Units of the United States Seventh Army and the 101st Airborne Division have completed field exercises that tested the newly adopted tactics of opposing invaders with small battle groups armed with sophisticated weapons. The old tactics provided that a Soviet invasion of West Germany he met by allied counterattacks in division strength, with tanks well forward to engage opposing armor. The new doctrine, largely based on the lessons of the 1973 war in the Middle East, which demonstrated the greater accuracy of the latest missile systems and tank and field guns, stresses counterattacks by smaller units from the flanks, with maximum use of such missiles and field guns and of tanks. “Analysis of our recent exercises indicates that the Soviets could be held when they invaded the area north and east of Frankfurt,” said Lieutenant General Donn A. Starry, commander of the Seventh Army’s V Corps. However, he foresaw heavy losses in men and weapons, and he said that the exercises demonstrated that far more ammunition would he required than his units have available. As applied by American and West German forces, the new tactics call for the deployment of infantry well forward and for arming them with ground and air antitank weapons. The counterattacks would he conducted by small battle groups of battalion or brigade size. Such units, it is believed, would be easier to command in the rugged area known as the Fulda Gap, northeast of Frankfurt. According to the Seventh Army commander, General George S. Blanchard, the tactics are designed to force the prospective enemy to deploy his forces into line rather than using the armored spearheads that are basic to Soviet doctrine.
The United States, Canada and Australia have highly mobile populations with citizens averaging 12 moves from one residence to another in a lifetime, the U.S. Census Bureau said. These mobility rates compare with an average of eight moves in a lifetime for a Briton, seven for a Japanese, six for a Taiwanese and three or four for a person living in Ireland.
The Irish Republican Army began a propaganda campaign today against the women’s peace movement, but thousands of Protestants and Roman Catholics continued peace rallies here, in the Irish Republic and in England. A spokesman in Dublin for the Provisional Sinn Fein, political arm of the I.R.A., said the poster and leaflet campaign was intended to persuade people that the peace movement is “one‐sided and deceptive.” Mrs. Betty Williams, founder of the peace movement, said she would not be deterred by the propaganda effort. The Provisional Sinn Fein spokesman said the propaganda campaign would not include interference with peace marches. The I.R.A. leaflets being distributed in Catholic slums in the north accuse the women of betraying the Catholic minority, being tools of the British government and duping thousands of well‐meaning people.
Terrorist bomber Noel Jenkinson, serving life imprisonment for killing seven persons in an Irish Republican Army attack in 1972, was found dead in his cell at Leicester jail. A prison spokesman said Jenkinson, 47, had died of “natural causes.” Jenkinson was found guilty of murder for his part in an attack on the Aldershot military barracks, about 30 miles from London, when 200 pounds of explosives blew up and killed five waitresses, a gardener and a Roman Catholic army chaplain.
Irish Republican Army bombers set off a total of 16 explosions in the market town of Ballymena, killing one woman and injuring at least eight other people. Police said at least four of those injured in the town 25 miles northwest of Belfast were involved in planting a bomb and of these two had lost limbs and one was blinded.
New traces of arsenic have been found in the Italian Adriatic city of Manfredonia, two weeks after large quantities of the poison were released by an explosion at a chemical plant. Officials said the arsenic traces did not appear to be present at dangerous levels, but experts were considering ways to neutralize the poison. Most of the contaminated area has been neutralized by chemical treatment since the explosion September 26. A total of 56 persons have been hospitalized.
Turkey is demanding drastic improvements in its relations with the European Economic Community, with the two sides still in disagreement on such major issues as movement of Turkish workers, preferences for Turkish farm products and financial aid.
The acts of religious vandalism committed at a shrine in Hebron sacred to both Muslims and Jews are having a political impact in Israel, including indications of a worsening of relations between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres. The incidents in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs, which included a clash between Arab youths and Israeli soldiers, stunned and outraged both Arabs and Jews. In addition, seven young Arabs were wounded by shots allegedly fired by an Israeli civilian speeding through the village of Halhoul, near Hebron. These events increased the already high degree of tension between Jews and the Arabs, who reside in the towns on the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Israel has occupied since the war of 1967. The occupied town of Hebron, with a population of 60,000 Arabs, has been under a military curfew for a week while a number of Israeli leaders have urged ultrareligious Jewish residents of Qiryat Arba, a new settlement abutting Hebron, to show restraint. A number of residents of Qiryat Arba, who are members of a fundamentalist Jewish religious sect called Gush Emunim, have been accused by Arabs and Israelis of provoking the current Muslim-Jewish strife in Hebron by their demonstrations there. In addition, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a leader of Gush Emunim, has quickly become one of Israel’s most controversial figures because he has repeatedly asserted the right of his followers to settle in Biblical Hebron and because he has defied Government orders.
Military officers of Lebanon, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization meeting in Chtaura in the Syrian-occupied eastern part of Lebanon, agreed today on a wide range of technical details for a general cease-fire in Lebanon, according to the Arab League’s mediator in the conflict, Dr. Hassan Sabry el-Kholy. It remained far from certain whether the political leaders of the rival factions would have the political will to follow through on the technical agreements of their subordinates and actually take steps toward peace. Dr. Kholy, after his return from Chtaura, said that in more than four hours of discussion the three sides had agreed on most of the details on these crucial issues:
• A timetable for a cease‐fire and the positions of rival forces at the time of a cease‐fire.
• A timetable for putting into effect the so‐called Cairo agreements of 1969, under which armed Palestinian units are supposed to be withdrawn to camps and to certain regions of southern Lebanon. The Cairo agreements also put limitations on the types of weapons permitted the Palestinians.
• Opening of the major highways in Lebanon to all parties.
• Measures to support the government that the newly elected President, Elias Sarkis, has yet to form. President Sarkis is the only important political leader in Lebanon who has no private militia force.
Iran’s booming oil economy and unemployment in the United States and Europe are luring back home many of the Iranian students who went abroad to study and refused to return. Some of these students formed the nucleus of dissident groups abroad opposing the Government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and staging noisy demonstrations and at times violent attacks on Iranian diplomats and embassies. Some of the “truant” students, as Iranian officials call them, charge that the Shah is running a police state, stamping out dissent and curtailing personal freedoms.
Much of more than $50 million in U.S. food assistance to Bangladesh has been lost due to mold, insects and rodents in what is termed an “unconscionable waste” of 200,000 tons of wheat, rice and soybean oil. That was the conclusion of a staff report from the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on foreign assistance as released through the offices of Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota) and Clifford P. Case (R-New Jersey). The report said Bangladesh did not have enough storage facilities to keep the food and that it continued to request food despite bumper crops of its own this year. Bangladesh also failed to manage adequate rotation and distribution of existing food stocks, the report said.
In the wake of the military coup in Thailand, scores of left-wing students, professors and politicians have gone into hiding or have fled the country. Some of the students who were arrested during the coup on Wednesday were released from jail after posting bail. At the same time, Thanin Kraivichien, who was named Prime Minister late Friday, held a series of meetings in an effort to form a government.
Chinese Prime Minister Hua Kuo-feng, according to wall posters in Peking, has been chosen to succeed Mao Tse-tung as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. There has been no official announcement, but analysts in Hong Kong, although puzzled by the lack of official word, believe the posters must be based on some decision taken by party leaders. Some of the posters, which said they “warmly welcome the appointment of Hua Kuo‐feng as chairman of the party,” also said he had been named chairman of the powerful party military commission. Earlier yesterday the Chinese press disclosed that Mr. Hua now “headed” the party Politburo, a term that seemed to give him added stature though that is not an official position. The disclosure came in an announcement that the Politburo was organizing a committee to publish all of Chairman Mao’s writings. Mr. Hua’s close connection with the publication put him in a position to determine what the correct Maoist line would be.
North Korea urged the United States to work out a peace treaty to replace the armistice agreement dating to 1953. U.S. representatives rejected the proposal, made at a meeting of the Joint Armistice Commission in Panmunjom. They said that political matters were inappropriate for the commission, which deals with military aspects of the armistice. It was the commission’s first meeting since new security arrangements were put into effect September 16, following the ax-slaying of two American officers by North Koreans in August.
The Ebola outbreak of 1976 continues. Four weeks ago a villager who had walked from the southern Sudanese hamlet of Nzara to the regional center of Maridi was gripped by a sudden high fever. Taken to the local 30‐bed hospital, he developed a rash and died within two days. When his family came to claim the body, two brothers developed the same symptoms and died. These men, according to the regional director of the World Health Organization here, Dr. Boodhun Teelock, were the first reported victims of a mysterious fever that appears to be spreading in still small but lethal waves through Central Africa. According to doctors at the Maridi clinic, which is reachable only by radio, 45 people, including a Sudanese Government physician, eight nurses and two hospital janitors, have died there of the still-undiagnosed disease, which is marked by nosebleeds and ultimate vascular collapse. In northern Zaire, at a Roman Catholic mission 100 miles south of Maridi, which lies just over the Sudanese border, more than 100 people have died of the disease. The area involved, is remote, and news travels slowly, largely on foot. Kenyan and international health officials say it is still not possible to compile accurate accounts, but reports from health authorities here and in Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, indicate that as of Friday, 230 deaths had been confirmed.
Angolan President Agostinho Neto left Moscow after signing a 20-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union. The treaty is expected to strengthen the Soviet foothold in southern Africa. The two countries agreed to cooperate militarily and to support “the just struggle of the peoples for sovereignty, freedom, independence and social progress.” Somalia is the only other African nation which has a similar treaty with Russia.
Two Rhodesian black nationalist movements will send a joint delegation to the British-sponsored conference on Rhodesia, the leaders of the groups said. The leaders asked that the meeting, which Britain wants to open in Geneva in two weeks, be delayed two weeks and demanded that it deal with the “total and immediate” transfer of power to the blacks. Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Rhodesia-based faction of the African National Council, and Robert Mugabe, secretary general of the Zimbabwe African National Union, demanded in a joint news conference today that Britain name a cabinet minister as chairman of the conference and said that participation should be limited to Britain, as the colonial power in Rhodesia, and the black nationalists. “Should the racist Ian Smith and any of his colleagues attend, we can only regard him or them as an extension of the United Kingdom delegation,” the two, who until recently were rivals, said in a statement referring to the white Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
Answering questions, Mr. Mugabe said Geneva was acceptable as a venue, but that the date given by Britain was “much too soon.” It must be put back “at least two weeks,” he said. Mr. Mugabe said he was first told about the date last night, shortly before the British announcement, and had not been consulted beforehand. Their statement demanded that the theme of the Geneva conference should be “the transfer of power from the colonial power, which is the United Kingdom Government, to the people of Zimbabwe.” “Such transfer must be total and immediate,” it added. “We reject the Kissinger proposals as the basis of any discussion.” Mr. Smith has said that the British‐American plan for majority rule in two years as presented to him by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger must be accepted as a package by the conference.
President Ford rode in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, standing in his open-top armored limousine. The mile-long parade was the first presidential motorcade through the city since President Kennedy was assassinated there almost 13 years ago. No incidents were reported. Mr. Ford then went on to attend the Texas-Oklahoma football game. Mr. Ford arrived in Dallas after two days in which he had been, for all practical purposes, in the embarrassing and frustrating position of a politician who finds that the microphone before him has gone dead. Most of what he was saying was going unheard because of the controversy over his statement that Eastern Europe is not dominated by the Soviet Union. Mr. Ford has been campaigning hard, at times sounding echoes of Harry S. Truman’s 1948 Presidential race with denunciations of Congress, scornful criticism of a confident and front‐running opponent and the remark that for most of the year “I’ve been swimming upstream.” But almost all of his campaign rhetoric and argumentation has gone unreported and has been unheard by voters out of the range of his voice.
Jimmy Carter campaigned through the Middle West enjoying the political advantages he has gained from President Ford’s statement on the Soviet role in Eastern Europe. The issue was raised during a rally in a black church in Cleveland, where Representative Louis Stokes told a rally that he was not surprised the President did not know about conditions in Europe since he did not know about conditions in the United States.
Despite disappointing economic statistics. Ford Administration economists contended the economy was performing very close to their predictions for the year. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, said in an interview in Washington that the economy actually was performing better than the Administration had forecast in January. Greenspan said it was still possible that unemployment might drop below 7% by the end of this year. Unemployment dropped just 0.1% in September to 7.8% of the labor force.
The first major revision of the archaic American copyright law of 1909, which President Ford is expected to sign this month, can make the United States eligible for full membership in the Bern Union, the most important international copyright agreement in existence. Up to now the United States has only been permitted observer status.
A Princeton University physics student says almost anyone can produce a nuclear bomb — and to prove his case he designed one in four months, using information obtained mostly from public documents. “The point was to show that any undergraduate with a physics background can do it and therefore that it is reasonable to assume that terrorists could do it, too,” said John A. Phillips, 21, of New Haven, Connecticut. His research design, created under the supervision of Princeton faculty members, is for a 125-pound device about the size of a beachball. He contends that it would have about a third of the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. A key to the design was the name of an explosive needed to free the atomic power. Phillips obtained the name by calling the E.I. duPont Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. “I told the man down there that I needed the caps to create a spherical implosion and he said, ‘Aha,’ and started asking what I was building. He came right out and told me just what kind of explosive I needed.” Phillips did not identify the explosive further and its name has been deleted from copies of his paper. The only way to tell if his design works would be with a test. “But even if you set it off and it didn’t explode as a nuclear device, the high explosive would spread plutonium-239 all over the place, and I guess that would make it worthwhile to terrorists to build,” he said.
A federal judge in Baltimore has ordered the Department of Justice to investigate allegations that former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew had violated terms of his probation. The order grew out of a $2 million civil suit filed against Agnew by attorney Sam Polur accusing him of violating federal law by failing to turn over to the government, on his resignation from the Vice Presidency, jewelry given to him and his wife by representatives of Arab countries. Agnew in 1973 pleaded no contest to a tax evasion charge and was fined $10,000 and placed on three years’ probation, which is to expire today.
The Ku Klux Klan found an unlikely ally in Colorado-the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU rallied to the klan’s side against Denver District Attorney Dale Tooley, who had told visiting Grand Wizard Jerry Dutton of Louisiana that he and the klan were not welcome in Colorado. “Tooley doesn’t get to decide who gets to stay in Colorado,” said state ACLU director James H. Joy. “We find their organization obnoxious, but… they have the right to organize. Dutton said the Klan was trying to rebuild in Colorado.
The jury deliberating the Susan Saxe armed robbery-murder case in Boston was given a long weekend when it became apparent that it was deadlocked. The Brandeis University honors graduate is charged with taking part in the 1970 robbery of a bank in which a Boston policeman was killed. The jurors, who deliberated for about six hours Saturday, were ordered to discontinue formal deliberations until 9:30 AM Tuesday.
New York City has become an issue in campaigns in many different states in which Congressmen have been attacked as free-spenders for voting to aid the city. Some of the incumbents who have been attacked on the issue have turned to the city for financial aid and have been holding fundraising events in New York. According to one congressman, it would have cost much more if the city had been allowed to go bankrupt.
Missile X, a new U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, has quietly moved into the hardware development phase. The new weapons, which will be more powerful and more accurate than current ones, may eventually cost the United States as much as $30 billion to develop. The Air Force plans to deploy the new missiles in the 1980’s to replace the Minutemen, which have been the backbone of the country’s nuclear deterrent force on land for 15 years. The introduction of the missile will do more than just redress what the Pentagon views as a developing imbalance in the nuclear deterrent forces. It will add a new dimension to the nuclear force by providing not only a retaliatory capability but also a clear “war‐fighting” capability to attack Soviet missiles and military installations — or what is known in the Pentagon lexicon as a counterforce capability. To a certain extent, the Minuteman missile, particularly the Minuteman 3 with its three highly accurate warheads, already has such a counterforce capability. Missile X, however, will be twice as heavy as the Minuteman, have several times the payload, carry several times more multiple warheads and have at least twice the accuracy. The bigger warhead, but particularly the greater accuracy, considerably enhance the missile’s capability to knock out a missile in an underground silo.
Retired U.S. Air Force General Paul Tibbets, who had flown the B-29 bomber that had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan on August 6, 1945, re-enacted the event as part of an airshow in Harlingen, Texas, leading to a protest by Japan’s Ambassador to the United States and editorials in the U.S. condemning the show as being in poor taste. The three weekend shows had been sponsored by an organization that restored and preserved old airplanes, the “Confederate Air Force”, which invited Tibbets to fly the restored B-29 and which arranged for a U.S. Army demolition team to set off “an atomic-bomb simulator, a barrel of explosives, sending a miniature mushroom-shaped cloud billowing skyward.” Tibbets performed the re-enactment twice the next day. The United States government apologized to the Japanese Foreign Ministry five days later.
About 5% to 10% of cancer patients will get a second or even a third primary cancer later in life, specialists have estimated, defining a primary cancer as a new one and not the spread of an earlier growth to another site. At a two-day international workshop on cancer in New York, scientists said that “multiple primaries” were being noted with increasing frequency. Radiation treatments may cause additional cancer, it was reported. To a lesser degree, anticancer drugs also are suspected of stimulating later cancers, some scientists said.
An autumn storm system laced with tornadoes dumped up to 8 inches of rain along the Atlantic coast from South Carolina into southern New England, causing many rivers and streams to overflow. Six tornadoes were reported in North Carolina and authorities said two persons had been killed in weather-related traffic accidents. Tornadoes were also reported in Virginia and two other deaths occurred on rain-slick highways in South Carolina. One twister hit downtown Danville, Virginia, blowing out about 20 storefronts, tearing roofs off buildings and knocking out power. Another twister struck Grafton, Virginia, but damage was minor. No injuries were reported in either case. In North Carolina, the worst damage was reported at Laurinburg, where a twister demolished a church, knocked over a radio station tower and seriously damaged a freight company.
Robert Waldman and Alfred Uhry’s musical “The Robber Bridegroom,” starring Barry Bostwick, opens at the Biltmore Theatre, New York City, and runs for 145 performances
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bob Moose was killed in a car crash on his 29th birthday in Ohio.
Major League Baseball, American League Championship series:
The opener was played on a bright Saturday afternoon at Royals Stadium and pitted Yankee ace Jim “Catfish” Hunter against left-hander and ex-Yankee Larry Gura. The Yankees got off to a quick start, scoring two in the first aided by a pair of George Brett throwing errors. Hunter was in top form and went the distance, not going to a three-ball count the entire game. While the Royals were able to halve that margin going into the ninth, Roy White’s two-run double in the top of the frame gave the Yanks two insurance runs that were the final scoring in a tidy 4–1 win.
New York Yankees 4, Kansas City Royals 1
Major League Baseball, National League Championship series:
Reds starter Don Gullett held the Phils to two hits in eight strong innings, but allowed them to score first when Dave Cash hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Mike Schmidt’s sacrifice fly. Gullett then walked three to load the bases, but got Tim McCarver to fly out to end the inning. The Reds tied the game in the third on Tony Perez’s sacrifice fly off Steve Carlton, then took the lead in the sixth on George Foster’s home run. After a double and error put two on, Gullett’s RBI single made it 3–1 Reds. After allowing a leadoff double and walk in the eighth, Carlton was replaced by Tug McGraw, who allowed a one-out two-run double to Gullett and RBI double to Pete Rose. The Phillies attempted to rally in the ninth off Rawly Eastwick. Garry Maddox hit a leadoff single and scored on Greg Luzinski’s double. After Dick Allen singled, Jay Johnstone’s RBI single made it 6–3 Reds, but Eastwick retired the next two batters to end the game and give the Reds a 1–0 series lead.
Cincinnati Reds 6, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Born:
Steve Neal, NFL guard (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 39-Patriots, 2004; New England Patriots), in San Diego, California.
Jason Morgan, Canadian NHL centre (Los Angeles Kings, Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators, Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota Wild), in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Nick Swardson, American TV comedian and actor (“Reno 911!”); in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Died:
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Troy H. Middleton, 86, known for his decision to hold Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II while commanding the VIII Corps.
U.S. Army Major General Charles H. Gerhardt, 81, controversial commander of the 29th Infantry Division during World War II during the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, known for the high casualty rate in his Division.
General Walter Warlimont, 82, German Army staff officer and convicted war criminal during World War II.
Bob Moose, 29, Major League Baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates; World 1971 World Series champions, 1969 no-hitter), in a car crash.
