At a time when the defense budget is in serious difficulty in Congress, the Defense Department is letting out new, still preliminary intelligence estimates suggesting that the Soviet Union is widening its lead over the United States in defense spending. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger, through aides, has declined to discuss the estimates in any detail with reporters on the ground that they are still In a preliminary stage. But at a news conference he called Monday to lash out at Congressional moves to cut the budget, Mr. Schlesinger gave a glimpse of the new intelligence estimates, which he has apparently already relayed to Pentagon supporters in Congress for use in the forthcoming defense debate in the Senate. Mr. Schlesinger said there were indications that in dollar terms the Soviet Union “may be outspending us by 50 percent,” if the cost of the American military pension system is excluded, and by approximately 30 percent if pensions are included. “A continuation of this trend,” Mr. Schlesinger said, “will ultimately leave us in a position where no one can say that the United States has military power second to none.”
A movement to block U.N. General Assembly approval of a proposed resolution describing Zionism as a form of racism was developing today in informal talks between delegates in lobbies, in corridors and, in at least one case, in an elevator. Some third‐world delegates were canvassing other members of their group as to the chances of preventing approval. A motion to adjourn a debate and a vote on the issue in the Assembly until next year, or an amendment voiding the draft text of its most controversial portions were among the possible strategies discussed. No date has yet been set for consideration by the full General Assembly of the resolution, which was adopted by Its Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee in a tense meeting Friday night. The vote as 70 to 29 with 27 abstensions and 16 absent.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco was reported to be recovering quickly from an acute heart ailment. However, the question of his remaining in power remained unresolved. The 82-year-old Spanish leader was stricken Tuesday after an attack of flu that set off a wave of rumors and speculation about the end of his 36 years of rule.
High administration officials said that the State Department, breaking with precedent, will submit for congressional approval the military, political, economic and cultural agreement with Spain that is close to completion. Previous accords with Spain have been regarded by successive administrations as “executive agreements” requiring no congressional action.
Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson are sentenced to life in prison for the Guildford pub bombings. Three young Irishmen and an Englishwoman were sentenced in London to life in prison for murdering seven people in bombing attacks on southern England taverns last year. The four, aged between 18 and 24, acted in support of the Irish Republican Army campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland, the court was told. The trial lasted five weeks. All the convictions were eventually overturned in 1989; the convictions were eventually declared “unsafe and and reversed in 1989, after they had served 15 to 16 years in prison. After their arrest, all four defendants confessed to the bombing under intense police interrogation. These confessions were later retracted but remained the basis of the case against them. They were later alleged to be the result of coercion by the police, ranging from intimidation to torture — including threats against family members — as well as the effects of drug withdrawal.
Leftist soldiers and civilians today broke into a radio station that had been closed on the Portuguese President’s orders, ran up a red flag on the transmitter tower and started broadcasting in defiance of the authorities. It was the latest challenge to the Government’s prestige by groups that sources within the Government say are bent on trying tee take power by force. The occupation of Radio Renascenca was a source of embarrassment for President; Francisco da Costa Gomes, who was received in luclience by Pope Paul VI in Rome today.
A Turkish diplomat is shot to death in Vienna. Three men armed with submachine guns stormed into the Turkish Embassy at noon today and killed the ambassador, police and Foreign Ministry officials said. Turkish diplomats told the police they believed the killers of the envoy, Danis Tunaligil, 60 years old, were “English-speaking Greeks.” But the police said they had no independent information to confirm this. Greece and Turkey have a long rivalry over Cyprus, which worsened when Turkish forces invaded the island in 1974. Turkish troops still occupy part of the island, which has a Turkish minority and Greek majority.
Makers of the supersonic Concorde transport brushed aside unfavorable noise reports and said they were confident the passenger jet would prove quiet enough to meet U.S. landing requirements. The flights monitored so far have been experimental and noise-abatement procedures were not applied, said Sir Geoffrey Tuttle, vice chairman of British Aircraft Corp.
Four Syrians who allegedly planned to hijack a Dutch train for political purposes were sentenced in Amsterdam to one-year jail terms for illegal possession of firearms. The prosecution said the four had planned to demand a televised pro-Arab speech from Premier Joop den Uyl and a Dutch government guarantee that it would stop supporting the right of Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. The four were arrested Sept. 15 in an Amsterdam hotel.
Three U.S. citizens were arrested near Tangier after 440 pounds of concentrated hashish were found in their private plane, an official Moroccan source said. The source identified the three as Breck Anderson, 24, of California, pilot and owner of the plane; Margaret Joseph, 26, described as a farm owner of Pennsylvania, and Renauld Erskine Scheursch, 36, an accountant from New York City. The U.S. consulate in Tangier said it could not confirm the report of the identities of the persons involved.
Secretary of State Kissinger’s four-day visit to Peking ended as it began — with disagreement over Washington’s policy of detente with Moscow, but with relations between the United States and China still intact. Foreign Minister Chiao exchanged public toasts with Mr. Kissinger in a chilly atmosphere, suggesting that in their private conversations they had not removed differences over policy toward the Soviet Union.
Canadian postal workers settled in for a lengthy strike as their union became the first to walk out since tough wage and price controls were imposed October 13. A post office official ‘called for a foreign embargo on all mail destined for Canada, while the government warned that it was prepared to shut down the postal system and sit out the walkout. A postal spokesman said all mailboxes were to be sealed to prevent further deposits and that international mail in transit would be received and stored until the strike ended.
The State Department said that the Mexican government has responded to only four of 23 notes it has sent to protest treatment of U.S. citizens held in Mexican jails. The department, under pressure of a congressional inquiry, has agreed to look into the treatment of about 550 prisoners, many of whom have complained of being beaten and subjected to other forms of torture.
Police in the northern Argentine city of Tucuman reported they had killed three Marxist guerrillas in a shootout that began when gunmen had tried to steal a station wagon in the downtown area. Four other guerrillas of the radical People’s Revolutionary Army were reported killed in clashes with soldiers and police southwest of the city, located 800 miles northwest of Buenos Aires.
A special envoy has been appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to visit Chad in an attempt to secure the release of French archeologist Francoise Claustre, held captive by rebels in the northern part of the central African country for 18 months, the U.N. office in Geneva announced. The envoy, Canadian Charles-Edouard Bourbonniere, I will also go to Paris for talks with the French government.
Consumer prices rose five-tenths of 1 percent in September. The increase was more than in August, but only half the worrisome inflation rate of early summer. The Labor Department reported that food prices essentially stabilized last month, but increases in many other items, including New York City transit fares, pushed up the index for September to 7.8 percent above September of last year.
The House of Representatives, by a vote of 257 to 148, killed a proposed regulation of the Federal Election Commission that would have required members of Congress to file their campaign financial reports with the new agency. Representative Wayne Hays, Democrat of Ohio, who led the fight against the regulation, said the vote was a “warning” to the commission “not to be capricious and not to rewrite the law.”
In other action on Capitol Hill, Richard Helms, the former Director of Central Intelligence, testified that he knew the C.I.A.’s mail-opening program was illegal. But he said he assumed that Allen Dulles, the C.I.A. director who started the operation in 1953, had “made his legal peace with it.” Mr. Helms, the only witness this afternoon before the Senate Select Committee, on Intelligence, also conceded that a 1970 report to President Nixon that he and others had signed, and that stated that the mail-opening operation had been discontinued, was untrue. But he added that there had been “no intention to mislead” the President. He explained that he had believed that the statement had referred to a similar operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had been discontinued.
President Ford warned against “the false anticipation of an easy solution” to New York City’s fiscal plight. Speaking through the White House press secretary, Ron Nessen, Mr. Ford said he had been “irritated” by published accounts of his willingness to sign legislation to aid the city. According to Mr. Nessen, the President said there was “no legislation I’ve seen or heard of that I would approve,” including measures being drafted by members of the Senate and House committees.
Action in Congress to enable New York City to avert a default suffered a parliamentary setback in the Senate but gained support in the House. Southern opponents prevented the Senate Banking Committee from meeting on the subject, while the House Policy and Steering Committee voted 11 to 2, with 2 undecided, to support legislation to avert default.
Stung by criticism of its decision to increase tax deductions for congressmen, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to let the Internal Revenue Service decide how much they should deduct as expenses for living in Washington. Under criteria the IRS was ordered to take into account, it is likely that the deduction will be about the same as the $44-a-day figure proposed by the committee. Such a figure would mean that if a member attended every day of the average session, his yearly tax deduction would increase from the current flat $3,000 a year to about $7,000.
A bill that would remove the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s regulatory authority over handgun bullets, tobacco products and pesticides was passed by the House. It now goes to a conference committee to iron out differences with the version approved by the Senate. If enacted, the bill would enable the commission to sidestep court orders that it consider a ban of handgun ammunition and certain cigarettes. Richard O. Simpson, commission chairman, had said at hearings on the bill that Congress had not intended to give the commission jurisdiction over ammunition and tobacco products. Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin (D-California), bill floor manager, said the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to regulate pesticides.
A federal judge agreed to rule on the constitutionality of the military’s automatic discharge of homosexuals but refused to block the Air Force from discharging an admitted homosexual, T. Sgt. Leonard P. Matlovich. “Things couldn’t have gone better,” Matlovich said after the hearing. He received his honorable discharge 75 minutes later. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell said that previous decisions prevented him from granting a request for a temporary restraining order keeping Matlovich on active duty but that “I feel that for a man who has served his country well in combat and in peacetime, the Air Force has been proceeding by the book instead of being lenient in a line of a human situation.”
President Ford received a 47% vote of approval in the latest Gallup Poll survey, unchanged from his popularity in two Gallup surveys taken last month. Canvassers operating in more than 300 communities asked 1,558 adults whether they approved or disapproved of the way Mr. Ford was handling his job. Thirty-seven percent said they disapproved and 16% had no opinion.
The United States can easily supply the Soviet Union 7 million more tons of grain this year, now that a long-term sales agreement has been reached, Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz said. There would be no adverse impact on domestic supplies, Butz told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during its hearings on implications of the five-year pact on international trade and U.S. foreign policy. He told reporters later there was no firm indication whether the Russians would ask for the additional supplies.
A man who claims to have killed 42 persons was found guilty in Wallace, Idaho, of two murders that he denied committing. A jury found Thomas Eugene Creech, 25, of Portland. guilty in the deaths of two itinerant painters a year ago. Creech’s former girlfriend testified that she knew Creech had done the killings because she had been there. Law enforcement authorities say they have linked Creech to 10 of the 42 deaths, all in Western states.
The Soviet space probe Venera 9 landed on the planet Venus and transmitted Earth’s first photographs of the surface of another planet. The first ground-level photos of Venus showed that beneath the thick clouds of carbon dioxide, the planet has a rocky surface. Venera 9 transmitted for 53 minutes before its equipment gave way to temperatures of 485 °C (905 °F) and an atmospheric pressure 90 times higher than that of Earth.
Will Holt and Linda Hopkins’ musical revue “Me and Bessie”, based on the life and songs of Bessie Smith, opens at the Ambassador Theater, NYC; runs for 453 performances.
At a meeting in New York, the owners of the 10 remaining teams of the World Football League voted, 6 to 4, to disband the money-losing organization prior to the 12th week of its 20-game schedule.
1975 World Series, Game Seven:
Joe Morgan’s single wins the deciding Game Seven, 4–3. The Reds come from behind in all four of their victories. Rose is named the World Series MVP. The game was scoreless until the third inning when Reds starter Don Gullett experienced control problems. After giving up an RBI single to Carl Yastrzemski, Gullett walked Carlton Fisk to load the bases. He then walked Rico Petrocelli and Dwight Evans to force in two more runs before striking out Rick Burleson for the final out. Gullett pitched a scoreless fourth before being relieved by Jack Billingham. The Reds bullpen pitched five scoreless innings to give the offense a chance to rally.
Boston starter Bill Lee was again sharp, as he shut out the Reds through five innings. In the sixth, with Pete Rose on first base and one out, Johnny Bench hit a routine grounder that appeared would be an inning-ending double play. Shortstop Burleson fielded the grounder and under-handed the ball to Denny Doyle covering second base to force Rose out at second. But as Doyle pivoted to make a throw to first base, Rose slid high and hard into Doyle to force an errant throw that sailed into the Boston dugout preventing the double play as Bench moved onto second base. On a 1–0 count, Lee threw a blooper pitch to Tony Pérez who slammed the ball over the Green Monster and onto Lansdowne Street for a two-run home run, his third home run in the final three Series games, to draw the Reds to within 3–2.
The Reds tied it in the seventh when Lee walked Ken Griffey, who stole second and scored on a two-out single to centerfield by Rose off of reliever Roger Moret.
In the ninth, Boston left-handed rookie reliever Jim Burton entered the game and began by walking the leadoff man Griffey, who was sacrificed to second by César Gerónimo, and went to third on a groundout by Dan Driessen. Burton then walked Rose to set up a forceout, but Joe Morgan reached down and blooped a low breaking ball into center field to score Griffey with the go-ahead run. It was the second time in the series Rose was intentionally walked prior to Morgan driving in the game-winning run. Morgan, the 1975 National League MVP, also knocked in the game-winner in Game 3.
Will McEnaney retired the Sox in order, with Yastrzemski flying out to center fielder Geronimo to end the game, clinching a World Series championship that had eluded the Reds for 35 years, and extending the Curse of the Bambino to 57 years. It would not be broken until 2004, after the Red Sox went 86 years without a championship.
Cincinnati Reds 4, Boston Red Sox 3
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Born:
Allen Rossum, NFL kick and punt returner and cornerback (Pro Bowl, 2004; Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys), in Dallas, Texas.
Chartric Darby, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions), in North, South Carolina.
Shawn Stuckey, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots), in Daleville, Alabama.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American TV actor ( “Modern Family”), in Missoula, Montana.
Died:
Arnold J. Toynbee, 86, British historian and author of the 12 volume “A Study of History.”
Daniş Tunalıgil, 60, Turkish Ambassador to Austria, was assassinated by the terrorist group Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide.
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