A congressionally mandated 15-member commission for monitoring compliance with the East-West Helsinki accord has received “strong indications” that the governments of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union will not allow the panel to enter, according to a commission member who asked not to be identified. In addition, the source said, the three members of the executive branch who serve as commissioners on the panel have been instructed by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to travel only to Brussels and not to attempt to enter the Communist countries. Rep. Dante B. Fascell (D-Florida), chairman of the commission, called Kissinger’s decision “a deeply regrettable, last-minute policy reversal.”
Irked by what it considered Soviet stalling tactics, the State Department took the unusual step of announcing it did not intend to withdraw the appointment of Malcolm Toon as the new Ambassador to Moscow. Department officials said that the Russians distrusted Mr. Toon, a career diplomat, and apparently hoped that his nomination would be withdrawn.
A Soviet move to bring a controversial press issue before the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization general conference for an early vote was defeated overwhelmingly in Nairobi, Kenya. The move lost 70 to 16 with 36 abstentions. Western nations believe a draft declaration on the use of mass media would muzzle world press freedom and endorse state control over the press in many countries.
Thieves using blowtorches cut their way into the underground vault of an Italian bank in a Milan suburb and made off with an estimated $1.2 million in cash and valuables, police reported. The gang, believed to number seven based on masks and gloves left behind, spent about six hours in the vault. Investigators believe they got into the bank with a passkey.
About 20,000 people bade farewell in Belfast to Maire Drumm, a folk hero to the Irish republican movement who was shot to death last week. The mourners marched to the cemetery through the Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast, amid the lament of bagpipes and crackles of saluting pistols. British security forces were alerted to look for wanted I.R.A. Provisionals believed to have crossed the border to Northern Ireland for the funeral procession. Before the ceremonies, the British stopped cars, checked license plates and took photographs of the throngs that came into Andersontown, in the heart of Roman Catholic West Belfast, in trains and busloads. Mrs. Drumm, a fiery orator who became the public voice and face of republicanism in Northern Ireland, was killed Thursday night by gunmen, disguised as doctors, who burst into her room at the Mater Hospital where she was recovering from treatment for a cataract and nervous exhaustion. She was 56 years old. A few weeks earlier she had resigned her post as vice president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, because of poor health.
Prime Minister Mario Soares was re‐elected leader of the ruling Socialist Party today but despite his appeals for unity a strong radical leftist faction emerged in the closing hours of his party’s second national congress. Mr. Soares was unopposed for the secretary generalship and a consensus list that he headed won a majority of the votes for the 151‐member national committee. A rival far‐leftist list, presented at the last moment, picked up nearly 25 percent of the vote. The opposition to the Soares line, which is a pragmatic socialism, was led by Aires Rodrigues, a member of the former national committee and leader of the party’s workers committee. His supporters at the congress, which ended tonight, were largely members of the Lisbon trade union movement.
More than 7,000 Madrid bus workers decided today to continue a five‐day‐old strike until the police released eight colleagues accused of leading the walkout. At a meeting in a suburban park, thousands of strikers also demanded that 33 bus workers fired as alleged agitators be reinstated. They also want the municipal bus company to recognize their elected representatives‐all of them members of outlawed Socialist or Communist labor unions‐as the only bargaining body. They are now represented by a bargaining committee picked under the Government‐controlled trade union system. Army and police drivers continued to man the buses today. The bus drivers, conductors and mechanics struck Thursday over demands for a pay increase, fringe benefits and labor union freedom.
West German Air Force Generals Walter Krupinski and Karl Heinz Franke are dismissed today over their ties to former Nazis. The incident involving two German generals and their support for Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a controversial World War II pilot with neo-Nazi affiliations, raises critical questions about military traditions and their ties to Germany’s past. In 1976, Rudel participated in a tradition meeting for a Luftwaffe squadron, an event defended by the two generals despite Rudel’s known political views and his history of supporting far-right ideologies. This led to significant backlash from political leaders, particularly from the Social Democratic Party, highlighting concerns over military independence and adherence to democratic principles in postwar Germany. The situation culminated in the dismissal of the generals, marking a pivotal moment in the Bundeswehr’s attempt to distance itself from Nazi legacies and affirm civilian control over the military. This event ignited broader discussions on military traditions and their implications, resulting in a reevaluation of the Bundeswehr’s guidelines regarding historical figures associated with the Wehrmacht. The aftermath saw a sustained effort to monitor and mitigate right-wing extremism within the military ranks, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to uphold democratic values in Germany’s armed forces.
The United Nations protested to Iran today against its recent return to the Soviet Union of a Soviet mail pilot who landed his plane at northwest Iranian town six weeks ago and reportedly sought asylum in the United States. The Iranian Government announced on October 23 that it was denying the request for asylum and was returning the pilot, Lieutenant Valentin I. Zasimov, to the Soviet Union because of a 1973 treaty between Teheran and Moscow against hijacking. In a note to the Iranian Government today the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, said that he “deeply regretted” that Teheran in the Zasimov case had been unable to comply with the 1951 convention on the status of refugees. Iran is a party to that convention, which was drafted by a conference called by the United Nations. The pact stipulates that “no contracting state shall expel or return a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.”
The Indian Express, India’s largest circulation newspaper, was granted a court order preventing the sale of its property for recovery of alleged property tax arrears. The temporary court order allowed the paper, which has been battling government censorship, to keep its air conditioning plant and three water booster pumps that already had been auctioned off by the municipal corporation in New Delhi.
Universities and schools in Thailand reopened after having been closed for nearly a month because of violence that had led to a military coup d’état and closure on October 6. Thammasat University, the scene of violent clashes between students and the police before the coup, remained locked, and was not expected to open for at least another month. At the other schools, particularly the universities, there was an element of restraint and caution that contrasted sharply with the freewheeling atmosphere of the last three years. “The state universities office has told us that academically we can go on as before,” said Termsak Krisanamara, rector of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s largest and most prestigious.
Wall posters in Shanghai said today that Li Hsien‐nien, China’s Deputy Prime Minister for economic affairs, had been named Prime Minister, diplomatic sources reported. But spokesmen for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in Peking that the position was still held by Hua Kuo‐feng, who is also Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. The posters also said Yeh Chien‐ying, the Defense Minister, had been appointed chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, or head of state. The Chinese press agency, Hsinhua, said tonight that Mr. Li had met with a delegation from Afghanistan in his capacity of Deputy Prime Minister.
In a three-way meeting in Tokyo, Japan criticized Canada and the United States, along with other nations, for unilaterally deciding to establish 200-mile coastal economic zones. Japan said Canada’s January extension and the U.S. extension in March would have a detrimental effect on Japan’s fishing industry. No such zones should be proclaimed until agreement is reached on the issue at the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference. Japan said. The U.S. reply indicated that world opinion favors a 200-mile territorial water limit and asked for Japanese cooperation in establishing it.
The death toll from a major earthquake that struck Indonesian New Guinea four days ago has risen to 133, a government official in Jakarta reported. Most of the dead were in four districts in the remote province of Irian Java, he said. Meanwhile, a quake registering 7 on the Richter scale hit the island of New Britain. A spokesman for the geophysical observatory in the Papua New Guinea capital of Port Moresby said the quake was strong enough to cause extensive damage but the area was so sparsely populated and communications so poor that it was expected to be some days before the full extent of the damage was known.
Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule.
A bomb exploded in the Panama Canal Zone, damaging two houses and causing no casualties. The explosion was the third in the Canal Zone in the last 48 hours. Officials said the latest bomb apparently was thrown from a car on the approaches to the bridge, which crosses the canal at its Pacific entrance near Balboa.
Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza of the Burundi Army led a bloodless coup d’état overthrowing President Michel Micombero, who had overthrown the monarchy of the African nation in 1966. The 30-member Supreme Revolutionary Council that replaced Micombero named Bagaza as President of Burundi on November 10.
Rhodesian forces struck into neighboring Mozambique yesterday in reprisal for the killing of four white civilians in Rhodesia Saturday night by black nationalist guerrillas. The Rhodesian Government said in a communiqué that its troops had “undertaken hot‐pursuit operations as a result of transborder aggression by terrorists,” but it gave no details. Heavy fighting was still under way today, the Mozambican press agency said, adding that Mozambican troops were pushing back Rhodesians who used “tanks, cannon, mortars, infantry, fighter‐bombers and cavalry” in thrusts against two provinces. On Saturday night guerrillas attacked a motel at Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, with rockets, grenades and automatic weapons, killing a Canadian‐born official of the Rhodesian Government and wounding a white civilian. Three white Rhodesian civilians died in guerrilla attacks near the southwestern city of Bulawayo, 300 miles from Mozambique.
The idea of setting a date for black majority rule in Rhodesia will be discussed tomorrow at the Geneva conference, Ivor Richard, British chairman of the parley on Rhodesia, announced. African sources said that two of the black leaders had proposed that next September be agreed on. The proposal seemed to surprise Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia, who said, “I haven’t given that one any thought. That’s a new one to me.” The Rhodesian leader talked with reporters outside the Palais des Nations after a 90‐minute meeting this evening with Mr. Richard, who is Britain’s chief representative at the United Nations. Mr. Smith, his manner and tone suggesting growing irritation at the absence of any substantive progress in the talks, confirmed that he would leave the conference and fly to Rhodesia, probably on Wednesday. Until he returns, his delegation will be headed by the Foreign Minister, P. K. van der Byl.
Protesting continues among the black youths of Soweto, four and a half months after the initial outbreak that began a wave of violence in this country. The police continue to raid homes in search of student militants and many arrests have been reported; the two largest schools of the black township outside Johannesburg are all but deserted, though it is final‐exam time. Black elders still preach moderation to their young, but as the killings and arrests of youths continue, the elders anger appears to be growing.
President Ford and Jimmy Carter made final appeals to American voters whose preferences in tomorrow’s presidential election seemed nearly evenly divided between them. In a national broadcast showing him speaking from Air Force One, Mr. Ford vowed “I won’t let you down.” In a similar broadcast, also carried by the three commercial television networks, Mr. Carter urged all voters to go to the polls.
The pledge of a tax cut was stressed by President Ford before big crowds in the key states of Ohio and Michigan and in the final message he taped for election-eve advertising broadcasts. In his last day of stumping, Mr. Ford’s mood was triumphant.
Jimmy Carter campaigned in California with Gov. Jerry Brown at his side before heading for a final rally in Flint, Mich. Dogged by a new controversy over his home church’s closing its door to a black clergyman, he said that he would “stay within the church and to try to change the attitude which I abhor.”
Seeking to preserve Jimmy Carter’s slim lead in New York state, Mayor Beame met with 40 Democratic leaders at Gracie Mansion to press for a large turnout in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. They are banner Democratic counties. The unusual meeting reflected the intense efforts by both Democrats and Republicans to get their backers to vote in an election that appears so close in metropolitan area states that the turnout will be crucial.
Eugene McCarthy’s candidacy as an independent was casting a long shadow on the presidential race. He is on the ballot in 29 states and votes for him could decide whether President Ford or Mr. Carter gets the 126 electoral votes in six of them — Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey — with tight races.
A sharp dispute erupted among the Supreme Court’s Justices today over a one-sentence, unsigned order in which the Court vacated a pro-defendant ruling by a lower Federal appeals court and sent the case back to the lower court for “further consideration” in light of a pro-prosecution ruling by the Supreme Court in a somewhat similar case last May. Justice Potter Stewart contended in a brief, written dissent, “This order of the Court is little short of irrational. The court of appeals to which this case is now remanded cannot but find this order totally incomprehensible.” Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a separate dissent joined by Justices Stewart and William J. Brennan Jr., said that the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case last May was “irrelevant” to the Federal appeals court in today’s case. The high court’s action, he said, was thus “a waste of the time of two courts.”
The Supreme Court refused today to hear arguments of the Human Life Amendment Group against a state court order permitting the withdrawal of life supporting equipment from Karen Quinlan. The court turned down a request by Stephen Garger and Richard Gallagher, representatives of the organization, for review of the New Jersey Supreme Court decision. Neither Mr. Garger, Mr. Gallagher nor the group was a party to the state court proceedings and consequently they would not normally have a right to have their appeal considered by the Supreme Court. There has been virtually no change in Miss Quinlan’s condition since she was moved to the Morris View Nursing Home on June 9, about two weeks after she was withdrawn from the respirator, a nursing home spokesman said today.
Gary Mark Gilmore, sentenced to death for a night clerk’s murder in a motel robbery, can keep a November 15 date with the executioner after telling a judge he did not want to spend the rest of his life in prison. “It’s my own decision,” Gilmore, 35, told Judge J. Robert Bullock in Provo, Utah. “You sentenced me to die. Unless it’s a joke or something, I want to go ahead and do it.” Gilmore was told he could change his mind and appeal. An appeal is not mandatory in Utah. There have been no executions in the United States since June 2, 1967. Utah offers a choice of hanging or firing squad and Gilmore has said he prefers to be shot. Bullock ordered Gilmore to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Aubran Wayne Martin, convicted of murder five years ago in the assassination of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph Yablonski, was sentenced in Washington, Pennsylvania, to three consecutive life terms. Martin, 28, was the last of nine defendants to be sentenced in the 1969 deaths of Yablonski and his wife and daughter. They were shot while sleeping in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, home three weeks after Yablonski lost a bitter union presidential election to W.A. (Tony) Boyle. “It is my request that this defendant never be made eligible for parole or furlough,” Judge Charles G. Sweet said in sentencing Martin. Boyle, who was convicted of masterminding the plot, and two other UMW executives are also serving life terms for first-degree murder.
Two members of the Jewish Defense League who were arrested in August as suspects in a rash of anti-Soviet terrorism in New York City pleaded guilty to weapons charges. Russell Kelner, 35, of Brooklyn, a former JDL operations officer, admitted in federal court that he illegally transported a 30-caliber carbine from New Jersey to New York. Steven Rombon, 17, also of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to transporting black powder across state lines. Kelner last year was put on probation for four years after receiving a suspended sentence for threatening the life of Arab leader Yasser Arafat. The court has been examining a conspiracy to harass Soviet and other officials with sniping and bombing incidents dating back to 1975.
The “world’s richest deposit” of manganese nodules lines the Pacific floor west of San Diego, according to information collected for France’s Centre National Pour Exploitation des Oceans in Brest. Dr. Raymond Lesauve made the announcement after tracing the nodule belt from the U.S. mainland to Hawaii since early last year on the research ship Le Noroit. He did not know why mining of the nodules had not been started since several mining companies have the technology to do so.
Wildlife experts were attempting to catch 300 birds trapped or injured by a 2,500-gallon oil spill in Carquinez Strait near Martinez, California. The spill occurred early Saturday during unloading from the tanker Prudhoe Bay at the Lion Oil Co. Officials said the spill, which spread from Martinez to Port Chicago in a slick 500 yards wide, was caused by improperly seated valves that malfunctioned below the tanker’s water line. A spokesman for the Coast Guard said most of the oil was skimmed off the water over the weekend but it would take several weeks to clean up the remainder, which was clinging to reeds of the strait’s marshy shore.
The U.S. Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency will screen a long list of hazardous chemicals used on farms. The EPA by law must now review all existing pesticides and decide, case by case, whether their use can continue. The EPA cannot approve any pesticide without making sure that the chemical’s benefits exceed its risks, Agriculture Secretary John A. Knebel said.
Evangelist Sun Myung Moon’s personal translator, Colonel Bo Hi Pak, said he had no connection with the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency and was not involved in bribing U.S. congressmen and officials. Pak, identified as president of the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, read a nine-page statement in Washington designed to give a point-by-point rebuttal to reports he was involved with Korean intelligence, engaged in bribery operations with Washington-based Korean businessman Tonsun Park or had acted as intermediary between Korean intelligence and Moon’s Unification Church Movement.
A woman fainted and one fight broke out as more than 5,000 job seekers swarmed outside the main Cadillac assembly plant of General Motors in Detroit after the firm said it would take job applications. The company said it had no plans for immediate hiring but just wanted to build up its application file. There was no public announcement of the application making, although there had been bulletins posted in the plant and on the main door. Unemployment in Detroit has been about 10%. Company officials said people started showing up at 10 p.m. Sunday.
A tape-recorded message found in a Philadelphia City Hall office threatened a sabotage of the city’s water supply unless the city dropped $1 million from a helicopter at a specified site, officials said. The male voice on the tape said 1,000 gallons of heating oil would be dumped into the water unless the money was dropped at some flashing lights along the Delaware River. The city followed orders but no lights were found. City Managing Director Hillel Levinson said “major precautions” were being taken and added that the worst effect of the oil in water would be a case of nausea. “There is no cause for alarm,” he said.
Pro-casino forces deluged New Jersey voters with newspaper and broadcast appeals for approval of gambling casinos in Atlantic City. Most political analysts believe that the vote on the issue tomorrow will be very close.
New construction contracts in September surpassed last year’s September levels by 7 percent despite a decline in public works, utility and other heavy building, the McGraw-Hill Information Systems reported. A 32 percent drop in the heavy, non-building category was more than offset by a 27 percent gain in residential construction and a 17 percent increase in non-residential building.
Radio emissions from distant civilizations could be detected by an ambitious project being developed by laboratories of the national space agency. The initial goal is to build an analyzer that can simultaneously observe a star and its possible planets through a million radio-frequency peepholes. The expected cost is $1 million.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Lydell Mitchell rushed for 136 yards while Roosevelt Leaks and Don McCauley each picked up a pair of touchdowns in leading the Baltimore Colts to a 38-14 victory over the Houston Oilers and a two-game lead in the AFC East. Dan Pastorini and Ken Burrough combined on a 53-yard touchdown pass in the fourth period, breaking Baltimore’s string of nine consecutive scoreless quarters. Rookie Ronnie Lee scored the final Baltimore touchdown on a 69-yard run with 2:31 left in the game.
Houston Oilers 14, Baltimore Colts 38
Stock prices made a small gain with trading moving in a narrow range. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 1.16 at 966.09, bringing Its total advance in the last five sessions to more than 35 points. Credit traders pushed prices up, but trading was light and price gains only modest.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 966.09 (+1.16, +0.12%)
Born:
Kelly Gregg, NFL nose tackle and defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs), in Wichita, Kansas.
Michael Moore, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons), in Fayette, Alabama.
Tracy Reid, WNBA forward (Charlotte Sting, Miami Sol, Phoenix Mercury), in Miami, Florida.
Cleatus Davidson, MLB second baseman and shortstop (Minnesota Twins), in Bartow, Florida.
Mike Minard, Canadian NHL goaltender (Edmonton Oilers), in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
Logan Marshall-Green, American actor (“Prometheus”), in Charleston, South Carolina.
Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor (“Homestar Runner”), in Indiana.
Adah Almutairi, American nanotechnology engineer; in Portland, Oregon.
Died:
Oscar Beregi Jr, 58, Hungarian actor (“Young Frankenstein”, “Panic in City”), of a heart attack.
