A U.S. Information Agency official said in Washington that leaked polls showing American prestige in Europe to be at its lowest point in 22 years probably were misleading since the polls did not reflect an even lower rating two years ago at the height of Watergate. John Shirley, assistant USIA director for Europe. acknowledged that no similar poll was taken at that time. but said. “U.S. prestige was probably even lower.”
The U.N. General Assembly elected West Germany, Canada, India, Mauritius, and Venezuela to the Security Council. It was the first time either of the two Germanys had been chosen to sit on the council. Italy, Japan, Sweden, Tanzania, and Guyana will leave the council at the end of the year. The secret-ballot election leaves East Germany as the only part of the World War II Axis powers not to be chosen for council membership.
Jewish dissidents resumed their sit-in at the Supreme Soviet reception office in Moscow after holding what their leaders said was an unsatisfactory meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs. According to the leaders, the ministers would not take responsibility nor investigate the beating of protesters on Tuesday.
Michael Foot, a leftist, was elected deputy leader of the governing Labor Party today. He defeated Shirley Williams by 166 votes to 128. They were the only two candidates and the result will be examined carefully to determine whether the party is moving to the left or right. Mrs. Williams, a 46‐year‐old moderate is Secretary for Education and Science in the Labor Party Government. Mr. Foot, 63, is Lord President of the Council in the Cabinet.
Martin J. Hillenbrand, who retired last week as Ambassador to West Germany, has criticized Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s conduct of foreign policy in a secret cablegram and in two newspaper interviews. Mr. Hillenbrand, who served most of his diplomatic career in posts associated with Germany, accused Mr. Kissinger of having “little use” for his professional experience and of running the State Department as “a one‐way street.”
A smuggling operation organized by North Korean diplomats in Scandinavia was directed from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, informed Swedish sources believe. These Swedes are also convinced that the purpose of the operation was to raise badly needed foreign currency to help finance the day‐to‐day needs and the propaganda activities of North Korean embassies. Until now, the origin of the smuggling campaign and the motives behind it were matters of conjecture and debate. With a link firmly established between the black‐market activities and the North Koreans, informed sources here expect that the staff members of the North Korean Embassy will be expelled in a matter of days. Some members have already left.
Beirut was quiet as the first formal cease-fire in seven months took effect. There were occasional shots from snipers, and a few rounds of artillery fire fell in the Moslem residential area of the city. The leftist-Muslim alliance radio said at nightfall that the cease-fire was about 60 percent effective. Many residents of the city, however, seemed to be taking a wary attitude, avoiding the streets. The night before the truce was marked by one of the longest uninterrupted shellings of the Lebanese civil war as the residential areas of both the Muslim and Christian sides were raked by artillery, rocket and machine‐gun fire. The cease‐fire that began at dawn raised the number of such efforts to halt the Lebanese civil war to about 60 in the year and a half of fighting. The latest cease‐fire was worked out in the Saudi Arabian city of Riyadh by the Presidents of Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, the ruler of Kuwait and Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran has rebuked “our good Palestinian friends” for trying to “bully the world” by “terrorism and blackmail.” Without naming Yasser Arafat leader or the Palestine Liberation Organization he said the Palestinians should “open their eyes” and “start a new policy.” The problem of Palestinian terrorism which has struck in the Arab would as well as against Israelis and others, came up in the Shah’s interview with Mike Wallace of CBS News, to be broadcast on the network on Sunday. Other topics ranged from denials of bribery and torture in Iran to an acknowledgment of his secret agents’ political surveillance of Iranian students in the United States. The interview was taped in Tehran on October 12, preceding the meeting of Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia at which Mr. Arafat, who had been under pressure from friends of the Shah such as King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt, agreed on a peace plan for Lebanon.
Sixty‐seven Indian journalists sent Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a letter today protesting Government action against the Indian Express and other newspapers. A spokesman for the journalists said copies of the letter were distributed around the country and would be returned to New Delhi with more signatures this week. The Express has been battling the Government since Mrs. Gandhi declared a national emergency and imposed censorship 16 months ago. The paper’s electricity was cut off and its presses padlocked earlier this month, but a court ordered the power restored and the presses freed. “The manner in which various authorities appear to he acting suggests an orchestrated effort on the part of the Government to cripple and silence an independent journal,” the letter said. “As professional journalists committed to a free press, we are gravely disturbed.”
Some of the people arrested in recent anti‐Communist drives and designated as “public enemies” could face up to 12 years in prison if they do not reform in a re‐education program, a senior Bangkok, Thailand police officer said today. Police Chief Vichien Sangkaew of Bangkok said at a news conference that 200 such “enemies,” mostly students would be detained for 30 days. Those considered “hard core” would be sent to a suburban prison in Bangkok for tin to two months of re‐education and vocational training. He, gave no further, details of the re education program. Mr. Vichien denied rumors of police mistreatment of prisoners. A decree on martial law allows authorities to arrest and investigate those Suspected of Communist activities and others trying to “create chaos in the country.
China announced today that the Central Committee under the leadership of Hua Kuofeng had “shattered” an attempt by four senior leftists, including Mao Zedong’s widow, Chiang Ching, to “usurp party and state power.” The announcement contained the first official report to the Chinese people of Mr. Hua’s appointment as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese press agency, Hsinhua, in making the extraordinary disclosure said “the party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua Kuo‐feng adopted resolute and decisive measures to crush the counterrevolutionary conspiratorial clique and liquidated a bane inside the party.” Hsinhua gave no details on the fate of the four leftists, who have reportedly been under arrest since about October 6. Analysts said they did not interpret the phrasing to mean that the four had actually been executed, though the possibility could not be excluded.
With the emergence of Hua Kuo-feng as China’s new leader and the downfall of the so-called leftists, China has undergone its most important political changes since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s. Ultimately, the events of the last six weeks, since Mao Zedong died on September 9, may prove to be the most significant since the Communists came to power in 1949. In Peking today, large crowds paraded through the streets to denounce the leftists as the campaign against them spread from Shanghai to the capital. Peking television said it would broadcast two important programs on Saturday and Monday. The announcement was taken here as an indication that the new leaders might be ready to make a public announcement on the recent events, but after all the unexpected developments, analysts were wary of making predictions. It would appear, however, that the triumph of Mr. Hua and his allies brings back to power a group of men who followed an orderly, conventional course in the 1950’s and early 1960’s before Mao intervened to check them in the Cultural Revolution. If their policies in those earlier years are any guide, there may now be more stress on economic growth, social discipline, fewer disruptive political campaigns, an improvement of education, an upgrading of the role of technology, more advanced weapons, and perhaps more material incentives and foreign trade. China would become more bureaucratic and less revolutionary.
More than 200 members of Parliament demanded today that Prime Minister Takeo Miki sign and hand over office to Deputy Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. A group of anti‐Miki factions within the governing Liberal Democratic Party adopted the declaration at a meeting today. It said 245 of the 392 Liberal Democratic Party members of both houses of Parliament attended the meeting. Mr. Miki has been under heavy attack from within the party for the last six months for what his opponents allege is weak leadership. He also has been criticized for his handling of the Lockheed payoff scandal by some conservative politicians who have said he has conducted the investigation without regard for political consequences. The anti‐Miki forces said today they wanted Mr. Miki replaced for the sake of party unity before a general election that is expected to be held December 5.
More than 1,000 metric tons of Japan’s spent nuclear fuel is to be reprocessed in Britain and France under an agreement reached between the three countries, it was announced in Tokyo. (A metric ton weighs about 2,200 pounds.) Britain gave the go-ahead for the deal earlier this year despite protests by ecologists objecting to the transport and the storage of the fuel.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki signed an agreement in Tokyo aimed at enhancing trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. Trudeau said the accord ” makes good sense because it is modern and sophisticated — a major advance over the conventional, more narrow form of trade agreements.”
The United States and Panama have resumed high-level negotiations in Panama for a new canal treaty. Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd said in Panama City that there had been some progress on lower-level discussions on one of the two chief points in dispute-how much land and water will remain in U.S. hands until Panama gets full control over the waterway. But Boyd said Panama had not been able to obtain a clear U.S. position on the other major unresolved issue — the duration of the proposed treaty.
Two Venezuelans held at Port of Spain, Trinidad, in connection with the crash of a Cuban airliner will be deported to Venezuela, official sources said. The decision, sources said, was made at a meeting of five Caribbean countries — Cuba, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. The men were to be transferred today. The Cuban DC-8 crashed off Barbados October 6, killing 73, and a Cuban exile group claimed responsibility. Any of the five nations at the meeting could have brought charges against the two under international and air piracy laws.
U.S. State Department officials said today that there had been a sharp deterioration in relations with Guyana as a result of a charge by that country’s Prime Minister that the United States was ultimately “responsible” for the crash October 6 of a sabotaged Cuban airliner.
Argentina military sources said that an American woman shot to death in Cordoba was a member of the leftist Montoneros and was killed while she was trying to throw a grenade at police. The woman, Chris Ana Olson Oliva, 30, was the daughter of Carl Olson, a vice president of Kaiser Industries of Oakland, the firm that developed Argentina’s automobile industry. She was married to an Argentine citizen but the couple had been separated for two years, the sources said. Her husband, who was not identified, was not engaged in guerrilla activities, they said.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith threatened to walk out on Geneva talks on the future of his country if black nationalists “undermine” the U.S.-British package deal he accepted last month. His threat was made after arriving for informal talks preceding the October 28 start of the conference called by Britain to work out an interim government that would guide Rhodesia toward black majority rule in two years. A dispute over defense and security positions during the interim, biracial government spurred his intransigence.
Diplomatic recognition will not be granted to the Transkei, a “homeland” for 3 million blacks in South Africa, when it receives its official independence from South Africa next week, according to the State Department. The decision was expected since no other country has indicated it will recognize the Transkei either. But as recently as three days ago, the department said no decision had been reached.
U.S. President Gerald Ford signed three bills into law on the same day. The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act created new procedures and rights for civil and criminal suits against foreign nations in U.S. courts. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (which repealed all existing Homestead Acts including the century-old Kinkaid Act) provided new requirements for use of federally owned lands. Another measure authorized the residents of the United States Virgin Islands and of Guam to organize limited self-government and to create their own constitutions, to take effect within 60 days after submission unless the U.S. Congress objected.
A get-out-the-vote campaign in Ohio by the state’s Labor Federation may spell the difference in the presidential election. Ohio is now the most closely contested large state and no Republican has ever won without carrying it. Jimmy Carter and President Ford are running fairly evenly in the rest of the Middle West and Ohio’s 25 electoral votes could tip the balance for either candidate.
Both presidential candidates appeared at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York City to test their appeal before one of the most prominent Catholic audiences in the country. President Ford and Jimmy Carter interrupted their preparation for the last debate to go to the dinner, an indication of its importance. President Ford and Jimmy Carter will meet in Williamsburg, Virginia tomorrow night in a historically rich and tranquil setting for their final pre-election confrontation before a mass television audience.
President Ford signed a bill that will increase federal payments to about 1.000 county governments where there are large blocks of federal lands that cannot be taxed locally. The greatest impact is in the West, where there are thousands of square miles of federally owned grazing land, national parks and forests and reservoirs. In all, 40 states are affected. Los Angeles County expects to receive $411.234 under the bill. The Ford Administration had opposed the measure but in the end the GOP leadership in the Senate dropped its opposition and Ford agreed to sign. The measure, it is estimated, will add $120 million to the budget.
President Ford yesterday ordered that 1,550 jet airliners that do not meet current noise standards be muffled or replaced in a program that would start January 1 and be completed over the next eight years. The President also called on William T. Coleman Jr., Secretary of Transportation, to hold prompt public hearings on whether the industry might need additional financial help to meet such timetable. The noise policy statement was read by Mr. Ford at Kennedy International Airport, a prime focus of contention in the protracted struggle to curb the environmental impact of planes without stifling travel and commerce. Interrupted twice by raucous jets, the President castigated Congress for not passing his bill on regulatory reform of aviation and the Civil Aeronautics Board for its “outmoded regulatory approach.”
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica dismissed a suit brought in Washington, D.C., by low-income women attempting to block the government from implementing a new anti-abortion law. He ruled that the women had failed to demonstrate that the law barring Medicaid payments for abortions performed as a “method of family planning or for emotional or social convenience” would prevent the District of Columbia or Virginia from paying for abortions. Sirica said that under recent Supreme Court rulings plaintiffs must show there is a substantial likelihood of injury. Without that showing, he said, his court lacked jurisdiction.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s name was ordered removed from the Liberal Party’s slate by a State Supreme Court justice who said the method by which Mr. Moynihan had obtained the party’s nomination for Senator from New York was illegal. The decision arose from a suit filed by the head of the Conservative Party, who charged that the Liberals had run a “dummy” primary candidate.
Consumer prices rose by the smallest amount for any month since April and food prices did not change at all in September, the Labor Department reported. The rise of four-tenths of 1 percent coupled with a reduction in the work week, however, combined to reduce purchasing power for the second straight month.
Bank earnings are expected to be unchanged for 1976, although there was an upward trend in the second half of the year, according to bank industry analysts. The industry has been recovering slowly from the recession and the analysts think the worst is over. Big losses are still resulting from loans gone sour during the economic downswing, but they are expected to be manageable.
Charles O’Brien, a key figure in the inquiry into the disappearance of James R. Hoffa, has been convicted of accepting a car from an auto dealership where the teamsters union was organizing employees. Mr. O’Brien, foster son of the former International Brotherhood of Teamsters president, was convicted yesterday by Federal court jury of accepting a 1974 Vega from a Detroit car dealer and paying nothing for it. The action violates national labor law and Mr. O’Brien faces up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine on the misdemeanor charge.
A mistrial was declared today in the trial of John Harvey Adamson, who is accused of murdering Don Bolles, a newsman. The judge, Frederic Heineman, said in Superior Court that pretrial publicity made it impossible to select a fair jury now. He made the announcement at an emergency hearing. In rapid sequence, a defense attorney moved for a mistrial, a prosecutor joined In the motion and the judge declared that there had been “sufficient prejudicial publicity in recent weeks to warrant a mistrial.” “A mistrial is ordered,” said the judge. He said the trial should be rescheduled no later than December 20, when a new panel of prospective jurors would be called. However, he refused a motion to transfer the trial to another county.
Reactor engineer Ronald M. Fluegge, who is quitting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, charged that the government is letting more than half the nation’s nuclear power plants operate with a potential for a catastrophic accident. He called for immediate shutdown of 36 nuclear power reactors that use pressurized water-cooling systems until steps are taken to eliminate the possibility they might be inadvertently overpressurized. NRC official Bernard C. Rusche acknowledged that some reactors had been overpressurized while starting up but said there were wide margins of safety and the incidents had not warranted halting the reactors.
A private nuclear fuel plant planned by an industrial consortium is undergoing a “reappraisal” because Congress failed to pass enabling legislation. The consortium, however, stopped short of saying that it was abandoning the project. The plant, which was to be built by Uranium Enrichment Associates, had been expected to provide fuel for up to 90 American and foreign nuclear power plants.
African-American activist H. Rap Brown, an advocate for the Black Power movement in the U.S. during the 1960s, was paroled from prison, where he had been serving a 15-year sentence for robbery and assault.
Washington’s Puget Sound “fish war” over salmon fishing rights has flared again in a seaborne riot pitting dozens of fishing boats against teargas-throwing fishery agents on six state patrol boats. A Coast Guard cutter and helicopter had to be called out to help protect the outmanned fishery officers and at least one fishing boat was set ablaze, apparently by a tear-gas canister. At the heart of the dispute is a federal ruling two years ago that treaties signed with Indians in the late 1800s give the tribes the right to try to catch half of the salmon run, which reduced the catch of the non-Indian fishermen.
A tenured high school art teacher in Rye, New York, says she will “fight to the highest courts” her dismissal on charges of trying to convert students to her belief that a preacher in Meriden, Connecticut, is “Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Second Coming.” Joan LaRocca, 35, contended she did not try to convert her students, but that her classroom was “a place where young people felt comfortable and could discuss any topic.” Miss LaRocca was suspended last April, with pay, after parents complained that she was preaching to their children and encouraging them to follow “Brother Julius.”
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Saul Bellow for what the Swedish Academy said was “the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.” It was the first time in 76 years of the prizes that all the winners have been citizens of the same country — the United States. Earlier, Americans had won the Prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and economics.
NQ Vulpeculae, a nova visible in the constellation Vulpecula, was seen for the first time from Earth at 18:20 UTC from England by amateur astronomer George Alcock. With an estimated distance of at least 3,250 light years (995 parsecs), the Vulpeculae Nova would have occurred no later than 1275 BC.
The sport of downhill mountain biking was first staged as competitors took part in a time trial in Fairfax, California. Alan Bonds, an artist who customized bicycles, had the fastest time of five people, completing the two-mile “Repack” descent in 5 minutes and 12 seconds.
The New York Knicks retire their first number, #19, for Willis Reed.
Major League Baseball, World Series Game 4:
The Cincinnati Reds beat the New York Yankees, 7–2, to complete a four-game sweep of the 1976 World Series. The Yankees got on the board in the first (which would be their only lead in this Series) on a two-out Thurman Munson single and a Chris Chambliss double off of Gary Nolan. Munson would collect four hits in the game. In the fourth, Joe Morgan walked off of Ed Figueroa, stole second, and came home on a George Foster single. Johnny Bench followed with his first home run to give the Reds a 3–1 lead. The Yankees cut the lead to 3–2 in the fifth inning when Mickey Rivers hit a leadoff single, stole second and scored on Munson’s single, but the Reds padded that lead in the ninth. Figueroa walked two before being relieved by Dick Tidrow, who allowed a one-out three-run home run to Bench to extend the Reds’ lead to 6–2. César Gerónimo and Dave Concepción followed with consecutive doubles to make 7–2 Reds. Will McEnaney pitched 2 ⅓ shutout innings to end the series. It was the Reds’ second-straight World Series victory and the second-straight time McEnaney would be on the mound for the Series’ final out. It also, to date, is the only perfect playoff season since the LCS was created in 1969. This was Tony Perez’s final game in a Reds uniform until 1984. With the win, the Reds became the first visiting team since the 1957 Milwaukee Braves to win the World Series at Yankee Stadium.
Cincinnati Reds 7, New York Yankees 2
Stock prices fell sharply after four days of modest gains. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 9.97 points to close at 944.90. Credit markets rose moderately early in the day, but then showed little reaction to the week’s Federal Reserve figures.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 944.90 (-9.97, -1.04%)
Born:
Andrew Scott, Irish actor (Moriarty in the BBC series “Sherlock”); in Dublin, Ireland.
Jeremy Miller, American TV actor (“Growing Pains”); in Covina, California.
Lavinia Miloșovici, Romanian gymnast (Olympic gold medalist, Vault, Floor, 1992); in Lugoj, Romania.
Mélanie Turgeon, Canadian alpine skier (World Ski Championship gold, Downhill, 2003), in Alma, Québec, Canada.
Josh Ritter, American songwriter (“Sermon On The Rocks”); in Moscow, Idaho.
