seeking to have ready tomorrow a food stamp reform bill acceptable to both moderate and conservative Republicans in Congress — and one that will help the party in the 1976 elections. The administration is working to reconcile provisions of two widely different measures to revise the controversial and politically sensitive $6 billion program.
A bipartisan group of Senators, seeking cuts in the defense budget, contends that the House-passed appropriation exceeds congressional budget guidelines by almost $1 billion. The group of four Democratic and three Republican Senators said that Congress must trim the defense budget to demonstrate “fiscal responsibility” and make its new budget procedures work.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has apologized to Richard M. Nixon for disparaging_remarks he made about the former President last week in Ottawa, Newsweek magazine said. The remarks, table gossip at a state banquet, were overheard by newsmen when a microphone at Kissinger’s table was left on accidentally. Kissinger called Mr. Nixon “odd,” “unpleasant” and “artificial” and said he had “barely governed” during the months of the Watergate disclosures. Kissinger told Mr. Nixon that his words had been taken out of context, the magazine said.
New York City’s narrow escape from default has prompted a number of mayors across the nation to renew and intensify their demand that the federal government come to the city’s rescue.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, in an interview, said that New York City’s fiscal chaos was due to lack of planning, “by piling debt on debt” and an “inflationary psychology.”
Indignation over Northern economic supremacy, which has troubled Southerners for years, is a dominant theme of the present campaign for Governor of Mississippi. Both major party candidates, Cliff Finch and Gil Carmichael, have pledged to raise the state’s low industrial wages, which are now paid largely by companies with headquarters in the North.
An undercover informer and witness for the federal authorities said that, because of threats to his family, he had been forced to play a major role in a plot to discredit government investigations of organized crime activities in northern New Jersey.
Regulations limiting the use of nitrite in cured meat products because of its possible cancer-causing effect in bacon are being prepared by the Department of Agriculture, a department official said. Substances called nitrosamines, occurring in bacon at very low levels, have been found to be cancer-producing in rats, Dr. Donald Houston, assistant director of the USDA meat and poultry inspection division, said. Although nitrite is used to cure other meats, such as frankfurters, bologna and luncheon meats, nitrosamines are produced in bacon only after it has been cooked at a high temperature, he said.
A 29-year-old man was charged with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of six members of a family in Sutherland, Nebraska, a small prairie town east of North Platte. Dead are Henery and Marie Kellie, their son, David, 32, and three grandchildren, ages 10, 6 and 5. The suspect, Erwin Charles Simants, was arrested at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, next-door neighbors of the Kellies. Police said that the victims had been shot at close range and that no motive had been determined.
Army officials contend that the storage of eight deadly toxins left over from biological warfare research does not violate the intent of a Presidential order in 1970 to dispose of all such substances. According to an Army spokesman at Edgewood Arenal, the order in February, 1970. by President Nixon pertained only to offensive biological and chemical warfare materials. The spokesman said that the, six samples here and two at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah had been preserved because they were being used “to research defensive weapons systems.”
Follow Through, the largest educational research and development program ever undertaken, has been of questionable value in improving the academic achievement of poor children, a report by the General Accounting Office said. Established by Congress in 1967, the program provided special math and reading instruction, health and food services to 71,000 poor children who had been graduated from Head Start or similar preschool programs. Some differences between Follow Through children and other children in classroom achievement could be seen, the report said, but the “relative merits” of the differences were undetermined. Administration of the project was criticized and questions were raised about the validity of the experiment in the first place.
Premium rates for most plans participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program will be raised an estimated 35% in 1976 over 1974, mainly because of increases in the cost of health care, the Civil Service Commission announced. Average hospital charges increased 18%, and physicians’ fees 11% last year, the announcement said. The two government-wide plans, Aetna and Blue Cross-Blue Shield, requested increases of 38% to 54%, the commission said, but agreed to increases of about 35%.
The clean air standards of the Environmental Protection Agency are in some instances unnecessary and unachievable, according to Martin Goland, director of the private Southwest Research Institute. In a speech before the American Society for Nondestructive Testing in Atlanta, Goland said many of the “highly restrictive standards which are now part of the law. cannot be defended on hard scientific grounds.” For example, he said, achieving the EPA ozone requirement of not more than .08 parts per million in large cities “may be impossible in certain locations.”
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference in North Carolina is $17,000 in debt and will suspend operations in the state indefinitely, the state leader, Golden Frinks, said. He said he had been used and exploited by other black leaders in the state. Frinks, a long-time organizer in the civil rights group founded by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, said he was moving to Delaware to work with a group of ministers.
A “helium sniffer” that could be instrumental in finding domestic energy sources has been developed by scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey. The sniffer is a quarter-inch steel tube that is pushed two feet. into the ground where it can sniff helium, one of the lightest known. gases. Helium is found where such energy sources as oil, gas, uranium, thorium, and geothermal resources: are in the ground. The instrument has a syringe through which a sample of the helium is transferred to an analyzing unit.
Heavy-handed regulations that “put the burden” on the whole oil industry jeopardize the recovery of billions of barrels of Texas oil, a Dallasbased independent oilman said. Sherman Hunt, stepping down as president of a Texas oil association, criticized Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Energy Administration proposals intended to protect drinking water from oil wells.
The Boston Globe uses aerial photography to measure the exact distance of the left field wall (“The Green Monster”) at Fenway from home plate. The distance: 304.779 feet. Art Keefe and writer George Sullivan measure it this month at 309 feet, 4 inches.
The last games of the World Football League were played. The largest crowd of the season (35,000) turned out in Birmingham to watch the two best teams (the 8-3-0 Birmingham Vulcans and the 7-4-0 Memphis Southmen) play; Birmingham won 21–0. In other games, the Shreveport Steamer defeated the visiting San Antonio Wings 41-31, the Portland Thunder won at home against the Jacksonville Express 30-13, and, in the last WFL game ever played, the Southern California Sun beat The Hawaiians, 26-7, in Honolulu. The WFL folded three days later.
The last exhibition game between an American Basketball Association team and an NBA team took place in Salt Lake City, where the Utah Stars of the ABA defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, 106-101. The Utah Stars would go out of business in December, and the ABA would fold at the end of the 1975–76 season.
1975 World Series:
For a second day, Game Six is postponed due to rain.
NFL Football:
The Cardinals downed the Eagles, 31–20. Jim Otis gained 116 yards and ran for two touchdowns to spur a strong Cardinal running attack that totaled 278 yards. The victory left St. Louis in a tie with Washington for second in the N.F.C.’s East, one game behind Dallas. Philadelphia, losing for the fourth time in five games, relied mainly on the passing of Roman Gabriel, who picked up 160 yards in the air, and flipped scoring passes of 11 yards to Harold Carmichael and Charles Smith.
The Jets suffered one of the worst defeats in their history yesterday when they lost to the Miami Dolphins. 43–0. And as the rain and the boos were falling on Shea Stadium, one factor became painfully clear: The Dolphins couldn’t have done it without the Jets’ help. The Dolphins had six touchdowns and a field goal. But three touchdowns followed interceptions of Joe Namath passes; another touchdown followed a fumble recovery; the field goal followed an interception. Namath passed 24 times. Eight were complete for a grand total of 96 yards. For the first time in his last 12 games, he did not throw a touchdown pass. And Rich Caster, one of the best receivers in the National Football League, caught only one pass. He was wracked up repeatedly at the line of scrimmage.
The Chiefs edged the Chargers, 12–10. After three opening losses, Kansas City won for the second week in a row on a pair of field goals by Jan Stenerud and a 60‐yard scoring pass from Mike Livingston to Walter White, a rookie tight end released by Pittsburgh. Stenerud’s third field goal (27 yards with 12:06 left) won the game, overcoming a 36-yard field goal by the Chargers’ Ray Wersching and a 2‐yard scoring aerial from Jesse Freitas to Sam Scarber.
Bart Starr’s early coaching career with the Green Bay Packers had hardly been a sparkling success in the first month of the National Football League schedule. The Packers lost four straight games for the worst start in their 55‐year history. But yesterday the opposing team was the Dallas Cowboys against whom Green Bay had won seven of eight decisions, including two championship games in which Starr quarterbacked the Pack to victory. Tradition and Starr’s magic worked again as the Packers handed the Cowboys their first defeat in five games. 19–17. Dallas, though, held first place in the National Conference’s Eastern Division as the Washington Redskins were dumped by the Houston Oilers. The Packers were trailing, 17–12, when ‐Dallas’s Golden Richards fumbled and Steve Luke recovered for Green Bay on the Dallas 31‐yard line with about 2 minutes to go. On the second play, John Hadl lofted a 26‐yard pass that Rich McGeorge was able to carry into the end zone for the winning points. “I’m about three feet off the ground,” said Starr afterward.
The Rams used three fumble recoveries and two pass interceptions to set up three field goals by Tom Dempsey and two scoring passes by James Harris in winning for the forth time in five weeks, as Los Angeles thumped The Falcons, 22–7. Harris collaborated with Bob Klein on a 44‐yard scoring play and with Harold Jackson on a 28‐yard scoring play. After suffering three interceptions, Atlanta’s Steve Bartkowski was replaced in the fourth period at quarterback by Pat Sullivan, who flipped 5 yards to Al Jenkins for Atlanta’s only points.
Are the Oakland Raiders in deep trouble or merely shallow trouble? They certainly were in some kind of trouble today as they lost a sloppy game to the unbeaten Cincinnati Bengals, 14–10. The game was played in rain and marked by eight intercepted passes, four for each side, plus 15 penalties, seven of them for holding. The Raiders supposedly are one of the powerhouse teams of the National Football League, certain Super Bowl contenders in the opinion of many. Yet they lost last Sunday on their mistakes to the weak Kansas City Chiefs, 42–10, and they went down again today for reasons that could be traced to the wobbly right knee of their premier quarterback, Ken Stabler. Stabler, as he had predicted, had no power on most of his passes and so was vulnerable to interceptions. One interception cost him the game. It came at the start of the fourth period with the score tied, 7–7. Marvin Cobb a rookie playing at cornerback because Ken Riley had been injured, picked off a weak Stabler pass thrown outside to Cliff Branch and returned it 52 yards down the sideline for the winning touchdown.
Minnesota topped the Lions, 25–19, as the undefeated Vikings took a two‐game lead over the Lions, their only valid competition in the N.F.C.’s Central Division, with Fran Tarkenton tossing two touchdown passes and Chuck Foreman running for 107 yards. Fred Cox booted three field goals to run his total to seven without a miss this season. The Lions rallied in the final quarter for Bill Munson scoring passes to Charlie Sanders and Jon Staggers and a 42‐yard field goal by Errol Mann.
Houston beat the Redskins, 13–10. The rejuvenated Oilers scored their fourth victory in five games and remained in contention with Cincinnati and Pittsburgh for first place in the A.F.C.’s Central Division. Pinpoint passing by Dan Pastorini set up two short touchdown runs by Don Hardeman, the second of which gave the Oilers their final margin. The Houston defense then thwarted two Washington drives — one on an interception of a Billy Kilmer pass by Deke Moore. Kilmer earlier had passed 13 yards to Frank Grant for Washington’s lone
The Broncos moved into a tie for first place with Oakland in the Western Division on the strength of Jim Turner’s 53-yard field goal at the final gun, as they edged the Browns, 16–15. The kick, the longest of Turner’s 12‐year pro career, concluded a brilliant kicking duel between Turner and Cleveland’s Don Cockroft, who set a Cleveland team record with five field goals. A miss after his fourth 3‐pointer snapped a string of 16 straight connections by Cockroft, tying the league record set by Jan Stenerud in 1969. The game’s only touchdown came on a 1‐yard plunge by Jon Keyworth in the fourth quarter.
The Patriots beat the Colts, 21–10. Andy Johnson, a second‐year back from Georgia who entered the game with a pro career rushing record of minus 2 yards, romped for 124 yards for New England. He scored a touchdown on a 1-yard plunge and then sealed New England’s first victory in five games with a 66‐yard scamper round end after taking a Jim Plunkett pitchout.
The 49ers downed the Saints, 35–21, as Norm Snead passed to Gene Washington for two touchdowns within a 55‐second span in the opening quarter to send the 49ers on the way to an easy triumph. The plays covered 29 and 20 yards, the first coming after a blocked punt and the second following a fumble recovery. Snead later threw a 60‐yard scoring aerial to Tom Mitchell. Two of the New Orleans touchdowns came on fumble recoveries and runs of 21 yards by Tom Myers and 38 yards by Rusty. Chambers.
Leading by only 10–3 at the half, the Steelers marched methodically for three touchdowns in the final two periods to chalk up their fourth victory against a defeat, as they crushed the Chicago Bears, 34–3. Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier each plunged over the goal‐line from short yardage and Roy Gerela, who had booted a field goal in the first half, added one.
Philadelphia Eagles 20, St. Louis Cardinals 31
Miami Dolphins 43, New York Jets 0
Kansas City Chiefs 12, San Diego Chargers 10
Green Bay Packers 19, Dallas Cowboys 17
Atlanta Falcons 7, Los Angeles Rams 22
Oakland Raiders 10, Cincinnati Bengals 14
Detroit Lions 19, Minnesota Vikings 25
Washington Redskins 10, Houston Oilers 13
Cleveland Browns 15, Denver Broncos 16
Baltimore Colts 10, New England Patriots 21
New Orleans Saints 21, San Francisco 49ers 35
Chicago Bears 3, Pittsburgh Steelers 34
Born:
Horacio Estrada, Venezuelan MLB pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies), in San Joaquin, Venezuela.
Benjamin Heckendorn, electronics modifier and independent film maker, in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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