Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh resigned as President of Ireland after being publicly insulted by Paddy Donegan, the Minister for Defense for his delay in signing legislation restoring a state of emergency within the Republic of Ireland, and after the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament had defeated a motion calling for Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave to fire Donegan. Specifically, Donegan had said on October 18 that the president was “a thundering disgrace”, and the motion in the Dail failed, 58 to 63. New elections to replace Ó Dálaigh were set for November 24. Donegan would be demoted to the lesser post of Minister of Lands on December 2 by Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, and replaced by Cosgrave who appointed himself as Defense Minister.
Sweden announced today that five North Korean diplomats, including Ambassador Kil Yae Gyong, had left the country to avoid expulsion for drug smuggling and black market dealings. Foreign Minister Karin Socder said the North Koreans had sold large amounts of alcohol and tobacco on the black market and transported narcotics through Swedish territory. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said the North Koreans left in the face of warnings they would be ordered out because of “suspicions of illegal activity.”
The Spanish Government has arrested the second leading Communist leader in a week, Communist officials reported today. They identified him as Gregorio Lopez Raimundo, general secretary of the Catalan party. Mr. Lopez Raimundo, 62 years old, was picked up last night in Barcelona and was being held on unspecified charges, the party officials said. The police in Madrid earlier this week arrested Luis Lobato, a member of the party’s executive committee, and accused him of having taken part in an illegal meeting demanding amnesty for political prisoners. Mr. Lobato was freed on bond yesterday on charges of public disorder.
Thousands of workers and schoolchildren were ordered home after a blaze at a fertilizer depot threatened the southern town of Crotone with Italy’s third chemical pollution disaster in four months. The fire sent up a yellowish cloud of poisonous chemicals, thought to include phosphorous compounds, but early today officials said the vapor had drifted off. There was no longer any cause for alarm, they said. The blaze began shortly before dawn at a depot of the Montedison Chemical combine.
An Israeli military spokesman for the occupied territories of the West Bank of the Jordan said today that 74 Arab youths had been charged with desecrating Jewish religious artifacts during a conflict at a shrine here that is sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Copies of the Muslim Koran and Jewish religious articles were vandalized earlier this month at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a structure from the time of Herod that is revered by members of both faiths. It has still not been determined who precipitated the vandalism — Jews or Muslims. But the acts of desecration touched off rioting, resulted in the shooting of seven Arab youths in the nearby village of Haihoul, allegedly by a Jewish civilian, and caused the Israeli military to impose a 16‐day curfew in Cherron, Muslim Arab municipality of 60,000 people.
More than half of an expected total of 4,000 United Jewish Appeal fundraisers and community leaders arrived in Israel today from the United States for a nine‐day demonstration of “the unwavering support of American Jewry for Israel,” an official of the appeal said. The event — the group’s first annual conference to be held in Israel — will bring tog either Jews from 130 American communities. It grew out of an appeal from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last December for a demonstration of international Jewish solidarity in the wake of the adoption of a United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism.
Military action continued in southern Lebanon today near the Israeli border while the ceasefire that was proclaimed yesterday morning appeared to be effective for the most part in Beirut and the rest of the country. Among the reported violations was a volley of artillery shells that crashed into the residential area of west Beirut. The radio of the Phalangists, the principal Lebanese right‐wing Christian political and militia force, announced that an “army” of Christian soldiers had been formed in southern Lebanon with the objective of driving the Palestinians from the area. “We shall not lay down our weapons until we clear the south of the Palestinian mercenaries and their allies and in order to attain this goal we are ready to cooperate with the devil himself,” the radio quoted an officer of the southern force as having said. The Christian forces in the south are equipped with armored vehicles and other equipment bearing Hebrew markings. The arms were provided by the Israelis, according to Christian officers.
Lebanon and the Middle East scene this week were like a kaleidoscope that had been given a sudden jolt. Abruptly, all the shapes and colors have changed. It would be wrong to say that there has been reversal of alliances. But clearly the Riyadh conference of Arab leaders has brought a new alignment of forces in the area. Syria and Egypt, which had been at odds since the second Sinai agreement 14 months ago, are moving toward an accommodation. The Syrians and the Palestinians, whose regular armed forces fought a pitched battle a few days ago, are trying to rekindle their “natural alliance.” The conservative Christians of Lebanon are once more threatened with isolation, after six months of a close, though far from natural, alliance with the leftist and nationalist Arab government of President Hafez al‐Assad. The threat to the militant Christians is made greater by the fact that they chose to announce an open cooperation with Israel in southern Lebanon at the precise moment when the Arab governments were proclaiming that they were closing ranks. These occur quickly in the Middle East. Sometimes they last other times they don’t.
The Security Council today approved a one-year extension of the United Nations peacekeeping force separating Egyptian and Israeli troops in the Sinai Peninsula. Thirteen members of the Council voted for renewing the mandate of the 4,174-member force. The two other members did not participate, China because it considers the way in which the Council has handled the Arab‐Israeli question to be unsatisfactory. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, in his latest report, said the Sinai area has been quiet under the surveillance of the seven‐nation buffer force and that there had been no significant violations of the cease‐fire.
Eleven people were killed in an attack on the village of Shwenyaungbin in Burma by the Kachin Independence Army, a separatist terrorist organization.
King Phumiphol Aduldet approved today a 17‐member civilian Government dominated by the right‐wing and military and a new Constitution with no specific guarantees of civil or human rights. The new Government contains several private citizens with no ministerial experience, and the first two women cabinet ministers in the nation’s history. It is heavily weighted with the military — two of the top members of the junta or Administrative Reform Committee that has ruled until now were named to the key positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister and an air marshal will be Minister of Industry. Admiral Sangad Chaloryu, head of the 24‐member junta, will be Defense Minister and General Boonchai Bamroongphong, the former army commander in chief, and another senior member of the junta, will be Deputy Prime Minister.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese paraded through Peking for a second day today to denounce the “antiparty clique” of four senior leftists, following the announcement in the official press this morning that the group had been “shattered.” Although a steady rain fell, the enthusiastic and often raucous demonstrators marched through the streets chanting slogans against the four leftists. The marchers were accompanied by official soundtracks and the sound of fireworks, cymbals and drums. A recording of the noisy demonstration was broadcast across the country all day. There was no further word on the fate of the leftists, including Mao Zedong’s widow, Chiang Ching, who have reportedly been under arrest since October 6 or 7. Today’s disclosure, by the Chinese press agency, Hsinhua, said they had been “liquidated as a bane in the party,” but the words in Chinese implied they had been purged from the party rather than executed. Peking television is scheduled to make a half‐hour worldwide broadcast tomorrow in which the new authorities may announce the fate of the leftists. At that time they may also announce the recent changes in party positions, including the elevation of Prime Minister Hua Kuo‐feng to the post of Chairman of the Communist Party.
A rally of support for the arrested “Gang of Four” took place in the Chinese city of Yan’an in the Shanxi province, the last remaining area of China whose leaders supported the policies of the Cultural Revolution, with 40,000 participating.
Demonstrators in Riobamba, Ecuador disregarded a 12‐hour curfew early today to attack army patrols trying to impose martial law after anti government riots, according to local radio broadcasts. The reports monitored here said a general strike declared yesterday was continuing. Trenches and barricades across the streets were hindering the movement of security forces No vehicles were getting in or out of the city. Clashes yesterday between troops and rioters were sparked by demonstrations demanding greater regional autonomy for the impoverished Chimborazo Province, of which Riobamba is the capital. The city is 100 miles south of Quito. At least one demonstrator was killed yesterday and scores were injured as troops battled their way across barricades to occupy the city.
The body of Eva Peron, the beloved former First Lady of Argentina, was re-interred for the third and last time, 24 years after her death in 1952 from leukemia. Since 1973, when her husband Juan Peron returned to the presidency, she had been in a crypt at the Casa Rosada, the presidential residence in Olivos. Her body was moved to the Duarte family crypt in the La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires and placed in a steel-walled vault six meters (18 feet) underground.
The viral hemorrhagic fever epidemics that erupted this summer in the southern Sudan and the bordering area of northern Zaire are waning, a World Health Organization spokesman said today. Laboratories in Britain, the United States and Belgium have identified the virus that caused the disease as a variant of the Marburg virus, first discovered in 1967 when technicians examining green monkeys in Marburg, West Germany, were stricken with fever and hemorrhaging. The Sudan, where 59 deaths resulted from 137 reported incidents of the fever, has reported that no new cases have developed there since October 9, the W.H.O. spokesman said Zaire has not reported the number of cases recorded there, but deaths were said to total 260 up to October 14.
The police in Rhodesia erected roadblocks today to try to stop more blacks joining some 18,000 squatters in a new black shantytown that has sprung up near Salisbury in defiance of the law. The Government said earlier today that it intended eventually to remove the squatter colony, which is on white‐owned land barred to blacks, about 10 miles south of the capital. A statement said there was a danger of cholera among the close‐packed shanties, made of sticks and dried mud, that have appeared in the last few weeks.
Black students in Soweto today attacked liquor stores and illicit drinking dens, ordering patrons out and smashing bottles, according to unofficial reports tonight. The reported attacks followed a warning by students yesterday that all shebeens, or unlicensed bars, should close as a mark of respect for blacks who have died or been arrested in recent protests. The South African Press Association reported that students had been seen stopping people carrying bottles from liquor stores and smashing the bottles. Others entered shebeens and ordered drinkers out before destroying stocks of liquor.
U.S. President Gerald Ford and Democrat challenger Jimmy Carter held their third, and final debate, held at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. In their third and final debate, President Ford and Jimmy Carter both indicated they would stress issues rather than personalities during the final days of the campaign. The tone of the meeting was subdued and almost conciliatory as both men appeared relaxed during the 90-minute debate on the campus of the College of William and Mary. The two traded barbed comments toward the end of their nationally televised meeting but the exchange was brief. Mr. Carter expressed regret at having granted an interview to Playboy magazine, in which he discussed lust in earthy, language, and conceded that he had not known exactly “how to deal with” the furor that was raised by the interview. In retrospect, he said, “I would not have given that interview.” Mr. Ford, for his part, said he had been “guilty” of what he called “rather graphic language” in the campaign.
Jimmy Carter said last night that he did not believe a Soviet invasion of Yugoslavia would threaten American national security and therefore would not warrant the introduction of United States troops on Yugoslavia’s behalf. The issue of whether American forces should be introduced in case of a Soviet invasion of Yugoslavia was the only foreign‐policy question raised during the 90‐minute debate. Mr. Ford countered that a President should not signal to “a prospective enemy” what he might do and declined to say whether military force should be used in case of an invasion.
“The political surprise of the century” was predicted by President Ford, who said he would overtake Jimmy Carter in the closing days of the campaign and win the election. The President made the statement as he left the White House for the final debate with Mr. Carter and a dozen days of intensive campaigning.
President Ford cleared up the last of the bills awaiting his action today. Among those signed was a bill to speed up the flow of natural as from Alaska reserves. He also approved an act setting down detailed policy guidelines for management of the national forest system and an amendment to food‐stamp legislation to give the states flexibility in the management of these programs. That bill also contains a guarantee of annual cost‐of-living increases in Supplemental Security Income benefits to the aged, blind and disabled. Mr. Ford affixed his 66th veto to a bill aimed at clarifying the legal instruments through which the Federal Government acquires property and services and furnishes aid to local governments. The President said he did not believe Congress should legislate categories of Federal assistance relationships, but should leave this to the executive branch to determine.
The United States Navy has begun a search for a secret Phoenix missile that separated from a F-14 Tomcat fighter now on the floor of the North Sea off Scotland, Government sources said today. Scouring the sea bottom for the weapon, the sources said, would be more difficult than the search for the plane itself, which was located yesterday. Yesterday the Navy said that the missile; representing some of the United States’ most advanced technology; was still attached to the fighter, which plunged off the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy last month. Today the Navy admitted that that announcement had been in error and that the weapon was missing. Perhaps because of its embarrassment the Navy forbid its officers to comment on the matter beyond saying that a new search was under way.
Former Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, who was chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, says he “strongly” suspects that a meeting he had three years ago with President Nixon to work out a deal for release of transcripts of the White House tapes was used by Mr. Nixon as part of a cover plan to dismiss Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor.
The average price for a new home is now $50,500, according to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Only a decade ago, the average price was just a bit below $30,000 and last year it was $34,500. The political implications of the soaring cost are not yet clear, but experts agree that young persons and old people on fixed incomes who no longer can afford a house are becoming increasingly discouraged.
A ban on Medicaid payments for abortions was declared unconstitutional by a Federal District judge in Brooklyn. The ban was included as an amendment to a social services appropriation bill passed by Congress over President Ford’s veto. The ruling by Judge John Dooling came a day after Washington Federal District Judge John Sirica refused to overturn the ban. The ruling by Judge John F. Dooling Jr. dealt with the Hyde Amendment to the $56 billion social services bill that became law Sept. 30, when Congress overrode President Ford’s veto. The amendment bans Medicaid reimbursement for all abortions except those carried out to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. Despite the Washington ruling, Judge Dooling said his decision would have the effect of nullifying the Hyde Amendment in all 50 states.
Data from a national study made public today indicate that persons between the ages of 3 and 18 can be immunized safely and effectively against swine flu by giving them two doses of vaccine spaced four weeks apart. However, the administration of the vaccine to healthy persons in this age group will not begin at public health clinics until specific recommendations are made, probably within the next few weeks. Earlier studies had raised doubts concerning the vaccination of persons in this category because single doses of one form of the vaccine gave too high a reaction rate, while another form was not effective enough in producing immunity. Because of these results, reported in June, further studies were done to see whether the problem could be solved by giving two doses four weeks apart. The first report of these studies was made today at the National Institutes of Health.
Armored personnel carriers and guards equipped with the Army’s latest rapid-fire rifles are being added to the security forces at 14 Federal nuclear sites. Guards at the Nevada Test site are now under orders to “shoot to kill” in situations involving theft or sabotage of nuclear weapons at the atomic‐bomb testing facility, a spokesman there said yesterday. The moves are part of a little publicized 10 percent build‐up of security forces that started three years ago at nuclear research centers, test sites and production facilities, according to officials of the Energy Research and Development Administration in Washington. Dave Miller, a spokesman for the agency in Las Vegas, Nev., said the upgrading was begun after a General Accounting Office study had recommended it because of increasing terrorist activity.
Eugene McCarthy’s name was ordered removed from the ballot in New York state because of invalid nominating petitions for his independent presidential candidacy. The McCarthy organization said it would appeal the decision of Justice John Tennock of the state Supreme Court. The decision was seen as a victory for the Democratic Party, which was afraid the McCarthy candidacy would take away votes from Jimmy Carter.
Wage increases were less in 1976 than they were in 1975, the Labor Department said in a report on collective bargaining agreements. The report supported the view of administration experts who had said that the increases had not added to inflationary pressures even though the raises continued to outstrip productivity and to push up business costs.
Higher taxes for Americans working abroad may reduce their numbers considerably and may cause some United States companies to leave France. The tax revision bill signed early in the month by President Ford increased the taxes for Americans overseas, many of whom may have to pay higher taxes than Americans at home. In France, the government is debating a bill that would tax the total incomes of foreigners instead of only the portion earned in France.
A three‐month investigation into the slaying of John Rosselli, an underworld figure indicates he may have been killed because of his gambling interests rather than his assistance to the Central Intelligence Agency, officials say. A Miami investigative team, headed, by Lieut. Gary Minium, has been investigating since Mr. Rosselli’s body was found Aug. 7 stuffed in a barrel dumped Dumfoundling Bay. The 70‐year‐old Mr. Rosselli had helped the C.I.A. set up assassination attempts against Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Some officials thought he may have been killed because of the connection.
Edward Gullion, one of two men sought in connection with a series of terrorist bombings, was arrested here today less than one day after the apprehension of his partner on the F.B.I.’s 10 most wanted list. Mr. Gullion was arrested as he tried to collect a paycheck that belonged to Richard J. Picariello, the other fugitive who was picked up last night in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The authorities say the men are part of a four‐member terrorist group called the Fred Hampton Unit of the People’s Forces. Both men have been indicted for the bombings July 2 of a National Guard truck in Boston, a plane at Logan International Airport and the Essex County Courthouse in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Eight students at Oregon State University who burned a cross at the campus of the Black Cultural Center Monday night have apologized “to the community as a whole and the black community especially.” The apology was contained in an article in today’s OSU Daily Barometer, published after the eight went to the newspaper office last night and asked that their names be published. The university has an enrollment, of about 16,000, of whom 250 are black. The Black Cultural Center opened on April 19, 1975, and has been a frequent target of vandalism.
Two small airplanes collided over a playground full of children yesterday. The two pilots were killed but nobody on the ground was hurt, though some debris fell among the horrified children. Debris also fell near a station house full of policemen. Donald Stricklin, Los Angeles County coroner’s investigator, identified the victims as Erich Baldwin, 27 years old, of Redondo Beach, and Donald R. Boldt, 44, of Westlake Village. he collision involved a twin‐engine, six‐passenger North American Rockwell Aero Commander owned by Hughes Aircraft and a smaller, single‐engine Beechcraft Defonair. The police reported initially that three men, including a student pilot and his instructor, had been killed but later investigation did not substantiate that, Mr. Stricklin said. Only one person was in each plane, the authorities said.
Rick Barry (San Francisco), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60.
Julius (“Dr. J.”) Erving makes his NBA debut for the Philadelphia 76ers,
Stocks closed lower yesterday after prices weakened in the afternoon following a report from the Commerce Department that new orders for durable goods showed a sharp 3.1 percent drop September, the third monthly decline a row. The report, issued at 1:30 P.M., sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its low for the session of 936. The key gauge closed at 938.75, down 6.15 points for the day, in active trading.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 938.75 (-6.15, -0.65%)
Born:
Michael Barrett, MLB catcher and third baseman (Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mike Colangelo, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Anaheim Angels, San Diego Padres, Oakland A’s), in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Brent Bartholomew, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears), in Birmingham, Alabama.
Brad Stevens, American basketball coach (Boston Celtics, 2013-21; NBA All-Star Game, 2017), in Zionsville, Indiana.
Jon Foreman, American Christian rock musician (Switchfoot — “Meant to Live”), in San Bernardino, California.
Eric Spoto, American powerlifter, nicknamed the “Vanilla Gorilla”, who broke the world-record in the bench press with a mark of 722 pounds (327 kg) in 2013; on Long Island, New York.
Prem (screen name for (Kiran Kumar), Indian film director in Kannada cinema films; in Maddur, Karnataka state, India.
Helene Svedin, Swedish model known for her campaigns for H&M, in Sollefteå, Sweden.
Died:
Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel, 58, former President of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Españolas and briefly the head of state of Spain for five days after succeeding Francisco Franco as President of the Regency Council, died of a heart attack while at a doctor’s appointment.
Richard Leibert, 73, American organist, radio personality and recording artist.
