The White House announced today a five‐year agreement with the Soviet Union, effective next October 1, under which the Russians would buy six to eight million tons of American grain a year. At the same time, President Ford lifted a two‐month moratorium on further grain sales to the Russians this year. Representatives of United States companies are in Moscow even now seeking to close additional deals, according to trade sources. The White House also disclosed a letter of intent, signed today in Moscow, to conclude an agreement to buy up to 200,000 barrels a day of Russian oil and petroleum products. It was clear that a price for the Russian oil was continuing to hold up agreement. The United States had sought a discount to put pressure on the Arab producing countries and the Russians have reportedly continued to refuse such concessions.
An official inquiry into the problems of Britain’s National Health Service was set up by Prime Minister Harold Wilson as strikes by hospital doctors spread to London. Scores of doctors refusing to treat all but emergency cases in hospitals in the capital joined an estimated 3,000 junior doctors taking unofficial action across the country in a dispute over rates for overtime.
Police have arrested a West German air force lieutenant colonel and his wife and another married couple on suspicion of spying for East Germany, the federal prosecutor said in Karlsruhe. The colonel had been a liaison officer with an army tank brigade. Police found a radio transmitter and forged passports when they arrested the other couple on suspicion of having been the colonel’s couriers to the East.
Andrei D. Sakharov, the physicist and outspoken advocate of civil liberties, said today that he had formally applied for permission to travel to Oslo, Norway, next month to receive his Nobel Peace Prize. The 54‐year‐old scientist, who has been attacked in the Soviet, press since it was announced October 9 that he had won the 1975 Peace Prize, told newsmen in his apartment that he had “no idea at all” whether he would be allowed to make the trip. “But as of today I don’t think I should be skeptical,” he added. In announcing the award to Mr. Sakharov, the Nobel Committee of the Norweigian parliament had said: “For him it is a fundamental principle that world peace can have no lasting value unless it Is founded on respect for the human being in society.”
The news media in all Western Hemisphere nations is undergoing the worst restrictions on freedom of the press in a century, a report by the Inter American Press Association said. Even in the United States and other democratic countries in the hemisphere, the news media face an uphill struggle to “guarantee that its constitutional rights are respected and that it will not fall to the constant pressures from powerful interest groups inside and outside the seats of power,” the report said.
The Director General of UNESCO said today that the United States must pay its 25 percent share of his agency’s budget because it is a member nation. Washington has withheld its $19.8‐million assessment for this year because of what it considers discrimination against Israel by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, the Senegalese who has been Director General of the agency since last year, told reporters at a luncheon here today that he did not intend to criticize the United States Congress. He conveyed the impression, however, that he regarded nonpayment of the American dues as illegal. “We are in a world where problems cannot be solved by show of force,” Mr. M’Bow said, “neither by force of weapons or by force of money.”
The United States has reportedly assured Israel that it has no present plans to sell arms to Egypt for at least a year. The assurance was conveyed, officials said, because Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat is expected to take a “shopping list” of American arms to Washington next week. The Administration and Israeli sources, who reported this also, said the Israeli concern about possible American arms sales to Egypt was conveyed by Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to Secretary of State Kissinger last Friday before Mr. Kissinger departed for China. Mr. Kissinger, according to these sources, said that while President Ford would discuss Mr. Sadat’s military needs with him in a general way, the Administration would not sell military hardware to Egypt for the rest of this fiscal year, which ends next October 1 under the fiscal system going into effect in 1976. This means, for all practical purposes, that a decision on providing arms to Egypt will be deferred until after the presiidential elections.
At least 13 people were killed and 40 wounded early yesterday in another outbreak of shelling and street fighting. The city was tense but quiet through the day, but as night fell scattered shooting could again be heard. It was widely feared that Beirut faced another period of the rocket, mortar and heavy machinegun fire between rival Muslim and Christian factions that has paralyzed this capital for five weeks. The nights now belong to the bands of gunmen who roam Beirut defying an 8 P.M. curfew. The days are the time for ordinary citizens to make swift, cautious sorties to buy provisions. Streets In most of the city are deserted. The government of President Suleiman Franjieh made no visbile effort during the day to stem the apparent slide toward further chaos. Mr. Franjieh was at his official residence at Baabda in the hills east of the city, while Premier Rashid Karami, his political foe, remained at his summer residence in Sofar.
An Omani government spokesman said that loyal Omani troops have cut off the main supply route for Marxist forces in Dhofar province, signaling “the beginning of the end” of the 1-year-old guerrilla war. “Omani troops are now firmly in control of the main supply line which runs through West Dhofar,” an Omani Defense Department spokesman said. Oman, on the southeast coast of the Arabian peninsula, is one of a chain of tiny Arab oil states bordering Saudi Arabia.
The South Vietnamese ship carrying 1,546 repatriates from Guam to Vietnam has not been sighted in Philippine waters, a Philippine navy spokesman said. A reconnaissance flight was scheduled over the San Bernardino Strait off Luzon Island where the ship was expected to pass.
Secretary of State Kissinger reviewed the international situation with Chinese leaders here today, but the substance of his talks remained secret. He had two rounds of discussions with a team led by Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping, who has taken over many of the duties of the ailing Premier, Chou En‐lai, and is widely regarded as his logical successor. American officials said the two‐hour first session, which covered international affairs, had been cordial and frank. The main purpose of Mr. Kissinger’s four‐day visit, which began yesterday, is to prepare for President Ford’s trip, probably late next month.
Forty-three people were killed and more than 60 injured in the collision of two subway trains in the Mexico City Metro system. One train was preparing to pull out of the station when it stopped because someone had pulled the emergency cord “perhaps several times”. The next scheduled train slammed into the stalled cars.
Terrorists struck in four Argentine cities on President Maria Estela Perón’s first day at her desk since she resumed office five days ago. The bullet-torn body of a suspected left-wing extremist was found after armed men, believed to be right-wing terrorists, kidnaped him from his home in Cordoba. Bombings and shootings, without casualties, were reported in Buenos Aires and two other cities.
With repression and mass arrests, the military regime that has ruled Ethiopia for 13 months has pushed the politically conscious minority into fearful opposition or into prisons. Land reform, the regime’s main achievement, is said to have been carried out on 10 percent of arable soil.
Chad President Felix Malloum has accused France of trickery in its moves to obtain the release of archeologist Francoise Claustre, held by rebels since April, 1974, in the desert of northern Chad. He said that despite official French denials, he believed France had delivered arms to Toubou rebels in the Tibesti Desert. France recently paid a ransom of $2.1 million which it said was in cash and nonmilitary equipment. The rebels insisted later that only arms deliveries would guarantee Mrs. Claustre’s release.
The military government of Dahomey suppressed a coup d’etat attempt last week organized by supporters of former President Derlin Zinsou, officials reported. The number of arrests, if any, was not reported. There was no violence, but the streets of Cotonou filled with pro-government demonstrators when Radio Dahomey announced the plot had been crushed. Zinsou was overthrown in 1969 and is living abroad.
Three Cuban Navy transport ships — El Vietnam Heroico, El Coral Island and La Plata — brought the first Cuban soldiers to Angola, to support the Marxist MPLA.
Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia has apologized to Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa for any embarrassment caused by his assertion in a television interview that Mr. Vorster’s policy of trying to improve relations in southern Africa had blocked a settlement of the Rhodesian problem.
The nation’s economic recovery in the July-September quarter was even speedier than experts had expected. The Commerce Department reported that the total output of goods and services rose at an annual rate of 11.2 percent. James Pate, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, said the figures showed that the two-year recession was “definitely” over.
The Supreme Court ruled that states may allow teachers to spank misbehaving pupils, even over the objections of parents. However, the Court said that teachers must use lesser punishment when appropriate and also give children a procedural safeguard — such as advance warning of what misbehavior warranted a spanking. The decision does not invalidate state laws that bar corporal punishment, since the Court sets only minimum standards and states may give schoolchildren additional rights.
The Democratic National Committee challenged a Republican stand that President Ford’s political traveling expenses do not fall under federal limitations on campaign spending. The Republican National Committee said it had paid about a half million dollars for the President’s political barnstorming, claiming that Mr. Ford had made the trips as a “party leader,” not as a candidate. The Democrats claim that such a contention would create a loophole in the campaign spending law that would “make a mockery of the law.”
The Ford administration proposed a food-stamp revision bill that it said would save taxpayers $1.2 billion a year by dropping recipients or cutting benefits for nearly half of the 18.8 million people now getting the coupons. The program would eliminate 3.4 million Americans from the rolls by limiting participation to those whose net income is below $5,050 for a family of four. It would also revise eligibility criteria, reducing benefits for 5.3 million people.
Defense Secretary James Schlesinger charged that a House committee had made “deep, savage and arbitrary cuts” in defense appropriations that, if not reversed by the Senate, would have “a severe effect” on the nation’s defenses.
President Ford, a high administration official said, will reluctantly approve legislation to ease New York City’s fiscal crunch provided the measure contains the stringent restrictions that Congress is expected to require. Congressional leaders expressed uncertainty on the prospects for such legislation, but the House majority leader predicted eventual passage.
A bill to permit the General Accounting Office, the fiscal watchdog agency of Congress, to audit the Internal Revenue Service was passed by the House. The IRS has contended in a long argument with the GAO that statutes protecting the privacy of tax records prohibit it from making available to the GAO any documents or records on its administration of the revenue laws. The bill now goes to the Senate.
A multialarm fire at the Gulf Oil Corp. plant in South Philadelphia was brought under control about 3 ½ hours after it broke out. No injuries were reported. It was the second fire in two months at the refinery, which is adjacent to an area where a third fire heavily damaged an Atlantic Richfield Co. plant eight days ago. A Gulf spokesman said the latest fire was confined to a 40,000 barrel crude oil storage tank, although there had been fears that it might spread to the main refinery that contained 140,000 gallons of oil. Eight firemen had been killed in the Gulf fire of August 17.
Senator Joseph M. Montoya (D-New Mexico) charged that “overzealous persons” within the Internal Revenue Service were leaking false information to the press in retaliation against his attempts to ensure fair treatment of taxpayers. Montoya denied allegations that high IRS officials had blocked audits of his tax returns over the past two years. “I have never asked for special treatment from the IRS,” Montoya said. “And as far as I know, I have never received special treatment.”
U.S. Army officials denied an NBC television news report that they were storing “substantial” amounts of deadly germ warfare agents at Dugway Proving Ground in the western Utah desert. They keep toxins only in amounts permitted by presidential directives, the officials said. “We have laboratory quantities of certain biological agents,” Steve Wright, base information officer, said. “You would probably find the same materials in any major university bio-research lab in the nation.”
A man answering first-degree murder charges in an Indianapolis municipal court was fatally shot in front of the judge’s bench. Held in the shooting was Harriet Roberta Jones, 25, whose father was beaten to death Saturday. Officers said that Mrs. Jones fired a single shot in the courtroom at her brother-in-law, Nathaniel Sanders, 34, who was to face charges in her father’s death. Mrs. Jones’ sister was Sanders’ estranged wife.
House and Senate conferees rejected a plan to reduce gasoline consumption by cutting service station supplies but agreed to require automobiles to meet gasoline mileage goals. Deleted from an energy bill was a section that would have kept the flow of gasoline to service stations at or below the 1973-74 level, when stations had trouble getting gas during the Arab oil embargo. The conferees did agree to a gas mileage requirement for autos that would force 1978 models — which come out in 1977 — to average 18 miles per gallon of gasoline. The 1979 models would have to average 19 miles per gallon and the 1980 models 20 miles a gallon.
American industry should think more about changing its manufacturing processes to make them more efficient rather than merely making minor alterations that clean up the processes slightly, according to Russell Train, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Train told a group of pollution engineers meeting in Cleveland this kind of planning would pay off in the long run for business. Revamping assembly lines may mean high capital costs at the beginning, Train said, but the result will be lower costs and better public health.
Golden Frinks does not have the power to suspend Southern Christian Leadership Conference activities in North Carolina, national SCLC leaders said. “He’s the oldest staff person we have and he’s going to stay with SCLC,” Tyrone Brooks, national SCLC communications director, said. Frinks had announced that his state group was $17,000 in debt and that he would suspend operations, adding that he had been used by other black leaders in North Carolina. “Just because he has frustrations does not mean he can close down,” Brooks said.”
Soviet orbiter Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus. American space experts reported yesterday that Venera 9, an unmanned vehicle, was expected to reach Venus tomorrow night. They said that its sister ship, Venera 10, should arrive Saturday. The most likely plan is for them to go into an orbit of the cloud‐covered planet, then release probes to penetrate the dense, hot atmosphere for soft landings on the surface. Soviet officials have described the two Veneras as a “new type” of planetary spacecraft. American intelligence sources believe the craft to be four times as heavy as previous Veneras — about 10,000 pounds, compared to 2,600. The sources also indicated that the vehicles may be equipped with a French‐built balloon system to cushion the landing. At the surface, the Venusian atmosphere is about 90 times as dense as that of the earth, and its temperature is about 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Major League Baseball:
1975 World Series:
For the 3rd consecutive day, rain postpones Game Six.
NFL Monday Night Football:
A successful 37‐yard field goal by George Hunt with six seconds left in the game was the next‐to‐last play and the decisive one here tonight as the New York Giants — those poor bedraggled Giants — pulled off a major upset by defeating the unbeaten Buffalo Bills, 17–14, before stunned crowd of 79,518 in Rich Stadium in Buffalo. Hunt’s kick was preceded by a miss two minutes before, a memorable miss of 19‐yard field goal attempt. The player who missed that time, and then missed from 50 yards out with 62 seconds left to play was John Leypoldt, the usually consistent Buffalo kicker. But the action surrounding those field goals in a hectic final quarter was the essence of a game which started out to be easy — too easy — for the Bills. They broke out to a 14–0 lead in the first 18 minutes of play and the Giants were in character, earnest but ineffective. The tide first shifted in the second quarter when the Giants got up off the synthetic turf and delivered a 91-yard touchdown drive, by far their best offensive effort of a season which had seen one opening victory over Philadelphia followed by three defeats. The drive was successful when Ray Rhodes caught a 20‐yard touchdown pass from Craig Morton. The New York defenders contained O. J. Simpson. They more‐or‐less held pro football’s premier running back in check. He gained 126 yards in 34 carries, his lowest total of this season. A more significant statistic was this: Simpson’s longest gain o the night was 13 yards. The Juice never “broke one.”
New York Giants 17, Buffalo Bills 14
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