Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco suffered a heart attack that would leave him bedridden for the rest of his life; Franco would pass away 30 days later. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spain’s ruler since the 1936-39 civil war, fell seriously ill with a heart ailment, setting off rumors that a transfer of power to Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon was imminent. The seriousness of General Franco’s illness was underlined by two visits by Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and a gathering of the 82-year-old chief of state’s family.
The United States chief delegate to the United Nations, Daniel P. Moynihan, said yesterday that a controversial draft resolution that would equate Zionism with racism “must not pass the General Assembly.” The text, which proposed that the Assembly determine “that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination,” was adopted by the United Nations Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee last Friday by a vote of 70 to 29 with 27 absentions and 16 absent. It is due to be discussed and voted upon by the General AsIsembly later during the current session. Mr. Moynihan, in a speech last night, contended that what was condemned in the committee on Friday was not Zionism but Israel, “and not the state of Israel nearly so much as the significance of Israel as one of the very few places outside of Western Europe and North America and a few offshore islands where Western democratic principles survive, and of all such places, currently the most exposed.”
Armed troops and police tried to rescue a Dutch industrialist from his kidnappers today by storming a house in this sleepy market town. But the abductors held authorities at bay by threatening to “blow his head off,” the police said. “All communications we’ve had to date indicate they’re not about to surrender,” a police spokesman said. Flood lights were set up in the evening as the vigil continued into the night. The kidnappers, believed to be two Irish Republican Army guerrillas, Eddie Gallagher and Marion Coyle, seized the industrialist Tiede Herrema, 18 days ago, demanding that the Irish Government release three other members from jail. They repeated those demands today. A squad of troopers smashed down the front door of the two‐story house 40 miles west of Dublin, and police officers led by Superintendent John Fleming of Dublin’s special branch charged in, a police spokesman said. The kidnappers fired five shots, but no one was hit, the police reported. The assault team did not fire back. The kidnappers retreated to an upstairs bedroom holding a gun to Mr. Herrema’s head. A short while later, a man who appeared to be Mr. Gallagher, pushed Mr. Herrema up to a window of the house, held a pistol against his head and shouted “He’s a dead man if you try anything.”
The key men in Portugal’s military regime and leaders of the Socialist and Communist parties were summoned by President Francisco da Costa Gomes for an emergency meeting to discuss the country’s immediate political future. The unexpected session, on the eve of the president’s departure for official visits to Rome and Belgrade, opened as leftists were organizing for a mass protest aimed at forcing the downfall of Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo and his Socialist-dominated cabinet.
Art experts from 20 countries and representatives of the world’s major religions are laying the groundwork for an international watchdog agency to fight the theft and destruction of artistic treasures. The new agency is being discussed at a four-day congress in Florence, Italy, sponsored by the Italian government, the Vatican, and the city of Florence. The agency is expected to be affiliated with the United Nations.
U.S. Department of Transportation officials discussed letting the Concorde supersonic jet transport land regularly at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., for a test period of six months, the Washington Post said. Such a test program reportedly would permit the department to measure noise levels and other environmental effects of the British-French aircraft. Dulles is owned and operated by the U.S. government.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
Israeli officials reported that today’s scheduled passage of a non-Israeli freighter carrying Israeli cargo through the Suez Canal has been postponed for 10 days “for technical reasons and Egypt is not involved.” When the voyage takes place it will be the first Israeli cargo to pass through the canal since 1956.
President Anwar el‐Sadat of of Egypt is expected by United States officials to ask during his visit here for $5‐billion to $7‐billion in arms aid over a period of at least 10 years. The Egyptian Government, according to the American sources, hopes to get advanced early warning systems and radar and other items for the Egyptian Air Force’s Soviet fighters within the next two years. It does not expect to get sophisticated fighter aircraft until 1978 or later.The projected Egyptian total far exceeds the $2.2‐billion that Israeli arms acquisitions, now in negotiation, would cost over the next three years. Washington understands that Egypt is thinking of a 10‐year program in which, through American and other foreign purchases, she will free herself of her present dependence on Soviet military supply. Freeing Egypt from reliance on Soviet arms, in the words of one analyst, will be a “gargantuan task” requiring at least a decade and costing “much more” than the $5-billion to $7‐billion being projected. All of Egypt’s ground, air and sea weapons are of Soviet origin — except for three destroyer escorts and four Sea King helicopters acquired from Britain.
Warring Christian and Muslim militiamen battled with mortars and machine guns across deserted Beirut streets, ignoring appeals from the state radio that Lebanon has had “enough of this bloodletting.” The fighting claimed at least 10 lives and wounded 13 other persons. “Enough of these killings!” screamed Beirut radio announcer Sharif al Akhawi. “Who is gaining from all this destruction in which only innocent people are getting hurt?”
Twenty thousand Moroccan volunteers set out in a convoy for the southern border town of Tarfaia, where they plan to wait for King Hassan II to lead 350,000 unarmed Moroccans in a 60-mile “march of conquest” to Spanish Sahara. Premier Ahmed Osman gave the signal for the departure of the truck convoy from the oasis of Dsar-es-Souk in eastern Morocco, as Spain sent a high-level envoy to Rabat to try to persuade King Hassan to stop the desert walk.
The State Department is recommending that Congress double U.S. military aid to Indonesia in the current fiscal year to enable that country to cope more effectively with the new political realities in Southeast Asia, U.S. officials in Washington said. The recommendation calls for $30 million in grants and $12.5 million in credit purchases for a total of $42.5 million, more than twice the fiscal 1975 figure of about $20 million.
Secretary of State Kissinger met with Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Peking and a press release on the meeting said the conversation had taken place in a friendly atmosphere. The invitation was seen as a symbolic endorsement by Mr. Mao of what both sides so far have sought to convey: the idea that Chinese-American relations are getting better all the time.
Mexican rescue workers using acetylene torches cut through the wreckage of two subway trains in a desperate nightlong search for survivors trapped in “the safest system in the world.” Authorities reported at least 29 persons killed and 66 hospitalized as a result of the “impossible accident” — a two-train crash in Mexico City’s ultramodern subway system. Mayor Octavio Senties blamed “technical and perhaps human failure,” as a blue-ribbon panel prepared a report on the cause of the accident.
Chile’s Foreign Ministry categorically rejected a preliminary report by a five-member investigative commission of the United Nations which claimed that torture and political repression continue under the country’s military junta. The ministry declared the commission’s claims “are fundamentally based on the testimony, second-hand, of political enemies of Chile who have been absent from the country for a long time.”
A metalworkers union leader was shot to death apparently by left-wing gunmen as he was driving his car out of a garage in the Argentine industrial port city of Rosario, police sources said. Other leftist gunmen shot a police detective to death in the doorway of his home hours earlier in a Buenos Aires suburb, police said.
The United Staten continues as Ethiopia’s principal single source of economic assistance and almost exclusive provider of military aid, despite misgivings about the course that the Ethiopian revolution has taken. The principal causes of concern are the openly repressive nature of the military regime and the conduct of the war against the Eritrean secessionists. In the all‐out military attempt to suppress the rebellion, the Government has conducted reprisals against the civilian population, including serious restrictions on the distribution of food. Nonetheless an American diplomat said. United States military and economic assistance remains steady, and the United States does not “want to turn the spigots down in manipulative fashion” to use aid to put pressure on the Government.
The first passenger train to run the entire 1,160 miles (1,870 km) length of the completed Tanzam Railroad arrived in Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia, two days after its departure from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. The railway, a joint venture by Tanzania, Zambia, and the People’s Republic of China, was completed a year ahead of schedule after five years of work by 80,000 laborers and engineers.
James Lynn, the Budget Director, ran into severe criticism from Republicans as well as Democrats when he went before the Senate Budget Committee to explain the Ford administration’s program to tie a spending reduction to a tax cut. The criticism from the members of President Ford’s own party was led by Senator Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma, the committee’s ranking Republican, and Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
President Ford showed signs of substantial recovery from a sinus infection and a head cold that has confined him to the White House for the last few days. However, his wife, Betty, began displaying cold symptoms. Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, said the President would probably follow a light work schedule for the rest of the week.
Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, betting that he can bridge the gap between left and right in his party better than any of his rivals. The 47-year-old Senator made his announcement at the family farm in Shirkieville, near the Illinois-Indiana border, promising to provide “moral leadership.”
A federal judge in Sacramento has ordered that President Ford submit a video-taped deposition of what he saw when Lynette Alice Fromme allegedly pointed a loaded .45-caliber pistol at him in the California city September 5, Judge Thomas MacBride, in granting the motion sought by Miss Fromme, said, “I think that in the circumstances of this case the President should be asked to testify.”
The father of Karen Anne Quinlan, his voice cracking with emotion, told a court In Morristown, N.J., that physicians in charge of his daughter’s care advised him several weeks ago that her condition was hopeless and that he should take her off the respirator which is sustaining her breathing. Mr. Quinlan said he and his family had signed a permission slip absolving the physicians and the hospital of any liability and went home “thinking it would be done the next day.”
An admitted homosexual’s appeal to remain in the service was denied by the secretary of the Air Force, John L. McLucas. After his commanding officer read him the message. T. Sgt. Leonard P. Matlovich said it was “a sad day” but predicted that eventually he would win his case in court. Matlovich has been kept on active duty pending the decision on his request of March 6 that the Air Force waive regulations calling for discharge of homosexuals. He will be given an honorable discharge.
The Senate Banking Committee has voted 7-6 to consider legislation that would provide $6 billion in loan guarantees to New York City. The measure, however, would require the state to levy $420 million in taxes and place the city’s fiscal management under a three-member federal board headed by Treasury Secretary William Simon. Supporters said that without the stringent measures the bill would stand no chance of getting out of committee.
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy first allows women to enroll.
W. J. Usery Jr., who as director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is the government’s top labor troubleshooter, stepped into the three-week-old strike at the Washington Post. He called the leaders of the eight unions involved to a meeting Tuesday, saying that the government has “a deep interest in the adverse impact of the dispute.” Meanwhile U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert charged that some union members were obstructing a grand jury probe of strike-related violence in the Post pressroom. He asked the chief district judge to require all future grand jury witnesses to have separate counsel.
In the face of a strike threatened for tonight by circulation drivers of the New York Times and the New York Daily News, a federal mediator began meeting with the parties separately. Union representatives have said that although wages were an issue, the crux of the dispute was an effort by the News to change working conditions and loading schedules and to reduce work crews. The Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union has aimed its strike threat at the News but Times officials have said that if the News is struck the Times may suspend publication.
The reduction of the level of nitrite used for curing meat and poultry products — such as frankfurters, bologna and luncheon meats — to 156 parts per million will be recommended by the Department of Agriculture. This would cut the residual level in a product such as cooked sausage from 200 to 100 parts per million. The limit for use in bacon, where during the cooking process nitrites combine with other chemicals to produce nitrosamines, will be determined after further testing, said USDA spokesman Harry C. Mussman. Nitrosamines have been known to produce cancer in rats.
Some of the cost of social and environmental effects of energy development in the West may be borne by the federal government, according to Frank Zarb, federal energy administrator. Zarb told a Denver news conference the government is obliged to help states develop resources and to give them a part in formulating any energy policy involving them. “From everything I see, I think the government is not only willing, but it’s essential that the states have that input,” Zarb said.
Part of the automobile fuel economy gains of the past two years will disappear by 1978 because of federally mandated clean air standards, a top General Motors Corp. executive claimed. Howard Kehrl, GM executive vice president, said stiffer standards for 1977 cars would cause a fuel economy loss on individual models, but the firm’s overall fuel economy average probably would increase because GM would sell more small cars. Kehrl made his remarks at a news conference at the GM proving ground in Milford, Michigan.
It is time this country starts moving backward by reintroducing such technologies as electric cars, solar water heaters and wind generators, Rep. George Brown Jr. (D-California) said during a telephone news conference from his Washington, D.C., office. Brown, chairman of a House subcommittee on the environment and the atmosphere, said he would introduce legislation that will step up research on lighter-than-air systems of transportation. “We sort of got wrapped up in the idea that making things bigger and faster and stronger was the only way technology could go… and that’s a fallacy,” Brown said.
Some Russian men may have a biochemistry different than Americans that may have a role in protecting them against heart disease, the National Heart and Lung Institute said in reporting joint Soviet-American research. The findings involve a type of lipoprotein — the substance that carries fat in the blood — that appears in the blood of men tested in Leningrad in quantities 20% higher than in the blood of those tested in Moscow and 12 American cities. The study is preliminary, but heart specialists from both nations cited its possible implication in lowering the risks of hardening of the arteries, a major cause of heart disease in both countries. Dr. Robert I. Levy, director of the institute, said that researchers had no idea why the difference was found in the blood of middle-aged Leningrad men but that there might be environmental or genetic factors.
“Treemonisha” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances.
Asylum Records releases “Nighthawks at the Diner”, the third studio album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits; the double LP was recorded with a live audience in a simulated nightclub setting.
1975 World Series, Game Six:
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 7-6, in Game Six of the 1975 World Series, forcing a deciding seventh game, when Carlton Fisk hit a home run in the 12th inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever played. Boston, facing elimination at home, evens the Series again with a dramatic 7–6 victory, won by Fisk’s 12th-inning home run off the left field foul pole. With a travel day followed by three days of heavy rain in Boston, both pitching staffs got four days of rest. Red Sox manager Darrell Johnson was afforded the luxury of having his top two starting pitchers, Luis Tiant and Bill Lee, available for Games 6 and 7, respectively, while the Reds were able to have their ace, Don Gullett, available for a potential Game 7 after pitching a gem in Game 5.
With the Red Sox in a must win situation, Boston’s Fred Lynn opened the scoring in the first with a two-out, three-run homer off Reds starter Gary Nolan. Meanwhile, Tiant breezed through the first four innings, holding the Reds scoreless. The Reds finally broke through in the fifth. With Ed Armbrister on third and Pete Rose on first, Ken Griffey tripled to deep center field on a ball that Lynn just missed making a leaping catch against the wall. He suffered a rib injury, but remained in the game; Lynn told moderator Bob Costas during MLB Network’s “Top 20 games in the last 50 years” that, for a short time, he was barely conscious and couldn’t feel his legs. Johnny Bench singled Griffey home to tie the game at 3–3.
With two outs in the seventh, George Foster put the Reds ahead with a two-run double high off the center field wall. In the top of the eighth, César Gerónimo led off and hit the first pitch down the right-field line for a home run to chase Tiant and give the Reds a 6–3 lead.
In the bottom of the eighth, Reds reliever Pedro Borbón gave up an infield single off his leg to Lynn, and then walked Rico Petrocelli to bring the tying run to the plate. Rawly Eastwick replaced Borbón, struck out Dwight Evans, and retired Rick Burleson on a line-out to left. Bernie Carbo was called on to bat for reliever Roger Moret. Sparky Anderson was on the top step of the dugout, ready to call in left-hander Will McEnaney to pitch to the left-hand hitting Carbo. Anderson said later that he was concerned that the Sox would call on right-handed Juan Beníquez to pinch hit for Carbo if he made the move. Carbo looked overmatched by Eastwick, missing on a swing for a 2–2 count; he fouled off two more pitches late, the latter just barely fought off to avoid a strikeout. On the next pitch, Carbo tied the game with a three-run home run to center field. It was his second pinch-hit homer in the series, tying the record set by Chuck Essegian in 1959.
As Carbo approached third base on his home run trot, Carbo yelled out to former teammate Rose, “Hey, Pete, don’t you wish you were that strong?” To which Rose replied, “This is fun.”
In the bottom of the ninth, the Red Sox appeared poised to win. Denny Doyle walked on four pitches and went to third on a Carl Yastrzemski single; McEnaney, the Reds’ seventh pitcher, replaced Eastwick and intentionally walked Carlton Fisk, loading the bases with no outs to face the left-handed hitting Lynn. He flied out to Foster in foul territory in left; Doyle tagged up and attempted to score but was thrown out as Bench caught the ball on a bounce and made a sweeping tag from fair territory to nip him just before his hand touched the plate. With runners at first and third, McEnaney retired Petrocelli with a ground ball to end the jam.
Rose led off the top of the 11th and was awarded first base after a pitch lightly grazed him. Griffey bunted, but Fisk’s throw forced out Rose at second base. Joe Morgan hit a deep drive to right off Dick Drago that looked to be for extra bases. Evans made a leaping catch near the visitors bullpen in deep right to rob Morgan and doubled-up Griffey at first.
In the top of the 12th, Boston’s Rick Wise caught Gerónimo looking with two men on to end the threat. In the bottom of the inning, Pat Darcy, the Reds’ eighth pitcher, remained in the game after retiring the previous six batters in order. As the game passed four hours, Fisk led off; with a 1–0 count, he lifted a sinker down the left-field line and the ball struck the foul pole well above the Green Monster. In what has now become an iconic baseball film highlight, NBC’s left-field game camera (in the scoreboard) caught Fisk wildly waving his arms to his right after hitting the ball and watching its path while drifting down the first base line, as if he was trying to coax the ball to “stay fair.” The ball indeed stayed fair and Fisk triumphantly leaped into the air as the Red Sox tied the Series. (The cameraman in the scoreboard was supposed to follow the flight of the ball but was distracted by a nearby rat and ended up capturing Fisk instead.) This would be the last time in World Series play that a catcher hit a home run in extra innings until J. T. Realmuto did so in the 2022 World Series, 47 years later. To date, this is the last World Series game the Reds have lost.
This game ranked No. 7 in ESPN SportsCentury Greatest Games of the 20th Century in 1999.
Cincinnati Reds 6, Boston Red Sox 7
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Born:
Kate Drummond, Canadian actress (“Utopia Falls”, “Nowhere — Secrets of a Small Town”), in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
Toby Hall, MLB catcher (Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox), in Tacoma, Washington.
Died:
Charles Reidpath, 86, American track athlete (Olympic gold medals, 400m, 4×400m relay, 1912).
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