Kidnaped Dutch businessman Tiede Herrema appeared at a window of the house in Monasterevin. Republic of Ireland, where terrorists have held him at gunpoint for 12 days. “Stay away. Do not play with my life,” he shouted to police surrounding the house. It was the second time Herrema, who was seized in Limerick on October 3, has told police to stay away. The plea was seen as a warning from his two kidnappers — Eddie Gallagher, 26, and Marian Coyle, 19 — that police cease efforts to enter the room where they are holed up.
Some 5,000 leftists in Bayonne, France, waving a sea of flags, attempted to march on Spain today but were stopped 30 miles from the border by a small army of French police. Braving strong winds and cold rains, the demonstrators, most of them young men and women from Paris, had hoped to create a symbolic incident on the Spanish border. Instead, they had to content themselves with the flag waving and a songfest denouncing the ailing Spanish Chief of State, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Among the marchers were few veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Many of the enormous flags were in red, yellow and purple, the colors of the Spanish Republic, which came to an end in 1939.
Special Portuguese military courts were created today to try political prisoners. The decision by the supreme governing body, the High Council of the Revolution, broke a pledge, made by the military when the old dictatorship was overthrown 18 months ago—that special tribunals would be abolished and visitations of state security would be tried in regular criminal courts. The move was the first made to dispose of the cases of 1,200 to 1,500 political prisoners, many of whom have been held without charge since the spring of 1974.
Representatives of 69 nations reached agreement in Rome to set up an investment fund to help grow food in the world’s poorest countries, stating their intention to meet an initial target of $1.2 billion. U.N. sources said it was a major breakthrough on aid cooperation between the industrial countries and the oil-rich nations, who have been prodded by the United States to do more to help feed the world. The delegates ended a week-long meeting on the fund.
Pope Paul VI beatified five 19th century Roman Catholic priests and nuns during an All Saints’ Day ceremony in St. Peter’s Square. The Pontiff declared “blessed” a Spanish missionary, two Italian founders of teaching orders, the French-born founder of a nursing order and an aristocratic-born German nun who spearheaded nursing care in Portugal. Beatification is usually, but not always, the final step before Roman Catholic sainthood.
Italian and West German authorities have recovered 26 of 38 stolen paintings, some of them taken twice in the last three months from the Milan Gallery of Modern Art. Italian officials said they arrested one suspect in the central Italian city of Foligno and three suspects at Duisburg, West Germany, in an operation directed by Interpol, the international police agency.
Adolf von Thadden, a right-wing politician whose National Democratic Party aroused fears of a Nazi resurgence in West Germany six years ago, has said that he has resigned from the party. The 54‐year‐old founder of the‐party said that he was leaVing active party politics, but not political activities as a whole, to protest the election to the party executive body of Gerhard Frey, publisher of nationalist newspaper in Munich. Political observers said that Mr. von Thadden, who represented the moderate wing of the party, regarded Mr. Frey as an extremist.
The first Israeli‐bound cargo ship to pass through the Suez Canal in 15 years will make the southbound trip on its way to Israel’s port of Elath. At dawn tomorrow, Suez Canal Authority sources said. They said that the Greek vessel Olympus, carrying 8,500 tons of Rumanian cement, was being piloted into Port Said harbor in preparation for a link‐up with more than 20 ships scheduled to pass through the 103‐mile waterway. The ship anchored in Egyptian waters three miles off this port city Friday afternoon. Its transit through the canal was delayed by 24 hours because a 816,000 cable for its transit fees was misaddressed, maritime sources said. They said the matter was now cleared up.
A night of fierce fighting in the Beirut suburbs of Chiyah and Ain el Rummaneh, in which 100 people were reportedly killed, shattered a tenuous truce. As the situation worsened, the United States Embassy ordered several dozen wives and children of American officials out of the country, firmly suggested to other Americans in Beirut to leave, and began cutting down non-essential staff. Other foreign missions were reported to be following the American evacuation preparations. The day was relatively quiet, but as darkness fell, explosions rocked the area around Beirut’s luxury hotels, and one rocket fired from the Muslim Bouri section set a fire on the 20th floor of the Holiday Inn. Officials once again scrambled to try to put together cease‐fire, but there was no certainty that they would be successful. The political atmosphere was further envenomed by an exchange of accusations among the warring factions. The right‐wing Phalangist party accused Premier Rashid Narami of siding with leftist Muslim factions in the dispute over which party was shattering the cease‐fire. The Phalangist newspaper, Al Amal also charged that 5,000 soldiers of the Palestine Liberation Organization had crossed from Syria into Lebanon.
An apparent policy reversal by Spain, which had nearly reached an agreement in principle on the transfer of sovereignty over Spanish Sahara to Morocco, angered the Moroccans who were determined to proceed with the civilian march to the territory this week despite a threat of war by Algeria over the annexation efforts. Pressure from Algeria and Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations apparently stopped Spain from completing negotiations with Morocco.
India’s political opposition, silenced throughout the 4-month-old state of emergency, came alive as at least 14 persons were arrested during two demonstrations staged before delegates to the 34-nation 21st Conference of Commonwealth Parliamentarians, now being held in New Delhi. More arrests were expected.
Agreement on heavy cuts in the size and the cost of the British garrison in Hong Kong was announced today at the end of a week‐long visit by Britain’s Minister of State for Defense, William Rodgers. The statement said that the garrison woud be trimmed from the present force of 10,000 men to 6,400.
The military Government of Peru announced today the selection of army chief Brigadier General Jorge Fernandez Maldonado as the country’s next Premier. The 53‐year‐old former Minister of Power and Mines is regarded by many observers as one of the country’s most capable and progressive military officers. He will succeed General Oscar Vargas Prieto, but there was no indication when the change wouln occur. Peril’s premier plays a secondary role to the country’s president, General Francisco Morales Bermildez, who took control, of the government in August after a coup against General Juan Velasco Alvarado., The new Government has vowed to continue the leftist policies championed by the Velasco Government, which put the military in charge in 1968.
The Chilean government in Santiago said it has smashed a Communist-inspired plot to kill President Augusto Pinochet and set up a Marxist state. A statement issued by the national intelligence office said Hortensia Bussi de Allende, widow of deposed Marxist President Salvador Allende, appeared to be involved in the plot, which was financed by international Communists. Several ringleaders were reported arrested.
A campaign by the opposition to force the resignation of President Isabel Martinez de Perón of Argentina has started in a political atmosphere reminiscent of the Watergate affair. The Radical party is demanding the formation this week of a committee of inquiry by the Argentine Congress to investigate charges of corruption in Mrs. Perón’s administration. A federal judge has already opened an investigation into the accounts of the Ministry of Social Welfare. The focus of the investigation, however, is $700,000 that Mrs. Perón allegedly transferred from a publicly supported charity called Crusade of Solidarity to the estate of her late husband, President Juan Domingo Perón.
The kidnapers of the honorary British consul in Asmara, Ethiopia, have sent a message to his wife saying he is alive and well, according to the British Embassy in Addis Ababa. British authorities said that they believed the message to Mrs. Basil Burwood-Taylor was authentic but they declined to release other details. He was kidnaped October 23.
President Idi Amin of Uganda urged all liberation groups in southern Africa to form a united front to crush white minority governments. Opening a meeting of nine African nations on the situation in Angola,” Amin also urged Palestinian guerrillas to spread the campaign to defeat Israel “to the four corners of the earth.”
A nationwide poll indicates that the public is closely divided over whether the federal government should provide financial aid for New York City. The poll taken more than a week before President Ford’s speech last Wednesday, when he said he was “prepared to veto” any legislation that would rescue New York City, showed that 49 percent opposed financial aid and 42 percent favored it. But a spokesman for the Gallup organization, which took the poll, said that the normal margin of error in surveys of this type was “3 percent, plus or minus.” Thus, the normal margin of statistical error in any such sampling could all but erase the margin of difference. In any event, the poll indicates that national attitudes are far closer than many politicians have said they expected.
Governor Carey made a strong appeal to President Ford not to force New York City into bankruptcy, but to give it time to solve its fiscal problems. In a statewide radio and television address, the Governor cited the steps the city and state had taken to meet the crisis and said the city was not seeking a bailout, but rather a federal guarantee of its bonds that would not cost Washington “a dime.” Asserting that there was “blame enough for everyone,” for the crisis, he included Vice President Rockefeller and the state legislature, and “Presidents who diverted tens of billions of dollars to foreign dictatorships and senseless war, and who plunged our economy into its worst crisis in 40 years.”
Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards, eager to play a larger role in national politics, took a big lead in early returns and appeared headed for reelection to a second term. The balloting was the first under an open elections system in which party primaries were scrapped with all candidates — regardless of party affiliation — appearing on the same ballot. The nearest of the five challengers to Edwards, a Democrat, in the tally was state Senator Bob Jones.
Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger, reversing an earlier Pentagon decision, has formally reprimanded a top aide on international arms sales and ordered a renewed investigation of top civilian and military defense officials who were guests at a Northrop Corp. hunting lodge. Eric Von Marbod, controller for the Defense Security Assistance Agency, was originally cleared of any impropriety or illegal action in the Northrop incident involving more than 40 senior defense officials. But now, defense sources said, Schlesinger has determined that Von Marbod had violated the “spirit” of conflict-of-interest rules of the Defense Department.
U.S. President Gerald Ford testified in a videotaped deposition for the trial of Lynette Fromme, who had tried to shoot him in September. The tape was not released to the press nor made available to the public.
The $11 billion Housing and Community Development Act, passed by Congress in 1974, with provisions that were to create more housing for the poor, has not yet made any impact on their housing supply, according to city officials and housing industry spokesmen. The act is supposed to replace such programs as public housing, urban renewal, model cities and subsidized construction. So far, only about 200 families in the nation have been provided housing under the new law. The new program’s defenders say that it is too early to judge its effectiveness, but some housing experts are convinced that it will never measure up to its promise. A Baltimore housing official said that “the 1974 housing act is extremely misguided.”
Charges of aggravated kidnaping against two men accused of keeping a wealthy widow hostage in her New Orleans home for up to two years have been dropped. John R. Villarrubia, 42, and Noel J. Daube, 44, were accused of sedating and then locking Mrs. Edna Halbedel, 83, in a bedroom of her French Quarter home. Under Louisiana law, aggravated kidnapping is holding someone for monetary gain, and Magistrate Robert F. Collins said there was no testimony to indicate that anything had been sought in exchange for Mrs. Halbedel’s release. Collins freed the men, but said other charges might be considered.
The National Conference of Democratic Mayors urged the federal government to take a larger role in the funding of the nation’s public schools. Inequalities among school systems exist because school programs depend on local property taxes, the mayors noted. In many cities, they said, these have been increased to the limit.
A special county grand jury in Indianapolis issued five sealed indictments in its investigation of alleged political theft and surveillance in 1970. The jury also said it believed that Washington attorney Gary H. Baise, a law associate of former Deputy U.S. Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, knowingly received stolen documents and a tape recording from the Indianapolis office of attorney Edward D. Lewis. The indictments were ordered sealed until persons named in them surrender.
Three suspects sought in the fatal shooting of two people and the wounding of two others earlier in the day escaped a tight police network, the authorities said, after being surrounded in a south Los Angeles apartment building for nine hours. About 85 police officers evacuated a one‐block area as safety precaution. They brought in special equipment and had bomb truck and several fire companies standing by. When the suspects, who the police say are members of terrorist group, failed to give themselves up following appeals from the authorities using a bullhorn, officers of a special tactical team entered the 12-unit building and kicked in the doors of the apartments. There were no suspects inside and, the authorities said they did not know whether the suspects had been in the building or how they had escaped if they had been inside.
The migration of the civil rights issue from South to North is vividly illustrated in the small group of elections today and Tuesday. Race has been of no real consequence in the governorship contests in Louisiana and Mississippi, two states where it dominated politics only a decade ago. But it matters a good deal in the Kentucky governor’s race and in mayoral races in Boston and Cleveland. In Louisiana, where voters went to the polls today under a unique new electoral system, Gov. Edwin Edwards, a Democrat, sought a second term against five lesser-known opponents. No Republican is running for governor in Louisiana, but in Mississippi the party has made its strongest bid in this century for the governorship.
A new $6 million housing development in the South Bronx has been standing empty and ravaged by vandals for a year and a half, its smashed windows a symbol of the shattered hopes of government agencies, a merchants’ group, and 111 families who lost thousands of dollars in rent deposits. The development, South Haven Houses, is the victim of what so far has been an unsolvable tangle of financial disputes.
Arguing that the tawdriness of Times Square has subtracted from the city’s economic well-being, and anxious to present a fresher image for the delegates at next summer’s Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, the Beame administration has started a drive to clean up Times Square.
Astronomers at the University of Maryland announced the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy 55,000 lightyears away from the sun and said it could lead to new information about the Milky Way. Dr. S. Christian Simonson III, who discovered the new galaxy, said it was the nearest galaxy yet found to the Milky Way and could lead to more accurate estimates of the size of our own cluster of stars. The galaxy, named Snickers, contains about 200 million, stars — one-tenth of 1% of the 200 billion in the Milky Way.
NFL Football:
New York Coach Bill Arnsparger was the first to admit that the Giants’ 35‐24 victory over the San Diego Chargers wasn’t pretty, but did it have to be a “Frankenstein Meets Dracula” horror show? In gaining their third triumph against four defeats, the Giants escaped the rut into which they had plummeted the two previous seasons, when they won only two games each year. They even gave Arnsparger his largest margin of victory in his year and a half as coach of the unpredictable losers. Against San Diego, though, the Giants were unpredictable winners because they let the Chargers do things they weren’t supposed to be able to do, and the New Yorkers did things they couldn’t have been expected to do. The Giants were favored to beat the Chargers, who hadn’t beaten anyone in their six previous games. In ranking as one of the National Football League’s two worst teams, the Chargers had averaged only 6 points and 181 yards a game. They had scored only four touchdowns. Yesterday, however, they amassed 349 yards‐182 on the ground and 167 in the air. They also scored enough points to hold a 21‐21 tie until late in the third quarter. Then the Giants shot in front on Craig Morton’s screen pass to Bob Tucker, which covered 47 yards. They clinched the victory late in the fourth quarter when Ron Johnson capped a 64‐yard drive by bursting 1 yard through right tackle into the end zone.
San Diego Chargers 24, New York Giants 35
Born:
Bo Bice, American singer (“The Real Thing”), in Huntsville, Alabama.
Éric Perrin, Canadian NHL centre (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Lightning, 2004; Tampa Bay Lightning, Atlanta Thrashers), in Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Van Hiles, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ryan Collins, NFL tight end (Baltimore Ravens), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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