Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist Party leader, said today that the Kremlin expected “more effective interaction” in Soviet‐United States relations following the Presidential election. Mr. Brezhnev, speaking at a dinner honoring the Polish Communist leader, Edward Gierek, warned however that the Soviet Union would continue to support national liberation movements. He charged that “powerful and well-organized” forces in the West oppose relaxation of tensions, forcing the Communist countries to “enhance their vigilance and to step up still more their struggle for a lasting peace.” According to a text circulated by Tass, the official press agency, Mr. Brezhnev made no direct reference to President-elect Jimmy Carter. His remarks appeared to reflect Soviet impatience over slow progress in Soviet‐American relations during the election campaign. Viewers watching a television broadcast of the speech noted that Mr. Brezhnev appeared to be wearing a hearing aid.
Dr. Patrick Hillery was elected by default as the sixth President of Ireland, to be sworn in on December 3, succeeding Cearbhaill O Dalaigh, who resigned last month in a dispute with the government. Hillery, the European Commissioner for Social Affairs, was nominated as the candidate of Fianna Fáil. In that neither of the other two parties— Fine Gael and the Labour Party — nominated a candidate for the largely-ceremonial job, Ireland’s Constitution allowed the government to dispense with voting.
Neo-Nazis in Frankfurt marked the anniversary of the 1938 anti-Jewish riots by raising a swastika flag 150 feet up a smokestack and plastering the city with propaganda posters. The posters said in German, “We are here again. Red front perish. Don’t buy Jewish.” They were signed “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” — the official name of Adolf Hitler’s party — with an address in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Extremists blew up two French television trucks today, and many businesses closed for a 24‐hour protest against the detention of five militants seeking Corsican autonomy. The five have been in jail in Lyons for two months for burning a French Boeing 707 jetliner on Sept. 7 at Ajaccio, Corsica. They went on a hunger strike October 21 and were hospitalized last Thursday in serious condition. Corsican nationalists have been agitating for autonomy from mainland France for two centuries. Last month a Foreign Legion unit was withdrawn from the Mediterranean island after island-wide protests against the killing of two shepherds whose deaths were attributed to deserters from the Legion.
The International Energy Agency, formed by 19 Western industrial nations, announced in Paris a series of cooperative procedures to reduce their dependence on imported oil by 1985. This step, taken before the December meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which is expected to raise prices, reflects their concern about the problem.
Lebanese right-wing Christian leaders met with President Sarkis in Beirut and agreed to the stationing of Syrian troops of the Arab peacekeeping force in Christian areas of the Lebanese capital. The Christian leaders said they had been persuaded that such a move was necessary to carry out the peace agreement worked out at an Arab leadership meeting last month.
The U.S. State Department said today that an inquiry had failed to turn up evidence confirming “any illegal or improper activity” by the Iranian Government in the United States. Officials said that despite these findings, Alfred L. Atherton Jr., Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, met yesterday with Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi to stress that the United States would not countenance any shadowing, harassment or other police activity by Iranians. The issue arose last month when the Shah said in a television interview that Iranian agents were checking on subversive activities by Iranians in the United States and this was known to the American Government. Appearing on the CBS program “60 Minutes,” the Shah said that Iranian agents in the United States were checking up on the activities of Iranian students. Under accepted diplomatic practice, representatives of foreign countries are not supposed to carry out any activity against their own nationals living in the host country.
The United States and Vietnam will open preliminary talks Friday in Paris on the possibility of beginning normal relations, U.S. officials said in Washington. The talks will be the first between the two countries since the Paris peace agreement was signed almost four years ago. Meanwhile, Vietnamese officials said their application for admission to the United Nations is due for discussion Friday in the Security Council. The Ford Administration has said it will veto the application if there is no progress in getting from Hanoi an accounting of Americans listed as missing in action.
South Koreans with first-hand inside knowledge have told U.S. investigators South Korean President Park Chung Hee and other senior officials organized and directed an illegal effort to influence Congress, the New York Times reported. Earlier allegations that Park and others might have been involved were based on electronic surveillance reports. The newspaper said the latest information, while not backed by documentary evidence, had come from South Koreans with knowledge of inner workings of their government. The Justice Department declined comment. The South Korean Embassy in Washington has denied that Park was involved. Former Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said today that he had warned the U.S. State Department in 1970 to be careful of a covert South Korean lobby and had suggested to the department that the Justice Department should be asked to investigate the legality of the operation.
In what seemed to be a major effort to bolster the legitimacy of Hua Kuofeng among the Chinese people, the Peking Government eulogized the new Chairman of the Communist Party today in stronger terms than ever. An editorial in the army newspaper, Chiehfang Chun Pao, described Mr. Hua as “loyal, selfless, open and straightforward, modest and prudent.” It also said that Mr. Hua, who was appointed Chairman last month, succeeding Mao Zedong, was “democratic in his style of work, unassuming and approachable, and good at uniting with comrades to work together.” The editorial asserted that Mao himself had “trained, selected and arranged for Comrade Hua Kuofeng to be the successor.” It said Mao “spoke highly of Comrade Hua Kuofeng as being experienced in giving overall leadership to the work of a county, a prefecture and a province land in working at the central level.” Mr. Hua has reportedly served at all those levels.
Japan honors Emperor Hirohito today, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. About 9,000 persons invited by the conservative government of Premier Takeo Miki will attend a ceremony at the Martial Arts Hall across the street from the Imperial Palace. Many leftists, however, will be absent because Hirohito, 75, was ruling during World War II. Hirohito, who ascended to the throne as Japan’s 124th ruler in the lineage of the imperial family on December 25, 1926, is the longest reigning monarch in the world.
Japan and the Soviet Union reached agreement today on the return of a supersonic MIG‐25 fighter plane flown to northern Japan on September 6 by a Soviet Air Force officer seeking to defect to the United States. The Soviet freighter Taigonos is to enter the port of Hitachi, 60 miles northeast of Tokyo, on Friday to pick up the dismantled Soviet jet plane, the most advanced in the Soviet Air Force and a closely guarded secret until its appearance in Japan. After it landed at a small civilian airfield in Hakodate, the MIG, reportedly the world’s fastest plane, was seized by Japanese authorities. Its pilot, Lieut. Viktor Belenko, was granted political asylum and flew to the United States on September 9. The Japanese later dismantled the plane and removed it to Hyakuri, a Japanese Self‐Defense Force base near Hitachi. where Japanese experts, with assistance from Americans, made a thorough study of it.
The captains of three Cuban fishing vessels were charged in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with violating Canada’s 12-mile fishing limit. The captains — two Russians and a Cuban — pleaded innocent. Two trawlers and their mother ship were spotted about 1 ½ miles inside the limit Monday, Canadian authorities charged. The two trawlers proceeded to Halifax when ordered to do so, but a Canadian destroyer had to escort the mother ship to port, authorities said.
Two bombs exploded today in police headquarters of Buenos Aires province, wounding 11 officials attending a meeting, a military communique said. One went off in the office of the Assistant Police Chief, Colonel Ernesto Trotz, who was badly wounded. Colonel Trotz and other officials were meeting to discuss promotions in the 35,000‐man force, police sources said. First reports from the police sources had said that at least three persons were killed, but the army communique mentioned only 11 wounded, three seriously. A second bomb went off near Colonel Trotz office, on the first floor of the police headquarters, situated in La Plata, 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires.
The African and third world majority of the U.N. General Assembly opened a major new campaign against apartheid today, calling the United States, other Western powers and Israel leading “collaborators” of the South African Government. With as many as two dozen nations abstaining from votes on key resolutions, including Britain, France, West Germany and the United States — trading partners that South Africa cares most about — many diplomats felt that the impact of many Assembly’s action would be dulled by the time it reached its target. Included in more concrete detail than in previous years’ resolutions were recommendations for economic and financial boycotts of South Africa. a ban on sports competition with South African athletes and a call on the Security Council to enforce an arms embargo, a step that in the past has always been vetoed by Britain, France and the United States.
A French woman held by Chad rebels for 2 ½ years is now in the hands of a rival guerrilla movement, raising hopes for her release. Rebel leader Hissen Habre, who held Francoise and Pierre Claustre in the Tibesti Mountains despite payment of a $2 million ransom for the woman, was deserted by his men, the Chad National Liberation Front announced in Algiers. She and her husband reportedly had been held in separate camps and the front claimed to have only the woman. Habre had captured the woman on April 21, 1974, and the husband a year later when he entered the Tibesti region to bargain for her release. The rival faction, headed by Abba Siddik, is backed by Libya and Algeria, and has often denounced Habre for refusing to release the two.
The number of refugees fleeing from fighting in Angola dwindled amid reports that Angola government forces were turning civilians back at gunpoint, Namibia officials said. Refugees were quoted as saying that would-be escapees were shot as they tried to climb the border fence into Namibia (South-West Africa). Bodies were being buried in a mass grave about a mile inside Angola, they said. Officials said a battle was raging between a combined force of government, Cuban and SWAPO (South-West Africa People’s Organization) troops and forces of UNITA (the Union for the Total Independence of Angola).
Ten days ago Rhodesian forces crossed into Mozambique, attacked at least seven guerrilla training camps and returned with eight tons of captured weapons, food supplies and documents that were shown to foreign reporters. Military spokesmen. often visibly straining against a desire to affirm the success of the mission, are saying little beyond denying allegations made by black spokesmen outside Rhodesia that as many as 1,000 people were killed, among them civilians, women and children. The military spokesmen cite security considerations as the main reason for their silence. They also recall that Prime Minister Ian D. Smith noted last week that in “an odd world” guerrillas committing arts of terror were being applauded by world opinion while attacks on the guerrillas were being condemned. In light of this, said Mr. Smith, “the less said the better.” Still, some details of the raids, the strategic motivations for them and their consequences have been learned. The military appear convinced that the raids have holstered white morale while dealing a psychological blow to the guerrillas.
Joshua Nkomo, the black Rhodesian leader, has indicated that Rhodesia under black rule will look to the Soviet Union for friendship, support and aid rather than to the United States. The relationship between Rhodesia and any other country, he said in an interview yesterday, would be governed by its attitude “during our period of armed struggle.” “We get our assistance, especially military assistance, from the Soviet Union,” he pointed out. “It’s no secret. We have gone to them. They haven’t come to us. We are working with them.” Rhodesia’s relations with the United States, he said, would be “the relations between two independent countries.”
The British Government, seeking to break the deadlock at the Geneva conference on the future of Rhodesia, discussed today a new formula for an independence date in the territory and a possible British role in the transition to black majority rule. Although Ivor Richard, British chairman of the conference, insisted late today that he was returning to Geneva without “any great new fresh initiative,” diplomatic sources said that Mr. Richard had spent the day in London discussing British options aimed at breaking the impasse at the twoweek‐old conference between four nationalist leaders and white Rhodesian officials. Mr. Richard, who arrived in London last night, met Prime Minister James Callaghan and Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland this morning. Later he said that he still hoped the talks would succeed and that he expected them to go on in Geneva until Christmas. Mr. Richard initially seized on the issue of a date of independence as a relatively noncontroversial and starting point for the conference, which was designed to set up an interim biracial government leading to independence and black majority rule. Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia, the leader of the white minority, agreed in September to majority rule within two years. But African nationalists at the conference, fearing that Mr. Smith seeks to sabotage majority rule, have demanded independence within 12 months. So far, there have been virtually no signs of progress on the date.
Patricia Hearst was transferred suddenly this morning from the campus-like surroundings of the Federal Correctional Institution at Pleasanton, 60 miles southeast of here, to the 12-story Metropolitan Correction Center in San Diego. Miss Hearst was taken from Pleasanton at 4 AM and driven to the San Diego center, where most of the 500 inmates are unsentenced or short term prisoners. Miss Hearst, sentenced last September to seven years’ imprisonment for bank robbery, will be eligible for parole in 16 months. Although the authorities had no comment on the move, other than saying that Miss Hearst had requested a transfer, inmates at the Pleasanton prison reported that Miss Hearst had had a number of tantrums. These sources, in interviews, said that she would go into her room and beat her fists against the wall until the knuckles were scraped and red. Last Week, Miss Hearst refused to work at her assigned job and when told she would be put into isolation as punishment, she said that was what she wanted, the sources said. Jim Meko, head case manager for the prison, said that “the concept here is volunteerism, but if someone decides to sit around, they are going to be transferred out. There are a lot of people who want to get into this place.” Miss Hearst had been assigned the job of unit orderly, which involved keeping the dormitory unit where she lived clean and included such chores as mopping the floor, vacuuming, washing windows, and cleaning the shower rooms.
A former Congressman said in an interview that while a member of the House he became a silent partner in an import-export venture of the Korean businessman Tongsun Park that brought him $60,000 to $70,000 in a three-year period. Richard Hanna said that during their 10-year relationship he was pressed for introductions to many in government office. Feeling “used” and “abused,” he said he had cooperated fully with Department of Justice lawyers investigating South Korean bribery and influence peddling.
The quiet seacoast town of Seabrook, New Hampshire, the site of construction of two 1,150-megowatt nuclear electric generators, has become the latest focal point in the growing debate over nuclear power. Today, in the latest of a complex series of legal, toe Federal Environmental Protection Agency revoked its approval of the $2 billion-plus plant’s cooling system. Jubilant environmentalists said that the ruling meant the nuclear generating plant was doomed. William C. Pallman, the president of the Public Service Company, which is building it, said he was “appalled” at the decision and would appeal it through the Federal bureaucracy and courts. Nuclear power, once hailed as the answer to the nation’s energy crisis, increasingly has become the center of controversy over safety and cost. A growing band of environmentalists, holstered of late by industry defectors, has been battling the plants through methods ranging from antinuclear referendums in the recent election to the antinuclear sit-ins held here over the summer. Among the major issues raised by opponents is the disposal of the nuclear waste produced by the spent fuel in the generating process, which can remain radioactive for as long as 200,000 years.
Federal health officials prepared a new publicity campaign today to try to overcome apparent lagging interest in the nationwide swine flu immunization program. Two new national television spots being prepared will emphasize the high communicability of influenza and it rapid spread, according to Don Berreth public information director for the national Center for Disease Control. The other TV commercial — aimed at skepticism about the program — will illustrate reasons why persons should get immunized against the swine flu. Mr. Berreth said that Federal health officials also were trying to enlist the aid of spokesmen and leaders in the nation’s ghetto areas to talk up the immunization program. Officials of the disease center have expressed concern that persons in low income groups were not turning out for flu shots at the inoculation clinics now operating in most of the nation’s urban areas. A report issued last week by the C.D.C. showed that about 10 million Americans had received swine flu shots in October, with the program about one-third complete. If the rate of inoculations should continue at that pace, the $135 million project would fall far short of immunizing most Americans against the disease by the end of the year.
Under pressure from Congress, figures are published for the first time on loans by American banks and their foreign branches to the developing nations. They show some $32.6 billion outstanding at midyear to five of them — Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Indonesia — all reputedly big borrowers with actual repayment problems.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, plagued by fiscal troubles, moved closer today toward filling what some association board members see as a leadership vacuum with the announcement of some national priorities by the executive director-designate, Benjamin L. Hooks.
Answering rumors that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger had been offered a multimillion-dollar contract for a series of television documentaries, State Department spokesman Robert Funseth replied that Kissinger was not considering any employment offers and would not discuss the subject until he left office.
“I don’t know what I will do now. I have no plans. None,” said Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Arkansas). Mills, 67, whose congressional career ended unexpectedly in scandals over alcoholism and escapades with stripper Fanne Fox, was asked what he would do if he had a chance to live his life over. He reflected, “I would maybe not run for Congress at all.”
Congress will help New York, in the opinion of the chairmen of three key committees, by legislating President-elect Carter’s campaign pledges in areas that will ease the city’s fiscal problems. Prospects are good, they said, for welfare reform, federal loan guarantees, job programs, housing and mass transit. But they warned Congress would probably insist on the city’s completing its three-year financial plan on schedule.
New York City’s public school system, the nation’s largest, discriminates against women and minorities in employment, a federal official said. Martin H. Gerry, director of the civil rights office in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said the city practiced racial discrimination in the hiring and assigning of minority teachers and sex discrimination against women in areas of promotions, seniority and support for athletic programs. He directed the school board to begin developing plans within 90 days to correct the alleged violations. Gerry said the city had more than a million students and 46,000 teachers in nearly a thousand schools.
Las Vegas, the sundrenched oasis for gambling and entertainment, has a serious air pollution problem and it is getting worse, officials say. The desert city’s problems reached high point last week when county health officials ordered an air pollution alert and kept it in effect for two days. They blamed air stagnation, a temperature inversion and cars. Although cars are the biggest contributor to the air pollution problem, said Mike Naylor, a county health official, topography and climate do not help. Las Vegas is between two mountain ranges, and the weather is perfect for generating a temperature inversion.. That usually occurs after sundown when the ground cools faster than the air and the warmer air aloft traps the cooler air below. An industrial complex in nearby Henderson adds to the problem. Carbon monoxide levels in Las Vegas have increased steadily in the last three years, Mr. Naylor said, as more people driving more cars move to the city.
All ocean dumping of toxic chemical waste off New England has been halted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, an agency spokesman announced in Boston. Safety Products and Engineering Inc., the last firm holding an EPA permit to dump such wastes off that coast, was recently dissuaded from such dumping by the threat of a lawsuit by the National Wildlife Federation, the spokesman said.
The United Automobile Workers union announced today that its 43,000 members at International Harvester plants across he nation would go on strike at midnight November 17 unless a new contract was reached by then. The union issued the strike notice to the Chicago-based manufacturer of trucks Ind farm construction equipment on the same day that Deere & Company resumed full production after a 39‐day strike. The third of the “big three” farm implement manufacturers, Caterpillar of’ Peoria, Illinois, said that its negotiations with the union had been in recess since October 27 and that no new talks were scheduled.
More than 20,000 white students have dropped out of the Boston school system since court-ordered desegregation was imposed in 1974, the school department’s top statistician said. Louis Perullo reported that 3,448 white pupils left during the last two months, most of them transferring to private, parochial and other public school systems. “To escape desegregation, they simply have to pay tuition at a local parish school or go live with Aunt Dottie in Quincy. These parents will go to great lengths to make sure their children have freedom of choice,” Perullo said.
St. John’s University of Jamaica, New York, suspended all activities of its Pershing Rifles military fraternity unit while a board of inquiry was named to investigate the fatal stabbing of a teenaged pledge at an “unauthorized training session.” School officials and the Reserve Officers Training Corps continued to insist that no hazing was involved in the death Friday night of Thomas Fitzgerald, 19. Cadet James Savino, 21, was being held without bail on a murder charge. Police said Fitzgerald was playing the role of a prisoner of war and Savino, as an interrogator, jabbed a knife at a board suspended from Fitzgerald’s neck. He missed, police said, and the blade plunged into Fitzgerald’s chest.
Five cases of a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea, first noted publicly by the national Center for Disease Control in Atlanta in September, has now shown up in 11 states and has been identified in several foreign countries. The CDC has confirmed 31 cases of the new disease, more than half in California, and all but one traced to travel in the Far East. The new strain produces an enzyme that deactivates penicillin, the drug most often used against gonorrhea, which the CDC estimates infects 2 million Americans each year. The new germ, called Penicillinase-producing Niesseria Gonorrhoeae, or PPNG, usually can be fought successfully by spectinomycin, another type of antibiotic, a CDC official said.
The search for the third child of a woman whose two other daughters were found stuffed in a garbage can ended when the body of Tonya Davies, 3, was found along a roadway several miles from her home, authorities reported in Delaware, Ohio. Tonya’s mother, Margo C. Davies, 20, has been charged with murder in the death of Laurie, 18 months, whose body was found last Friday along with that of her sister, Christine, 2 The girls had been bound with cloth strips, placed in plastic bags and dumped in a garbage can.
A Japanese film that was removed from the New York Film Festival after the Customs Service threatened to confiscate it for possible obscenity will be shown next month as the result of a federal court decision. Without ruling on obscenity, Judge Marvin Frankel barred Customs from interfering with “In the Realm of the Senses” on the ground that it had already been admitted in Los Angeles and the local Customs office had no right to re-inspect it.
After more than three months of operations on Mars, Viking spacecraft have left scientists of two minds on the question of Martian life. Some scientists say maybe. Others say probably not at least not now or where the spacecraft landed. Project scientists, in reviewing results of the Viking I and 2 missions, said at a news conference here today that they continued to be confounded by the apparently contradictory findings made by the life-seeking instruments aboard the two landing craft. Dr, Harold P. Klein of the Ames Research Center, leader of the biology team, said of the test results with Martian soil samples: “They do not vigorously prove the presence of life on Mars. They do not vigorously exclude the presence of life on Mars.” Or, as Dr. Carl Sagan, an astronomer of Cornell University and member of the Viking team, remarked: ‘’There are clues up to the eyebrows, but no conclusive explanations of what we’re seeing.” What the scientists are seeing in the data radioed from the two Vikings, which are operating at two widely separated places on the cold, arid red planet, apparently “positive” results from two sets of experiments and “negative” results from two others.
Dr. Sagan, a leader in research into extra terrestrial life, sought to explain the same data in such a way as to leave open the possibility of Martian life. To support his thesis, he noted that the Vikings had discovered some molecular nitrogen, a prerequisite of proteins on earth, in the Martian atmosphere. He said the Vikings also found an iron-rich clay, montmorillonite, which on earth is a catalyst for changing amino acids into long-chained molecules such as proteins. Another possibility, Dr. Sagan said, that “life could have arisen on Mars and then become extinct.” This, he said, suggested by the signs that water must have flowed on the Martian surface long ago, which would mean that the planet once had a denser atmosphere and a more moist environment.
Major League Baseball:
Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career with 2,711 hits, 426 home runs, 1,475 RBI, and a .290 average.
Stock prices lost ground for the third straight day, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 2.91 points to 930.77, its lowest close since Jan. 16. Bond Investors absorbed a $100 million Bell System issue, priced to give a yield of 8.30 percent.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 930.77 (-2.91, -0.31%)
Born:
Jamal Brooks, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, St. Louis Rams), in Los Angeles, California.
Laura Csortan, Miss Universe-Congeniality (Miss Australia, 1997), in Brisbane, Australia.
Joseph Benjamin, Nigerian film and television actor; in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.
Shahadat Hossain, Bangladeshi TV and film actor; in Barisal, Bangladesh.
Died:
Smokey Bear, 26, American black bear and resident of the Washington National Zoo who became the living symbol of the United States Forest Service campaign to prevent forest fires after his 1950 rescue from a fire in New Mexico. His appearances in ad campaigns had ended after May 31, 1975.
Frankie Carbo, 72, Italian-born American boxing promoter and former Mafia hitman.
Armas Taipale, 86, Finnish track athlete and discus thrower, 1912 Olympic gold medalist.
Billy Halop, 56, former American child actor in the Dead End Kids series of films (“Angels with Dirty Faces”, “All in the Family”), from a heart attack.
