Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain underwent a three-hour emergency operation to halt large-scale hemorrhaging in the stomach and doctors said early today that his vital signs had become normal but “the prognosis is very grave.” General Franco, 82 years old, has been battling for his life since he was stricken with an acute heart ailment October 21. He is being treated by a team of 24 physicians at Pardo Palace in Madrid.
The first petroleum pipeline in the United Kingdom opened in Scotland between Cruden Bay and Grangemouth.
The Government of Portugal, backed by non-Communist parties, has opened a slow but concerted campaign to curb Communist influence in many areas of Portuguese life. The campaign, sometimes subtle, has been reflected in a series of recent events here, all representing setbacks for Communist and other radical elements that gained heavily following the downfall of nearly 50 years of dictatorship in April, 1974. The present Government, in power only six weeks, still has a long way to go to reverse past terms and, as one diplomat put it, “to put the tigers back in the cages.” The strategy, however, has become inreasingly clear in recent days, and its success is reflected by the vigor and bitterness of protests by the Communists. Officials, aware of the dangers of any major confrontation with the Communist Party or the even more radical elements, acknowledge that they are moving slowly to avoid bringing on a backlash. The officials acknowledge that they win a few and lose a few.
The 27 European Communist parties apparently have compromised on. their ideological differences sufficiently to hold a long-delayed summit conference next month or early in 1976. Party leaders met in East Berlin late last month and broke the deadlock over proposed policy statements, which had prevented the calling of a party summit as scheduled last summer. The process reportedly was made possible because the Soviet Union backed down substantially from its ideological position to allow compromises among the smaller parties.
Talks that could lead to minor reductions in crude oil prices were begun in Vienna by economic experts of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC sources said the group discussed trimming premiums that are based on crude quality and sulphur content and on the producing country’s proximity to its market. Any cuts would have to be approved by oil country ministers at a conference set for December 20 in Vienna.
The Palestine Liberation Organization rejected Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s Middle East policy as based on “falsehood” and said it was destined to backfire. Farouk Kaddoumi, chief of the PLO’s political wing, also accused the United States of arming Israel with nuclear weapons and other advanced arms under the guise of the latest Egyptian-Israeli interim agreement mediated by Kissinger. Kaddoumi spoke on the opening day of the U.N. debate on the Palestinian issue.
The first Israeli cargo to pass through the Suez Canal in 14 years arrived at the Red Sea port of Eilat early today aboard the Greek freighter Olympus. The vessel, carrying tons of cement, sailed into view here at about 1:45 A.M. after passing through the canal Sunday. The consignment of cement, shipped from Constanza, Rumania is to be used for construction projects in this resort city. the vessel was met by Transport Minister Gad Yacobi, port workers and about 30 reporters who stayed through the night as the ship sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba.
The latest Beirut cease-fire, the 12th since mid-September, was marred today by continued sniper fire and explosions, but Prime Minister Rashid Karami expressed confidence that the long factional strife would soon end. The Prime Minister made this statement after a four‐hour meeting of the National Dialogue Committee, comprising representatives of all parties involved. Speaking with reporters, the Prime Minister expressed satisfaction with what he described as the “positive attitude” shown by all factions, and he said that Lebanese who had staved home because of the fighting between Muslim and Christian factions could go back to work tomorrow. The National Dialogue Committee, consisting of 20 members, was formed last month to discuss proposed reforms of the Lebanese political system, which divides state and legislative powers along religious lines, with Christians predominating. Muslims and leftists have been demanding also greater share of economic power, which is largely in Christian hands.
An Israeli of Dutch origin has been hanged in Baghdad for spying for Israel, the Iraqi news agency said. Alexander Haroun was tried by a revolutionary tribunal last month after being arrested in northern Iraq in March where he had been working as an adviser to rebel Kurds, the agency reported. There was no indication as to when he was executed.
General Khaled Mosharraf led a coup d’état against the government of Bangladesh, arrested Army Chief of Staff Ziaur Rahman, and named himself the new Chief. Mosharraf was killed four days later by Ziaur’s supporters in a countercoup. The military-backed Bangladesh government was shaken by an internal army feud, but Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed remained as president for now although many of the officers who brought him to power August 15 were believed arrested, diplomatic sources in New Delhi, India, said. According to diplomatic reports from Dacca, the daylong developments revolved around senior army officers reasserting their influence over junior officers who overthrew and killed President Mujibur Rahman in August.
Australia’s Opposition parties today modified their demand that Prime Minister Gough Whitlam hold a national election in return for their acceptance of the Government budget, but their new proposal was rejected by Mr. Whitlam. Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party announced that the Opposition alliance of the Liberal and Country Parties was prepared to approve the budget bills if there were a clear understanding that a House of Representatives election would be held at the same time as the Senate election due before the end of next June. Mr. Whitlam replied that the system of government that has prevailed in Australia for 75 years would be destroyed if any Prime Minister gave in to the type of “budget blackmail” that Mr. Fraser continued to use.
Government and union negotiators in Ottawa, Canada, continued their efforts to settle the two-week nationwide postal strike. The two nonmonetary issues that are still to be settled are temporary employees and electronic surveillance of workers, both of which the union opposes.
Donald E. Cooper, 50, an official of Sears Roebuck and Co. who was kidnaped in Bogota, Columbia, last August 5, was freed Sunday “after lengthy and complicated negotiations,” the company announced in Chicago. He is in seclusion with his family in the United States, the company said. It did not say whether a ransom was paid.
President Isabel Martinez de Perón entered a private medical clinic today as pressure mounted for a full investigation of corruption in her administration. The 44-year-old Mrs. Perón had only returned to work on October 16 from six weeks of sick leave and the new development provided a surprising start for a week that many here consider critical for her tenure. The opposition Radical Party, with clear encouragement from the armed forces, has demanded that a congressional commission of inquiry begin work this week on charges of corruption. These include withdrawal by Mrs. Perón of $700,0000 check from a public charity for deposit in a private account.
Mrs. Perón, who returned here from a weekend at the resort city of Mar del Plata yesterday afternoon, was admitted at 7:15 A.M. today to the Little Company of Mary an expensive small hospital. for “examination and treatment of an acute gallahladder condition,” according to an initial medical bulletin. A bulletin issued several hours later said she was resting comfortably. Her condition was “not serious,” her attending physician said. Mrs. Perón received a few visitors, including the military chaplain of the Presidential guard. Italo Luder, the president of the Senate, who acted in Mrs. Perón’s place during her sick leave, said he had not been advised of any situation requiring him to step in again.
A U.S. Army man kidnaped by Ethiopian rebels almost two months ago wrote his wife in Florida that he expects to be released soon. Billy Strickland said she is certain the letter is from her husband, Spec. 5 David Strickland, because, “it was his handwriting.” Strickland was captured Sept. 12, along with another serviceman in a raid on the Kagnew communications base in the Eritrean district of Ethiopia.
Amid conflicting reports of another cease-fire among Angolan nationalist factions, the mercy flights of Portuguese refugees from this war-torn territory in southern Africa ended today, the American consul prepared to leave and the faction in control of this capital continued to plan independence celebrations for next Tuesday. Word of a cease‐fire, said to have been negotiated in Kampala, Uganda, through the Organization of African Unity, was reported here by a high official of the Portuguese administration, now a sharply reduced force presiding over, the final week of Portugal’s 500‐year presence in Africa. The agreement, which the official said had been accepted by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, the nationalist force that is in command of Luanda and several other major Angolan cities, calls for the freezing of military positions by each of the three battling nationalist armies.
A partial solar eclipse was visible in southern South America and Antarctica and was the 51st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 123.
Vice President Rockefeller told President Ford that he would not be his running mate in 1976, and added to the sudden upheaval in the administration. Mr. Rockefeller disclosed his decision in a letter to Mr. Ford which he delivered to the White House this morning. Mr. Ford and Mr. Rockefeller then had a 20-minute meeting in an atmosphere described by the White House press secretary as “extremely cordial.” The letter gave no reason for Mr. Rockefeller’s decision. But a source close to the President said that Mr. Rockefeller would inevitably have had to step aside because he had become “detrimental” to Mr. Ford’s efforts to win the Republican Party nomination. Members of Mr. Rockefeller’s staff and other associates said that he was growing increasingly uncomfortable in his role as Vice President.
In what was dubbed the “Halloween Massacre”, despite occurring three days after Halloween, U.S. President Gerald Ford fired CIA Director William E. Colby and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger. Replacing Colby was the U.S. representative in Beijing, future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, while Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld replaced Schlesinger.
On the day before his abrupt dismissal as Secretary of Defense, James R. Schlesinger began dropping hints to President Ford that he was prepared to resign if the White House did not approve what he regarded as an adequate defense budget. On Saturday — the day before President Ford called Mr. Schlesinger to an early morning meeting at the White House to inform him that he was being dismissed — the Defense Secretary met with Mr. Ford to start reviewing the defense budget that will be presented to Congress in January. At that meeting, according to Mr. Schlesinger’s associates, the Defense Secretary told the President he could not support before Congress a defense budget that he considered inadequate. Mr. Schlesinger’s implication was that he was prepared to resign if the Administration, in his judgment, cut too deeply into the defense budget.
General Daniel Graham, chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency which coordinates military intelligence, has resigned because, according to defense and intelligence officials, he felt personally associated with the administration of Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, who has been dismissed by President Ford. His resignation was voluntary, officials said.
President Ford announced that he would nominate Elliot Richardson, now Ambassador to Britain, to replace Rogers C. B. Morton as Secretary of Commerce and confirmed other major changes in his administration in a nationally televised news conference. Mr. Ford said he “wanted a team that was my team” as he discussed a major shakeup in the national security hierarchy. Among the changes was the nomination of Donald Rumsfeld, the White House chief of staff, to succeed James Schlesinger as Secretary of Defense, and Richard Cheney as Mr. Rumsfeld’s successor.
Voting 23 to 16, the House Banking Committee approved legislation authorizing $7 billion in loan guarantees to New York City before or after default. The legislation thus passed its third consecutive test in Congress and continued to gain support under pressure from the Democratic leadership, despite the determined opposition of conservatives and moderates in both parties. The legislation would require New York state to levy taxes equal to one-third of the city’s deficit, a restructuring of the municipal debt and renegotiation of wages and pensions.
In Philadelphia, where American politics virtually began, the current mayoral race ended today with minimum suspense and maximum indifference. Frank L. Rizzo, the incumbent Democrat whose re‐election is taken for granted by most Philadelphia politicians, rested in a hospital bed, recovering from a broken hip, while his two opponents made energetic 11th‐hour appeals to what seemed to be a remarkably quiescent electorate. “I won this thing when I announced,” Mayor Rizzo said yesterday, blithely discounting the prospects in the voting tomorrow of Thomas Foglietta, a Republican City Councilman, and Charles W. Bowser, a black lawyer who is the candidate of the newly‐formed Philadelphia Party.
“On to the streets! On with the leaflets!” shouted City Council President Paul O’Dwyer, and a crowd of placard-carrying officials swarmed into crowds in midtown to urge support of the women’s rights amendment that will be on the New York State ballot tomorrow. New York City voters will also decide whether to adopt 10 amendments to the City Charter.
Buena Chaney, former Republican state chairman, was one of five persons indicted by a county grand jury in Indianapolis investigating political dirty tricks, authorities said. Chaney, a Terre Haute, Indiana, lawyer, told the Indianapolis News he was informed of the indictment by telephone but was given no details. The paper identified the other persons named as C. Timothy Wilcox, head of a private detective agency; Edgar L. Longworth, an aide to former GOP national committeeman L. Keith Bulen and now an assistant to Richard L. Roudebush, director of the U.S. Veterans Administration; Gerald R. Redding, an Indianapolis lawyer, and Eston L. Perry, an aide to Chaney when he was state GOP chairman.
A bitterly divided executive board of the United Mine Workers wound up a stormy meeting in Washington with a top union officer declaring the present UMW administration would not tolerate internal efforts to undermine the leadership. “President (Arnold) Miller and I are still running this union,” said Harry Patrick, the secretary treasurer. Patrick and Miller stood off repeated challenges to their leadership during the four-day board meeting. It was the latest in a series of confrontations between Miller and a majority of the board. Mike Trbovich, the vice president, has aligned himself with the dissidents. Miller has called his opponents “holdovers from the Tony Boyle days.”
The 1976 bicentennial transcontinental air race by women pilots will be the final Powder Puff Derby. sponsoring organizations announced. Pat McEwen of Oklahoma City, international president of the NinetyNines, Inc., which has endorsed the race during its 28-year history, said the event was being discontinued because of current financial and energy conditions.
If an earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale should strike the San Francisco Bay area tomorrow, the greatest threat to human life would be from flooding of low-lying areas, a U.S. Geological Survey study concluded. In addition to groundshaking, landslides and surface faulting, the study said, such a tremor probably would cause dikes along the lower end of the bay to fail and might cause two reservoirs and a lake just south of San Francisco to fail as well. “The areas likely to be flooded,” the study said, “would depend on the tidal level at the time of the earthquake, but partial flooding could occur along the margins of the bay up to several miles from open water of the bay.”
Fumes from a mixture of household bleach and ammonia, the same basic ingredients used in World War I mustard gas, have killed two women in Portland, Maine. The mixture was used to clean up the exterior of their apartment, which had been splattered with eggs by Halloween pranksters. The pail containing the mixture then was set down in an unventilated kitchen. Muriel Holmes, 68, collapsed first and her niece, Muriel Perta, 55, breathed the fumes while waiting by her aunt’s side for the ambulance. The fumes also affected slightly four emergency medical technicians. Medical Examiner Dr. Heber Cleveland said the combination produced nitrogen tri-chloride fumes, which he said was “mustard gas.”
New York state will have to ban most, if not all, commercial fishing in the Hudson River early next year because of the dangerous levels of toxic industrial chemicals known as PCBs that have been found in many fish there, Newsday reported. PCBs (poly-chlorinated biphenyls) are chemical compounds that have come into everyday use because of their resistance to heat. One of their uses is to cool transformers. Like DDT, PCBS accumulate in the fatty tissues of animals, including humans. Commercial fishing may not be permitted in the Hudson River again for generations to come, the Long Island newspaper said.
The problem with children’s television programming is that children watch and adults don’t-yet adults do the criticizing. That was the consensus of the three top network officials in charge of children’s television as they defended their programs before a meeting of the Atlanta chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Squire Rushnell of ABC said the programs would always be criticized as “mundane” as long as they were aimed at 7-year-olds, rather than critics. NBC’s George Heineman felt all three networks had greatly improved their programming and Jerry Golod of CBS said commercials must be maintained in children’s programs or there would quickly be no children’s programs.
The $2 bill will return to the pockets and purses of America in 1976 in an effort by the Treasury Department to commemorate the Bicentennial, save printing costs and make life a little easier for the public. Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon announced today that the bill would he reissued on April 13, 1976, to mark the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, whose portrait it bears. The success of the denomination, Mr. Simon said, will rest on its acceptance by banks, retailers, and their customers.
U.S. advice columnist for “Good Housekeeping” Ann Landers asks parents in a mail-in survey, “If you had to do it over again, would you have children?,” to which 70% of participants answer “no.”
“Good Morning America” telecast its first episode, with David Hartman and Nancy Dussault as co-hosts as the ABC network’s morning news show. Hartman and Dussault replaced the ten-month-old failed program, AM America, and its team of Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards. On the same morning, the television game show “The Price Is Right” expanded from half an hour to an unprecedented hour-long format, on CBS.
Chris Evert becomes the first tennis player to achieve the No. 1 ranking as the WTA Tour rankings debut; Evert holds top spot for the first 26 weeks.
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James Harris demolished Philadelphia’s secondary with three touchdown passes and his defensive teammates ruined the Eagles aerial game, leading the Los Angeles Rams to a 42–3 National Football League victory tonight. Harris, connecting consistently against a pass defense that ranks near the bottom of the league, completed scoring bombs of 54 and 30 yards to Harold Jackson in the second period, and to Jack Snow with a 42-yarder in the third. Bill Simpson’s interception of a Roman Gabriel pass set up John Cappelletti’s 1‐yard touchdown run, Fred Dryer took a Gabriel fumble 20 yards for a score and Isiah Robertson blazed 76 yards for another touchdown with an interception off Gabriel’s equally ineffective replacement. Mike Boryla. The Rams, virtually conceded a playoff berth because of their easy schedule and lack of championship challengers in the National Conference West, raised their won‐lost record to 6–1 in the nationally televised game and opened a four‐game lead in their division. Simpson’s first of two interceptions in the game, late in the first period, signaled the start of the runaway. He stepped in front of a pass intended for Charles Young at the Philadelphia 40‐yard line and returned it to the 23. One play later, Harris hit Ron Jessie on the right sideline for 9 yards and a first down on the 12. Lawrence McCutcheon, whose 101 yards on 18 carries outgained the entire Philadelphia ground attack of 97 yards, then swept yards around right end with a pitchout and Cullen Bryant hulled up the middle just short of the goal line before Cappelletti hurdled into the end zone.
Los Angeles Rams 42, Philadelphia Eagles 3
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Alexander De Croo, Belgian politician (Prime Minister of Belgium, 2020-–2025), in Vilvoorde, Belgium.
Darren Sharper, NFL safety (NFL champions, Super Bowl 44-Saints, 2009; Pro Bowl, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009; Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints), in Richmond, Virginia.
Ben Fricke, NFL center and guard (Dallas Cowboys), in Austin, Texas (d. 2011, from colon cancer).
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