Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, Spain’s Acting Chief of State, flew to Spanish Sahara with a promise to protect the “legitimate rights” of its inhabitants and the “honor and prestige” of the army. He wore a general’s uniform. His trip, sudden and unexpected, signified a stiffening of Spain’s resistance toward Morocco’s claims to the territory.
With the threat of war in Spanish Sahara, the United Nations Security Council urged all parties in the dispute to avoid any action that “might further escalate the tension in the area.” Council members said privately that what was envisioned was a United Nations presence in Spanish Sahara to help administer the territory until its future was settled.
Gunmen of the Provisional faction of the Irish Republican Army in Belfast, Northern Ireland, shot up at least six homes of members of the Official IRA faction, forced the families to evacuate and then moved families who support the Provisionals into the houses. Four people have died, including a 6-year-old girl, since the Provisionals started their campaign against the Officials in an effort to gain control of wide areas of Belfast.
Kidnaped Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema appeared briefly at a window of the house in Monasterevin, Ireland, where he is being held at gunpoint and shouted at police, “Get back, get back.” A captive in the house for 13 days, he was disheveled and unshaven. Earlier his two kidnapers, Eddie Gallagher, 28, and Marian Coyle, 19, demanded food from police who provided it. That was the first exchange between the police, who have the house surrounded, and the kidnappers since communications broke down Friday when a policeman was wounded.
President Ford is going to a top-level economic meeting in France in two weeks with no specific policy objectives and no expectation of any substantive achievements, according to well-informed White House officials. The President will meet November 15 through 17 with the heads of government of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy and Japan in strictly closed discussions at Chateau Rambouillet outside Paris. One high‐ranking White House aide said that the three days at the chateau would be a kind of “religious retreat” and that the economic talks would amount to a “religious experience” instead of an effort to plan or negotiate any international agreements.
The United States will notify the International Labor Organization this week that it intends to withdraw from the 124-member United Nations body, according to high-ranking Administration officials. The decision was made after study of a long accumulation of American grievances, including I.L.O. acceptance last June of an observer from the Pales tine Liberation Organization. The notice of intention to withdraw has a two‐year duration under the I.L.O.’s rules, the Administration officials pointed out. The United States intends to use the interval to try to persuade the I.L.O. to revise some of the practices it feels are against American interest. It was not clear how the notice of withdrawal would affect American financial contributions to the Geneva‐based organization.
The religious treasury of Cologne Cathedral was robbed of precious stones and gold and silver possibly worth millions of dollars by thieves who climbed the outside scaffolding used by masons who have been cleaning the cathedral’s ancient stonework for most of the last year.
An arsonist set fire to one of England’s most popular tourist attractions, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. The 22-year-old assailant hurled a firebomb through the window of the music room of the structure, designed by architect John Nash and constructed as a seaside resort for George IV. Firefighters put out the blaze before it could spread to the rest of the building, known for its combination of various Asian architectural styles, but damage was estimated to be at least £100,000 (US$210,000).
President Ford went to Jacksonville, Florida, for three hours of talks with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt who is taking a four-day sojourn there during his trip to the United States. The conversations, officials said, focused on Lebanon, the Middle East in general and mutual concerns of the United States and Egypt. “There are limits to what we can do,” Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said as Mr. Ford and Mr. Sadat began series of day‐long conyersations at estates in two Jacksonville neighborhoods. Mr. Kissinger appeared to caution Lebanon’s two neighbors, Syria and Israel, against taking any hasty action. “The only people who can do anything easily,” the Secretary said, “are going to produce a war if they do — or at least a grave crisis.” American officials said that the two 90‐minute conversations between the two Presidents focused on Lebanon, the Middle East in general, and matters’ between Egypt and the United States. Mr. Sadat was said to be confident that an agreement for the purchase by Egypt of American nuclear fuel, technology and reactors would be initialed before he left the United States on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin charged today that the United States had reneged on a commitment concerning American aid made by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger when he mediated the interim agreement on Sinai between Israel and Egypt. A reliable Israeli source reported that Mr. Rabin had said at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem that the American Government had agreed to recommend to Congress aid totaling $2.3 billion, of which two‐thirds would be grants. President Ford’s message to Congress last Thursday called for aid aggregating $2.24 billion more than half of which would have to be paid back. Mr. Rabin reported on the matter at a meeting devoted largely to a discussion of methods of coping with Israel’s growing national debt and international payments deficit. He said that Ambassador Simcha Dinitz had expressed the Government’s displeasure in a meeting with Secretary Kissinger and had asked that the aid request be corrected.
A comparative calm prevailed in Beirut today as special committees representing rival factions began the long process of enforcing the 12th cease-fire in six weeks. Prime Minister Rashid Karami expressed the hope that new measures would be applied in the next hours to insure a return to normal life. As the committees met, machine — gun fire and explosions could be heard in the city. In the fighting, militiamen of the Christian Phalangist Party held their positions at the Holiday Inn overlooking St. Georges Bay on the Mediterranean where armed leftists have been trying to encircle and evict them. The fighting continued there but on a reduced scale. Police sources said that unless that district, where a number of international hotels are situated, was cleared of gunmen, all efforts to restore law and order would come to nothing.
Herman C. Huddleston, a pilot for Trans Mediterranean Airways who was kidnaped from his apartment in Beirut by guerrillas last Wednesday, was released unharmed. Huddleston is a former resident of Alameda, California. Lebanon’s Prime Minister Rashid Karami said that two other American kidnap victims, William Dykes Jr. of San Jose, California, and Charles Gallagher of Roanoke, Virginia, would be released soon. He declined to say who is holding the two.
The Security Council, faced with clear threats of military action in Spanish Sahara, urged all parties to the dispute today to avoid any action that “might further escalate the tension in the area.” The warning, though not expressly saying so, was primarily aimed at getting Morocco to call off its plans for a “peaceful” invasion of the desert territory. During today’s Security Council meeting, which lasted three and a quarter hours, Spain and Algeria put Morocco on notice that they would intervene if the projected invasion of the contested territory by masses of civilians was not called off. The Spanish delegate, Fernando Arias Salgado, warned that if the “green march” announced by King Hassan II of Morocco took place, Spain would “repel it with all means at her disposal, including use of the armed forces.”
Fighting between rival nationalist forces has broken out in Bacau, the second largest town in Portuguese East Timor, Indonesia’s Antara news agency reported. It gave no details of the fighting in the town, which was reported by some newspapers in Jakarta, Indonesia, to have fallen to pro-Indonesian troops. The Antara report suggested that troops of the left-wing Fretilin independence movement were defending the small coastal town from attacks by pro-Indonesian troops.
An Indian Defense Ministry source said today that a border clash between Indian and Chinese troops last month occurred in the northeastern territory of Arunachal Pradesh, the area that was the main theater of fighting between Indian and Chinese forces in 1962. Arunachal Pradesh, known until 1972, as the North East Frontier Agency, has a 600‐mile border with China. The ministry source said it was “somewhere along this line” that four Indian soldiers were shot to death by Chinese troops October 20. Diplomatic sources said that the 1,500‐mile IndianChinese border had been quiet since the clash October 20 and no unusual military activity or arms build‐up has been observed. In the 1962 border war China made a two‐pronged drive into the territory and another into Kashmir. The Foreign Ministry announced the latest clash Saturday saying that a 40-man Chinese force opened fire “within the Indian side of the border” and killed four members of a six‐man Indian Army patrol. Two escaped and reported the incident.
China admires former President Richard M. Nixon’s courage in ending U.S. hostility toward Peking, and regards President Ford’s forthcoming visit as the next step in better relations, according to a report by a seven-man congressional delegation, led by Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.), that visited China in August. But the report says that full diplomatic ties with Peking are not possible until the United States severs relations with the Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan.
President Ford has asked the Senate intelligence committee not to release its findings on alleged U.S. intelligence involvement in assassination plots against Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, the late Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and others, Newsweek magazine reported.
Three warring liberation movements in Angola have ceased fire, Portuguese government sources reported. They said the pause in the fighting, which went into effect over the weekend, was to allow for talks in Kampala, Uganda, aimed at a peaceful end to the present conflict in the Portuguese territory, due to become independent later this month.
The president of Rhodesia’s African National Council said that missing black nationalist Edson Sithole was being held and tortured by Rhodesian security police. Abel Muzorewa said ANC supporters recently saw Sithole in a Rhodesian police station. And Muzorewa said he had learned Sithole has gone on a hunger strike out of fear authorities might try to poison him.
President Ford has dismissed Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and William Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, in a major shuffling of top national security posts. Administration officials said that Mr. Ford had also asked Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to relinquish his post as national security adviser in the White House but to stay on as head of the State Department and that Mr. Kissinger had all but agreed. White House officials said that Mr. Schlesinger would probably be replaced by Donald Rumsfeld, the White House chief of staff, and that Mr. Colby’s likely successor would be George Bush, now head of the American liaison office in China.
President Ford and the Department of Justice are making efforts to keep details of United States involvement in assassination plots against foreign leaders from being made public by either the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence or in a Washington court case in which government documents are being sought under the Freedom of Information Act by a private research group. A spokesman for the Senate committee said that each member had received a “strongly worded” letter signed by President Ford urging the members for national security reasons not to make public a forthcoming report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in assassination plots. Senator Frank Church, the committee’s chairman, has refused to comply with the President’s request.
Preliminary Congressional analysis shows that the Federal deficit would have to be increased $800 million and Congressional budgetary guidelines raised $1.8 billion to accommodate President Ford’s new $4.7 billion military aid package. The potential impact of the President’s request upon the budgetary targets adopted by Congress raises additional complications for a military aid program that was already becoming increasingly unpopular on Capitol Hill. The military aid program will be considered under new Congressional budgetary procedures, and there will be pressure to cut the President’s request to stay within budgetary targets. After months of delay and with less than two months left in the Congressional session, Mr. Ford last week finally submitted his request for appropriations covering various aspects of the military aid program. Of the $4.7 billion requested, $424.5 million would go for grants of materiel and training, $2.4 billion in credits for purchase of military equipment and $1.9 billion for security support assistance, which is a form of economic aid given to offset a country’s heavy military burden.
President Ford’s plan, submitted in July, to cut back on the Highway Trust Fund and completely revise the financing of road programs is dead for this session of Congress. The House Ways and Means and the Senate Finance committees have said they have no plans to take it up this year. And it is highly uncertain whether they can get to it next year, which will be the final session of the 94th Congress. Both committees are giving priority to tax, health and welfare legislation. Other committees, however, are working on authorization bills that would extend the major road programs for two years.
Senator Henry Jackson (D-Washington) predicted congressional conferees will complete a comprehensive energy bill this week. He said House-Senate conferees will meet this morning to work on the final issue-energy prices. “We will wrap up the conference this week,” Jackson said in a written statement. “The last issue is price… I expect we will adopt a strong rollback that will reduce oil prices to fair levels.” Jackson predicted the compromise bill would be approved by large majorities in both the House and the Senate.
Secret Service agents guarding Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona questioned and detained a man for four hours before the candidate arrived in Lebanon, New Hampshire, to campaign. The agents took extra precautions after the congressman received a threatening telephone call when speaking in Woodstock, Vermont, Saturday night. William Gordon, 24, of Inglewood, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with giving false information to obtain a handgun, authorities said. He was to be arraigned today.
Greenwich, Connecticut Police Chief Stephen M. Baran Jr. said he had no suspects in the bludgeon slaying Friday of a 15-year-old girl found near her parents’ mansion. An autopsy of Martha Moxley, daughter of J. David Moxley, a partner in the accounting firm of Touche Ross & Co., confirmed that she had been beaten to death with a golf club, which was found at the scene. There was no indication of sexual assault.
John Swainson, a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and a former Governor of Michigan, was convicted of three counts of perjury but was acquitted of conspiracy in connection with charges that he accepted a $20,000 bribe in 1972 to help a burglar gain a review of his conviction.
The U.S. Air Force has officially dismissed an officer who questioned the safety of the American nuclear missile launching system. The Air Force Secretary approved the recommendation of a Warren Air Force Base board of review that Major Harold L. Hering, 38 years old, of Mount Carmel, Illinois, be retired.
An official at Cooke County (Chicago) Hospital said a “grave kind of situation had developed as a strike by doctors and interns entered its second week. Dr. Quentin Young, the head of the department of medicine at the 1,500-bed hospital, blamed the crisis on the Cook County Health and Hospitals Governing Commission. He said the commission had followed a “business as usual” policy and allowed an influx of patients at the understaffed institution. About 500 interns and doctors, members of the House Staff Assn., walked off the job last Monday in a dispute over wages, fringe benefits, union security and patient care.
A spokesman for the Maryland attorney general’s office has confirmed that four daily newspapers in the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas are the subject of two antitrust investigations. The spokesman said an inquiry into alleged price-fixing is now being conducted against the Baltimore Sun and Evening Sun and the News American. The three raised their newstand prices from 10 cents to 15 cents at the same time last August. Additionally, the Washington Post is being investigated because of a recent decision to change its distribution patterns, which complaints have alleged would eliminate competition from the Washington Star. Lawyers for the Post said the new distribution system in no way violated state or federal law.
More than 250,000 blackbirds apparently have chosen a woods outside of Pearl, Mississippi, as their winter roost. When residents of the small community southwest of Jackson heard that the number may grow to 4 million by mid December, they decided to act. Following the advice of federal wildlife experts, the city will begin a program of “timed persistent harassment”, firing small explosive devices at regular intervals, in attempts to scare the birds away. The distress calls of several species of birds also will be used, the expert said. Residents have been complaining of the noise made by the birds, and recently a bad smell has added to their concern.
Free cheese sandwiches grilled by solar energy on a chilly street corner were handed to hundreds of passersby by school children in Concord, New Hampshire, as a combination science project and get-out-the-vote effort for Tuesday’s referendum on whether the city should allow property tax exemptions for solar energy heating or cooling systems. Students from a fifth-grade class, with the help of several high school students who handled the more technical work, produced the “solar lunches” which featured cold toast because of the 42-degree breeze, but hot bubbly swiss cheese because of the sun.
First sports event at The Summit arena in Houston — NBA’s Houston Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89; future Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich top scores with 24 points.
NFL Football:
As far as classic confrontations go within the National Football League, today’s clash between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers was a bit of a bust. Pittsburgh won, 30–24, but the game was not as close as one might believe. The Steelers led, 23–3, midway through the third quarter and their defense had held the Bengals to only 87 total yards before the Cincinnati machine got going. Then there was a two touchdown-rally by the Bengals, and when they were 14 yards away from being able to tie the score at 23–all, some disasters occurred. One of their best players, Bob Trumpy, made two costly mistakes. The first was when Essex Johnson gained 11 yards to the Steelers’ 14-yard line with the Bengals only six points behind in the fourth quarter. Trumpy was holding on the play and the penalty set the Bengals back to the 35. Then, on the following play, Trumpy dropped a pass. On the next play Anderson failed to see an open receiver, Charlie Joiner, and threw the ball downfield toward Chip Myers. But Mike Wagner, the Steeler safety, intercepted the pass and made a return of 65 yards, all the way to the Cincinnati 18. From there, the Steelers went in to score with three minutes left and to lock up the game on a 30–17 lead.
The Minnesota Vikings downed the Green Bay Packers, 28–17. The Vikings, the lone undefeated and untied team in the league, were led to their seventh triumph by Fran Tarkenton who hit on his first seven passes and 24 of 30 over all for 285 yards and three touchdowns. John Gilliam caught seven aerials, including a 19‐yarder that gave Minnesota a 21–17 lead early in the fourth quarter. Paul Krause intercepted a pass to give him 69 for his career, second best to Emlen Tunnell’s record total of 74.
A controversial call by Coach Charley Winner helped send the Jets to a sudden 24–23 loss yesterday to the Buffalo Bills. The Jets were leading by 23–17 with a little more than 5 minutes remaining. They were on the Bills’ 20‐yard line. They needed perhaps a foot, perhaps 2 feet, for a first down. But they also had Pat Leahy warming up, and he had kicked three straight field goals, his longest from 42 yards. “Go for it,” the players told Winner. Up in the coaches’ box, Ken Shipp, the offensive coordinator, remarked, “The fans wants him to go for it, too. No one’s saying try for the field goal.” So Winner told Joe Namath to go for the first down. The ball went to John Riggins. He was stopped by Earl Edwards. The ball turned over to Buffalo. Four plays later, with 3:46 remaining, O.J. Simpson snared a pass from Joe Ferguson, escaped from four Jets, and scored. The play, covering 64 yards, was capped by a John Leypoldt conversion and it was over.
The Cardinals topped the Patriots, 24–17. Terry Metcalf, who scored three touchdowns, tallied two of them in the final quarter to lift the Cardinals from a 17–10 deficit. Metcalf, who had returned a punt for a 69‐yard touchdown in the first half, scored an runs of 1 and 7 yards to give St. Louis its fifth victory in seven games. New England’s Steve Grogan, subbing at quarterback for the injured Jim Plunkett. hit 14 of 34 passes for 173 yards and touchdown.
Two years ago, the Houston Oilers could win only one of 14 National Football League games. Last season, they won six of their final eight games and finished with a 7–7 won‐lost record. Under O. A. “Bum” Phillips, their new coach. Houston has obviously maintained its late‐1974 momentum, winning six of its first seven games. Yesterday’ s 17–13 victory over the Chiefs of Kansas City lifted the Oilers into a three‐way tie for first place in the American Conference’s Central Division with Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Winning in Kansas City for the first time in eight years, the Oilers were sparked by Dan Pastorini who lofted two touchdown passes — of 77 and 57 yards — to Ken Burrough. But they needed a clutch interception with fewer than 5 minutes to play to nail down the victory. The Chiefs were on the Houston 5‐yard line (trailing 17‐13) when Bob Atkins of the Oilers grabbed a Mike Livingston lob and returned it 70 yards to the Kansas City 26.
The Colts beat the Browns, 21–7. Two long streaks came to an end as the Browns suffered their seventh loss without a victory. Cleveland had not lost a game in Baltimore in seven tries since 1956 and the Colts had not been victorious at home in 13 games since the 1973 season. Bert Jones provided most of the Baltimore offense with 16 completions in 21 tries for 103 yards and 19 yards rushing. His scoring passes were 2 yards to Raymond Chester and 35 yards to Lydell Mitchell.
The Redskins eked out a 30–24 sudden death victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Bill Kilmer, who had thrown three touchdown passes earlier, leaped 1 yard into the end zone to give the Redskins a crucial victory after 6 minutes 34 seconds of the overtime period. The triumph created a three‐way tie involving Washington, Dallas, and St. Louis for first place in the Eastern Division. The Cowboys lost an opportunity to win it with nine seconds remaining in regulation time when Toni Fritsch missed a 38‐yard field goal attempt. Kilmer’s winning touchdown was set up by a Ken Houston interception of a Roger Staubach pass that gave Washington the ball on the Dallas 35‐yard line. Eight plays later, Kilmer scored.
The Dolphins crushed the Bears, 46–13. Bob Griese gained 288 yards passing — the third highest total of his career — as Miami retained the top spot in the American Conference’s Eastern Division. The Dolphin quarterback completed 12 of 19 aerials for three touchdowns before sitting out the final 12 minutes
Trailing 17–7 early in the third quarter, Oakland exploded for five touchdowns within a 15‐minute span to rout the Broncos, 42–17. Ken Stabler, who had completed only three passes in the first half, hit seven of nine for 137 yards in the third quarter, including touchdown passes to Fred Biletnikoff and Cliff Branch.
The Saints rolled over the Falcons, 23–7. The Saints won their first game under Ernie Hefferle, the interim head coaching replacement for John North, as Richie Szaro kicked field goals of 36, 47, and 25 yards. A crowd of 49,342 — the smallest in the Saints’ five‐year history — saw Archie Manning connect on a 71‐yard scoring pass to Larry Burton.
The Detroit Lions came from behind the defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 28–17. Trailing 10–0 at half‐lime. the Lions rallied for 21 points in the third period with their third‐string quarterback, ex-49ers Joe Reed, throwing two scoring passes. Reed, a starter after Bill Munson and Greg Landry were sidelined because of injuries, tossed 10 yards to Ray Jarvis and 65 to Dexter Bussey. Altie Taylor ran 37 yards in 14 carries to become Detroit’s all‐time rushing leader with 3,961 yards — 27 more than Nick Pietrosante’s total.
Pittsburgh Steelers 30, Cincinnati Bengals 24
Minnesota Vikings 28, Green Bay Packers 17
Buffalo Bills 24, New York Jets 23
New England Patriots 17, St. Louis Cardinals 24
Houston Oilers 17, Kansas City Chiefs 13
Cleveland Browns 7, Baltimore Colts 21
Dallas Cowboys 24, Washington Redskins 30
Miami Dolphins 46, Chicago Bears 13
Oakland Raiders 42, Denver Broncos 17
Atlanta Falcons 7, New Orleans Saints 23
Detroit Lions 28, San Francisco 49ers 17
Born:
Chris Walla, American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer (Death Cab for Cutie), in Bothell, Washington.
Danny Cooksey, American actor (Sam-“Diff’rent Strokes”), in Moore, Oklahoma.
Stéphane Sarrazin, French auto racer (Le Mans Series 2007, 10; French Formula Renault 1994; 24 Hours of Le Mans x 4 runner-up), in Barjac, Gard, France
Paul Rigdon, MLB pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers), in Jacksonville, Florida.
Died:
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, was murdered by a 17-year-old boy following a violent argument. Giuseppe Pelosi, who said that Pasolini had made sexual advances toward him, struck Pasolini’s skull several times with a piece of wood. Pelosi then took Pasolini’s car and used it to run over the film director’s body. Pelosi, whose claim of self-defense was rejected, was sentenced to prison for the murder.
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