U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan said a resolution declaring Zionism to be a form of racial discrimination would probably pass the U.N. General Assembly and that this could prompt the United States to “put some buffer between the United Nations and us… And of course that is saying the United Nations is not important,” Mr. Moynihan said, appearing on the CBS television program “Face the Nation.” “We’re just going to have to act like the United Nations is not a very important place, and we don’t want to do that. We most emphatically don’t want to do that.” Mr. Moynihan, the chief United States delegate to the United Nations, said, according to a transcript of the program released by CBS, that “if irresponsible and obscene acts like this Zionism‐anti‐Semitic resolution continue we’re going to have to sort of put some buffer” between the United States and the United Nations.
Chaim Herzog, head of Israel’s delegation to the United Nations, called, on Jews the world over last night In speak out against what he described as a “new international outburst of anti-Semitism.” Mr. Herzog referred to an Arab‐inspired draft resolution adopted by the United Nations Social. Humanitarian and Cultural Committee. It would equate Zionism with racial discrimination. The resolution, voted 70 to 29 with 27 abstentions, is scheduled for debate and a further vote later in the session. The resolution has been sharply condemned by President Ford, Secretary of State Kissinger and Daniel P. Moynihan. the chief United States delegate to the United Nations.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco clung to life against all expectations. Millions of Spaniards still faithful to their 82-year-old Chief of State prayed — as he did, in his bedroom — as successive medical bulletins told of his critical condition. Last night Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, General Franco’s designated successor, visited the general’s palace. The latest official medical bulletin, issued last night, said that the general’s condition had taken a critical turn for the worse and that he was bleeding in the stomach. It was the first time that the doctors had used the term “critical.” Earlier yesterday, the doctors reported he had spent a quiet night and that his condition was stationary.
In the waning days of General Franco’s regime, many major West European democratic parties and unions quietly stepped up contacts with Spain’s illegal political opposition. Conferees at the sometimes secret meetings believe that the general’s successors must adopt new policies. Perhaps, the Europeans seem to hope, political parties will one day be permitted in Spain. They are moving quietly now to get to know new leaders, cement old ties that in some cases date back to the Spanish war of the nineteen‐thirties, and help bring the Spanish people out of decades of isolation from the Western European mainstream.
Rory O’Brady, head of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army Provisional branch, appealed for the release of Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema, kidnapped 24 days ago by two former members of the outlawed guerrilla group. Brady’s appeal was broadcast in radio bulletins but it was not known if the kidnappers had a radio in the besieged house in Monasterevin where they were holding Herrema.
Snubbing a call by Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo for unity, the Communists and far left stepped up their anti-government campaign by occupying a town hall in Portugal’s southern Algarve province. Meanwhile, customs officials were carefully checking the amount of currency travelers carried into and out of Portugal as tough new foreign-exchange regulations went into effect over the weekend.
Swiss voters turned out in small numbers for parliamentary elections and incomplete results showed the ruling coalition unchanged. Only about half of the registered 3.7 million voters cast ballots for 1,947 candidates from 30 parties and splinter groups for the 200-seat National Council, the lower house. Final results are expected to be announced Tuesday.
One of Great Britain’s favorite daughters, Princess Anne, fell off her horse while doing her own thing in a cross-country equestrian competition at Long Buckby in Northamptonshire. Her mount ran into one ridden by her husband, Captain Mark Phillips. Anne was not hurt.
A 19th century Italian missionary bishop was canonized by Pope Paul VI in a special ceremony in St. Peter’s Square. The new saint, the sixth to be created during Catholicism’s current Holy Year, was Giustino de Jacobis, who became the first apostolic vicar of Abyssinia during 21 years of missionary work there.
At least 52 persons were reported killed as warfare between leftist and rightist mobs spread through the downtown hotel district of Beirut. The towering Holiday Inn complex in the Lebanese capital became a strategic battleground, and more than 100 persons were reported wounded in the city and its suburbs. Premier Rashid Karami announced late last night that yet another cease‐fire had been agreed upon at a lengthy Cabinet meeting. But even as he spoke, gunfire resounded through the city and continued. The right‐wing Phalangist party moved in strength into the area around the Holiday Inn. Leftist gunmen from a number of factions attempted a pincers movement on the hotel, coming from the direction or the heavily guarded American Embassy and the embattled Kantari District. “It’s very bad,” said a receptionist reached by telephone in the Holiday Inn. “They’re shooting all around the hotel.”
Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian President to pay an official visit to the United States as he was warmly embraced by Secretary of State Kissinger in Newport News, Virginia. Mr. Sadat will seek aid from Washington and explain Cairo’s policies to Americans in a 10-day tour. In an interview televised shortly before his arrival, Mr. Sadat stressed that he feels it important that the Ford Administration agree agree to sell arms to Egypt, particularly in light of its heavy military commitments to Israel. Mr. Sadat is expected by United States officials to ask for $5‐billion to $7‐billion in arms aid over a period of at least 10 years. The arms question will clearly be the most sensitive issue to be discussed by the Egyptian leader with American officials, who have privately ruled out any such commitments to Egypt for at least a year.
The Peoples’ Republic of China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC.
Philippine presidential assistant Guillermo C. de Vega was shot and killed at his office in the presidential palace compound, members of President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ staff reported. One senior member of the staff said he heard De Vega “was hit three times and was dead on arrival” at a nearby clinic. Officials at the palace refused to say who killed De Vega or to give any other details. A doctor at the clinic confirmed the death.
Hurricane Olivia slammed into Mazatlan, Mexico, killing at least nine people and leaving 50,000 homeless. Winds gusting up to 150 mph, according to the Mexican Meteorological Service, blew away about 5,000 shanty houses on the city outskirts, wrecked small aircraft and sank eight fishing boats.
Panama will allow the United States to administer the Panama Canal until the end of the century, Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos said at the end of a visit to Bolivia. But he said Panamanians were determined that the Canal Zone should be “liberated.”
While taps was sounding today for a young army lieutenant slain by guerrillas in the hills of Tucuman, terrorists in a suburb of Buenos Aires killed live more policemen. So far this month, 148 people have died in the political violence afflicting Argentina. The death toll for the year is close to 1,000. The policemen killed today were caught in a machine‐gun attack on a police convoy by terrorists in the suburb of San Isidro, only three miles front the presidential residence in Olivos. It came two days after an attempt to assassinate the deputy chief of police was foiled in another suburb.
An epidemic of stomach inflammation in the northern state of Sokoto has killed 22 people, Nigerian television reported today. The reports said six people a day were dying in the affected community in a remote part of the state. It is the second epidemic of its type in two years. In 1983, 100 people died from the disease. The only well from which the community can get drinking water is being investigated by experts, the reports said.
Tanzanians went to the polls to elect a president and 96 members of parliament in the fourth election since independence from British rule in 1961. President Julius Nyerere, who must win a majority vote on a “yes” or “no” ballot, was the sole presidential candidate. First results were not expected until today.
As the 1976 presidential campaign warms up, former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia has apparently taken an unexpected and strong lead in the contest for Iowa’s 47 delegates to the Democratic national convention. Iowa has a strategic position in the nominating process, and the state’s caucuses that begin selecting Democratic delegates January 19 will have an impact on early primaries, contributors and party leaders.
At the request of the steel industry, an official of the federal agency that rules on the levels of cancer-causing agents to which workers may be exposed will testify at a federal hearing at government expense against a new standard proposed by the government.
Agents of the Internal Revenue Service have found a possible link between the former law firm of Donald Alexander, the I.R.S. commissioner, and a Bahamian bank suspected of being a haven for Americans seeking to evade taxes, sources close to the inquiry disclosed.
The staff of the Senate Banking Committee is to present three option papers today on possible federal aid to New York City, but any plan that reaches the Senate floor is expected to face strong opposition. The options are a federal guarantee for $6 billion in city borrowing, a plan to require holders of city debts to stretch repayment and reduce interest rates in advance of a guarantee and one to allow default.
Senator William Proxmire contended that Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was exaggerating and distorting intelligence estimates about the size of Soviet military power. The Wisconsin Democrat made public testimony by leading intelligence officials, expressing strong skepticism about the validity of making dollar comparisons of American and Soviet military strength. “Insinuations of a widening gap between Soviet and United States military power, to the advantage of the Soviet Union, are nonsense, unsupported by the facts.” the Wisconsin Democrat said. Senator Proxmire made the statement in making public testimony by William E. Colby, the Director of Central Intelligence, and Lieut. Gen. Daniel O. Graham, director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, about the Soviet military effort. Both intelligence officials, in their testimony last summer before a joint Congressional Economic subcommittee, expressed considerable skepticism about the value and validity of intelligence estimates making dollar comparisons of defense efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union.
A walkout by Oklahoma City policemen ended when striking members of the Fraternal Order of Police approved the city’s latest contract offer. City Manager Howard McMahan said the pact included a 9% pay increase. Sources said a longevity pay demand had been met but that education incentive benefits had been cut. Two days’ pay will be deducted for the time the officers were off the job, McMahan said. All but a handful of the city’s 599 officers had turned in their badges Thursday after the city had refused to budge from a 72% offer.
Karen DeCrow, a lawyer from Syracuse, was re‐elected today as president of the National Organization for Women, running on the slogan, out of the mainstream, into the revolution.” Miss DeCrow carried into office with her, as head of the nation’s largest feminist organization, most of a slate of‐ backers pledged to use any “principled means of change, from lobbying to civil disobedience” to advance the cause of women.
An unusually high death rate from lymphatic cancer has been reported in Little Elk Valley near Elkton, Maryland, where residents have complained about fumes from a chemical reprocessing plant. The report by a state and federal medical task force stressed that the cause of most of the cancers had not been determined, although chemicals were suspected. The overall cancer death rate was about twice the U.S. average, the report said, but this was “not statistically significant” because of the small number of cases involved — 10 deaths over 12 years in a population of about 400.
Meldrim Thomson Jr., governor of New Hampshire, has refused again to comply with federal rules requiring ethnic and racial information about employees in the state. “In New Hampshire we are all Americans,” Thomson said in a letter to President Ford. “We do not propose to have our state employees, laborers or any other segment of our society bastardized by the autocratic dictates of Washington’s bureaucratic paper pushers.” The governor has refused to provide background data on state employees to the Federal Equal Opportunity Office and, in the most recent incident, the state employment security commissioner refused to file information on seasonal farm workers.
The Raytheon Co. tried to cover up a $300,000 “agent’s fee” in connection with the sale of Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Israel. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) charged. Raytheon, a major defense contractor, denied the allegation. Aspin said the payment was reported to have been made to the Middlesex Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary, in an effort to cover up the fact that the payment was destined for an agent in Israel. A Pentagon official said that the fee had been included in Raytheon’s proposal for the arms sale, but that the government refused to pay the fee because Israel said it would not use middlemen in the purchase of weapons.
New York City’s financial crisis has adversely affected the federal government’s new multibillion-dollar subsidized housing program, Carla A. Hills, secretary of housing and urban development, said. With the nation’s capital market in disarray because of the crisis and the default earlier this year of New York state’s Urban Development Corp., Mrs. Hills said, “it’s going to be very tough to reach our goal” of 240,000 new subsidized units this fiscal year.
The City Council in Englewood, New Jersey, has added Jews, American Indians, Orientals and all women to the rolls of what it designates as official minorities. As such, these groups join a large population of blacks and Spanish-speaking residents in qualifying for Englewood’s controversial affirmative-action job program.
Ten million cubic feet of natural gas is escaping each day from a well in Intracoastal City, Louisiana, officials said. Control teams carved a channel through several hundred yards of swampland to float heavy equipment to the well. The well began spouting oil and gas more than 100 feet into the air last week. Once the equipment is in place, officials said, workers will try to control the well by diverting the oil flow and drilling a relief well to reduce the gas pressure.
The state of Utah will take legal action against Kennecott Copper Corp. for tearing down two sulfur pollution control plants before construction of a replacement facility. The company said removal of the old treatment plants would simplify construction of a new plant that would bring Kennecott’s Utah smelter operations into compliance with clean air standards. But the state has asked the firm to restore the old plants for emergency use.
The nation’s only woman governor, Ella T. Grasso of Connecticut, says the National Organization for Women will have to get along without her in its strike against sex discrimination, called for Wednesday. “I’m not going to strike because I have to go to work,” Mrs. Grasso said, adding that she thought the women working in her office would find the strike “a luxury they can’t afford.”
Test scores showing that girls lag behind boys in such subjects as math and science tell more about girls’ cultural conditioning than ability, two congresswomen say. “It’s not that they can’t learn,” Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado) told the House in a speech, “but that society discourages them.” Rep. Bella Abzug (D-New York) said, “Women are still conceived on television and radio as being creatures of consumption who run around squeezing toilet paper and worrying… about the taste of their coffee.”
A commission of the American Medical Association has concluded that the controversial Heimlich maneuver is “a most important addition” to the ernergency care of persons who cannot breathe because they are choking on food or other objects. Choking on tood is estimated to cause between 2,500 and 3.900 deaths in the United States each year, making it the sixth most common cause of accidental death. Deaths from choking are more common than those from air crashes or firearms. The Heimlich maneuver, conceived and publicized by Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, a surgeon at The Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, involves an abrupt upward squeeze of the choking victim’s upper abdomen to expel the object that is blocking the windpipe. Controversy has surrounded the question of whether laymen can be taught to recognize person who is choking and to correctly and safely apply the Heimlich maneuver in an emergency.
A sense of faith in the future has faltered among most Americans, but there is rising optimism among two groups — young women and young blacks — particularly because of their widened job opportunities. A national survey commissioned by The New York Times shows that women and blacks under 30 years of age are about twice as confident as Americans in general that they will make marked gains in the next five years toward achieving the “best possible life.”
Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball.
NFL Football:
The Raiders crushed the Chargers, 25–0. Ken Stabler threw a 45-yard scoring pass to Cliff Branch and Pete Banaszak ran for a pair of touchdowns while the Raiders defense was shutting out San Diego for the second time in three weeks. The victory, Oakland’s fourth in six games, coupled with Denver’s defeat, left the Raiders alone in first place in the Western Division.
Jim Plunkett, the New England Patriots quarterback, reinjured his separated left shoulder. Steve Grogan, a rookie fifth-round draft choice out of Kansas State, stepped in after Plunkett — playing his fourth game since returning to action with a pin in his shoulder — was hurt in the first minute of the game with the San Francisco 49ers at Foxboro, Massachusetts. Grogan threw two touchdown passes and directed a 46-yard scoring drive to lead the Patriots to a 24–16 victory.
Miami’s Dolphins slipped away from defeat as they beat the Buffalo Bills, 35–30, with a late touchdown following an intercepted pass. The interception was the key play in a memorable contest between two of pro football’s best teams. Afterward a debate raged. What was Joe Ferguson. the courageous Buffalo quarterback, trying to do when he and his coach elected to pass on first down at the Bills’ 12‐yard line with Buffalo leading by only 30–28, with O. J. Simpson, the game’s best running back, available and only 3 minutes 9 seconds to play? Ferguson’s pass toward J.D. Hill. the wide receiver cutting to the inside, was intercepted by Jake Scott, the roaming Miami free safety, at the Buffalo 22. The Dolphins moved right in to score the winning touchdown six plays later on a 1‐yard run by Don Nottingham, and recorded their fifth straight victory this season and their 11th in a row over Buffalo dating to 1970.
Steve Bartkowski, rookie signal-caller of the Atlanta Falcons, suffered a dislocated left elbow, and will be out at least three weeks. The Falcons also lost their game, 21–14, to the visiting Cincinnati Bengals. Although Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completed 18 of 26 passes for 193 yards against Atlanta the undefeated Bengals had to capitalize on a fumble recovery by Ron Carpenter on the Falcons 21 for their sixth triumph. Anderson capped the scoring drive with a 3-yard run for the winning touchdown.
Joe Namath was knocked down a career high (or low) of seven times yesterday in gritty performance that was wasted as his Jets dropped 45–28 decision to the Baltimore Colts. The loss was so sloppy that the Jets’ offense helped take the pressure of booing Shea Stadium fans off the Jets’ defense. For the Colts got four touchdowns as a result of mistakes by the offense. In their last two games the New Yorkers have yielded 88 points, 117 in their last three — all losses. Speedy Baltimore defensive linemen, notably Fred Cook and Mike Barnes, tossed the Jets’ Gamy Puetz and Winston Hill out of the way to get to Narnath, who was dumped only 19 times all last season. It appeared to the 55,137 fans that the Jets had added some opponents to their backfield. The Jets’ defense, meanwhile, again failed to pressure an opposing quarterback consistently. This time Bert Jones, the holder of the National League mark for consecutive completions (17) connected on 17 of 25 attempts.
Not even their jinx over Washington Redskin teams worked for the Browns, now without a victory in six games and off to the worst start in their 30-year history, as the Browns bowed to Washington, 23–7. Billy Kilmer threw a pair of touchdowns and Mike Thomas, a rookie, carried 27 times for 124 yards, caught one of Kilmer’s scoring passes, and scored a touchdown on a 1-yard plunge. Larry Brown caught the other scoring pass, an 11-yarder. It was Washington’s first victory over Cleveland since 1962.
A 42-yard field goal by Toni Fritsch sailed through the uprights just as time ran out, lifted Dallas to a 20–17 triumph over the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday, and kept the once-defeated Cowboys alone atop the National Football Conference East Division. Roger Staubach, operating the Dallas shotgun offense. had connected with Drew Pearson for a 21-yard touchdown with 1:04 left in the game. Fritsch’s extra point tied the score. Then the Cowboy defense forced the Eagles to punt after just three plays and another Staubach pass to Pearson: who ran out of bounds at the 25, thus stopping the clock, set up Fritsch’s winning boot. The field goal by Fritsch, his second of the game. thwarted what appeared to be the Eagles second victory and second big upset of the season. Earlier they upset Washington, another Eastern Division foe, in the third game for their only victory. Harold Carmichael, Eagles 6-foot-8-inch wide receiver, benched for his poor performance earlier this year, came into the game to a chorus of boos from his home fans. But he turned off the booing by catching two touchdown passes of 1 and 18 yards from Roman Gabriel accounting for Philadelphia’s 14–10 advantage at intermission.
The Steelers edged the Packers, 16–13. Although Rocky Bleier, the only Vietnam combat veteran in the N.F.L., had the best day of his career, rushing for 163 yards, it took a 29-yard field goal by Roy Gerela, his third of the game, with just 64 seconds left, to give the Steelers, defending Super Bowl champions, their fifth victory in six games.
The Oilers defeated the Lions, 24–8. After a brutal first half in which at least eight players left the game with injuries. Houston was nursing a slim 10–5 lead. Then the Oilers exploded. First, Dan Pastorini connected with Ken Burrough for a third-quarter 56-yard touchdown bomb. Then, after Detroit was unable to move the ball, Billy Johnson. N.F.L.’s kickoff return leader, ran back a punt 52 yards for another Oiler touchdown.
The Chiefs topped the Broncos, 26–13. Four field goals by Jan Stenerud, from 28, 46. 37 and 23 yards out, an 8-yard touchdown run on a keeper by Mike Livingston, and a fumble recovery by Wilbur Young, defensive end, which he ran in for a fourth-quarter score, helped the Chiefs even their won-lost record at 3–3.
The Rams downed the Saints, 38–14. Bill Simpson, a cornerback, recovered two first-half fumbles that set up short touchdown runs by Cullen Bryant and the Rams went on to produce their largest scoring output of the season, win their fifth game in six outings and take a three-game lead in the Western Division. Jim Harris, the Rams’ quarterback, completed 13 of 20 passes for 146 yards and one touchdown.
San Diego Chargers 0, Oakland Raiders 25
San Francisco 49ers 16, New England Patriots 24
Miami Dolphins 35, Buffalo Bills 30
Cincinnati Bengals 21, Atlanta Falcons 14
Baltimore Colts 45, New York Jets 28
Washington Redskins 23, Cleveland Browns 7
Dallas Cowboys 20, Philadelphia Eagles 17
Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Green Bay Packers 13
Detroit Lions 8, Houston Oilers 24
Denver Broncos 13, Kansas City Chiefs 26
New Orleans Saints 14, Los Angeles Rams 38
Born:
Katja Riipi, Finnish women’s ice hockey left wing (Olympics bronze medal, 1998), in Sodankylä, Finland.
Tammy Cleland, American synchronized swimmer (Olympic gold medal, 1996), in Sanford, Florida.
Ryan Bradley, MLB pitcher (New York Yankees), in Covina, California.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner [Stephanie Akner], American journalist and novelist (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”), in Manhattan, New York, New York.
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