A projected additional cut in British defense expenditures has prompted some senior officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to question whether Britain would be able to fulfill its basic military commitments in a conflict with the Soviet Union. Those commitments include not only the stationing of professional army and air force units in West Germany but the security of Britain and the surrounding waters. From NATO’s standpoint the island would be invaluable in war as base and as a staging area for United States reinforcements. Political and military authorities here deny that a new reduction of approximately $166 million will impair the combat efficiency of British forces. The cut is the consequence of a general economic malaise that includes not only the present Weakness of the pound but a fall of 1.6 percent in gross national product in 1975.
A booby-trap bomb killed one policeman and injured five others after they were sent to an abandoned house in a small Irish village 50 miles southwest of Dublin. Police sources said they believed the bombing was a violent reaction by a unit of the Irish Republican Army to new, tougher antiterrorist laws. The new measures allow police to detain suspected guerrillas for up to seven days without charge, increase penalties for guerrilla offenses and give greater powers of search and arrest.
The Republic of Ireland’s President, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, signed the Emergency Powers Bill into law after waiting for the Ireland Supreme Court to determine whether the law would be constitutional.
France disclosed it had expelled a Soviet diplomat caught trying to buy the plans for a secret new jet engine. Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski. a frequent target of Soviet press attacks, gave unusual publicity to the spy case, indicating a sudden cooling of relations between Paris and Moscow. Counterespionage agents arrested Michael Soloviev, 36.
West German police announced the capture of three suspected kidnapers and recovery of an $800,000 ransom within hours after it had been paid for the release of a 32-year-old businessman. Police in Fulda, 80 miles east of Frankfurt, said two of the men arrested had confessed to kidnapping Fulda supermarket owner Wolfgang Gutberlet on October 8 and holding him for 17 hours.
Erich Honecker, the East German party leader, has called for closer military, political and economic ties with the Soviet Union. “The more we deepen this cooperation, the more successfully we will approach the future of our people,” he said in speech at a rally here yesterday in advance of tomorrow’s general elections. Mr. Honecker and the other candidates for the 500 seats of East Germany’s nominal Parliament all have the blessing of the Communist Party. All the candidates have been re‐elected with large votes in recent years.
Huge oil slicks from the sunken East German tanker Boehlen threatened more than 12 miles of Brittany’s coastline, French authorities said. Officials implemented antipollution measures, but concern remained that the slicks could turn into the area’s worst incident of oil pollution. The 7,875-ton Boehlen, which sank in fierce gales southwest of Brest, France, on Thursday with the loss of 13 lives, was carrying about 10,000 tons of crude oil.
Long lines of angry consumers in Lisbon, Portugal demanded Government intervention to end a nationwide bread strike that was in its second day today. “We never went without bread under Salazar,” said the wife of a shipyard worker as she surveyed the empty bakeries in the Lisbon suburb of Alges. The Portuguese, who lived for half century under a stern dictatorship, are now inclined to blame the first constitutional government for everything that goes wrong. They do not hide a certain nostalgia for the order and stability of the old days.
An estimated 600 marchers converged at the Washington Monument to demand that the United States disarm itself and use money spent on weapons for social change. Organizers said the march was in several sections and began in San Francisco January 31. Sympathizers staged smaller walks in different communities so that participants have covered 8,000 miles in 33 states.
The United States and the Soviet Union launched a joint study of currents, weather and geochemistry of the North Atlantic with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts boarding a Soviet research vessel in Boston to study currents for two weeks of experiments. The venture, Polymode, is the first cooperative ocean analysis by the two superpowers.
The fighting in Lebanon stopped after the Syrians and Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire request made by Saudi Arabia. The Saudis sent a plane into the shrinking Palestinian-controlled area near Beirut to bring out Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, to enable him to attend a meeting of Arab leaders in Riyadh. The ceasefire went into effect after discussions with Syria’s President Hafez al-Assad and the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Yasser Arafat.
President Anwar el‐Sadat was sworn into office today to serve a second six‐year term. The 57‐year‐old Mr. Sadat, reading aloud his oath in the Egyptian People’s Assembly, or parliament, swore to uphold Egypt’s independence and territorial integrity. Prime Minister Mamdouh Salem is expected to hand in his Government’s resignation soon, a formality at the start of a new presidential term. But semi‐official; newspapers here have predicted that the President will ask the Government to stay. in office until Parliamentary elections are held on October 28. After the election some Cabinet changes; are expected, probably including some Of the ministers who deal with Egypt’s troubled economy.
Several hundred opponents of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi including members of Parliament and former judges, held a protest meeting today against the Government’s proposed changes in the Constitution. The far‐reaching set of constitutional amendments, introduced last month, are expected to be enacted shortly after Parliament reconvenes October 25. Opponents of the Government contend that the amendments are really an overhaul of the Constitution, greatly enhancing the Prime Minister’s powers. “It amounts to the death of India’s first republic, and the setting‐up of a new republic, debased,” declared Asoka Mehta, a former cabinet minister.
For the first time, crowds in the People’s Republic of China demonstrated against Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, who had died five weeks earlier. Protesters were seen in Shanghai carrying effigies of Madame Qing and three others who had orchestrated the purges of the Cultural Revolution— Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, collectively described as the Gang of Four. The organized event appeared to signal “indications that China’s new authorities were preparing a campaign to discredit the so-called leftist leaders.”
Dean Rusk, as an assistant secretary of state, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee four days before North Korea launched its all-out invasion of South Korea that no invasion was expected. The secret testimony, given June 20, 1950, was released Saturday. The Communists invaded South Korea on June 24. Rusk was named secretary of state by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
An opposition campaign to boycott a referendum that would in effect bolster the martial‐law Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos apparently failed today as the Philippine voters turned out in large numbers. The Commission on Elections reported tonight that 90 percent of the nation’s 27 million eligible voters will have cast their ballots by the time the polls close at noon tomorrow. Voting here is mandatory. The expected affirmative outcome would give Mr. Marcos a legal basis to organize a type of Parliament that he could override any time. In the opinion of legal circles in Manila, it would also result in a life term for the President.
Canadian prisoners armed with knives took seven employees, including two women, as hostages in an uprising at the Thunder Bay District Jail near the north shore of Lake Superior, officials said. A guard told reporters by phone that the prisoners had threatened to kill the hostages if their demands were not met. The demands reportedly included dropping of certain charges, quicker court proceedings and no reprisals for the disturbance.
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro said he had access to secret CIA communications, which lead him to believe the CIA may still be plotting to assassinate him. In a Havana broadcast monitored in Washington. Castro disclosed the existence of a Cuban double-agent who Castro said has been on the CIA payroll for 10 years.
The Panamanian freighter Don Emilio was seized in U.S. territorial waters by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Sherman and found to have a cargo of narcotics estimated to be worth $134,000,000.
Colombian troops occupied the National University in Bogota to curb student unrest over the government’s reimposition of state-of-siege regulations. Interior Ministry officials said university authorities had requested the troops after a number of cars parked outside the campus were set on fire by rampaging students during the week. The occupation was carried out peacefully and there were no immediate reports of arrests.
A bomb exploded shortly after midnight today in the theater of an army social club in the heart of Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing a number of casualties, security sources said. They said that it was not clear if any function was being held at the theater when the blast occurred. An American oil engineer who did not want to be identified said he saw a number of injured persons being taken from the building in taxis. An Associated Press Correspondent, William F. Nicholson, who arrived moments after the explosion, said he saw flames shooting from the windows of the building. Another witness said he saw men in dinner jackets leading screaming women in gowns out of nearby restaurants immediately after the blast. Soldiers took up positions behind parked cars as if looking for snipers. Police cruisers, fire trucks, ambulances and army vehicles converged on the building, which is in San Martin Square in the heart of Buenos Aires.
An Irish Roman Catholic priest arrested last Monday is being held on suspicion of involvement in subversive activities, according to Argentine Foreign Minister Cesar Augusto Guzzetti. The Irish Embassy said the Rev. Patrick Rice, who was seized from his shantytown parish by unidentified armed men, turned up in custody on Thursday at federal security headquarters. Admiral Guzzetti said at a news conference last night that Father Rice was suspected of involvement in subversive activities. An embassy spokesman said government officials have assured them they would he allowed to visit Father Rice.
The conference on Rhodesia was postponed by the British government. Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland said he was still inviting delegates to meet informally in Geneva next Thursday to discuss a temporary, biracial government for Rhodesia, but he was putting off the formal opening until October 28. British officials said the delay was agreed upon after black Rhodesian leaders said they were having trouble forming their delegations.
Gangs of youths shouted abuse at participants in the Transkei’s independence celebrations in Cape Town today. Heavily armed riot policemen kept order as the youths shouted slogans against the 1,000 people who had attended a feast in a stadium in the black township of Langa. “Why go and feast for your own destruction,” and “Die on your own” were shouted as the people left the stadium. Inside, they had eaten six oxen and drank beer provided by the Government. The feast was part of celebrations throughout South Africa today for the Transkei’s independence on October 26. The territory is one of nine areas in the eastern half of the country set aside for development as separate black homelands.
The Soviet space capsule from the Soyuz 23 made an emergency return to Earth after a malfunction prevented it from docking with the orbiting Salyut 5 space station, and made the first “splashdown” in Soviet crewed space flight history, coming down in Tengiz Lake in the Kazakh SSR at 8:46 Moscow time, only 48 hours after it had been launched into orbit. The two cosmonauts, Lieutenant Colonels Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky both arrived safely. All other Soviet space missions returned to Earth by parachuting onto dry land.
Jimmy Carter sent a telegram to President Ford on Friday in which he asked Mr. Ford to stop making “misleading and erroneous statements.” The contents of the telegram, released by Mr. Carter in Cincinnati, repeated the Democrat’s defense against charges that he wants to raise taxes and weaken the country’s defenses. Those charges are false, Mr. Carter said, and he expressed confidence that the President would stop making them. Mr. Ford and his running mate, Senator Robert J. Dole, have focused much of their language in the last few days on those points, and Mr. Carter, at the urging of his press secretary, Jody Powell, decided yesterday to respond with the telegram. It said tersely that such charges were false and it ended with Mr. Carter expressing his confidence that Mr. Ford, “as a man of integrity,” would refrain from making such statements in the future.
Campaigning in Illinois, President Ford made his most severe attack on Jimmy Carter. Mr. Ford said his Democratic opponent would “say anything anywhere to be President of the United States.” The President also said that Mr. Carter wanted to raise taxes, divide the country, swell its deficit and weaken its defenses. But he was even more blunt in his discussion of Mr. Carter’s character. The President told the crowd in Pontiac that when Mr. Carter is in New York “he sounds like Bella Abzug” but in rural Illinois he plays the role of “a little old peanut farmer.” “He wavers, he wanders, he wiggles and he waffles, and he shouldn’t be President of the United States,” added Mr. Ford in a burst of alliteration used in slightly different form at other stops. Asked by reporters whether he agreed with their assessment that his remarks seemed to constitute one of the roughest assaults on an opponent ever made by an incumbent President, Mr. Ford smiled and said, “I think it was well directed.”
Senators Walter F. Mondale and Robert J. Dole resumed their campaigns for the Vice Presidency yesterday, each claiming victory in their rather acrimonious debate Friday night, but each a bit annoyed that he had left out certain points. “Humility requires me to say that won,” Senator Mondale remarked, cracking the kind of smile that he used rarely in the debate. He then left Houston for a campaign swing into the industrial Middle West. Senator Dole, bantering in the same tone he used in the debate, said he thought that the contest had become tedious toward the end but “it went slowest when he [Mr. Mondale] was talking.” Mr. Dole’s schedule in the next few days includes stops in Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and Wisconsin.
The economic slowdown in the United States, according to an emerging consensus among economists, is part of a pattern of deceleration throughout the non-Communist, industrialized world. The economists believe that the slump does not necessarily mean that the world is about to slip into another recession, but they feel the slowdown was a bit worse than they had expected beforehand.
The economy is in the midst of a healthy and balanced expansion but the decline in unemployment is “far slower than we are willing to tolerate,” Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said in Hot Springs, Virginia. Although unemployment remains disappointingly high, Simon said, the government must “resist the temptation” to stimulate the economy to create more jobs because it would also bring on a new round of crippling inflation. Simon, interviewed by reporters after he addressed a closed meeting of the Business Council, an organization of the nation’s top corporate executives, said also that he did not think oil-producing nations would increase oil prices next year.
Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. said that former Senate committee counsel Samuel Dash, whose new book accuses Baker of trying to scuttle an effective Senate investigation of Watergate, was “a highly partisan Democrat.” Baker, the senior Republican on the Watergate committee, said, “I don’t begrudge him that.” Dash, in his still-unpublished book, said Baker might have been trying to protect former President Richard M. Nixon. Baker said Saturday that he had had a dual role in the Watergate committee investigations — “to protect legitimate Republican interests and… to be fair and impartial.”
Scores of mourners paid their last respects to Carlo Gambino, the reputed underworld “boss of bosses” who died Friday at his home on Long Island, New York. A steady stream of trucks delivered flowers to the Brooklyn funeral home, where dozens of federal, state and city officials joined family, friends, and curiosity-seekers. Gambino, 74, died of the aftereffects of a stroke believed to have been connected to a series of heart ailments that had prevented Gambino’s deportation to Italy since 1967.
About $400,000 has been paid by insurance companies since 1957 to persons involved in radiation incidents in the nuclear power industry, the Nuclear Energy Liability Property Insurance Association reported. It said that none of the payments had stemmed from accidents at nuclear power plants, and that most of the accidents had occurred during the transporting of nuclear materials. Claims have been paid in 30 cases, the report said, including one in which $300,000 was paid to the estate of a man who had been contaminated by plutonium.
The Allied Chemical Corporation says it will not appeal a $13.2 million fine imposed on it for dumping the pesticide Kepone and two other toxic chemicals into Virginia’s James River. However, a spokesman for the huge corporation declined to say whether the concern would act on the suggestion of United States District Court Judge Robert Merhige that he might reduce the fine if Allied acted within 90 days to alleviate the pollution’s effects. After the fine was imposed on October 5, Allied officials said the company was willing to “do our fair share and more” to clean up Kepone contamination of the James, indicating that the company was ready to undertake some of the steps Judge Merhige had suggested.
Biologist Dixy Lee Ray, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and now Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the state of Washington, said the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill “was no catastrophe.” Her remark was made in the midst of a controversy over the use of oil supertankers in Puget Sound. Miss Ray opposes appealing a federal court ruling that overturned a state law banning oil supertankers greater than 125,000 gross tons on Puget Sound. Her opponent, Republican John Spellman, favors such an appeal. Miss Ray said that in the Santa Barbara spill “about 20% of the bird population was killed… no one likes that, but it was no catastrophe.” She said most marine life had returned to the area within a year, but that this fact was not widely publicized.
One pilot should keep his eye on landing control instruments at all times when an airliner is touching down in bad weather, the National Transportation Safety Board said. After studying 17 bad-weather landing accidents, the board determined that in the final moments before touchdown, when switching from instrument-controlled flight to visual flight, pilots tended to become disoriented or to lose sight of the ground. It recommended that U.S. airlines require that the pilot not handling the controls keep his eyes on the landing instruments until the plane had actually touched down.
Without the knowledge of most of its members, Congress has approved a $15 million down payment on a $2 billion program to develop and build a new, more powerful jet engine for the Navy’s troubled F‐14 interceptor plane. Tucked away in the recently approved $104 billion defense appropriations bill was a $15 million item, blandly described in the reports of the appropriations committees as earmarked “for development of a new engine for the F‐14.” How that item got into the appropriations bill provides an example of how the military services and their contractors are able to influence the armed services and appropriations committees and how these committees, in turn, are able to commit Congress to expensive defense programs without ever fully explaining the potential cost to the members.
In the face of recent reports of liberalized morals in Utah, more than 9,000 people nearly filled the Salt Palace Arena this morning for a well-publicized rally against pornography. The gathering, endorsed enthusiastically by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter‐day Saints (Mormons) and supported by a wide range of non‐Mormons, was the latest event in a 10‐month antipornography campaign, including picketing, in Salt Lake City. The campaign designed to shut down theaters showing X‐rated movies and to force newsstands to stop selling sexually explicit magazines.
Light snow spread across the upper Midwest and teamed with a letup in winds, gave fire fighters a breather in drought-seared Minnesota. Cold air surged down across the plains, breaking low temperature records as far south as the Texas panhandle. Western South Dakota stockmen were warned to protect livestock against a mixture of cold rain and snow. Frost and freeze warnings were posted from Kansas eastward to Indiana and south into Kentucky. Fire fighters in Minnesota said snow and rain had helped to keep a 6,000-acre fire near Grygla from spreading to the nearby Red Lake Indian reservation. More than 200 new forest and grass fires were reported last week in Minnesota.
Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds, setting a Toronto Maple Leaf record for the fastest three goals by a single player.
Tony Franklin, a kicker for Texas A&M University, set a record for the longest field goal in modern college football history when he made a kick of 65 yards during a 24 to 0 win over Baylor. His achievement, made at 2:20 in the afternoon lasted only 20 minutes. At 2:40 p.m., Ove Johansson of Abilene Christian University kicked a 69-yard field goal at the homecoming game in a 17 to 0 win over visiting East Texas State. Johansson’s distance has not been matched or surpassed.
Major League Baseball, World Series Game 1:
Baseball’s World Series opened in Cincinnati with the first game in which a National League team used the designated hitter, which had been in place in the American League since 1973. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the New York Yankees, 5 to 1, in Game 1 of the best-4-of-7 series. The Reds’ Dan Driessen appeared as the first National League designated hitter. The Yankees opened the game with a walkie-talkie system between scouts in the press box and the dugout; but the communications were severed after one inning on orders from Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Joe Morgan got the Reds off to a booming start with a home run in the first off of Doyle Alexander, who had to start because Catfish Hunter had a sore arm and needed another day of rest. The Yankees tied the game in the second when Lou Piniella hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Graig Nettles’s sacrifice fly. In the third, Dave Concepcion tripled with one out and scored on Pete Rose’s sacrifice fly to put the Reds up 2–1. Tony Pérez’s RBI single in the sixth extended their lead to 3–1. In the seventh, George Foster hit a leadoff single and scored on a Johnny Bench RBI triple. Bench then scored on a Sparky Lyle wild pitch. The only bad news for the Reds was an injury to starting pitcher Don Gullett, who pulled a calf muscle in the eighth and would be unavailable for the remainder of the Series. It turned out to be Gullett’s last appearance in a Reds uniform. Pedro Borbon pitched 1 ⅔ shutout innings to close the game.
New York Yankees 1, Cincinnati Reds 5
