Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements said the Pentagon was determined to go ahead with plans to build a new Army tank incorporating West German parts, despite congressional uneasiness about delays. “We intend to make the source selection between Chrysler and General Motors, and to decide upon the configuration of the XM-1 tank not later than November 17.” Clements told the Senate government operations committee.
The West German Government announced today, only four days before the general election, that it would appoint a highly qualified judge to chair a special investigation of charges that political opponents of the governing Social Democratic Party took bribes from Lockheed Aircraft in the late 1950’s. The Minister of Justice, Hans‐Jochen Vogel, said the committee would sift through thousands of pages of Lockheed documents that the United States Government agreed last Friday to supply to the West Germans. When the Christian Democrats were in power in 1959, the Defense Minister, Franz Joseph Strauss, signed a contract with Lockheed for F-104 Starfighters. Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party, headed by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, has been embroiled in a bribery scandal. Albert Osswald, Governor of Hesse and a high‐ranking Social Democrat, is expected to resign next week in the wake of charges that he took $40,000 from an Israeli financier four years ago.
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt says he is now confident he will win the election on Sunday — but with a much thinner majority in Parliament than the 46‐seat edge he has now. Today the 57‐year‐old West German leader took his campaign to Mainz, the Rhineland capital where his Christian Democratic challenger, Helmut Kohl, is state governor. He seemed almost buoyant as about 5,000 supporters cheered him. “Kohl will stay in Mainz after October 3,” he said, “but that’s nothing for you to cheer about.” Mr. Schmidt’s advisers say that he has recovered from the fatigue that afflicted him earlier in the campaign, and that he has toned down the biting personal attacks for fear of causing sympathy for Mr. Kohl.
To back the pound, Britain will seek a $3.9 billion standby loan from the International Monetary Fund. The pound recovered to $1.67 on this news, but an air of crisis persists. The new loan would give the United States and other industrialized countries strings on Britain’s economic policies. The British government is reportedly confident they will be satisfied with its present spending cutbacks and controls.
A group of Jews was permitted to lay five wreaths and say a memorial prayer at the Babi Yar ravine near Kiev on the 35th anniversary of a World War II slaughter there, Jewish sources in Moscow said. They told Western reporters that Jews from Moscow and Riga were prevented from joining friends in Kiev at the memorial of the slaughter. An estimated 100,000 people, Jews and non-Jews, were killed and buried at Babi Yar by the Nazi occupiers of Kiev during the war.
Finland got its 59th government in 58 years of independence as Premier Martti Miettunen returned to office at the head of a centrist minority government. Miettunen’s five-party center-left coalition collapsed 12 days ago in a dispute with the Communists and the leftist Social Democrats over the proposed budget. Finland President Urho Kekkonen then asked Miettunen to form a minority government with three parties that hold only 58 seats in the 200-seat parliament. Miettunen said the new governments’s first task was to get the budget passed.
Left-wing labor unions and political parties called for a one-day general strike in Madrid on Friday to protest the death of student Carlos Gonzalez Martinez, 21, following an antigovernment demonstration Monday when he was shot in the stomach by gunmen believed to be rightwing extremists. His burial was private but several hundred youths demonstrated at the spot where he was wounded.
The Second Chamber recognizes the Dutch liberal/social democratic abortion law.
The dissatisfaction with the United Nations so widespread in public discussion these days is finding uncharacteristically blunt expression from the rostrum of the General Assembly. Speaker after speaker in these early days of the annual general debate is developing the theme that the United Nations, as presently organized, is losing the ability to play a meaningful role in the most important world problems. “We must avoid getting bogged down in facile ultimatums and ready‐made solutions,” said Foreign Minister Louis de Guiringaud of France. The Australian Foreign Minister, Andrew Peacock, called for “a realistic reappraisal of the tasks and methods of the United Nations.”
Israeli authorities arrested a young Dutch woman who allegedly intended to carry out a terrorist mission at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, a police spokesman said. The spokesman said she told interrogators she was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the guerrilla group headed by George Habash. He said she was on a mission to carry out an attack on the airport and various airlines flying to and from Israel.
Syrian troops in Lebanon using tanks and artillery drove Palestinian guerrilla forces out of most of their key mountain positions east of Beirut. They were apparently acting to settle by force their demand, shared by right-wing Lebanese Christians and opposed by Lebanese Muslim leftists, that they abandon the entire salient considered vital to the guerrilla positions in west Beirut and the southern part of the country. Tonight, Palestinian forces conceded that as a result of the two‐day Syrian drive they had had to abandon many positions. They indicated that the Palestinian command intended to pull its remaining forces out of the area. Military sources in Beirut said, according to The Associated Press, that the Palestinian withdrawal was being facilitated at nightfall by an unofficial cease‐fire. In Damascus, the official Syrian press agency said that all anti-Syrian forces had been defeated and that “all military operations” had ceased. The Syrians struck westward from the Bekaa Valley, in eastern Lebanon and northeastward from the heights overlooking the Beirut‐Damascus highway north of Dahr al‐Baidar. The towns they occupied included the vital road junction of Ain Tura. The Palestinian salient began at a point on the Damascus highway 12 miles east of Beirut and reached northward to Jebel Sannin, a 6,000‐foot peak 25 miles east northeast of the capital. Tonight, the Palestinians still reportedly were entrenched on the heights, but it was thought these positions could not be held long after the fall of Ain Tura.
Under the direction of the stern military Government that has been in control for the last 10 months, Bangladesh has just drawn up its first comprehensive national population policy and is sending thousands of workers into the marshy countryside to carry it out. Among Dacca’s sizable community of foreign‐aid experts, who have been frustrated by the inaction of the past, there is hope about what one of them called a genuine new sense of commitment.” And government planners claim they have already begun to bring down the soaring birth rate. “We must mobilize all our resources to solve this critical population problem,” said Major General Ziaur Rahman, who has ruled this country since last November, in a recent interview. “If we cannot do something about population, nothing else that we accomplish will matter much.”
Chinese Premier Hua Kuo-feng is “clearly in a position of leadership” in post-Mao China, former U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger said in Tokyo after a 23-day visit to China. “The Chinese have very clearly made a relatively easy transition from the leadership of Mao Zedong.” Schlesinger said. “I think that we can expect reasonable political stability to continue.” Schlesinger was in China when Mao died September 9. He was among foreigners invited to pay last respects at Mao’s bier.
Soviet authorities have confirmed the seizure of a Japanese trawler last weekend for fishing illegally in Soviet waters near the North Korean border, the Japanese Embassy in Moscow said. An official said a Soviet patrol ship escorted the 90-ton trawler Hamayoshi Maru No. 23 to port at Nakhodka west of Vladivostok. The vessel carried a crew of seven. The Soviet Foreign Ministry charged that the ship had been fishing inside the Soviet 12-mile limit.
A conference on Rhodesia to discuss forming an interim government for a transition to black majority rule was proposed by Anthony Crosland, Britain’s Foreign Secretary. In a message to Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia he suggested that the conference, with a British chairman, meet in about two weeks in southern Africa. While offering a British chairman, he said that “the main onus for reaching agreement on an interim government will rest with the parties directly concerned.” He added: “Her Majesty’s Government will do all it can to help, but the peaceful evolution to majority rule in Rhodesia must depend on agreement between those on the spot.” Mr. Crosland’s move was the first concrete British step since Mr. Smith accepted the proposal by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger calling for an immediate biracial temporary government and for black majority rule within two years. Since that proposal was accepted on Friday, the agreement has floundered because leaders of five black African nations have appeared to reject at least some elements of the plan. One senior diplomat said today: “Things are legitimately confused.”
African leaders meeting in the capital of Botswana to celebrate its independence anniversary reacted positively to Britain’s call for a conference on Rhodesia. The president of the Rhodesian nationalist organization said he was confident that all the key nationalist leaders would attend.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger yesterday welcomed Britain’s call for a biracial meeting on Rhodesia in two weeks and said that the United States expected a conference to be held in Geneva to settle the other pressing issue in southern Africa — independence for South-West Africa.
The first elections for the 75 seats of the 145 member National Assembly of Transkei were held in advance of the nominal independence being granted to the area by the white minority government of the Union of South Africa. The Republic of Transkei, intended as by the South African government as an independent black “homeland” of bantustan for the Xhosa people, was created the following month. The 70 seats not subject to election in the Transkei parliament were reserved for the paramount chiefs within the Xhosa area.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
President Ford vetoed the $56 billion appropriations bill for manpower, health, education and welfare programs. He said Congress had passed it for partisan political purposes and that although he was sympathetic to most of the programs his objection was on the issue of fiscal integrity. His election campaign posture is that of a foe of what he considers inflationary federal spending.
Congress challenged President Ford on another election issue by sending to the White House the $4.9 billion public works authorization bill, extending for three years a wide variety of programs to aid economically distressed areas. But on the issue of the $100 million authorization bill to develop and test more efficient auto engines, the Senate sustained Mr. Ford’s veto after the House had overridden it.
Mr. Ford should discuss with reporters questions raised about his congressional campaign funding and acceptance of corporate hospitality, Jimmy Carter said at a news conference. Otherwise, he said, reports of the investigation could unfairly affect the election. The Democratic candidate acknowledged accepting transportation on private planes while governor of Georgia.
The Senate passed a bill that would double the unemployment insurance tax and require states to provide permanent unemployment compensation coverage for nearly 8 million state and local government employees. It would deny permanent coverage to 1 million domestic and 1 million agricultural workers, both now covered by a temporary program. The measure then went to a conference to reconcile it with a House-passed bill that would give permanent coverage to about half of the agricultural workers and a quarter of the domestics. The bill also would reduce maximum jobless pay from 65 weeks to 39 weeks.
Legislation to put teeth in 30-year-old federal lobbying regulations for the first time was approved by the House, but it faces an uphill fight for final passage before Congress adjourns Saturday. The bill requires organizations that hire lobbyists to register with the General Accounting Office and to file reports every three months on the amount paid, identity of lobbyists and issues that they seek to influence. The bill would require organizations to report contributions of $2,500 or more. Rep. Thomas F. Railsback (R-Illinois) said the current law was a sham because its requirements were hazy and little disclosure was demanded.
A procedural difficulty in the Senate over Arab boycott legislation may delay congressional ratification of major amendments to the charter of the International Monetary Fund until next year. Treasury Secretary William Simon had expected to announce American approval at the I.M.F.’s meeting next week.
Detroit Deputy Police Chief Reginald Harvel told a newspaper reporter three days ago he would be ruined if he was linked to a federal drug investigation. On Wednesday, he apparently killed himself, investigators said. Harvel, 47, was found dead at his home, a .38-caliber revolver near his body, police said. A federal grand jury is investigating alleged police involvement in drug trafficking. Harvel told the reporter he believed ex-Police Chief Philip Tannian had tried to link him to the inquiry because he was a close friend of Tannian’s rival, Executive Deputy Chief Frank A. Blount. Blount is under investigation in the narcotics inquiry and Mayor Coleman Young fired Tannian Tuesday for failing to inform him Blount was under investigation.
Prosecution witnesses testified in federal court in Baltimore that W. Dale Hess paid Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel $13,314 in partnership proceeds in 1972 and 1973 and then tried to disguise the payments as legal fees. Hess is a former majority leader of the House of Delegates. The witnesses said the money was for Mandel’s alleged secret interest in Security Investment Co., and was for trying to get the 1972 General Assembly to enact a bill that would have benefitted the other defendants’ secret race track holdings. Mandel, Hess and three others are accused of violating the federal antiracketeering statute.
William and Emily Harris, one-time underground traveling companions of Patricia Hearst, were charged today in a 13-count indictment by an Alameda County Grand Jury with kidnapping Miss Hearst two and a half years ago. The indictment, returned after 30 minutes of deliberation, followed testimony before the grand jury by 51 witnesses, including Miss Hearst. The indictment charged Mr. and Mrs. Harris with kidnapping for ransom of Miss Hearst and the kidnapping of Peter Benenson, whose car was used in the alleged kidnapping of the daughter of Randolph W. Hearst, the newspaper executive. Miss Hearst, in her first appearance as a government witness before the grand jury Monday, reportedly told the same story of her kidnapping that she told the jury in her bank robbery trial last spring. The grand jury proceedings were held in private. She testified then that Mr. Harris was one of three persons who burst into the apartment that she shared with her former fiance, Steven Weed. She said that Mr. Harris held her on the floor of the apartment, bound and gagged her. She also testified that Mrs. Harris drove one of the cars used in her abduction. The other participants she named in her kidnapping died in a fiery shootout with the police in Los Angeles in May 1975.
Robert Valeri, a participant in the 1970 State Street Bank robbery in which a police officer was killed, says Susan Saxe was with him when he and Stanley Bond held up the bank. Mr. Valeri, a key prosecution witness, also testified today that Miss Saxe helped plan the robbery and cased, the bank moments earlier to make sure the vault was open. He said that one of the guns he carried had been purchased by Miss Saxe. Mr. Valeri was the first witness to place Miss Saxe positively at the scene of the robbery.
Most of the 138,000 refugees from Indochina who fled to the United States after Communist-led victories in Southeast Asia are adjusting to their new country but many suffer from mental depression, a new report to Congress says.
After a delay of more than two months, the national swine flu vaccination program will begin in Indianapolis on Friday, the national Center for Disease Control says. A spokesman said yesterday that swine flu shots would be administered at a “health fair” in Indianapolis.
Lockheed Aircraft shareholders authorized a debt restructuring that would reduce their equity by 13 percent. They acted after the new management said the plan was essential to survival. The first shareholder meeting in more than two years heard angry questioning on overseas payments and the eight-year absence of dividends.
The National Wildlife Federation has quit the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign, charging that the campaign has become an industry front for opposition to laws against throwaway cans and bottles. The move came two months after the Environmental Protection Agency pulled out of the KAB campaign, which was set up by the container and packaging industry in 1953. “We think the best approach is to cut down on the source of litter — the millions of throwaway containers that are produced each year,” an NWF spokesman said.
The danger of pollution from the shipment of Alaskan crude oil to Long Beach was minimized by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Under a BLM proposal, Standard Oil of Ohio would ship crude oil from Alaska’s North Slope by tanker to Long Beach and from there by pipeline to Midland, Texas. Sohio will use tankers that minimize the amount of hydrocarbon fumes that would escape during unloading oil and taking on water ballast. Jack Lahr, assistant project manager for BLM, said the tankers would pass far enough offshore to prevent any real damage in the event of an oil spill.
All but nine counts of a 153-count indictment charging the Allied Chemical Corp. with contributing to Kepone pollution of the James River in Virginia were dismissed by a federal judge in Richmond on grounds that the firm could not be liable for pollution of which it was not aware. U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. said the government had failed to prove that Allied knew of the massive amounts of Kepone the Life Sciences Products Co. had been pumping into the Hopewell sewer system before July 7, 1975. Life Science Products began producing the highly toxic insecticide ingredient in March, 1975, under contract to Allied.
A 14-agency federal task force recommended that the government immediately begin devising restrictions on the use of fluorocarbons — the gases used to power spray cans. The National Academy of Sciences recently reported that fluorocarbons are breaking down the protective layer of ozone in the earth’s atmosphere, which could permit greater amounts of ultraviolet radiation to reach the earth’s surface. Such radiation increases, scientists fear, could cause increased skin cancer in humans. The recommendation for immediate action on restrictions was made by the Interagency Task Force on Inadvertent Modification of the Stratosphere (IMOS).
The United States Navy made its first test of the experimental BQM-108A warplane, designed for vertical takeoffs and landings for the ostensible purpose of having a fleet of fighter aircraft that could be dispersed to most ships at sea. The test was limited to an unmanned tethered flight and the project was discontinued.
“Alice”, television adaptation of the film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, starring Linda Lavin, debuts on CBS-TV.
George O’Dowd, future pop star Boy George, is expelled from school. The future pop star was 15 years old when he was dismissed from Eltham Green Secondary School. He pushed the boundaries of school rules by wearing extravagant makeup, outlandish outfits, and dying his hair orange.
A musical by Trevor Nunn and Guy Woolfenden, based on William Shakespeare, “The Comedy of Errors”, premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in England., and later transferred to London’s West End where it was staged at the Aldwych Theatre.
Major League Baseball:
The Dodgers Walter Alston, after 23 years and 2,040 victories, steps down as manager. Third base coach Tommy Lasorda is promoted to the post.
John Montefusco walks only Jerry Royster in hurling a no-hitter as the Giants beat the Braves 9–0. Starter Jamie Easterly toils less than two innings to take the loss. Montefusco (16–14), “The Mouth that Roared,” proclaims in the locker room afterwards that, “The Count is back.” The Giants backed their sophomore star with a 12-hit attack. Johnnie LeMaster batted in three runs with a double and sacrifice fly, while Gary Thomasson accounted for two RBIs with a single.
Hank Aaron scored the 2,174th run of his career, tying Babe Ruth for second place on the major leagues’ all-time list, during the course of the Brewers’ 6–3 victory over the Orioles. Ty Cobb was first in runs scored with 2,244. Aaron crossed the plate in the sixth inning on a single by Dan Thomas, who also batted in another run with a triple in the eighth.
At Fenway, Graig Nettles has 4 hits, including a pair of homers, one a grand slam, scores 4 and drives in 6 as the Yankees top the Red Sox, 9–6. Catfish Hunter wins his 17th. Nettles homered with one aboard in the first inning and then connected for his grand slam in the second to finish off loser Luis Tiant. The Yankee third baseman also scored two other times after reaching base with his doubles. Nettles leads the American League in homers with 32, the only American League hitter with over 30 four baggers. Roy White scores a pair of runs and with 104 is the only American League player to top the century mark in the category.
Notching his sixth shutout of the season, Nolan Ryan (16–18) allowed only two hits and pitched the Angels to a 3–0 victory over the White Sox. The complete game was the 20th for Ryan, who struck out 11 and walked six.
After Pat Dobson was knocked out in the third inning, the Indians got shutout relief from Jackie Brown (9–11), Stan Thomas and Dave LaRoche and defeated the Tigers, 3–2. Rick Manning batted in Frank Duffy with a double and counted himself on a single by Buddy Bell to tie the score at 2–2 in the Indians’ half of the third. The deciding run followed in the fourth on a double by George Hendrick and single by Charlie Spikes.
Steve Garvey singled in the seventh inning for his 199th hit of the season and drove in the run that enabled the Dodgers to defeat the Astros, 1–0. Bill Buckner, who singled and advanced on an infield out, crossed the plate on Garvey’s hit. The Dodgers were directed by Tommy Lasorda, who earlier in the day had been named manager for 1977 to succeed Walter Alston. After that appointment, Alston announced he would step aside and let Lasorda manage the Dodgers for the last four games of the current campaign.
Bill Campbell, the Twins’ ace reliever, broke the A. L. record for innings pitched in one season by a relief pitcher while finishing a 9–1 victory over the Rangers. Campbell worked the last two innings to raise his total to 165 ⅔, eclipsing the former mark of 165 by Eddie Fisher of the White Sox in 1965. Rod Carew batted in two runs for the Twins with a homer and Mike Cubbage accounted for two more with a double.
At Montreal, Steve Rogers (7–17) beats Tom Seaver (14–11) as the Expos win over the Mets. Turning on his former teammates, Wayne Garrett smashed a grand-slam homer to start the Expos off to a 7–2 victory over the Mets. Garrett blasted his drive off Seaver in the fourth inning. The Expos added a run in the fifth on a single by Pepe Frias, a sacrifice and double by Andre Dawson before Ellis Valentine capped the attack on Seaver by hitting a homer with Del Unser on base in the eighth.
Larry Gura (4–0), who has been a relatively obscure member of the Royals’ staff, posted one of their most important victories of the season, pitching a four-hitter and shutting out Athletics, 4–0. As a result of the triumph, the Royals needed only one more victory in their last three games or one more loss by the A’s in their last four to clinch the West Division title. Amos Otis batted in two runs with a double and homer in support of Gura, who made only his second start of the season and gained his fourth straight victory, the three others coming in relief. The lefthander formerly was with the Cubs, Rangers and Yankees before coming to the Royals in a trade in May of this year.
A homer by Rick Monday and five-hit pitching by Steve Renko (8–12) combined to bring the Cubs a 1–0 victory over the Pirates. Monday’s smash in the sixth inning was one of only three hits allowed by loser Larry Demery.
While Brent Strom (12–16) pitched a three-hitter, the Padres exploded with a grand slam by Doug Rader and two-run homer by Mike Champion to defeat the Reds, 6–1. Rader rapped his jackpot wallop off loser Fred Norman (12–7) in the first inning after the Padres had loaded the bases with singles by Bill Almon and Johnny Grubb and a pass to Merv Rettenmund. Champion’s homer in the fourth was the first of his major league career. Strom held the Reds hitless until the eighth inning when George Foster doubled and scored on a single by Tony Perez.
Bidding for his third straight homer title, Mike Schmidt smashed his 38th of the season, one more than Dave Kingman of the Mets, to help the Phillies edge the Cardinals, 6–5. Schmidt’s blow came with a man on base in the fifth inning when the Phillies counted three times to take a 5–1 lead. The Cardinals rallied to tie the score, but the Phillies came back with the deciding run in the eighth on a walk to Bob Boone and double by Jerry Martin, driving in pinch-runner Rick Bosetti.
San Francisco Giants 9, Atlanta Braves 0
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Baltimore Orioles 3
New York Yankees 9, Boston Red Sox 6
Chicago White Sox 0, California Angels 3
Detroit Tigers 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Houston Astros 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Texas Rangers 1, Minnesota Twins 9
Montreal Expos 7, New York Mets 2
Kansas City Royals 4, Oakland Athletics 0
Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Cincinnati Reds 1, San Diego Padres 6
Philadelphia Phillies 6, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Stock prices rose briefly after Tuesday’s plunge, then turned down again, Dow Jones industrials closed at 991.19, a loss of 3.74 for the day. Bond prices rose, led by coupon-bearing Treasury issues as the Federal Reserve intervened actively with repurchase agreements.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 991.19 (-3.74, -0.38%)
Born:
Calvin Pickering, designated hitter and first baseman (Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals), in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jermaine Clark, MLB outfielder and second baseman (Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland A’s), in Berkeley, California.
Eddie Watson, NFL running back (Philadelphia eagles), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian soccer football striker. 2004 Ballon d’Or winner and all-time top goal scorer for the national team; later the manager of the Ukrainian team; in Dvirkivshchyna, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist, in Ossa de Montiel, Spain.
Died:
Feng Jinglan, 78, Chinese mineralogist.
