A triple veto in the U.N. Security Council by Britain, France and the United States blocked a resolution that would have embargoed arms shipments to South Africa in an effort to make that country yield control of South-West Africa and accede to free electrons in that territory. The three countries that blocked the Council action objected on the ground that it could upset the diplomatic efforts by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to induce South Africa to accept terms for a conference on independence for Namibia. Namibia is the name used here for South‐West Africa. Speaking for the United States, William W. Scranton told the Council that “substantial progress” had been made in negotiations between Secretary Kissinger and Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa. He declared that “for the first time there are prospects for results.” Voting for the embargo were the Soviet Union, China, Sweden and the seven sponsors of the resolution: Guyana, Benin (formerly Dahomey), Libya, Pakistan, Panama, Rumania and Tanzania. Japan and Italy abstained. This was the second triple veto cast by the Western powers to block a resolution calling for an arms embargo against South Africa. They took the same action in June 1975 on a similar resolution that also had been pressed by third‐world countries. They also used their veto power a year earlier to prevent expulsion of South Africa from the United Nations.
A dozen Jewish Presidents said tonight that they had been taken to a forest outside Moscow and beaten by plainclothesmen after a two‐day sit‐in at an administrative building of the Supreme Soviet. Their injuries were mostly bruises, although one man suffered a broken nose and another a black eye. The men had all been refused emigration visas and had gone to the Supreme Soviet, which is the country’s legislative body, to ask for written statements on how long they would have to wait to leave and what the reasons were for denying them permission. Arkady Polishchuk, a former editor of the magazine Asia and Africa Today, said the group had stayed in a reception room all day yesterday and all day today. About 5:30 yesterday, he said, about 30 plainclothesmen had evicted them from the building, put them into a bus and let them out at the edge of Moscow. Today the pattern was repeated, except that the bus went to a forest about 35 to 40 miles outside the city, the men said. “They ordered us out of the bus,” Mr. Polishchuk reported. “We said we wouldn’t leave. it was very dark. We didn’t know where we were and we were afraid.” The plainclothesmen pushed and dragged the Jews from the bus, he said, and for what some of the demonstrators estimated was 30 minutes, chased them through the woods., pummeling and kicking them.
The prosecution demanded life imprisonment at the start of a trial for two Palestinians accused of murdering four El Al passengers last August in Istanbul. Previously the prosecutor had said he would seek the death penalty for the two. They are accused of the four murders and of injuring 22 other persons by setting off bombs and indiscriminately firing weapons in a departure hall at Istanbul’s Yesilkoy Airport. One of the fatalities in the guerrilla attack was Harold W. Rosenthal, 29, an administrative aide to Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-New York.).
A conservative trend emerged today from two‐day Finnish local elections as virtually complete returns showed gains for non‐Socialist parties mainly at the expense of the Social Democrats. The Center and Conservative Parties and other non‐Socialist groups together captured about 56 percent of the vote against 44 percent for the Social Democrats and Communists. Compared with the last local elections four years ago, the non‐Socialist parties increased their share of the vote by 1.7 percentage points and now control about 70 percent of Finland’s local councils. The elections, which ended yesterday, play an important role for the Finnish people because local councils are in direct control of much of the country’s taxation and public spending. The balloting was also the first indication of the country’s political mood since the 1975 general elections, which produced a coalition Government led by the Center Party.
Officials in Denmark said five North Korean diplomats who were ordered expelled for black market activities may have been trying to raise money for diplomatic duties. They said the Koreans sold tariff-free cigarettes, liquor and narcotics but not to line their own pockets. Sources in South Korea said the North Korean government lacks money to feed its diplomats abroad.
The Republic of Ireland blocked its eight partners in the European Common Market in their effort to extend the economic community’s fishing zones to 200 miles offshore on January 1. The refusal came in a stormy session of Common Market foreign ministers in Luxembourg. Ireland maintained it did not want to agree to the planned 200-mile zone until it received guarantees safeguarding the interests of Irish inshore fishermen.
Police in Spain arrested Luis Lucio Lobato, 58, a Communist leader, and two Basque defense lawyers, Juan Maria Bandres and Miguel Castell, in an apparent crackdown on political amnesty demands from Spain’s leftist opposition. Lobato, imprisoned more than 25 years during the Franco regime, had been freed from prison only two months ago under a general amnesty decreed by King Juan Carlos. Bandres reportedly was released after his detention. Police declined to discuss the arrests.
Pope Paul VI, 79, suffering from arthritis of the knees, is considering appointing a deputy to take over some of his tasks, the Milan newspaper Il Giornale reported. The Vatican refused to confirm or deny the report. Appointment of a deputy would be unprecedented in Roman Catholic history. The paper described the report as “unconfirmed rumor,” but nevertheless said that an announcement on the subject would come before the end of the month.
Twelve of the 15 crew on the Dutch freighter Gabriella died after abandoning the sinking ship in rough seas during a storm off the coast of Cape Race, Newfoundland in Canada. One survivor and eight crew who died from hypothermia were found in a life raft.
A number of American companies that do business with Arab nations voiced strong indignation yesterday after finding their names on a list of concerns asked by Arab states to comply with a boycott of Israel. The list, made public by the Department of Commerce on Monday, originally contained the names of 38 companies that had reported receiving an Arab boycott request since October 6. The department added 20 companies to the list yesterday. None of the companies contacted were willing to admit complicity of any kind in an Arab boycott of Israel or Israeli products. In Chicago, Martin Lewin, president of James B. Beam Distilling Company, who identified himself as Jewish, said he was “angry, embarrassed and surprised” to find his company on the list.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, taking issue with a statement by General George S. Brown. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last night that Israel was not “a military burden” for the United States but rather “a staunch bastion of democracy” and “not a liability.” General Brown was quoted earlier this week in an interview with Ranan R. Lurie, a contributing editor and cartoonist for Newsweek International, as suggesting, in response to a direct question, that Israel was a military “burden” for the United States. The interview was to be published this weekend in an article distributed by King Features Syndicate. Without mentioning General Brown by name last night, Mr. Kissinger departed from the prepared text of a speech on human rights he delivered at the Synagogue Council of America’s 50th anniversary public dinner at Essex House to say that “in our joint efforts, we consider Israel, not as a burden, but as strong asset, not as a liability, but as a staunch bastion of democracy.”
The Air Force’s top Middle East intelligence expert today assailed General George S. Brown’s comments on Israel’s being an American burden as “dangerously irresponsible” and said they were indicative of a growing “tilt against Israel in the Defense Department.” Joseph Churba, the Air Force’s senior intelligence official for the Middle East, said that the remarks made by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—and subsequently modified by him — would contribute further to a “mood,” a “rising tide of criticism” he said he has detected within the Pentagon to denigrate the importance of Israel’s ties to the United States. It is an issue that has concerned the 43‐year‐old analyst for some months. It led him to make the unusually blunt criticism of the top service officer in a series of telephone conversations with The New York Times from a hospital bed where he is being treated for back trouble.
The arrest of Asher Yadlin, a high Israeli official, on suspicion of bribery and fraud, has embarrassed and shaken Israel’s ruling Labor Party and has led to speculation that the scandal could widen to include illegal campaign contributions.
The Battle of Aishiya was fought in Lebanon. The Aishiyeh massacre was a massacre in 1976 in Aishiya, Lebanon, of more than 70 Lebanese Christian civilians, including at least 7 under the age of 16, by the Palestinian factions Fatah and As-Sa’iqa during the Lebanese Civil War. Four people were reported to be executed and one was burned alive. The village was depopulated and used as Palestine Liberation Organization base of operation. The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence estimated that at least 100 people were injured in the attack.
Lebanese Christian and Muslim militia forces shelled each other’s residential quarters here today as the Arab leaders’ plan for a cease‐fire in Lebanon beginning Thursday was welcomed by the few politicians who made statements. For a few hours in the morning, there was a lull in the shelling. But the exchanges of rocket, mortar and artillery fire then resumed, killing and wounding scores of civilians and in the view of many, casting doubt on the prospects for any quick peace as a result of last night’s agreement by six Arab leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As interpreted here, the Riyadh accord appears to mean that Syria’s President, Hafez al‐Assad has received a mandate from his fellow Arab leaders to continue Syrian political and military intervention in Lebanon but under the supervision of the other Arab powers. That supervision, however, is not expected to be overly strict. In addition, Yasir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, appears to have saved the Palestinian leadership from a Syrian‐imposed shakeup but little more.
China’s new authorities today stepped up their evidently well‐organized campaign against Mao Zedong’s widow, Chiang Ching, and three other senior leftists with an editorial attacking those who “engage in conspiracies and attempt to usurp party and state power.” The editorial did not identify the four by name, but in the elliptical style of Chinese political debate, it was by far the clearest and most forceful attack yet in the official press. Miss Chiang and the others, Chang Chun‐chiao, Wang Hung‐wen and Yao Wen‐yuan, were arrested October 6 or 7 and according to reports circulating in Peking, were variously charged with distorting Mao’s words or plotting to assassinate the new party chairman, Hua Kuo‐feng. The appearance of the editorial, which now becomes the official version of events for Chinese to study, suggests that Mr. Hua and his associates are moving rapidly to justify their actions and preparing to finish off the leftists. Over the last few days, the leftists have seemed to lose virtually all their known strongholds — the press, the city of Shanghai, the urban militia force, and Peking and Tsinghua universities in the capital. Today’s editorial, published by the party paper, Jenmin Jih Pao, made what analysts here saw as an ingenious move to turn the earlier anti‐rightist campaign around against the leftists.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, under indictment on charges of accepting $1.8 million from Lockheed to promote plane sales, denied the charges. In a Japanese magazine article Tanaka claimed innocence and indicated his intention to seek reelection to parliament.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos appeared to have won a new decisive vote of confidence for his martial law policies. Nationwide returns from last weekend’s referendum, with 10% of the votes tabulated, showed a trend of 90% or better in “yes” votes for the government.
Venezuelan and United States authorities reported today that a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles had recently plotted a “vast” number of terrorist actions in the hemisphere, using connections with top-ranking Venezuelan Government figures to protect themselves.
A slowing of the growth rate of the American economy, from an annual rate of 4.5 percent in the second quarter to 4 percent in the third, was reported by the Department of Commerce. Jimmy Carter said the new figures showed a lackluster recovery that could come to a stop. The Ford Administration, for its part, emphasized an improved inflation picture during the July‐September quarter, which was included in the G.N.P. report. it also cheered a separate Commerce Department report on housing starts showing a sharp advance of 17.6 percent during September to an annual rate of 1.81 mil, lion, the highest monthly level since February 1974. The 4 percent annual rate of gain it the gross national product was very close to the forecasts that have prevailed for the last few weeks. However, it is far below the levels that Administration and private economists had projected through the summer.
Jimmy Carter was in Harlem for the first of three appearances in New York City aimed at shoring up traditional Democratic strength among blacks, Roman Catholics and Jews. “I need you” was his message to a chilled but enthusiastic street-corner crowd. He will address the Alfred E. Smith Dinner on Thursday and appear at a garment district rally next Wednesday. Carter began the final two weeks of his campaign today by blaming President Ford for the continued existence of the Arab boycott of companies doing business with Israel, and without saying how he intended to do so, vowing to put an end to it if he is elected.
President Ford criticized Jimmy Carter today for saying that the defense budget should be cut in favor of welfare programs. While Mr. Ford did not mention his Democratic opponent by name, he left no doubt whom he had in mind as he accepted an award from a veterans group in the Rose Garden shortly after noon. “Let me be very blunt,” he said, “Those who preach to us that we must slash billions of dollars from our military forces fail to understand that our armed forces are the bulwark of freedom throughout the world. Those who preach to us about withdrawing our military forces from around the globe fail to understand that America’s presence and America’s continuing commitment to our allies is the single greatest force in the world today.”
September gains in housing starts reached the highest level since February 1974, the Department of Commerce said. The seasonally adjusted figure for new units started gave an annual rate of 1.81 million, up 17.6 percent over August. The surge was strongest in the apartment sector, an increase attributed to federal distribution of money and commitments for low-income housing.
The Administration has moved to delay for another year a census of the nation’s public school systems to determine the composition of schools by race, sex and other factors. Civil rights leaders met in Washington for more than an hour with officials of the Office of Management and Budget to protest against the delay, which they called “an outrage.” They said the collection of such information was essential to the federal enforcement of many antidiscrimination laws. The unannounced delay was disclosed in an October 5 OMB letter to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But after the Tuesday meeting with civil rights leaders, OMB official Fernando Oaxaca said the letter actually did not represent a final decision. That would be made in a few days, he said.
The Ford Administration has assured the nation’s regulated truckers it will modify a section of its regulatory reform bill designed to lower consumer prices by increasing competition in the trucking industry. Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr. gave the assurances to top officials of the American Trucking Association in a speech in Washington Monday punctuated by criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. The Administration bill is strongly opposed by regulated trucking firms.
The Labor Department moved in federal court to oppose a suit that would force the Teamsters Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund to grant a $40 million lean to the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas “The department is seeking to intervene to protect the assets of the fund and to prevent payments which would be illegal” under the 1974 pension reform law, said William J. Kilberg, the department’s chief counsel. The suit, filed in Las Vegas earlier this year by M&R Investment, Inc., the Dunes’ operators, seeks to force the pension fund to meet terms of the loan, agreed to in early 1975 to finance an addition to the Dunes.
Energy prices — not energy policies — are providing most of the incentives to conserve scarce fuel resources, Lawrence M. Horowitz, senior economist for the forecasting affiliate of Chase Manhattan Bank, said during a speech in Chicago. Addressing the city’s annual “Use Energy Wisely Week” luncheon, Horowitz linked American energy use to the nation’s production of goods and services, noting that it took 17% less energy in 1975 to produce $1 worth of the gross national product than it did in 1974.
Oil companies have “a long way to go to earn back the respect of the American people,” which they lost as the result of the Arab embargo and ensuing oil and gasoline price increases, federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb said while campaigning for President Ford in New Hampshire. One way they could accomplish this, he said, is to demonstrate that they have the consumer’s interest at heart. Zarb also said the government is presently stockpiling oil reserves in an effort to minimize effects of any future embargo.
Starting next August, the United States will begin stockpiling strategic petroleum reserves in vast underground sites to help offset the impact of any future oil embargo, said Tom Noel, assistant federal energy administrator. Two years ago, Congress approved creation of a reserve of up to one billion barrels of oil. In 10 months’ time, Noel said, between 40.000 and 50,000 barrels of oil per day will start flowing into eight storage areas, moving toward a goal of a 150million-barrel reserve by 1978. More storage locations will be selected later, he said.
Attorneys in the Chowchilla kidnapping case argued in Madera County Superior Court today whether the three defendants could get a fair trial and an unprejudiced jury if the current gag order on evidence and on court officers was lifted. The defendants. Fred N. Woods, James L. Schoenfeld, and his brother, Richard A. Schoenfeld, listened as their lawyers told Judge Jack L. Hammerberg that justice would be served only if he made permanent his temporary order forbidding those involved in the case from discussing it with the public or press and sealing the transcript of the grand jury hearings that led to the indictments. The three young men have each been indicted on 27 felony counts of kidnapping, five felony counts of kidnapping with bodily injury and 18 counts of robbery in the July 15. kidnapping’ of 26 elementary schoolchildren and their bus driver on a road near Chowchilla. They are being held in $1 million bail each in the Alameda County Jail.
An accidental waterfall prevented thousands from entering or leaving the North Tower of the World Trade Center for three hours during and after the lunch hour. A clogged pump for a new plaza fountain was blamed. Some office workers said pedestrian traffic congestion was unbearable in the building at lunchtime even with the passageway open.
The Nation of Islam has changed its name to discourage the view that it is a black separatist group, a spokesman said. Chief Minister Honorable Wallace D. Muhammad proposed last week in Chicago that the name be changed to the World Community of Islam in the West. Muhammad became chief minister after his father and founder of the group. Elijah Muhammad, died. Almost immediately the son began trying to change the group’s image and announced that persons of races other than black could join. “We are not Black Muslims and never have been.” the spokesman said. “We’re not black separatists.” He said the Black Muslim name had been imposed by some members of the media. “We never accepted that term,” he said.
A permanent arbitrator has ruled that Teamsters Union Local 950 violated a portion of the trans-Alaska pipeline TAPS agreement set by the National Pipeline Act when workers walked off jobs at Fairbanks pipeyards last Thursday. The work stoppage has continued even though arbitrator John Kagel ruled against it. But spokesman Lou Cancelmi of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said he believed work would be resumed today. Teamster spokesman Dean Berg said, however, he was not prepared to comment. The work halt came in a far-reaching jurisdictional dispute between the Teamsters and the Laborers Union over removal of equipment from pipeline work sites as the project nears completion.
The most commonly used aspirin substitute, safe if taken in proper doses, can cause severe liver damage and even death in cases of overdose, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Acetaminophen, marketed under a number of trade names, is safe and useful as an alternative to aspirin, but is a leading cause of liver injury in Britain because of misuse, according to Dr. Brittain Melunkin of Pittsburgh.
Two pilots of note, General James M. Doolittle and Neil A. Armstrong, announced yesterday plans to honor one of the most celebrated aviators with the establishment of the Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Fund to support the work of young scientists, explorers and conservationists.
The Copyright Act of 1976 extended copyright protection for an additional 19 years in the United States, and was the first major revision of U.S. copyright protection since 1909.
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) was placed on the list of the world’s endangered species.
Major League Baseball, World Series Game 3:
The Reds win again, 6–2, to take a 3–0 lead in the series. In the first World Series game at the newly renovated Yankee Stadium, the Reds struck first with three runs off starter Dock Ellis. Dan Driessen hit a leadoff single, stole second and scored on an RBI double by George Foster, After Johnny Bench singled, an RBI force-out by César Gerónimo made it 2–0 Reds. Geronimo stole second and scored on an RBI single by Dave Concepción to cap the inning’s scoring. Dan Driessen smacked a home run in the fourth. In the bottom of the inning, the Yankees got on the board on Oscar Gamble’s single off of Pat Zachry. A seventh inning home run by Jim Mason — the 500th home run in the history of the World Series — cut the Reds’ lead to 4–2. Mason became the first of two players to hit a home run in his only World Series at-bat, the second being Geoff Blum in 2005 for the Chicago White Sox. The Reds got both runs back in the eighth on Joe Morgan’s RBI double off Grant Jackson after two leadoff singles and Foster’s RBI single off Dick Tidrow. This game featured a slick defensive play by Grant Jackson in the top of the seventh. Johnny Bench hit a hard grounder up the middle which appeared to be a sure base hit, but Jackson speared the ball with his glove behind his back and retired Bench. This was the first World Series game at Yankee Stadium to open with opera star Robert Merrill’s famous rendition of the National Anthem.
Cincinnati Reds 6, New York Yankees 2
The Dow Jones industrial average, after dropping more than 4 points in the morning session, moved up for a gain for the day of 3.41 points, closing at 949.97. Bond prices dropped and a new Bell System $175 million issue marketed at a yield of 8.25 percent, were less than 25 percent sold at closing.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 949.97 (+3.41, +0.36%)
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Desmond Harrington, American TV actor (“Dexter”); in Savannah, Georgia.
Omar Gooding, American TV actor (“Family Time”) and comedian; in Los Angeles, California.
Michael Young, MLB shortstop, third baseman, and second baseman (All-Star, 2004–2009, 2011); in Covina, California.
Jason Shiell, MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves), in Savannah, Georgia.
Jeff Austin, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds), San Bernardino, California.
Dan Smith, Canadian NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche, Edmonton Oilers), in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada.
Rob Shearer, Canadian NHL centre (Colorado Avalanche), in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Pete Loeffler, American rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Chevelle — “The Red”; “Jar”), in Grayslake, Illinois.
Joseph Andrew Duplantier, French-American heavy metal guitarist and vocalist (Gojira), in Paris, France.
