Generalissimo Francisco Franco remained critically ill. For five days, the 82-year-old Spanish Chief of State has gone from crisis to crisis in his fight against a heart illness, but his will to live seemed strong. Generalissimo Francisco Franco remained critically ill last night, but almost 24 hours after his doctors termed his condition critical a medical bulletin indicated that he was hungry, though still bleeding from the stomach.
Two major opposition groups in Spain — one basically Socialist, one basically Communist — are preparing a joint effort to assure that a “new, democratic Spain” will follow the end of the Franco regime. But they are divided on a key issue. The Socialists accept a succession of Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon as king, as General Franco arranged, but the Communists seek a provisional government and perhaps a referendum on a monarchy or a republic. All parties in Spain except the regime’s National Movement are illegal. The two major opposition groups are Democratic Convergence, which is basically Socialist, and the Democratic Junta, essentially Communist.
A clandestine group of Spanish military officers predicted that a new civil war could follow the Franco era “if it becomes apparent that the only alternative is 40 more years of fascism.” Two officials of the underground group said it had 900 members or supporters in the armed forces and was relying on the sympathy of thousands of others.
Irish police besieging a small house in Monasterevin told the kidnappers of Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema that they would be safe if they walked out with their hands up. “They are scared we will shoot them if they come out,” a police source said, outlining the latest development in negotiations to free Herrema. The kidnapers, Eddie Gallagher, 28, and Marian Coyle, 19, have been holding Herrema in the second-floor bedroom of a two-story house since police stormed the building last Tuesday. Herrema was seized in Limerick October 3.
A French appeals court ruled out further criminal action against Paul Touvier, a leading French wartime Nazi collaborator who was twice sentenced to death in absentia for high treason shortly after World War II. The Paris court upheld a lower court ruling that the 10-year statute of limitations applied to the case. Touvier had turned himself in earlier this year, saying, “I know that I’m being hunted and that my family is in danger.”
Scores of senior Albanian officials have been purged in a move apparently signaling changes in Albania’s economic policies, authoritative diplomatic sources reported. The purge through the entire governmental structure is believed to have been precipitated by deep disagreements over the forthcoming sixth 5-year economic plan as well as growing economic difficulties.
Soviet physicist Andrei D. Sakharov said in Moscow that he did not believe the authorities would allow him to go to Oslo personally to receive the Nobel peace prize and did not know whether he would ever get the $143,000 that goes with it. That thought brought another to Sakharov’s mind: six years ago he donated nearly $200,000 — nearly all of which he had received in Soviet prizes for his work in developing the hydrogen bomb — to cancer research, after his wife died of the disease. “Impulsive,” he said sadly in retrospect, while chatting with a reporter as they waited vainly for a visit by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Currently traveling in the Soviet Union, Bradley was carrying a leather-bound citation from the Los Angeles City Council, commending Sakharov’s courage and congratulating him for winning the Nobel prize. Bradley and Sakharov never made connections.
A White House spokesman said there is no new evidence that eight Navy airmen survived the crash of their aircraft in the Baltic Sea in 1950 and still may be alive in a Soviet prison camp. The Senate intelligence committee, on the basis of reports from two American survivors of the Russian camps, has agreed to look into the case. However, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen said, “This is an old story. Unless there is new evidence, the United States has no way to proceed on the matter.”
The Soviet Union has begun construction of a third aircraft carrier, according to Defense Department analysts. The vessel is expected to displace 45,000 tons, like her sister ships Kiev and Minsk. The Kiev is undergoing trials in the Black Sea and the Minsk is nearing completion at Niko layev in the Ukraine. The third ship, according to European sources, is being built in the Leningrad area. The military significance of the three carriers, in the eyes of United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization experts, is that they will give the Soviet fleet the ability to project surface sea power beyond the cover of shore‐based aircraft. The Soviet Navy has expanded rapidly in the last 10 years but it has never deployed al carrier capable of launching fixed‐wing aircraft. The two helicopter cruisers. Moskva and Leningrad, of the Black Sea fleet are equipped with antisubmarine warfare helicopters.
President Ford, at a colorful White House ceremony, warmly welcomed President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and pledged later that the United States was determined “not to tolerate stagnation or stalemates” in the search for peace in the Middle East. Mr. Sadat, making the first official visit to Washington by an Egyptian chief of state, was clearly pleased by the colorful 21‐gun White House ceremony, which was attended by several hundred visitors. He said that “we have come here with open hearts and open arms” and praised the United States for its mediation efforts in bringing about the first limited accords in the Middle East.
New York Mayor Beame said yesterday that he would not officially welcome President Anwar elSadat of Egypt during his 24‐hour visit to the city over tomorrow and Thursday or present him with a key to the city. Resisting heavy pressure from the State Department, which views Mr. Sadat’s visit to the United States as one of the most important by a foreign leader in many years, Mayor Beame said: “I believe it would be an act of hypocrisy on my part to participate in any welcoming ceremony with any chief of state who has been a party to the United Nations resolution which seeks to revive a new form of racism as a substitute for the principles of understanding and peaceful negotiations upon which this world body was formed.”
The United States Embassy yesterday advised American citizens to evacuate dependents and nonessential personnel from Lebanon as gun battles continued to spread in the capital. Heavy fighting between partisans of several organizations continued around the downtown hotel district. Officials of the French Embassy were pinned down in their spacious compound on Rue Clemenceau. The Reuters news agency moved its offices out of what has become a virtual combat zone. Fighting was also fierce both in central Beirut and the suburbs. In the last 48 hours, according to one estimate, 128 persons have been killed and 300 wounded. Beginning yesterday morning, employes of the United States Embassy began calling up American citizens who have registered with the embassy in recent weeks and gave the following message: “As you know, the embassy has authorized voluntary departure of dependents of United States Government employes. Also, the embassy is reducing its nonessential staff. It is suggested that the American community follow this policy and evacuate from Lebanon depbndents and personnel not essential to their business activities in Lebanon.”
Beating tambourines, tooting horns, waving flags and shouting slogans, Moroccans are rolling south toward Spanish Sahara on every available truck. About 100,000 men and women, on more than 3,000 trucks, have passed through this staging station a few miles south of Agadir since Thursday. They represent the first contingents of the 350,000 volunteers that King Hassan II called for when he announced that Morocco would send a column of marcher’s armed only with the Koran to make good his country’s claim to the desert colony on Morocco’s southern border.
Pro-Indonesian forces killed 89 left-wing Fretilin troops in a fierce battle to retain control of the strategic Portuguese Timor town of Maliana, according to the Indonesian army newspaper in Jakarta. The paper, Berita Yudha, said the pro-Indonesian forces had succeeded in fighting off an attempt by Fretilin troops to recapture the town, which they lost 10 days ago.
Philippine security guards seized movie producer Antonio Arceo in connection with the slaying of the government’s chief film censor in the presidential palace. Official sources said Guillermo de Vega, 44, a presidential assistant with cabinet rank, I was hit by three bullets at close range. He was found slumped in a pool of blood in his office bathroom, a snub-nosed .38-caliber pistol beside him.
In one of Canada’s first school shootings, Robert Poulin shot five people, one fatally, at St. Pius X High School (Ottawa) before killing himself. Poulin, an 18-year-old Ottawa high school student, burst into his theology class armed with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, wounded six fellow students, one seriously, then fled to the hall where he killed himself with a blast to the head. At the same time, firemen responding to a blaze in Poulin’s home found the body of a girl, Kimberly Rabot, 17, manacled to a basement bed that had been set afire.
Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner’s Colorado Party won a landslide victory in municipal elections held throughout the country, according to results published in Asuncion. The party polled 87% of 665,311 votes to elect 168 municipal councils while the main opposition group, the Liberal Radicals, polled just over 10%.
A Southern front in Ronald Reagan’s unannounced challenge for the Republican presidential nomination was opened by Senators Jesse A. Helms (R-North Carolina) and Paul Laxalt (R-Nevada). The two formed a committee to work for the former California governor in the March 23 North Carolina Republican primary. Reagan has not formally announced his candidacy but has approved formation of a national committee to work on his behalf.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger will be asked about his order to middle and lower level department officials not to testify on policy or submit documentation to congressional investigative committees, staff members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence said. Kissinger has said that he could not comply with a committee request to produce a “dissenting” memorandum on U.S. policy toward Cyprus. Committee members said they would give Kissinger a chance to change his mind Friday when they meet to consider a contempt citation against him.
Senator William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said he hoped to achieve the panel’s approval tomorrow of a compromise measure to provide federal guarantees for New York City loans. The bill would grant $6 billion in federal guarantees that city and state officials say are needed to avert a city default by early December.
Thousands of white demonstrators marched through the main streets of South Boston today to protest court-ordered busing for school desegregation. A school boycott called as part of what was termed a national day of protest against busing cut classroom attendance sharply in the white ethnic enclave of South Boston and Charlestown, but did not appear to have a major impact on other sections of the city. The area was saturated with policemen from three departments, concerned because Friday was marked by racial fighting in South Boston and a white demonstration and black walkout in Charlestown.
Residents and interns went on strike at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in a dispute over salaries, fringe benefits, union security and patient care. Within four hours, a circuit court judge issued a temporary restraining order against the strike. The doctors’ attorney said he did not know whether it would be obeyed. The strike at Chicago’s only public hospital, which serves about 1,000 patients a day, was the first hospital strike in the history of Illinois, Salary range for the more than 500 staff members is $11,600 to $15,200. The House Staff Assn. has rejected a salary increase offer of $1,400 to $2,225. An association spokesman said emergency cases still would be treated.
Fat children are smarter on the average than skinny children, a report by the University of Minnesota indicates. The study, done on infants born at university Hospitals from 1956 to 1966, showed that the average IQ for extremely obese children at age 4 was 8 to 10 points higher than that of extremely lean children. and at age 7 it was 5 to 7 points higher. The study also found that children who were obese at birth were likely to still be fat at 4.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said that the equal time rule had been harmful to the democratic process in American elections. The chairman, Richard E. Wiley, told broadcasters at a meeting in Reston, Va, that repeal of the requirement probably was not likely but that reforms were possible, such as excluding candidates for President and Vice President. Such a modification would not affect other elections, he said.
The FBI was called on by Baltimore Controller Hyman Pressman to investigate possible sabotage in the assembly of automobiles slated for sale to police departments across the country. Pressman said he suspected that incidents of auto failure in other police departments might be related to the exhaust system failures that killed one Baltimore officer and hospitalized four others as a result of carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Strikebound National Airlines is trimming its executive and supervisory personnel by 10% and the 100 layoffs announced last week represent jobs being permanently abolished in a cost-cutting move, a spokesman said. Negotiations on a tentative agreement to end a strike of flight attendants broke down Saturday night and both sides have indicated that no new talks were in sight.
Patricia Hearst and Sara Jane Moore shared a jailhouse corridor in California this weekend. Since September 18, Miss Hearst, the 21‐year‐old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph A. Hearst of the newspaper family, has been held in the prison as a Federal prisoner awaiting trial on charges that she took part in an armed robbery of a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco on April 15, 1974. Miss Moore, 45, was arrested in San Francisco on September 22 after she aliegedly liked a revolver in the direction of President Ford as he left the St. Francis Hotel. Until last Friday, she was a prisoner in a Federal jail in San Diego, undergoing a psychiatric examination to determine if she was competent to be tried. Similar examinations have been under way for Miss Hearst since her arrest, but have been done in the San Mateo County jail here.
The prospect arose that New York City might default several weeks earlier than December 1, the date now assumed. Leading state fiscal advisers said they had not yet found a source for $150 million that the state must give the city under a temporary rescue plan to meet the city’s November debts.
The Teamsters union has sold its services as bargaining agent for non-unionized policemen in 12 California municipalities, including San Diego. Organizations representing 2,300 policemen have signed “representation contracts” with the Teamsters in the last year, paying fees up to $190,000 a year.
Dr. James S. Coleman urged a school desegregation program to permit black pupils in city schools to enroll in suburban schools. The sociologist spurred a controversy when he recently repudiated mandated busing after having done research that backed busing.
In Westchester County, the City of Yonkers was informed that it might default next month largely because it borders New York City. Officials of nine banks doing business with Yonkers said that investors were linking the city with New York as a fiscal risk. Some of the bankers said the problem also affected other municipalities in the state.
A leftist group, demanding independence for Puerto Rico, said it was responsible for nine nearly simultaneous early-morning bomb blasts at government buildings, corporate offices and banks in New York City, Chicago and Washington. No one was hurt in the explosions, which caused minor damage to the structures, including the United States Mission to the United Nations and the State Department building.
Alaska Governor Jay Hammond wants Congress to set aside nearly 40 million acres of the state as a permanent federal reserve and put another 62 million acres under joint federal-state control that would restrict development. Under terms of the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act,. Congress has until late 1978 to consider Hammond’s and a number of other land use proposals.
Abolishing the so-called “honor system,” the California Air Resources Board ordered power plants, oil refineries and nitric acid plants to install in-stack monitors to measure pollutants continuously. Previously, industries were required to report emissions but the government could not effectively check the reports. The new action is “a very significant first step,” according to A. Thomas Quinn, air board president. He said the board has “every intention next year to move further.”
Ways of financing the development of new energy sources in the Western states will be discussed by energy officials and bankers at a three-day conference opening Wednesday in Albuquerque. The meeting is sponsored by New Mexico and the Western Governors Regional Energy Policy Office. Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb will deliver the keynote address. Also participating will be Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton and Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe.
For the first time, American news magazines TIME and Newsweek published editions depicting the same individual on their covers, as both featured American rock musician Bruce Springsteen.
Rex Stout, creator of Nero Wolfe, died at his home in Danbury, Conn., at the age of 88. Mr. Stout was the dean of American practitioners of the mystery-murder-detective novel. His 46th Wolfe mystery, “A Family Affair,” was published last month.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Fran Tarkenton sparked a 97-yard drive capped by a 45-yard scoring pass to Jim Lash in the second quarter and Fred Cox boomed two long field goals to give the unbeaten Minnesota Vikings a 13–9 victory over the Chicago Bears in the National Football League tonight. Tarkenton, noted for his scrambling, gave up a safety that way when he was tackled in his end zone. But over all, his scampering under fire accurate passing and Cox’s boots of 52 and 46 yards kept the Vikings undefeated, an honor they share only with Cincinnati. The victory also gave Minnesota a three‐game tead over Detroit in the National Conference’s Central Division. Early in the fourth quarter. with the underdog Bears trailing by a scant 4 points many of the 51.259 fans in Soldier Field began chanting, “Let’s Go Bears!” a cry not heard in recent years. But their cheers were not enough. The tough but outgunned Bears, who haven’t had a winning season since 1967 and a championship since 1963, fell to a 1–5 won-lost record.
Minnesota Vikings 13, Chicago Bears 9
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Born:
Predrag Drobnjak, Montenegrin NBA center (Seattle SuperSonics, Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks), in Bijelo Polje, SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia.
Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and motivational speaker (survived canyoning accident by cutting off arm), in Marion, Ohio.
Igor Lumpert, Slovene jazz-fusion saxophonist (The Sidewinders), in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia.
Died:
Rex Stout, 88, American detective story author who created Nero Wolfe.
Guillermo de Vega, 41, chief advisor to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, was shot five times at his office in the Malacañang Palace by Paulino Arceo, a civilian who had gotten a weapon past the building’s security police.
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