The Soviet Union has deployed 130 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) nuclear missiles since it began stationing them in late 1974, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. The deployment, he said, “is reasonably consistent with what we forecast in January.” Deployment of the missiles is expected to pick up in the next few years and will reach the 1,320 limit set forth in the 1974 nuclear arms agreement by the early 1980s, he said. The United States now has 1,000 MIRV missiles in ground silos and on submarines and also is expected to reach the agreed limit in the early 1980s.
The Soviet pilot who flew a MIG-25 high performance jet to Japan has told U.S. intelligence interrogators that the plane has several problems affecting overall air performance, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine said. It said the pilot, Lieutenant Viktor I. Belenko, said “that the MIG-25’s all-weather system does not function properly, that the aircraft has no ejection seat, that the mach 2.8 interceptor takes a long time to accelerate to high speeds and that high speeds are difficult to maintain.”
Turkish officials say that Turkey will probably close down most but not all American military operations here if Congress rejects a proposal to provide Ankara with $1 billion in military aid over the next four years. “Turkey will be obliged to react very strongly, and it has nothing to do with logic,” explained a Turkish journalist. “This is a small issue for the United States but a vital one for Turkey.” Western analysts here are less concerned about the American bases than about the deeper question of whether Turkey will stay loyal to the Atlantic alliance and maintain its role in the East-West balance of power. Turkey, the analysts emphasize, controls Soviet naval access to the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles and forms the main land barrier between the Soviet Union and the oilfields of the Middle East. On this point Turkish officials have made a big effort recently to reassure their allies. Defense Minister Ferit Melen told a group of Western legislators last week that Ankara remained a “sincere and faithful member” of the alliance. But the feelings of mutual trust and confidence between Turkey and its allies — particularly Washington — have suffered severe damage, and elections here next year could bring to power a government less committed to NATO.
Portugal’s Socialist military government began handing back 101 illegally occupied farms to their owners in what was seen as a major test of its authority over the far Left. The farms were seized in the turmoil after the April, 1975, revolution. All are well within acreage limits set by the country’s agrarian reform program. Communist agricultural union leaders have said they will obey the law as long as the government goes ahead with plans to expropriate another 1.3 million acres of land.
Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the Basque area of Spain as strikes shut down factories, stores, schools and offices. The strikes and demonstrations were in support of demands for political amnesty and to mark the first anniversary of the execution, ordered by the late General Francisco Franco, of five urban guerrillas.
The British pound fell to a new low against other currencies as a wave of selling hit the world’s foreign exchange markets. Sterling closed at $1.6810 in London and $1.6710 in New York, marking the first time it had fallen through the psychologically important $1.70 barrier.
The House approved a $5.1 billion compromise foreign aid appropriations bill with one-third of it going to Israel for military and security assistance but banning any such help for Uruguay. The measure was passed by a vote of 216 to 155 and sent to the Senate for expected final congressional approval. The Administration has said it also supports the measure. It is $684 million less than President Ford requested.
The ease with which an Egyptian speedboat carrying five Arabs landed on a beach in Tel Aviv over the weekend prompted several calls today for an investigation into the effectiveness of Israel’s coastal surveillance. The five young Arabs, who are being interrogated by military authorities, startled sunbathers on the beach, which was crowded because of the Rosh Hashanah holiday. A military spokesman said that the five had declared they were seeking political asylum in Israel because they had refused conscription in Egypt into Palestinian forces that were to be sent to Lebanon. According to the spokesman, they said they set out in the speedboat from Alexandria on Thursday and were refueled on the way by a passing Turkish ship. The military also said that no explosives or weapons were found on the boat, which landed on a part of the Tel Aviv shoreline dotted with large hotels.
The Palestinian leaders in Lebanon have adopted a policy of defiance in the wake of their military setbacks. They were shaken by the fall of Tell Zaatar, the fortified Palestinian camp in Christian‐held territory east of Beirut in mid‐August, and they concede that they have been on the defensive militarily since. “But we laid down a policy of toughness,” one of their spokesmen said today, “and that has given everybody a lift.” The policy, which appears to have worked so far, consists of making it too costly in military and political terms for Syria to move decisively against the Palestinians. Since the fall of Tell Zaatar the Palestinian forces have received considerable quantities of modern weapons, including Soviet‐built wire‐guided antitank missiles and ground‐to‐air missiles, according to Palestinian officials. The weapons are understood to have come from Eastern Europe, Iraq and Egypt, among other countries.
The government of Syria carried out the trial, conviction and public execution of the three surviving Palestinian guerrillas who had taken the guests and staff of the Semiramis Hotel the day before in Damascus. In an emergency meeting after midnight, the nation’s Supreme State Court of Security tried the three men, found them guilty of “crimes against the security and integrity of our people”, and issued a death sentence that was signed by President Hafez al-Assad. At daybreak, in order to make an example for future terrorists, the three men were driven back to the city square, where a wooden frame had been constructed in front of the hotel for the public execution, then hanged the men. The bodies, with posters attached, were left on display for the rest of the morning.
An intense lobbying effort was launched by the administration in an effort to stop Congress from blocking the sale of Maverick missiles to Saudi Arabia. A State Department official warned that blocking the sale could lead to higher oil prices and there were reports, later denied, that Saudi Arabia had threatened an oil embargo if it did not receive the missiles.
The Pentagon, in a recommendation made shortly before President Richard M. Nixon’s visit to Iran in May 1972, privately urged that Iran not be permitted to purchase either the F‐14 or the F‐15 fighter aircraft, a Senate subcommittee hearing was told today. But Mr. Nixon rejected this recommendation, the subcommittee was told, and personally informed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi that his nation could purchase any advanced United States weapons system that it could afford. Iran subsequently ordered 80 F‐14’s at a cost of $2.2 billion. Mr. Nixon’s reason for rejecting the Pentagon’s advice and permitting Iran to have access to one of America’s most sophisticated weapons systems has never been made clear.
Premier Pol Pot of Cambodia stepped down temporarily to undergo medical treatment and was replaced by Nuon Chea, president of the Permanent Committee of the People’s Congress, according to a Phnom Penh broadcast monitored in Bangkok. The radio said Pol Pot had been ill for “a few months” but gave no details. He has been premier of Cambodia since April when the first new government was chosen after the Communists took over the nation a year earlier.
A Japanese fishing boat was seized by a ship believed to be a Russian patrol vessel near the Soviet-North Korea border, the Japan Maritime Safety Agency reported. The fishing boat, with a crew of seven, reportedly was being escorted toward the Soviet Union. Four Japanese fishing boats have been seized by Russian patrol vessels since a defecting Soviet pilot landed a MIG-25 supersonic plane in Japan September 6 and asked for asylum in the United States.
The statement by African leaders that they would not accept Ian Smith’s plans for a temporary government in Rhodesia was not, in the State Department’s view, meant as a rejection of the British-American proposals for black rule in Rhodesia. One of Secretary of State Kissinger’s closest advisers on Africa said that several of the leaders had informed Washington that the negotiations to end white minority rule in Rhodesia were still “on track.”
African diplomats at the United Nations said they hoped that the British could help negotiate the misunderstandings over procedures that seemed to have arisen between Rhodesian Prime Minister Smith and five black African presidents. The diplomats said, however, that until agreement had been reached on a temporary government for Rhodesia, the United Nations would not move to ease the economic sanctions against Rhodesia.
Britain’s two top Africa specialists are flying to Botswana to quell dissension over the three-day-old plan for majority black rule in Rhodesia and to try to accelerate the process of putting it to work.
Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, called today on the Security Council to take punitive action against South Africa for failure to end its occupation of South-West Africa, also known as Namibia.
Rock-throwing blacks battered nine buses in a black suburb today while three black youths were arrested in a white suburb for stoning passing cars. The three were seized in the white suburb of Lombardy East, the South African Press Association said. Their arrest was the first incident in a white neighborhood since the police seized 400 youths in the city center Thursday. Lombardy East is adjacent to Alexandra, a black suburb where nine buses were damaged by the stone‐throwing youths. The police said that riot‐control forces had moved into Alexandra and dispersed groups of blacks gathering on street corners. In downtown Johannesburg riot policemen in camouflage uniforms were gathered on some street intersections during the morning, but no trouble was reported.
An “outsider” is needed to correct the “bloated mess” in Washington, Jimmy Carter told a crowd in Portland, Oregon. The Democratic candidate said that the leadership in Washington was too close to lobbyists and special interests, using them, instead of the people, for guidance and financing. Mr. Carter made no references to President Ford’s recently disclosed golfing weekends paid for by United States Steel, but the implications seemed clear.
In a major speech on crime, President Ford told an audience of police chiefs in Miami that the first 100 days of a new administration would be used to help “tear away the shroud of fear” caused by crime. Mr. Ford called for action against juveniles who commit crimes and against repeat offenders. He said that many juveniles used their age as a cloak of immunity.
The third largest U.S. trade deficit in history was reported by the Commerce Department for August. The report said that the country imported $757.7 million more in goods than it exported, although both imports and exports dropped during the month. The August deficit, the seventh reported this year, was exceeded only by the deficit for July and the record $887.8 million deficit of August 1974.
Pleas by the chief executive of the United States Postal Service for $1 billion in immediate aid were turned aside today by a Senate appropriations committee. Legislation that recently became law authorized $1 billion in aid to the Postal Service, while binding the agency to a moratorium in rate increases and service cuts. Half of the sum, or $500 million, was to be appropriated now, with the remainder to be made available in the next fiscal year. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar told a committee, led by Senator Henry Bellmon, Republican of Oklahoma, “We need the money now.” He explained that the agency’s running deficit for operations has reached $1.5 billion and ‐ after a borrowing this week ‐ will rise to $1.62 billion. Any new appropriations would help to offset the deficits as the agency works to turn its economic situation around, Mr. Bailar explained.
Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb said he may soon give up his battle with Congress over energy policies. “I am going to be here to January and then take another look,” Zarb said in an interview. He has served as head of the FEA for nearly two years-a term longer than that of any of his predecessors. Zarb said that Congress’ failure to make tough decisions on energy in an election year is a “travesty.”
By a vote of 367 to 8, the House passed legislation aimed at recovering energy from solid wastes and regulating the disposal of nuclear fuel residues and other hazardous forms of refuse. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, authorizes $282.5 million over two years for the new Office of Discarded Materials, which replaces the Office of Solid Waste Management within the Environmental Protection Agency.
Newspaper columnist Jack Anderson filed a $22 million damage suit in federal court in Washington accusing former President Richard M. Nixon and 19 subordinates of conducting a concentrated five-year campaign to destroy his credibility and take away his First Amendment rights as a newsman. Lawyers for Anderson said the suit was the first of its kind. The civil damage suit cites 17 separate allegations of harassment, investigation or surveillance by the White House investigative unit known as the Plumbers or the CIA. The suit said the campaign included a tentative plan by Watergate figures G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to murder Anderson with an exotic poison.
The Chrysler Corp. was accused of violating the Clean Air Act in a $91 million civil suit filed by the Justice Department in federal court in Washington. The suit alleges Chrysler sold 9.185 Dodge and Plymouth autos in 1976 that were equipped with improper emission controls and asks a penalty of $10,000 for each vehicle. Chrysler called the suit “incredible.” A company statement said it “seeks to punish Chrysler for a simple, unintentional human error.” It added that the company itself had notified the Environmental Protection Agency and recalled the cars and corrected them. It said the mistake “has zero effect on air quality. In fact, Chrysler production tests show that the cars involved beat the government standard by a good margin.”
The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger health warnings on the labels of sex hormones taken by an estimated 5 million women nationwide to relieve the symptoms of menopause. The FDA said new estrogen labeling directed at prescribing physicians must be distributed within 60 days. But the agency added that it wanted to hear from the public first before it ordered new labeling to explain the risks in nonprofessional terms for women who take the hormones. The labeling would emphasize that women taking estrogens for more than a year run a higher risk — between 4.5 and 13.9 times normal — of cancer of the lining of the uterus, and that estrogens have been associated with birth defects.
Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and struck Ford Motor Co. have made modest progress toward a contract settlement and “the dam could break at any time,” a union source said. Another union source cautioned, however, that he was not hopeful of a settlement before next week at the earliest. With a nationwide walkout by 170,000 Ford work. ers nearly two weeks old, Ford and the UAW were trying to forge a master agreement to cover 700,000 workers at all the U.S. auto companies. In contention are wages, health care and layoff benefits, pensions, job security and a key union demand for more paid days off each year to create new jobs.
The United Mine Workers has called for an immediate and massive organizing effort in the West but delegates to the convention in Cincinnati narrowly defeated a proposal to add 100 organizers and $3 million to the budget. It was considered a setback to UMW President Arnold Miller who wants centralized control from his office.
In her first appearance as a government witness, Patricia Hearst testified before a grand jury today about her kidnapping by the self-styled Symbionese Liberation Army, a terrorist group, and was followed into the closed chambers by her former fiancé Steven Weed. Miss Hearst and Mr. Weed, who have not seen each other since she was abducted from the Berkeley apartment they shared on February 4, 1974, did not meet today. Miss Hearst testified for two hours and was hustled into a waiting room across the hallway moments before Mr. Weed arrived to testify. Miss Hearst, the 22‐year‐old daughter of Randolph A. Hearst, president of The San Francisco Examiner and chairman of the hoard of the Hearst Corporation, appeared weary as she left the grand jury She was surrounded by Federal marshals. Sources close to the investigation said she told substantially the same story she related in detail at her bank robbery trial earlier this year.
The family of the late Buford Pusser will attempt to have the body of the “Walking Tall” sheriff exhumed for an autopsy to prove that he was murdered. Larry Britt, a spokesman for the family, claimed in Adamsville, Tennessee, that Pusser was drugged before he lost control of his car in a fatal wreck August 20, 1974. The highway patrol said the wreck was accidental, although there were seven attempts on Pusser’s life while he fought a one-man battle against gamblers and racketeers as sheriff in McNairy County.
New York state’s Liberal Party, as expected, endorsed the Senate candidacy of Daniel Patrick Moynihan after an incipient rebellion was headed off by a promise from Governor Carey. The party’s policy committee approved Mr. Moynihan after meeting with him and after hearing the governor say he would personally help to bring about a closer understanding between the Liberals and the Democrats.
Judge Richard P. Matsch of the Federal District Court in Denver has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to explain why it cannot disclose information about a missing University of Colorado professor. Judge Matsch gave the agency until October 26 to explain its position. The case focuses on Thomas Riha of Boulder, a 40‐year‐old associate professor of Russian history who vanished March 15, 1969. Martin B. Buckley of Denver, the attorney representing Mr. Riha’s estate, said he needed C.I.A. information to learn if Mr. Riha was dead or alive and determine the disposition of the estate. Some of Mr. Riha’s acquaintances suspect he may have been an intelligence agent. Mr. Buckley has asked the Federal court to order a trial to determine whether the C.I.A. may withhold information on Mr. Riha under exemptions from the Freedom of Information Act.
Scientists doing cancer research with highly toxic substances have not been protected by the federal agency they are working for, according to a government report. The draft report, prepared by the Government Accounting Office, said that the Environmental Protection Administration had largely ignored laws and regulations requiring it to establish health monitoring programs for researchers.
American fishermen will kill about 66,000 porpoises this year in the process of netting yellow fin tuna, a government expert told a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. Dr. William W. Fox Jr., chief of the Commerce Department’s Oceanic Fisheries Division, said the porpoise kill would be reduced from 134,000 in 1975. The porpoises-air-breathing mammals-are trapped with the tuna in big purse seines and are drowned or mangled. Federal courts have given the U.S. tuna industry until next January to stop setting nets over porpoises. The industry appealed to Congress on the grounds that the ruling could put it out of business.
New York state said it would send 20 inspectors to the Hooker Chemicals & Plastic Co. at Niagara Falls to check out allegations that the company is discharging a number of toxic chemicals into the Niagara River. The Albany Times-Union newspapers said the plant is dumping into the river the pesticides Thiodan, Lindane and benzene hexachloride and the solvent acetylene-tetrachloride. The inspection team will spend three days at the plant site, according to a spokesman for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
A ceremony marking the establishment of the first marine estuarian sanctuary in the country was held in Salem, Oregon, with Governor Bob Straub accepting deeds to 2,200 acres of land for the South Slough Estuary of Coos Bay. Cost of the land was $1,039,600, with half coming from the federal government, 25% from the state and 25% from the Georgia-Pacific Corp., which donated the land.
TV drama “Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway,” starring Eve Plumb, premieres on U.S. network NBC.
Major League Baseball:
Shortly after hearing the news that manager Walter Alston would bow out at the close of the season, Don Sutton (21–9) pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2–0 triumph over the Houston Astros. Sutton yielded four hits in posting his fourth shutout and 14th complete game. Bill Russell broke up the scoreless duel between Sutton and Dan Larson when he singled home Steve Garvey in the seventh, Garvey had singled and advanced to second on a groundout.
At Shea, John Milner hit two home runs, including a club record third grand slam in a five-run sixth inning, to power the Mets to a 10–3 triumph over the Expos in a game terminated by rain with the Expos batting in the eighth. Milner’s first homer was a two-run blow in the third. The second game of the scheduled twi-night doubleheader was postponed because of the rain.
The Athletics walloped the Royals, 8–3, in the opener of a critical three-game series and drew within 3 ½ games of the American League West leaders. A sixth inning free-for-all followed Sal Bando’s leadoff homer, which gave the A’s a 5–3 lead. Dennis Leonard hit Don Baylor with a pitch and Baylor dashed to the mound, causing both dugouts to empty. Leonard was decked by Claudell Washington and left the game and Baylor was ejected. When order was restored, the A’s scored three more runs, capitalizing on the hit batsman, three walks and Phil Garner’s two-run double. Ron Fairly hit a homer and double while Bando had two singles in addition to his 26th homer. Bert Campaneris drove in three runs with a sacrifice fly and pair of infield outs. Vida Blue (18–12) hurled the distance for the A’s although tagged for 10 hits.
Doug Rader’s pop fly single, scoring Mike Champion and Mike Ivie, capped a three-run rally in the eighth inning that gave the Padres a 5–3 victory over the Reds. Tom Griffin (8–6) allowed seven hits and went the route, a feat accomplished only 19 times against the Reds this season.
Greg Luzinski, Ollie Brown and Larry Bowa each drove in two runs to help Jim Kaat (12–14) end a six-game personal losing streak as the Phillies pounded the Cardinals, 9–1. Kaat, who had not posted a victory since August 21, limited the Redbirds to five hits in his six-inning stint. Jerry Martin hit his first homer of the season in the fourth.
The scheduled game between the Detroit Tigers and the Indians at Cleveland was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
Houston Astros 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Montreal Expos 3, New York Mets 10
Kansas City Royals 3, Oakland Athletics 8
Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 5
Philadelphia Phillies 9, St. Louis Cardinals 1
NFL Football:
The Washington Redskins edged the Philadelphia Eagles, 20–17, in overtime. Eddie Brown intercepted a Mike Boryla pass at the Eagles’ 30, setting up Mark Moseley’s 29-yard field goal after 12:49 of overtime to give Redskin coach George Allen his 100th NFL victory. The Eagles mounted a 418-yard offensive effort but needed a Boryla touchdown pass with 1:07 remaining in the fourth quarter to tie the game after five Redskins interceptions and a touchdown on a fumble recovery. Philadelphia’s defense limited Washington runners to 140 yards and allowed Billy Kilmer 90 net yards on 11 of 33 completions but could not contain Brown, who picked up 133 yards on 10 kick returns in addition to his crucial overtime interception.
Washington Redskins 20, Philadelphia Eagles 17
An indicated improvement in President Ford’s position among the American electorate helped push the Dow Jones industrial average to higher ground. Stock prices advanced in moderate trading. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 3.82 points to close at 1,013.13. Interest rates rose in the credit markets as investment bankers sought to reduce holdings of unsold bonds.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1013.13 (+3.82, +0.38%)
Born:
Jason Phillips, MLB catcher and first baseman (New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Raptors), in La Mesa, California.
Bo Hart, MLB second baseman and shortstop (St. Louis Cardinals), in Creswell, Oregon.
Daymond Langkow, Canadian NHL centre (Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames), in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Luca Parmitano, Italian astronaut (2009 ESA Group; Soyuz TMA-09M [Expedition 36/37, 2013]; Soyuz MS-13 [Expedition 60/61, 2019-2020]), in Paternò, Italy.
Dean Butterworth, British drummer and percussionist (Morrissey; Good Charlotte), in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Matt Harding, American video game developer and traveler known as ‘Dancing Matt’, in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Died:
Dr. Morris Fishbein, 87, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924 to 1950, known for his campaigns against government health insurance and chiropractors, as well as against quackery before being removed from his post by vote of the AMA trustees in 1949.
