Kidnappers of Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema, trapped by police in a tiny, garbage-littered room in a house in Monasterevin, Ireland, for 15 days with their captive, will give up in exchange for safe conduct out of the country, a mediator reported. Originally, they had demanded the release of three jailed Irish Republican Army members. There was no indication the government would soften its demand for unconditional surrender.
Thousands of pro-government demonstrators cheered Portuguese Prime Minister José Pinheiro de Azevedo at a rally in the southern coastal town of Faro. The show of support — organized by the Socialists and moderately leftist Popular Democrats — dwarfed a demonstration by far-leftists in Lisbon the night before. A group of anti-government soldiers attempted to disrupt the Faro rally but were quickly surrounded by police.
African students in two Soviet Union cities have protested what they term racial discrimination by Soviet authorities and citizens and Soviet-allied governments. The students staged a week-long classroom strike in Kiev on behalf of a Czechoslovak girl who is married to a Nigerian student. The demonstration ended when they were informed that the girl would not be forced to return home. In Lvov, the Africans complained that they had been physically assaulted by local residents and denied their rights by university officials.
Officials of the International Labor Organization, faced with a United States threat to withdraw from their agency, say they believe Middle East and other developments may determine whether the threat is carried out. Reports from Washington over the weekend quoted high-ranking Ford Administration officials as saying that the United States would give the required two‐year notice of an intention to withdraw late this week. The expectation here is that the notice will be filed on Thursday. The organization’s director general, Francis Blanchard, 59‐year‐old Frenchman, has forbidden all official comment before the event. But privately officials of the specialized United Nations agency picture it as an innocent bystander caught up in political events beyond its control.
Prince Charles and Princess Anne are in trouble with animal lovers. In a major policy switch, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals dropped its heretofore neutrality on fox hunting and publicly criticized both brother and sister for riding to hounds. Unlike the United States, where scarlet-coated hunters are as rare as a tantivy, yoicks, and tally-ho, most of Britain’s middle and upper classes seem to hunt the fox. Asked for the royal view of the chase, a Buckingham Palace spokesman replied: “We won’t be saying anything.” Asked for his opinion, Captain Konnie Wallace of the Masters of Foxhounds Association replied: “It’s damn good fun.” Asked for his opinion, literary wit Oscar Wilde once replied: “The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
France’s sex goddess of the 1950-60s has, fittingly, come to the aid of a stork. Actress Brigitte Bardot sent a check for $115 to the animal protection society in Chambery to help a stork recently wounded by hunters during its migration. “May it soon set out to find its friends,” animal lover Bardot wrote, “and give them a big kiss from me.”
Egypt proposed today that the Palestine Liberation Organization be invited to take part in the Geneva conference on the Middle East “on an equal footing” with other participants. The Egyptian delegate, Dr. Ahmed Abdel Meguid, made proposed resolution on the issue the centerpiece of his statement in the General Assembly debate on the Palestine issue. President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt, speaking in New York last week, asked for a reconvening of the Geneva negotiations with the Palestinians represented, but he had not at the time indicated that this was to be “on an equal footing” to make the proposal more agreeable to them. The proposal today was seen by Western delegates as an effort to show other Arabs that Cairo had not deserted their ranks by making a separate interim Sinai agreement with Israel.
An improvement in the security situation in Beirut today encouraged Lebanese to venture onto the streets, and in some districts traffic jams developed to give this city some of the flavor it had lost in weeks of factional fighting. Gunmen have begun to abandon positions in the heart of town as well as in the suburbs. Prime Minister Rashid Karami announced that the security “coordination committee” had started to collect heavy weapons from the combatants, including rockets, mortars and rifle‐propelled grenades, in a further step to stabilize the truce between rightist and leftist militiamen, who had caused extensive property damage and inflicted heavy casualties in weeks of fighting. The committee comprises representatives from various factions, the Palestinian guerrilla movement and the Lebanese internal security forces. The committee, after a meeting under the Prime Minister today, promised to put an end to sniping and kidnapping. Mr. Karami said that only one person was abducted today, and he was released later.
He added that all the factions had agreed to release hostages they have been holding since the last round of battles broke out two weeks ago. A Lebanese Army detachment of 300 men has been assigned to the internal security forces and stationed in the business center, in the area of the main national and foreign banks. The banks and most shops remained closed despite a new appeal today by the Prime Minister to businessmen to resume activity. Banking sources said the banks would reopen Thursday if conditions stayed calm. Mr. Karami has instructed civil servants to report to work not later than tomorrow morn ing or face disciplinary action. Traffic began to flow back into the‐capital after two main highways linking the city with the southern port of Saida and the northern port of Tripoli were reopened. For the first time in weeks, Beirut’s streets were declared safe by the state-controlled radio. Nevertheless, many skeptical Lebanese, who have seen 11 earlier cease‐fires collapse in the last six weeks, preferred to stay indoors. Sporadic shooting was heard in some of the suburbs.
Syria’s left-wing leadership hailed the return of calm in Lebanon today but ruled out any lessening of tension along the Syrian border with Israel. The main Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who was in this Arab capital today, denounced President Ford for refusing to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, but made no public comment about the ceasefire that was maintained by Palestinian as well as Lebanese Muslims and Christians in the Lebanese capital as the day wore on. There were signs of relief in Damascus today that the crisis in Lebanon had eased. Syria was the source of some of the armed men and weapons involved in the fighting.
A power struggle in the Bangladesh army appeared to have ended with a shakeup in the top command but no announced change in the 11-week-old civilian government of President Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed. Diplomats had reported an intense rivalry that threatened bloodshed between the chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman, and his deputy, Brig. Khalid Musharaf. Bangladesh announced that the chief of staff had resigned and had been replaced by his deputy.
A group of 1,545 Vietnamese repatriates who sailed homeward from Guam October 16 even though permission to enter was not granted by the Provisional Revolutionary Government until later, arrived in South Vietnam October 27, the South Vietnam Liberation Red Cross announced. It said it sent doctors to the undisclosed port to care for the passengers of the Thuong Tin, a Vietnamese freighter that was berthed at Guam in May at the time of the fall of South Vietnam. One passenger died during the trip and was buried at sea, the Red Cross said.
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt foresees no danger of war between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union, he said on his return from a visit to China and Iran. He advised that constant care be taken to avoid being drawn into the argument on either side, but said the controversy did not hinder China’s relations with other countries who, like West Germany, are trying to relax tensions between Moscow and the West.
President Ford is having considerable difficulty arranging a date for his trip to China, originally planned for the end of this month, Administration officials acknowledged today. At a news briefing today, the White House spokesman, Ron Nessen, explained the delay in announcing the Presidential visit as “just a lot of scheduling and technical issues being worked on.” Reiterating what Mr. Ford said at his news conference last night, he declared: “The President anticipates and expects to go to Peking. I’ve heard of no change in plans.” Speculations about some deterioration in Chinese‐American, relations mounted yesterday when a White House advance team bound for Peking to prepare for the President’s visit boarded their aircraft only to be told to debark just as the engines were warming.
Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro ordered 650 troops to Angola to support the Marxist MPLA government in its war against UNITA and South Africa.
President Isabel Martinez de Perón ordered a large new wage increase for Argentine labor from her sickbed today as she struggled for public support against an opposition campaign to force her resignation. The wage increase of about 20 percent over wages in effect since July was announced in a nationally televised speech by the Minister of Economy, Antonio Cafiero. The increase, which amounts to about $25 a month for all privately employed workers and the civil service and state enterprises, is less than unions have been demanding in recent strikes for wage increases. But the increase seriously endaagers a government plan announced 10 days ago to stabilize prices and wages with the cooperation of organized labor and business associations.
At least 40 foreigners were taken from their hotel rooms to prison cells and held as long as six hours here today in a security check by Angolan liberation forces controlling the capital. At the same time, an armored column manned by rival groups was reported on the move 240 miles south of Luanda and heading for the city. The developments came one week before Portugal was scheduled to grant formal independence to this southwest African territory. Members of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, carrying rifles and pistols, entered all of Luanda’s major hotels before dawn to check foreigners’ passports, visas and press credentials.
The U.N. General Assembly’s special political committee appealed for an oil embargo against South Africa. In an antiapartheid resolution adopted 83 to 15 with 13 abstentions, the committee also requested the Security Council to consider urgently the situation in South Africa with a view to adopting measures under the sanctions provisions of the U.N. Charter.
A pressure group against the Ford administration’s plans to transfer control of the American-built Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama is gradually growing and includes two potential presidential candidates — Ronald Reagan and George Wallace. A concerned government official in Washington said the “Panama Canal lobby” confronts the administration with a serious problem. What it lacks in cohesiveness of its disparate elements it makes up for in virulent rhetoric.
A nationwide public opinion poll last weekend by The New York Times and CBS News indicated that most Americans disagree with President Ford’s assumptions that New York City’s financial crisis is a special case and that default would have only local impact. By margins of more than 2 to 1, those surveyed said New York’s problems resembled those of other cities and that default would have an impact on the national economy. Among Republicans, a majority felt the impact would be national.
Senator Frank Church, head of a committee investigating federal intelligence agencies, rejected President Ford’s request that the panel keep secret its findings of Central Intelligence Agency involvement in attempts to assassinate foreign heads of state. He wrote to Mr. Ford, noting the committee’s vote to submit the report to the full Senate and, if it did not object, to make it public. The White House said the President would appeal to each Senator to keep the report confidential.
The FBI has no evidence that Soviet spies have infiltrated congressional offices, said Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. Church released a copy of a letter from FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley stating that the bureau “has no information indicating that Soviet KGB officers have infiltrated any congressional staffs.” Church said the assurances did not cover reported Soviet capabilities to eavesdrop on long distance phone calls to and from Capitol Hill. The intelligence committee investigated allegations of Soviet infiltration at the request of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and 40 members of the House.
The Senate Finance Committee, deploring bribery and kickbacks in international trade. approved unanimously a resolution to instruct U.S. trade Ambassador Frederick B. Dent to negotiate a multilateral code of conduct that would eliminate the under-the-table payments in worldwide business dealings. The full Senate is expected to ratify the proposal.
Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the Senate Banking Committee that he was not yet convinced of a clear need for federal financial aid to New York City. He said his concern over possible consequences of a default had increased in the last three months and again in the last three weeks, but he did not yet believe it would be wise for Congress to pass legislation aiding the city. He discounted various pessimistic predictions about the consequences of default.
White House officials close to both men said Vice President Rockefeller would campaign actively for President Ford’s nomination as the Republican candidate next year. It was reported that before Mr. Ford’s Monday night news conference he telephoned Mr. Rockefeller to ask if he could count on active and continued political support and received an affirmative answer. However, sources close to Mr. Rockefeller said he would not campaign with any great enthusiasm for Mr. Ford.
Supporters of the equal rights amendments to the State Constitutions of New York and New Jersey, blaming “misinformation and prejudice,” conceded defeat late last night on the basis of substantial returns that showed the amendments losing in both states. The equal rights amendment proposals to the state constitutions of New Jersey and New York were defeated in New York and New Jersey despite New York City’s support for the measure. A lead for the proposal in the city appeared to be overcome upstate where voters were turning out in relatively larger numbers.
New Jersey voters overwhelmingly rejected the bond issue proposed by Governor Byrne and the legislature. The Democratic Governor’s setback was softened by the party’s success in holding firm to their lopsided majority in the elections to the state Assembly.
Voters turned out in surprisingly large numbers for an off-year election in many parts of the country. Democratic incumbents won in Kentucky and Philadelphia. The Republican incumbent in Cleveland was easily re-elected, while in Boston the Democratic incumbent scored a narrow victory. Women lieutenant governors were elected to office in both Kentucky and Mississippi.
A federal judge today delayed until Friday his decision on whether Patricia Hearst is competent to stand trial for an armed robbery that was committed allegedly after she had joined the radical group that kidnapped her. Federal District Judge Oliver J. Carter said the three reports returned by four examiners he named to advise him on Miss Hearst’s competency were “complex and in one case extremely verbose.” “They have to be examined further and with great care,” he declared. “It is a most difficult and complex question to decide.”
Martin-Marietta Corp. said it had filed a $15 million libel suit against. the Capitol Hill News Service and its reporter Peter Gruenstein and the Washington Star because of a news story alleging the firm paid prostitutes to entertain top Pentagon officials. The company, one of the nation’s 25 largest defense contractors, said the suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., charged the three parties with “false, libelous and defamatory” actions. Gruenstein said the suit was “without foundation and is a blatant attempt to inhibit investigation by the news media into a matter of serious public importance.” The Star had no comment.
Black college presidents urged the government to embark on a 25-year plan to increase federal support for the 107 traditionally black colleges and universities in the nation. While the black college enrollment has increased to nearly 200,000, the presidents said in a report, the gap between black and white graduates is widening. The presidents proposed a “Year 2000 Plan for Parity in Education” at a meeting with David Mathews, secretary of health, education and welfare. The report said blacks comprise only 2% of the nation’s physicians, 2.5% of the dentists, 1.5% of the lawyers and 2% of the PhD. graduates. It charged that “racism is still a barrier regardless of education” and that 46% of blacks are in nondegree education institutions as compared with 37% of whites.
Pollutants are generally believed to be the major cause of human cancers, but most pollutants go undetected, a study for a House science subcommittee on environment claimed. Chairman George E. Brown Jr. (D-California) made public a summary and commented: “What seems to come out from their review is that we don’t even know what it is that is killing us, and very little is being done to find out.” The study said 70 to 90% of cancers might be pollutant related and that “chronic pollution-induced damage to human health has become one of our most serious medical problems.” The study said only about 10% of national cancer program funds went for environmental studies.
Spending $670 million over 10 years to develop an airplane using fuel more efficiently was the subject of disagreement between two federal energy experts. The Senate Aeronautical and Space Committee heard Roger W. Sant, assistant federal energy administrator, contend that spending so much does not make sense because airplanes use only 3% of the nation’s energy. But James S. Kane, deputy assistant administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration, called the proposed program “an important segment of the overall transportation energy conservation program.”
The energy-rich Western states must abandon any notion that they “can somehow become an OPEC of the West,” New Mexico Governor Jerry Apodaca warned an energy conference meeting in Albuquerque. He said the West cannot and must not try to emulate the Mideast’s Oil Producing and Exporting Countries in the West’s relationship with the rest of the nation. “We must be committed to developing those resources and to doing our share to meet the nation’s demands for energy.” Apodaca said.
Alaska’s governor will join Washington, Oregon and California officials in a joint statement to the Coast Guard requesting that tankers carrying oil from the Alaska pipeline be required to have double bottoms. The Coast Guard said it was opposed to mandatory double hulls since such regulations could prevent the development of other protection methods that could better protect the marine environment.
Grizzly bears, declared a threatened species earlier this year, are still being killed in excessive numbers in the area around Yellowstone National Park, according to a researcher. John Craighead of the University of Montana blamed the Montana Fish and Game Department and the U.S. Park Service for allowing too many of the bears to be hunted, then falsifying records on the number of bear kills. The two departments denied the charges, saying there are between 250 and 300 grizzlies still living in the park. Craighead claimed the figure is closer to 130 and called for an outside investigation of wildlife management in the park.
“Nitecaps”, hosted by Herb Jepko, became the first nationally syndicated call-in radio show in the United States, broadcast over affiliates of the Mutual Broadcasting System. On February 11, 1964, Jepko had pioneered the concept of a radio show where listeners could call on the telephone and the conversations could be heard over the air.
The Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award, after pacing the American League in wins (23), shutouts (10), and ERA (2.09).
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Born:
Orlando Pace, NFL tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 34-Rams, 1999; Pro Bowl, 1999–2005; St Louis Rams, Chicago Bears), in Sandusky, Ohio.
Mikki Moore, NBA center and power forward (Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks, New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Seattle SuperSonics, Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors), in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Lorenzen Wright, NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavaliers), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Éric Fichaud, Canadian NHL goaltender (New York Islanders, Nashville Predators, Carolina Hurricanes, Montreal Canadiens), in Anjou, Quebec, Canada.
Heather Tom, American actress (‘Victoria Howard’ — “The Young and the Restless”), in Hinsdale, Illinois.
Died:
Francis Dvornik, 82, Czech historian.
Audrey Williams, 52, American musician, widow of Hank Williams and mother of Hank Williams Jr., died of congestive heart failure in Nashville at her home, which she was attempting to convert into a museum to honor her late husband.
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