An American envoy arrived in Geneva to aid behind-the-scenes talks at the conference on Rhodesia. Under Secretary of State William Schaufele said he would keep Secretary of State Kissinger informed on the meeting, where the white Rhodesian government and black nationalist leaders have taken opposite stands on proposals charted by Mr. Kissinger for transferring power to the country’s black majority.
Common Market foreign ministers agreed tentatively in The Hague to declare a joint 200-mile fishing zone off their nations’ shores effective January 1. Some details remained to be worked out, particularly regarding British and Irish demands for exclusive fishing rights up to 50 miles from their own coasts. But there appeared to be no disagreement over deep sea regions 50 to 200 miles offshore, in which fishing fleets of all nine market nations could operate.
Austria and Israel are engaged in discussions about the procedures under which Jews leaving the Soviet Union are passing through Vienna. A spokesman for the Austrian Foreign Ministry said this week that the Israelis had made a “suggestion” that the sojourn of Jews in Vienna be shortened. The purpose of such a measure would be to cut the number of refugees who proceed to the United States or other countries rather than to Israel, the official said. “For us, there is no issue,” the spokesman remarked “In our view, whoever comes to Austria must be free to decide where to go.” According to sources involved in the transit operation, more than half of the 1,000 to 1,200 Jews who arrive from the Soviet Union every month now declare they want to migrate to North America instead of Israel. Virtually all of them carry Soviet documents with Israeli visas provided by the Dutch Embassy in Moscow, which represents Israeli interests in the Soviet Union. Some of the emigrants say they are not Jewish, but told the Soviet authorities they wanted to emigrate to Israel.
Two newspaper deliverers were shot and killed and the 10‐year‐old son of one was wounded tonight by armed men who kidnapped them in the Roman Catholic area of northern Belfast, the police said The slayings followed an incident this morning in which a 20‐yearold Catholic was beaten to death by men who kidnapped him as he walked home with his woman friend. Tonight, the police said, the newspaper van was hijacked and driven into a back street where the assailants ordered the men and the boy to lie down in the back of the van and then fired on them.
Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister urgently appealed today for party unity and support for his Government’s program to restore economic and social stability. Prime Minister Mario Soares warned that there was a campaign to split the Socialist Party and thereby undermine the country’s first constitutional Government, composed of Socialists and independents.
Flood waters washed over historic squares and streets of Venice today as heavy rains and gale force winds lashed Italy from the Alps to Sicily. Ten years after a disastrous flood damaged churches, palaces and monuments here, sea waters poured through St Mark’s Square and other low‐lying areas. in a situation that was worrying city official.
The Vatican said that Pope Paul VI had accepted from a delegation of Lutherans a facsimile edition of the Bible translated by Martin Luther, the German Protestant leader excommunicated by Roman Catholicism in 1521. The Pope’s acceptance of the copy of the 1545 Luther Bible and the three-day visit by a delegation from the Lutheran World Federation were seen as steps toward improving relations between the two religious groups.
Arab League Secretary General Mahmoud Riad said in Cairo that he had sent urgent messages to Arab nations to expedite military units for the joint peacekeeping force in Lebanon. An Arab summit in Cairo earlier in the week agreed to increase the joint force from 2,500 men to 30,000 men. As Riad issued his appeal, a daylong series of cease-fire violations in Beirut tapered off and stopped almost entirely by nightfall.
Efforts to carry out the Arab-sponsored peace plan for Lebanon have run into difficulties as a result of conditions and counter-conditions put forward by the opposing factions in the conflict. The delay has led to continued breaches of the nine‐day‐old cease‐fire in the Beirut area, with tension still high between Christian and Muslim Druse villagers in the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut. Major General Mohammed Hassan Ghoneim, the Egyptian commander of the Arab peacekeeping force was reported today to be confident he would achieve results in ending the fighting by November 5. That is the date when additional contingents from several Arab countries are expected to arrive to join Syrian troops in forming the peacekeeping force decided on by the Arab summit conference in Cairo earlier in the week. The Arab heads of state recommended a force totaling 30,000 However, informed Arab diplomatic sources expect a total of only 7,000 soldiers to be sent by Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Libya, Southern Yemen and Yemen to join 10,000 soldiers to be contributed by Syria.
The leader of Pakistan’s main opposition party charged today the Government had jailed more than 50,000 people for their political activities and views. Pakistani jails are “bursting” with political prisoners, retired Air Marshal Asghar Khan said at a news conference He is head of the rightist Tehenk‐i‐Istmal party and has been waging a campaign against the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for several months. The party leader said that a November 1975 estimate by Amnesty International of 38,000 prisoners in Pakistan was conservative. Some of the prisoners, he alleged, have been in tail for six years without standing trial.
India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi postponed democratic elections that had been scheduled for March 1977 for the 525-member Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. Law and Justice Minister H. R. Gokhale informed Lok Sabha members that their 5-year terms, which had already been extended for one year with the cancellation of voting set for March 1976, would be extended to seven years and that voting would not take place before March 1978.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, who was one of India’s early leaders, and is an aunt of its present Prime Minister, said in an interview the other day that she was “profoundly troubled” at the direction the Government was taking. “If there are no civil liberties and no dissent, then where is the democracy we fought for?” asked Mrs. Pandit, who held some of the country’s top diplomatic posts when her brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, was Prune Minister. “It is far more repressive today, in many ways, than it was under the British.”
The Thai military junta has embarked on a wide-ranging purge of people who have or are suspected of having Communist affiliations, and it has created a climate of fear — fear of arrest and imprisonment, or of losing jobs. Police figures not yet made public show that in the first two weeks after the military takeover October 6 there were more than 5,000 arrests. In only 58 cases were the police said to have documentary evidence of Communist affiliation. According to preliminary police estimates, at least 500 more arrests were made in the next few days in Bangkok alone.
Wall posters in Peking have charged that Mao Zedong’s widow and three other senior leftists were arrested after a gunman shot at a convoy of cars in which Hua Kuo-feng, the new Communist Party Chairman, was riding. Analysts in Hong Kong have no evidence to confirm the charge in the posters, which were put up in the last few days in parts of Peking normally inaccessible to foreigners. The poster charges are the latest in a rapidly growing series of accusations against the leftists that have inundated analysts. According to the Peking posters, the gunman was seized after he hit the first two of three cars in a procession but missed the last one in which Mr. Hua was riding. Under questioning, the gunman was as reported to have confessed that he was acting for Miss Chiang and the other leftists. The incident was said to have taken place on October 6. According to one account, four security guards were killed before the leftist supporters could be subdued.
The activities of Tongsun Park, a South Korean businessman, have been under investigation by the Justice Department at the request of the State Department, according to government sources. The inquiry followed testimony before a Senate subcommittee that the Gulf Oil Corporation paid $4 million in covert political contributions to South Korean officials from 1966 to 1970. Mr. Park’s family operates a Gulf Oil refinery in South Korea.
South Korean businessman Tongsun Park denied allegations that he had bribed U.S. congressmen and government officials. Park, interviewed while waiting for a flight to London from the Paris airport, said it was “absolutely not” true that he had offered gifts in an effort to favorably influence U.S. policy and action toward South Korea.
The Japanese cabinet has adopted a long-term general plan for defense based on the idea that the Far East will remain at peace and which calls for no expansion of Japan’s present armed forces. The plan says Japan will remain under the protection of the U.S. nuclear shield under terms of the U.S.-Japan security treaty and calls for providing the Self-Defense Forces with more modern and effective equipment.
McDonnell Douglas Corp. apparently has beaten out two other U.S. aircraft manufacturers in a sales fight to supply Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force with $2 billion worth of fighters, according to a Washington Post report from Tokyo. Japanese air force generals want to replace their aging F-104J interceptors with 100 to 150 McDonnell-made F-15 Eagles. The deal is likely to be approved by the Japanese government in the next two months. The other contenders are Grumman with the swing-wing F-14 Tomcat and General Dynamics with the lightweight low-cost F-16.
The latest sharp devaluation of Mexico’s long-stable currency has brought new uncertainties to a country that is already suffering a serious crisis of confidence just one month before the inauguration of a new administration. On one hand, acute political tensions are being fed by mounting evidence that President Luis Echeverria hopes to retain power and influence in the country after he leaves office December 1. On the other, economic unrest is being aggravated by the refusal of President-elect Jose Lopez Portillo to disclose his own plans for the future or at least to intervene publicly with an appeal for confidence and tranquility.
Cuban officials told a group of visiting liberal Republicans that the body of an American spy-plane pilot has been preserved in ice for 13 years since his U-2 was shot down in 1963. Denver attorney John F. Head said the visiting group was not allowed to see the body, but was told that the body could be reclaimed and that Washington knows it exists. Published accounts from the time reported a U-2 lost in the Caribbean November 20, 1963. The pilot, Captain Joseph G. Hyde Jr. of La Grange, Georgia, was not found, but debris from his aircraft was.
Customs officers have seized rifles, dynamite and ammunition from a yacht cruising off Martinique and apparently heading for Barbados, police officials said today. They said two men on the yacht — a Canadian and a Barbadian — were arrested in the raid Friday night and charges were lodged against them. The police would not name the men or the charges, saying only that it was ‘ a delicate matter.” The incident followed reports that the Barbados police had uncovered a plot against the island’s Labor Party Government of Prime Minister Tom Adams
South American military leaders have succeeded in crippling leftist extremism, but in the process many have condoned murder, torture, secret arrest and other abuses of human rights. Such methods, not new in Latin America, are being practiced in some countries now to an extent seldom seen before. Repression designed to eliminate guerillas has been turned against politicians, intellectuals, churchmen, journalists, students and foreigners who attract suspicion. The degree varies from country to country, but police sources, diplomats, international organizations and victims all say that basic rights are regularly violated by the police and the military in the six southernmost countries — Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. Amnesty International, the Independent London‐based organization that monitors human rights, in its annual report published last month, estimated that there were 30,000 political prisoners in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil alone. Other sources say the total may be lower, though still considerable.
The presidential campaign, according to polls, is closing in a nearly dead heat and too close to predict the winner. The final national survey by the New York Times and CBS News found that President Ford had drawn almost even with Jimmy Carter, leaving the Democratic contender with only a precarious advantage. A Louis Harris poll showed Mr. Carter holding a lead of only one percentage point. The four key factors Tuesday will be momentum, the turnout, undecided voters and electoral vote distribution.
A sudden, 11th hour swing by independent voters has helped President Ford make the most spectacular political comeback in decades. The critical shift among independents was found by the final New York Times-CBS News poll of the campaign to be apparently due to Mr. Ford’s stand on issues, including his pledge to fight inflation, and his advantages of experience and incumbency.
Jimmy Carter said today that income tax reductions promised by President Ford would offer no real “tax cut for the average family” but would constitute a $20 billion “boondoggle” for corporations and for the wealthy. The Democratic Presidential candidate rode in a parade through the French Quarter of New Orleans, followed by shuffling, dancing street jazz bands, before about 20,000 friendly, happy onlookers. Mr. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, waved and blew kisses to people lining the wrought‐iron balconies of buildings in the Quarter or standing under arcades along Royal and St. Peter’s Streets
Looking back on the exhausting campaign, Mr. Carter acknowledged that it had taken from him much of the candor that was a keystone of his early victories. The Democratic presidential candidate said this to an interviewer:, “I’m less open now, I know. I don’t like it, but I realize it’s true. It’s just, it’s just that I feel so much more vulnerable now than when I started.” He spoke quietly and slowly, as though even a candid talk about a loss of candor was a problem.
The once-substantial lead held by Jimmy Carter in the New York metropolitan area has fallen to the point where President Ford may be leading by a hair’s breadth in New Jersey and Connecticut, while Mr. Carter appears to lead narrowly in New York. In other races, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is favored to unseat Senator James Buckley in New York, while Senators Harrison Williams of New Jersey and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut are heavy favorites to win re-election. The post-Watergate Democratic House majorities in all three states are likely to remain unchanged.
“As we meet,” Senator Walter F. Mondale told a gathering of Hispanic Americans here last night, “this nation has the highest unemployment since the Great Depression.” The line was dramatic as it had been earlier in the evening when the Democratic Vice‐Presidential nominee delivered it before a rally of labor union members But like some of Mr. Mondale’s other characterizations of the Republican record in recent days, it was less than accurate. In the current recession the nation has indeed experienced the worst unemployment since the early 1940s. But the peak rate of 8.0 percent was as reached in May 1975, and it has since declined to 7.8 percent. Asked about the discrepancy an aide to the Minnesota senator replied, “You’re being literal” Another suggested that the candidate ought to be allowed some “political license.” “He knows what he’s trying to say,” the first aide added.
Increased unemployment is a cause of death, due to diseases, suicides and murders, according to a congressional study. It said that at least 26,000 deaths from the stress-related diseases of stroke and kidney and heart ailments, 1,500 suicides and 1,700 homicides were traceable to a 1.4 percentage rise in joblessness since 1970.
Protecting all of Alaska’s wilderness has become a major concern of conservation groups as the trans-Alaska pipeline nears completion. Conservationists fear that temporary federal protection of the state’s vast, untapped mineral and timber riches, set to end after 1978, will open the door to developers. Before then, environmentalists want the government to set up a permanent system of national parks, refuges and forests.
The nation’s oil storage tanks are fuller than at any time since 1939, reflecting the oil industry’s belief that the exporting countries plan to raise prices when they meet in December, according to figures compiled by the American Petroleum Institute. Most oil companies expect a price increase of 10% to 20%. A 10% increase would lift the price of Persian Gulf crude oil to more than $12 a barrel and raise gasoline prices in the United States 1 to 2 cents a gallon.
An unexpected $83 million decrease in New York City’s huge budget deficit was disclosed in a report by the city for the fiscal year that ended last June. The deficit, the figures showed, was $968 million, not $1.051 billion. A spokesman for Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin attributed the decrease to higher than expected local tax receipts.
The Federal Power Commission ignored industry documents in its possession that showed that its new ceiling price for natural gas, $1.42 per thousand cubic feet, was at least 42% too high, the staff of the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations charged. It said that reports from hundreds of producers, submitted to the FPC under oath, indicated that the industry had been finding more natural gas per foot of successful drilling than had been indicated by the published industrywide estimates used by the FPC in setting price limits. The staff said that forms filed by producers appeared to support a ceiling price of no more than about $1 per thousand cubic feet.
Continental Airlines’ position that striking pilots must lower their demands before talks can resume was called “disappointing” by a spokesman for the pilots today. The reply by Continental to an Air Line Pilots Association offer to negotiate had not, however, been officially received by the association, according to Captain Richard Engle, a spokesman for the pilots. The pilots sent a telegram to Continental yesterday to say that the pilots were willing to meet with management in an effort to resolve the strike, which entered its eighth day today.
The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied yesterday charges by Ralph Nader that the agency was promoting nuclear energy in violation of its Congressional mandate. But the agency’s chairman Marcus A. Rowden, conceded in an interview that his agency should be more careful to avoid actions that might give Mr. Nader, the consumers’ rights advocate or others the idea that it was stepping outside its assigned role. In a letter to Mr. Rowden last Tuesday, Mr. Nader cited several documents obtained from the agency itself in which staff members and the former chairman of the agency, William A. Anders, outlined or transmitted financial incentives and other material to help the Ford Administration promote nuclear power plant construction.
The Puyallup Indians ended a week-long occupation of a state juvenile facility in Tacoma, Washington, after the federal government promised to turn the 33-acre facility over to the tribe. The tribe had sold the land to the federal government for $500,000 in 1939 so Cushman Indian Hospital could be built. But the hospital was closed in 1959 and two years later the federal government gave the land to Washington state. The Indians insisted the land should revert to them.
Baby pacifier safety standards were proposed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in an effort to prevent accidental suffocations. Among other things, the regulations would require that pacifiers be made with shields too large to be accidentally swallowed. Infant deaths have been traced to the lodging of flexible pacifier shields in the throat and to strangulation by ribbons or strings used to secure the pacifiers around babies’ necks, the commission reported.
Internal Revenue Service Director Donald C. Alexander sought special legislation last summer that would have kept secret certain tax favors granted by the IRS to elements of the late Howard Hughes’ business empire, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in a copyrighted story. Although he failed to gain special treatment for Hughes’ interests, the account said, Alexander succeeded in obtaining a tax law clause designed to keep secret the identities of persons who received preferential tax rulings from the IRS. Alexander’s lobbying efforts resulted in the secrecy clause contained in the tax reform bill signed October 4 by President Ford, the Inquirer said.
The New Mexico Military Institute, for 84 years an all-male school, has been ordered to accept girls, but so far has found few who want to enter. A state‐administered school here, the institution had to break with its all‐male enrollment policy after what the 950-member Cadet Corps sarcastically described as the “Christmas present” ruling by Attorney General Toney Anaya that the refusal to admit females violated the 1973 State Equal Rights Amendment. Mr. Anaya’s decision stemmed from a discrimination complaint filed with the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women.
A Wayne County (Michigan) Circuit Court jury here returned yesterday a $2 million verdict against the Ford Motor Company and a driver in a suit brought by a Detroit area man who helplessly watched his 12‐year‐old son burn to death in a car crash four years ago. At the close of a seven‐week trial, the jury ruled that the company had been negligent in its design of the 1970 Ford LTD station wagon’s fuel system and had breached its warranty by failing to ensure the system’s safety. A Ford attorney said the company would seek a new trial on the ground that the judge, Andrew di Maggio, had committed judicial errors.
By standards of past elections, Dr. S.I. Hayakawa has made more than enough mistakes to spoil his chances as the Republican nominee to defeat Democratic Senator John V. Tunney’s bid for a second term from California. But according to polls and observers, the two men are looked in a close contest. The California Poll reported Thursday that, as of early this week, Senator Tunney led Dr Hayakawa, 45 to 43 percent, with 12 percent undecided. Dr. Hayakawa, a semanticist and scholar, at 70 years of age is an unlikely opponent for the 42‐year‐old Democratic Senator He is Japanese and a naturalized citizen. He was a Democratic liberal who registered as Republican in 1973, explaining that he had been impressed by the quality of the conservatives he met after he became president of strikebound San Francisco State College in 1958.
The Urban Mass Transportation Administration in two years has committed more than three‐fourths of the money it was given to fund mass transit construction projects through 1980. The agency, however, has more available funds than its checkbook indicates because many of the funds have been promised to projects with the provision that various requirements must be met before they are obligated Also, much of the funds will go to long‐range projects and thus payments will extend over several years, giving Congress time to add more funds. The agency also has $3.34 billion in a separate fund. This money could be diverted to grants for construction if needed.
A sailor missing in the Bermuda Triangle for 17 days on a solo round-the-world trip sent a “mayday” message, and the U.S. Coast Guard said he apparently was safe. The Coast Guard said Robert Gainer’s sailboat was about 500 miles east of San. Juan, Puerto Rico. A tug picked up his distress signal and immediately began heading for him. The 23-year-old Hillsdale, New Jersey, sailor, who set sail in his 31-foot sloop from New York harbor on October 2, reported his motor was defective and the top of his mast had broken off.
A deer hunter in Utah discovered the wreckage of a Piper Tri-Pacer airplane that had vanished on March 27, 1963, 13 years earlier. The small airplane and the remains of Harry Ross Jr and UFO researcher Wallace C. Halsey, had crashed into a mountainside near St. George, Utah.
“Going Up” closes at John Golden Theater in New York City after 49 performances
The television show “Mr. T and Tina”, starring Pat Morita in the first U.S. TV show to feature a mostly Asian-American cast, was canceled after its sixth show.
The Montreal Canadiens had their lone loss at home during the 1976–77 NHL season, falling 4 to 3 to the Boston Bruins. They would finish the regular season with a record of 60 wins, 8 losses and 12 ties (60-8-12) and lost only one home game, winning 33 other with six ties. They would lose Game 5 of the NHL playoff semifinals at home, falling to the New York Islanders, 4 to 3, in overtime on May 5, 1977.
Born:
Maurice Taylor, NBA power forward, center, and small forward (Los Angeles Clippers, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, Sacramento Kings), in Detroit, Michigan.
J.R. Henderson, NBA small forward (Vancouver Grizzlies), in Bakersfield, California.
Todd Wade, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans, Washington Redskins), in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Dave Coggin, MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), in Covina, California.
Died:
Alfred Landé, 87, German-born American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect.
Sa’id Hormozi, 79, Iranian musician who preserved the radif genre of music.
Daniel Bonade, 80, French clarinet player and composer.
Julio Just Gimeno, 82, Spanish politician former Minister of Public Works until his 1937 ouster following the Spanish Civil War.
