Police in Moscow arrested 13 Soviet Jewish dissidents, refuseniks or otkazniks, who had spent five days in a “sit-in” protest at the reception room for the Communist Party Central Committee, transported them by bus to a location at the edge of the capital city, then released them. When the dissidents returned the next day, the bus drove them to a location more than 35 miles (56 km) from city limits, then beat them before letting them go. The occupation had taken place in an office that granted exit visas, which had been denied to the dissidents and their families, and began after the group was refused a request for a written statement of how long they would have to wait before they could leave the country. On October 25, Soviet authorities arrested 30 Jewish activists who had been planning to go into the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, including physicist Mark Azbel, cyberneticists Victor Brailovsky and Alexander Lerner, and chess grandmaster Anatoly Shcharansky.
The ship Constructor, carrying a U.S. Navy underwater vehicle equipped with television cameras, arrived in the Atlantic at a site where a missing F-14 Tomcat jet fighter is believed to be on the ocean floor. The Navy said the privately owned Constructor, used for oil operations. will try to lift the plane and its top secret equipment if the underwater vehicle finds it. The F-14 slipped off the deck of the carrier John F. Kennedy a month ago about 75 miles northwest of Scapa Flow, Scotland.
President Ford signed without comment a bill authorizing travel expenses for a new government panel charged with monitoring Communist compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords. Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger have shown little enthusiasm for the 12-member commission on security and cooperation in Europe because they believe it could complicate East-West relations. The Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, sources reported has officially protested creation of the commission as an unacceptable intrusion in internal Soviet affairs. President Ford is under fire at home from ethnic voters for saying in his second debate with Jimmy Carter that Eastern. Europe is not under Soviet domination. The Helsinki accords urge greater freedom of movement and communication between East and West. They also legitimize the World War II boundaries in Europe, including those of East Germany.
Four Americans appeared before a Paris court to oppose extradition to the United States to face charges of air piracy. They freely admitted to the court that they hijacked a Delta Air Lines DC-8 jet with 101 persons aboard from Detroit to Algiers in July, 1972. But they and their lawyers opposed extradition on the grounds that the hijacking was politically motivated and thus not covered by the French-U.S. extradition treaty. The four are Melvin McNair. 27. his wife Jean Carol. 29. and Joyce Tillerson, 25, all from North Carolina. and George Brown, 31, from New Jersey.
Britain’s Labor government would be swept out of office by opposition Conservatives if a general election were held now, a British opinion poll reported. The poll said 50% of its sample of voters would vote Conservative and 37% would vote Labor.
The Irish Government today extended its curbs on news reporting by the state broadcasting service about illegal groups that engage in violence. The television and radio services have, with rare exceptions been forbidden to broadcast interviews with members of the Irish Republican Army for the last five years in a directive issued today, Conor Cruise O’Brien, the Minister for Posts and Telegraph, extended the ban to include members of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Provisional I.R.A. Sinn Fein spokesmen, who share the aims of the I.R.A. but publicly disclaim knowledge of its activities, have been seen and heard frequently on the state broadcasting service. The most recent appearance was yesterday. In a further limitation on news gathering by the broadcasting service, Mr. O’Brien forbade it to carry second‐hand reports of interviews given by either the Irish Republican Army or Sinn Fein. Up to now, censorship has applied only to the use of actual first‐hand statements by the excluded spokesmen reporting of their comments by news broadcasters has been allowed.
Europe’s weaker currencies may not be helped very much by the revaluation of the West German mark, according to many of the continent’s leading bankers. Most of the experts said the main importance of the move would be to buy time for the joint European currency float, which they see as the symbol of Europe’s hopes to some day have a common currency.
Faced with growing dissent inside his party, Enrico Berlinger, the Italian Communist Party leader, said that the party must help keep the Christian Democrats in power to prevent the economic collapse of Italy. The party’s rank and file have been unhappy at the party’s decision to abstain from crucial parliamentary votes and allow the government to stay in office.
Norway today told the entire staff of the North Korean Embassy here to leave the country within six days, accusing them of having smuggled liquor and cigarettes. The Foreign Ministry said that members of the embassy had illegally sold large quantities of duty‐free goods to Norwegians, The police also suspect one diplomat of having offered hashish for sale. Last Friday the Government of neighboring Denmark asked for the recall of the North Korean Ambassador and his staff from Copenhagen within six days after the police there uncovered a narcotics network said to have used diplomatic pouches to smuggle 323 pounds of hashish into Denmark. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry said that the four persons who were being expelled here included the chargé d’affaires, Pak Gi Pil. The North Korean Ambassador accredited to Norway is resident in Stockholm, but he has been declared unwelcome here, the ministry statement said. The diplomats were accused of having sold 4,000 bottles of liquor and about 140,000 cigarettes to Norwegians.
President Luis Echeverria Alvarez of Mexico injected unexpected competition into the election of the next Secretary General today by declaring his readiness to run against the incumbent, Kurt Waldheim of Austria. Long rumored to be interested in the post — he steps down as Mexico’s President on December 1 — Mr. Echeverria so far has not attracted significant support among the most influential delegates here. What today’s announcement does, however, is open up what most diplomats had regarded as a cut‐and‐dried affair; Mr. Waldheim, who announced his own readiness to serve another five‐year term last week, has strong pledges of support from most of the major regional groupings of the United Nations.
U.S. Coast Guard and Navy rescue planes failed to find any trace in the Bermuda Triangle of the missing ore carrier Sylvia L. Ossa and its crew of 37. The search was to continue until Wednesday. So far an oil slick. an empty lifeboat. a coil of rope and a signboard with the vessel’s name on it are the only things found.
A 10 percent increase in the price of oil will probably be approved by the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in December, according to the majority of experts gathered for an international conference on energy. The experts also seemed to think that a 15 percent increase was not unlikely and that even a 20 percent hike could result from the OPEC meeting.
The Commerce Department made public today 59 reports from companies that said they had been asked to comply with the Arab states’ boycott of Israel. None of the companies said it would refuse to comply. The department’s move to let reporters look at the documents evidently was part of an Administration effort to validate a promise President Ford made on October 6 during his televised debate with Jimmy Carter to disclose the names of companies that “have participated” in the Arab boycott. Mr. Ford’s use of the past tense may have been a mistake on October 7 the Commerce Department said that companies had submitted reports through October 6 under a promise of confidentiality and that therefore disclosure would apply only to reports filed after Mr. Ford’s announcement of the change of policy. The reports were all filed with the department after October 6. None of the reports said the companies involved would refuse to comply with the boycott’s provisions.
A peace plan for Lebanon was signed by six Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, calling for a cease-fire to take effect Thursday and a 30,000-man Arab force to supervise the withdrawal of the warring Lebanese factions. The announcement tonight said a cease‐fire would begin throughout Lebanon Thursday morning, followed by a withdrawal of the combatants to positions they held before the factional civil war began in April 1975. The statement said the Arab peacekeeping force in Lebanon, under the command of the country’s President, Elias Sarkis, would be increased from its present size of 2,300 troops to a deterrent force of 30,000. it was not made clear whether or not that force would include Syrian troops. The peacekeeping force, the statement said, will separate the warring factions, confiscate all heavy weapons, arrest violators of the truce and help the Lebanese Government to restore public utilities and protect military installations. The force will supervise enforcement of a 1969 Cairo agreement that restricted Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon to refugee camps and the Arkub section, in the southeast. A timetable, made public with the statement, called for the withdrawal of armed units from the central mountains and southern Lebanon within five days after the cease‐fire, withdrawal from Beirut and the capital’s suburbs within seven days, and from the north within 10 days.
Lebanese right-wing Christian forces equipped with Israeli weapons stormed into a Muslim-held military barracks in southern Lebanon today on the second day of an offensive in the area. The rightist Lebanese radio said tonight that Christian forces had captured the barracks at Merj ‘Uyun, five miles from the Israeli border, and Palestinian and Lebanese leftist spokesmen conceded that there had been hand‐to‐hand fighting there. Reports from the area said that a column of heavy smoke was rising from the fortress‐like installation and that refugees from Merj ‘Uyun were clogging the winding mountain roads westward toward the coast. Yesterday, Lebanese Christian militiamen using armored cars and weapons with Hebrew markings occupied the Moslem village of Hannine southwest of Merj ‘Uyun. Israelis have equipped Lebanese Christian militia units in southern Lebanon as part of an apparent move to prevent Palestinian guerrillas from returning to the border area and again becoming a threat to Israel.
Police in the predominantly Muslim city of Muzaffarnagar, in Uttar Pradesh state, India fired into a crowd of demonstrators protesting compulsory sterilization and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s suspension of democracy in India, at least 25 people protesting against compulsory sterilization were killed when Uttar Pradesh police fired into the crowd.
Mao Zedong’s widow was accused of trying to kill the Chairman while he was on his deathbed, according to a wall poster that appeared on the campus of Peking University. The poster also indicated that there had been an argument among Chinese leaders over what to do with Mao’s body, with the leftists allegedly opposing its preservation. Several hundred officially inspired posters attacking Miss Chiang and three of her radical colleagues have been written by staff and students at the university. All are understood to be based on texts and documents made available by the university’s party authorities. Meanwhile, Chinese leftists were accused of having planned a military takeover in Shanghai as part of a plot to gain control of the country. Posters in Shanghai said Ma Tien‐shui, a local party secretary, had armed the city’s one million militiamen in the hope of occupying the radio station, harbor and other key installations.
The U.S. State Department is pressing for the sale of U.S. computer equipment to China despite reservations by the Pentagon and strong protests from the Energy Research and Development Administration. Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. The weekly said that the potential sales involve computers which the State Department maintains would be used by Peking to monitor seismic events. Others maintain that the computers could also be used, as was done by the United States. for nuclear weapons calculations or for a large radar to detect and track intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Japanese hotel tycoon Kenji Osano was questioned by authorities at his Tokyo home in connection with Japan’s $9 million Lockheed payoff scandal, sources at the Tokyo district prosecutor’s office reported. The sources said Osano, 59, owner of several hotels in Hawaii, was questioned for about three hours.
More than a dozen Roman Catholic bishops challenged the right of the church hierarchy in Manila to advise Filipinos to vote in last weekend’s referendum on continuation of martial law. In a church newsletter, the bishops said one of the country’s two cardinals, Julio Rosales, had no right to issue a statement before the vote on behalf of the Conference of Bishops.
Apartheid has eased under his government, according to Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa, but he also said he could not foresee a time when blacks would gain control of the country. In an interview, Mr. Vorster said blacks would continue to he excluded from the mainstream of political life. He added, however, that discriminatory laws that did not serve to prevent racial friction would be scrapped. He said the only purpose of racial laws over the centuries has been to limit friction between different peoples. “Where such rules or regulations become outdated or do not serve that purpose, they will be scrapped and they have been scrapped,” he said, adding, “This is a continuous process.” The 60‐year‐old government leader, chain‐smoking, sat in an armchair in his paneled office in the Union Buildings, a sandstone edifice that looks down on the magnificent Government Gardens, now in bloom in the Southern Hemisphere spring. He spoke in a monotone, rarely lifting his eyes or smiling, and occasionally cut short questions he considered tendentious.
Jimmy Carter’s campaign aides in New York have begun linking him with the fate of New York City and to the coattails of local candidates across the state. Obviously concerned over the Democrat’s apparent slippage in the state, the Carter organization has put out brochures with a headline saying the Democratic ticket would never tell the city to “drop dead” — a reference to a Daily News newspaper headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” published last year.
An important ruling on sex discrimination may emerge from the Supreme Court’s decision to decide whether Philadelphia may have separate public high schools for boys and girls. Five years ago, the Court ruled that a woman-only policy at a South Carolina public college was not unconstitutional.
After clarifying his remarks about Israel, Iran and Britain, General George Brown was supported as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Ford and the Secretary of Defense. Speaking at a news conference, General Brown said that he supported Israel, thought the Shah of Iran was doing a good job of leading his country and said he had spoken out of “compassion” when he said Britain and its military forces were “pathetic.”
Any of six major health insurance proposals would add between $10 billion and $25 billion to the nation’s total health expenditures in 1980 if put into effect next July, a government-funded study contended. But even without national health insurance legislation, total U.S. health spending will rise almost 40% to $223.5 billion by 1980 because of inflation. The report. prepared for the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, said the Health Security Act proposal backed by most of organized labor would cost around $248.3 billion, about the same as competing measures backed by the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association. The Long-Ribicoff bill would cost $233.5 billion, the report said.
A Federal medical investigation has given the swine flu vaccine a clean bill of health and the program here resumed today with a prescription designed to correct what are widely regarded as administrative ills in the national campaign. The national flu immunization program was jolted last week when the Allegheny County Health Department suspended its program because three elderly persons died shortly after they were given flu shots within one hour in the same clinic. The Pittsburgh decision led officials in 11 states to temporarily halt their programs because of concern over possible hidden dangers in the flu vaccine. However, the vaccine was declared safe after tests by Federal scientists showed that nothing was in the vaccine that should not have been there.
Former Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-North Carolina) says President Ford acted “on a partisan basis” to stop the first congressional Watergate investigation when he was House minority leader. But, Ervin said in an interview with a Charlotte, North Carolina, radio station, there is no evidence that Ford acted on orders from President Richard M. Nixon. Ervin said Ford had used his influence in 1972 to halt a House Banking and Currency Committee inquiry into how $114.000 of Nixon’s campaign funds had got into convicted Watergate burglar Bernard L. Barker’s bank account. Ervin, who headed the Senate Watergate committee in 1973. said there was “no question” that Ford had stopped the investigation.
Chaos would result in the American economy if there is another foreign oil embargo, U.S. Interior Secretary Thomas S. Kleppe said in Cincinnati. “If we get shut off today, people will be laid off (from their jobs) like crazy,” he told the city’s Kiwanis Club. “People will go cold. It’s just that serious. An oil embargo now would make the 1973 embargo seem minor. That’s because we’re importing much more oil now than in 1973. We’re in economic bondage to foreign nations. These foreign governments… can throw chaos into our economy and cripple our national security at any time they choose.”
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has begun a drive in Alabama to get the last known surviving “Scottsboro boy” pardoned from a 1946 parole violation. The effort has included an appeal to Governor George C. Wallace by Roy Wilkins, the N.A.A.C.P.’s executive. director. The association’s 92 chapters and 14,000 members in Alabama have been mobilized to work for a pardon for 64‐year‐old Clarence (Willie) Norris, who now lives in Brooklyn.
By the time today’s young people reach retirement age it is likely that one out of every five Americans will be over 65 years old, double the proportion of today. In the view of Dr. Robert N. Butler, first director of the newly created National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, this will transform the people who represented the “greening of America” into those responsible for “the graying of America.” Without an improvement in the way society serves and is served by older people, Dr. Butler believes, this virtually inevitable shift in population could double the burdens of old age both on the elderly and on younger people who pay the rising costs of caring for them.
The United Auto Workers resumed contract talks with General Motors Corp. while Ford Motor Co., the industry pattern-setter, struggled to bring its production back to prestrike levels. A bargaining session to work out details of a three-year agreement for 390,000 workers lasted less than an hour at GM’s headquarters in Detroit. The Ford pact was completed last Tuesday, ending a 28-day strike. Ford said about two-thirds of its 170,000 workers were on the job. But a Ford spokesman said failure to settle local issues could idle some workers again.
The Ford Motor Company launched mass production of its smallest car up to that time, the high mileage Ford Fiesta, produced at its plant at Almussafes near Valencia in Spain.
Opening arguments in the federal perjury retrial in Orlando, Florida, of former Senator Edward J. Gurney (R-Florida) began after the dismissal of two more defense efforts to throw the case out of court. Gurney is being retried on charges of lying to a grand jury when he testified that he did not know that an aide, Larry Williams, was illegally raising funds in his name. Gurney, 62, was acquitted of five charges relating to the scheme in a Tampa trial last year.
Jury selection for the trial of the accused slayer of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, began today behind closed doors and under tight security in a Phoenix courtroom. The process of selecting jurors for the trial of John Harvey Adamson, a former Phoenix tow truck operator charged with the reporter’s killing, was delayed several hours when the judge apparently became concerned about security and released 100 prospective jurors. Superior Court Judge Frederic Heineman of Maricopa County called for a new group of prospects, moved the selection to a smaller courtroom and barred news representatives, who had been allowed into the courtroom during the morning session.
Wendy Yoshimura, underground traveling companion of Patricia Hearst, went on trial here today on charges of illegal possession of a machine gun, destructive devices and explosives. The charges resulted from the discovery in 1972 of a cache of explosives in a Berkeley garage allegedly rented by Miss Yoshimura. She disappeared shortly afterward, but three years later was arrested in a San Francisco apartment with Miss Hearst. The possibility that Miss Hearst might testify against Miss Yoshimura was raised in defense motions made today before selection of a jury began. The defense requested Miss Hearst’s psychiatric records so it could challenge her credibility and mental condition if she were called by the prosecution as a witness.
The Detroit City Council made permanent the 10 PM curfew it adopted in August on an emergency basis. The measure, which required that all persons under the age of 18 be off the streets by 10 PM, was implemented after crime by youths here appeared to soar and a rock concert at Cobo Hall, a huge convention center, was disrupted by several hundred youths. “We believe that the curfew has worked,” Carl M. Levin, the City Council president, said after the adoption of the permanent curfew by a vote of 7 to 1. The new curfew does make exceptions that the emergency measure did not. It provides that young people under 18 who are going to and from work may be out if they have letters from their employers. And it allows people aged 16 and 17 to stay out until 11 PM on Friday and Saturday.
The Federal Communications Commission confirmed its decision not to delay sale of the new 40-channel citizens band radios, scheduled for January 1. It rejected petitions for delay or major changes by several broadcasting and manufacturing groups. The jump to 40 channels from 23 was ordered because of the millions of CBers jamming the airwaves, especially in urban areas. The FCC action will enable makers and distributors to make plans for getting the expanded-channel sets to the stores by January 1.
The Allied Chemical Corp. expressed its regrets to the people of Virginia for kepone pesticide contamination of the James River in a full-page advertisement placed in most Virginia daily newspapers and the Washington Post and New York Times. The ad, which took the form of an open letter, said Allied would expand efforts to “remedy the damage caused by kepone.” Allied pleaded no contest to 940 counts of violating pollution laws and was fined a record $13.2 million.
Clutching a bag full of candy and stuffed rabbit, little Doan Van Binh waved goodbye to his weeping adoptive parents today and was taken away to new life in Montana by his Vietnamese refugee mother. “I wanted to look but I couldn’t,” John Nelson said. “Losing him was like losing a son in death. I just couldn’t watch.” “There is no way, even in my own language, to express the way I feel when see my boy,” said Doan Tri Hoang Ahn, the boy’s real mother. Mr. Nelson, 32 year’s old, and his wife, Bonnie, who have two other children, took the 4‐year‐old they call Ben into their home 18 months ago after his family fled war‐torn Saigon. Mrs. Doan had fought to regain the child for more than a year and won a court victory last month requiring the Nelsons to turn him over to her. Legal records show that Mrs. Doan escaped to Saigon with her seven children from the Central Highlands during the last days of the Vietnam War. Her husband was killed in the war. She left the children with the Friends of Children of Vietnam Orphanage, but refused to give her consent for their adoption. Six were brought to the United States and she regained custody of five. The other child is in France.
Three more American scientists have been awarded Nobel Prizes. Sweden’s Royal Academy announced that Prof. Burton Richter of Stanford University and Prof. Samuel C. Ting of M.I.T. would share the physics prize for their separate discoveries of a new elemental particle. Prof. William Liscomb of Harvard was awarded the chemistry prize for his work on the structure and bonding mechanisms of boranes.
NFL Monday Night Football:
The New England Patriots clobber the New York Jets, 41–7. Steve Grogan’s 103 yards rushing, the first 100-yard effort ever by a Patriots’ quarterback, and two touchdowns led New England to a club record 330 yards rushing. Andy Johnson opened the scoring for the Patriots on a four-yard run and scored again on a 10-yard pass from Grogan. Grogan got his first TD in the second quarter when he picked up teammate Don Calhoun’s fumble at the Jets’ 6 and ran it in for the score.
New York Jets 7, New England Patriots 41
Stock prices rose sharply as the Dow Jones industrial average gained 9.56 points to close at 946.56. The credit markets seemed to have second thoughts about the near-term outlook for interest rates.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 946.56 (+9.56, +1.02%)
Born:
John Engelberger, German-born NFL defensive end (San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos), in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, West Germany.
Mike Leach, NFL long snapper (Tennessee Titans, Denver Broncos, Arizona Cardinals), in Dover, New Jersey.
Curtis Keaton, NFL running back (Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints), in Columbus, Ohio.
Michael Tejera, Cuban MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins, Texas Rangers), in La Habana, Cuba.
Died:
Paul Schmidt, 78, German aeronautical engineer who helped develop the pulsejet for use in German V-1 missiles during World War II.
Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro, 84, Italian Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna and cardinal within the Roman Catholic Church.
Count Ossie (stage name for Oswald Williams), 50, Jamaican band leader and Rastafari music drummer, was killed in an auto accident.
