Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and his Polish counterpart, Edward Gierek, ended talks in Moscow on expanding bilateral cooperation and signed a statement of friendship and cooperation. The official Tass news agency said the discussions focused on party and state relations. Soviet Prime Minister Aleksei N. Kosygin and President Nikolai V. Podgorny also took part in the talks. The two sides discussed “promising questions related to Soviet‐Polish cooperation and broader exchanges of know-how in different fields of Socialist and Communist construction,” Tass reported.
Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti announced a harsh austerity program with a warning that Italy must put its economy in order or risk a cutoff of foreign loans. Calling for an end to the “shameless luxury” in which some Italians live, the Christian Democratic premier told Parliament he planned to raise $5.7 billion by means of more taxes and price increases. More than a million workers in the Rome area, inspired by the Communist-dominated trade union federations, went on strike in the latest in a series of regional work stoppages to protest the austerity measures.
A 24-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army, Vivian Patrick Hayden, was jailed for 12 years in Dublin, for bomb attacks on movie theaters and bars in that city. The prosecution at his trial alleged that his flat was a bomb factory and his fingerprints had been found on one unexploded bomb. Hayden pleaded not guilty and said people from Northern Ireland had used his flat to make the bombs. Damage in the bombings was put at $1.2 million. Hayden was also sentenced to a year for being a member of the IRA.
Britain’s Labor Party Government was defeated in Parliament early today on amendments to a key bill being promoted. by Prime Minister James Callaghan at the insistence of the party’s powerful left wing. The Government defeats came on a package of six amendments proposed by he House of Lords to a bill intended to give dock workers monopoly rights to handle cargo within five miles of all British ports. The Government succeeded in quashing four of the amendments, three on deadlocks, with the Speaker casting his vote in favor of Labor, and the fourth on a onevote majority. But the Conservatives, led by Margaret Thatcher, succeeded in amending the measure to reduce the area of dock worker monopoly privileges to one-half mile from the five miles sought. The action was interpreted as having effectively destroyed the core of the legislation and virtually killing the bill altogether.
A police inquiry has found that the former Swiss air defense chief, Brigadier Jean‐Louis Jeanmaire, spied for the Soviet Union with the help of his wife, Public Prosecutor Rudolf Gerber said today. The 66‐year-old brigadier, air chief for six years, is the highest-ranking Swiss officer to be accused of spying. Mr. Gerber said at a press conference that the inquiry found Brigadier Jeanmaire’s “main acts of treachery” concerned military affairs. He said that in exchange for the information passed to Soviet officials in Bern, the Jeanmaires received gifts. It was not clear whether they also received money, he said. The brigadier and his wife are to be tried by a military tribunal, he added.
Georg Leber, the West German Defense Minister, was hospitalized for an abdominal infection this morning just before a Parliamentary debate was to have been held on his controversial dismissal of two air force generals for defending a rightist extremist who was a Nazi dive-bomber pilot in World War II.
Columns of Syrian tanks and combat troops entered Beirut today without firing a shot, in effect beginning the final phase of Syria’s military occupation of Lebanon in an effort to end the 19‐month civil war. The Syrian operation marked the first time the Lebanese capital had been under foreign military control since 1958, when United States Marines landed in a move intended to prevent a coup. The Syrians deployed their forces at a key crossroads in east Beirut near the line in the city separating the warring Lebanese factions. The advance also placed Syrian tanks, troops and artillery on the northeast edge of the city and near the airport south of the capital. The Syrian advance, which involved at least 60 Soviet‐made tanks, dozens of mobile artillery pieces and 5,000 soldiers, was made under agreements approved by the major Arab countries. Arab leaders approved, in meetings last month in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the creation of an enlarged multinational Arab peacekeeping force of 30,000 men. But in today’s operation, the peacekeeping force, which is overwhelmingly dominated by the 23,000 Syrian troops already in the country, consisted only of Syrians. Syria has upward of 23,000 soldiers in Lebanon, and some reports have put the figure as high as 30,000.
At least 35,000 people have been killed so far in a war that involves a struggle for political power, religious animosities and the presence in the country of nearly a half‐million Palestinians, including thousands of armed guerrillas. The Syrians, apparently according to plan, did not move into the center of the city to try to separate the armed militia force. While the Syrians have not disclosed their plan of operations, they are expected to move into the center of Beirut in the next few days to separate the armed bands. They are also expected to take control of the highways running from Beirut north to the towns of Tripoli and south to Saida, both controlled by the leftist Muslim forces. The opening of the main Beirut‐Damascus highway is also expected in the next few days. In addition, Syrian forces were reportedly moving today to take control of areas in the mountains northeast and southeast of the capital that have been involved in the factional war. Another aim of the occupation is the reopening of the international airport, which has been closed for five months. The Syrian troops, as part of the so‐called Arab deterrent force, are theoretically under the direct command of President Elias Sarkis, who was elected in May with strong Syrian support.
High Ford Administration officials are urging the United States to tell the Iranians that an increase in the price of oil would lead to reconsideration of the multi-billion-dollar American program of arms sales to their country, according to well-placed officials. The officials said that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger rejected the strategy of threatening to link a price rise to arms sales once before and was likely to do so again, though other officials felt that he might reconsider in view of the continuing worldwide economic deterioration. He is said to believe that threats will not work, serving only to jeopardize the overriding American interest in good relations with Iran. High officials in the State and Treasury Departments and the Pentagon want the Administration to convey privately to Iran a message of this sort: If you increase the price of oil, it will sour attitudes toward Iran in the United States, and even if we wanted to continue selling you rums, it would be virtually impossible to do so.
Nine members of the U.N. Security Council sponsored a resolution to admit Vietnam to the United Nations, but the United States refused support, implying that it might repeat earlier vetoes. Guyana submitted the resolution at a closed meeting of the council’s committee on admissions. The council may open debate on the question Friday, the same day that U.S. and Vietnamese officials are to meet in Paris to discuss the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Thousands of former rightist and neutralist Laotians are confined in harsh and repressive internment camps scattered throughout Laos, according to accounts being received in Washington. The reports, provided mainly in interviews from escaped or released prisoners and from letters from within the camps sent to relatives in Laos, said‐ that the camps differed widely in their levels of severity. Some of them on islands near the capital, Vientiane, are apparently short‐term “re‐education” facilities to provide such former “undesirables” as prostitutes and wayward teenagers with Communist indoctrination. These camps have been visited by foreign diplomats and journalists. But 40,000 to 50,000 former members of the anti‐Communist army, units in Laos are said to be confined to what amount to forced labor camps, living on minimal food and medicine rations. These former soldiers are reportedly used at such heavy labor tasks as cutting lumber and building canals, and the death rate is said to be high.
Chiang Ching, Mao Zedong’s widow, and her three political colleagues now reported under arrest helped make a movie this year that symbolically attacked Chou En-lai, the late Prime Minister, and the new party chairman, Hua Kuofeng, according to the Chinese press and radio. The movie, called “’Atomic Bomb,” was scheduled to be released on October 1, shortly before the arrest of the four, whom Western analysts have characterized an leftists or radicals. Miss Chiang, who supervised literature and the arts after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s, has come under attack as having suppressed movies and operas she did not like and persecuted directors and script writers. According to articles in Jenmin Jih Pao, the party daily, Miss Chiang harassed one film crew and local officials who cooperated with this crew despite a directive by Mao himself approving their work.
Emperor Hirohito’s 50-year reign was celebrated in Tokyo by some Japanese, but not by others. Some even protested the occasion. At the ceremony he warned his people not to be blinded by the prosperity of the moment and said the country would have to deal with many problems in the future.
Sixteen left-wing guerrillas were killed in three separate clashes with Argentine security forces after an explosion at police headquarters in La Plata. Three men and a woman were killed when they tried to shoot their way through a roadblock in a Buenos Aires suburb. Eight guerrillas were slain in a similar incident in La Plata, an army communique said. Four more died in a clash in the town of City Bell, north of La Plata, the communique said. The bomb blasts at police headquarters killed one policeman and injured 10.
Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was appointed president of the small central African republic of Burundi, the official Zaire Press Agency reported in Kinshasa, Zaire. The appointment came 10 days after he led a bloodless coup against President Michel Micombero, who was reported to be in custody of the new leaders. Bagaza, 30, was chosen by a 30-man military Supreme Revolutionary Council and will head the civilian executive council set up to carry out the 30-man council’s directives.
Britain made a new effort today at the conference on the future of Rhodesia here to break the deadlock on the date for legal independence under black majority rule. Black leaders said the move resulted in no progress, but the white delegation disagreed. After a series of separate morning meetings with Ivor Richard, the British chairman, the four black leaders said they remained adamant that the independence must come within 12 months of the end of the conference. However, Pieter van der Byl, Foreign Minister in the white-controlled Government of Prime Minister Ian D. Smith, said after seeing Mr. Richard in the afternoon that the conference was “looking a bit better.
South Africa reacted contemptuously tonight to the anti-apartheid resolutions approved yesterday by the General Assembly of the United Nations, vowing that it would never yield to international pressure even if it was forced into complete diplomatic isolation. A statement issued by the Foreign Minister, Hilgard Muller, said that group of resolutions passed by the Assembly “pay absolutely no regard to reality, but abound in willful distortions, wild exaggeration and the Assembly’s well-known double standards.” The statement added: “What the world should realize, however, is that even if South Africa should have to stand alone, we have the capacity and determination to fight for our rights. and that we shall never yield to this kind of pressure.”
The United States men’s team won the International Chess Olympics in Haifa, Israel, taking a title held since 1952 by the Soviet Union. The Russians boycotted the tournament because it was held in Israel. The U.S. team finished with 37 points, Holland with 36.5 and England with 35.5. Israel won the women’s gold medal with 17 points, followed by England and Spain. Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman was high individual scorer with 8.5 points in 11 games.
The Supreme Court of Utah ruled, 4 to 1, that convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was entitled to be executed as he had requested, and lifted a stay of execution that had been made earlier by the state’s Court of Appeals, clearing the way for Gilmore to face a firing squad within five days. The high court ruled today that a convicted murderer, who had asked to die “like a man,” can be executed by a firing squad next Monday. The decision, unless changed, would make Gary Mark Gilmore the first person to be executed in the United States since 1967. There are 443 other persons on death rows in the country. While the Governor of Utah issued a stay of execution the next day, Gilmore would be executed on January 17, 1977.
“Legionnaires’ disease” claimed another victim — the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, which housed the convention that was linked to numerous fatalities from a mystery illness last summer. The city’s leading convention hotel has suffered a drastically reduced occupancy rate since then and will close November 18. Officials of the company that owns the hotel announced this morning that the 72‐year‐old Bellevue Stratford will close next week. The decision follows a three-month fiscal decline brought about by public reaction to the hotel’s apparent role in the outbreak of the disease. The illness, which sickened 180 persons and proved fatal to 29 of them, struck primarily among members of the Pennsylvania American Legion after the group held a convention at the Bellevue Stratford last July. The rate of occupancy for the hotel’s 750 rooms reportedly fell from 80 percent to as low as 3 percent after the widely publicized outbreak.
President Ford, still recuperating from his losing campaign, is slowly coming to grips with a fundamental question: What does a reasonably young and vigorous ex‐President do with the rest of his life? Mr. Ford is not yet wrestling very hard with the question. He is taking things easy at this plush desert resort, playing golf and generally following the advice he offered reporters when he arrived here on Sunday. “Relax,” he told them. “Have a good time. No pressure.” But very soon he must face such basic decisions as where he will live and what he will do with himself. He still has the duties and perquisites of President to buffer the pangs of withdrawal from power.
A new air pollution policy was announced by the Environmental Protection Agency. It would permit new pollution-causing industry in areas such as New York City and northern New Jersey, provided other improvements in the area meant that there was no net increase in pollution. The National Clean Air Coalition said this would violate the intent of the 1970 law for areas that have failed to meet federal standards.
Money from Tongsun Park, the South Korean businessman whose Washington lobbying is under investigation, was refused by Governor David Pryor of Arkansas when he ran for that office, and earlier when he unsuccessfully sought a Senate seat. Mr. Pryor said that as a Representative he was friendly with Mr. Park, but became uneasy about him in 1970 or 1971.
Symbionese Liberation Army member William Harris, awaiting trial with his wife Emily in Oakland, California on charges of kidnaping Patricia Hearst, was back in his regular jail cell after spending five days in solitary confinement. Authorities said Harris had been placed in solitary for swearing at a jailer.
American Motors continued its sales slump, reporting a record loss of $51.1 million for the three months ended Sept. 30. The picture is grim for the country’s smallest car maker because its Big Three rivals have been accumulating record profits this year.
Continental Airlines and the Air Line Pilots Association announced tentative agreement today on a new contract that could end a 19‐day strike and put the company’s airplanes. back in the sky next week. The tentative agreement was reached during negotiations in San Diego last night, Continental said. No details of the settlement were available but Continental’s chairman, Robert F. Six, said that it was “fair” to both sides. “This was the first strike in the history of the airline, and all of us are looking forward to getting our proud birds back into the sky,” he said.
An Allied Chemical Company spokesman said today that the company was awaiting word from “various state and Federal agencies” on how to dispose of its last supplies of the pesticide ingredient Kepone, which caused widespread pollution in Virginia waters. The company now has “about 85,4100 pounds” of Kepone products and wastes, the spokesman, Norman Herington, said, some stored in Baltimore and some in Hopewell, where Kepone was discharged into the James River. He said that Allied was “waiting for various state and Federal agencies to tell us the best way to get rid of it” and was planning “a small-scale test” of incineration of the poison “to see how it works.”
A woman whose brain ceased functioning Monday after a two-car accident died in a Denver hospital, and so did her unborn baby that doctors had tried to save. Linda Irene Culbertson, 29, had been on life-support machinery that sustained her while doctors studied the legal, ethical. moral and medical questions of trying to save the life of her 15-week-old fetus by keeping her alive, although her brain was dead, until the baby could be delivered. But hospital officials later announced that extensive clinical evaluation had established that the fetus could not live outside the womb. Consequently, it was decided to stop the life-support measures, but mother and fetus died simultaneously before that was done.
Two physicians with backgrounds in drug regulation gave conditional endorsements to the continued marketing of amphetamine-like drugs for weight control programs. But one doctor acknowledged in testimony before a Senate small business subcommittee that abuse of the pills by persons seeking a temporary “high” might require that government controls on distribution be tightened. That testimony contrasted with that of another panel of physicians which said earlier that the weight loss drugs are so ineffective and so open to abuse that they should be banned altogether.
As 6- and 7-year-olds looked on in horror, their first-grade school teacher was shot to death in the classroom in Detroit. Killed was Betty McCaster, 46, who taught at Burt Elementary School on the city’s north side. Police took her estranged husband, Al Lewis, 46, into custody five hours after the shooting. Pupils said a man entered the room and exchanged a few words with the teacher before he pulled a pistol. Laura Denomie, 7, said, “He shot her three or four times from this far away,” indicating a distance of about five feet. Many of the youngsters fled screaming from the classroom and were still sobbing when questioned by police.
Enrollment at nearly half the nation’s public colleges and universities has dropped this year, a sharp reversal from 1975. “Rising costs are the principal reason,” says John Mallan, governmental relations director for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. He spoke in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the group’s Council of Presidents. The decline came as a shock to state schools, which showed a 9% enrollment increase last year and had expected another 4.5% hike this fall. Mallan blamed state governments for failing to provide money to meet rising costs, which then forced schools to increase their charges.
An Episcopal priest was charged with luring youths to his rehabilitative home known as Boys Farm, Inc., and starring them in homosexual pornography which, he was quoted as saying, was to raise money for the home. District Attorney J. William Pope said the Rev. Claudius I. (Bud) Vermilye, who faces grand jury action today, was arrested in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and taken to the county jail in Winchester. He was charged with crimes against nature. The boys’ home is located near Sewanee.
The Bonneville Power Administration, established 40 years ago to distribute electricity generated by federal dams, presently is investigating the possibility of backing construction of both nuclear and coal-burning power plants in the Pacific Northwest, a spokesman for the federal Energy Research and Development Administration announced in Washington, D.C. Such assistance, the spokesman said, would be a first-and would require congressional approval. The spokesman explained that the BPA feels the area’s hydroelectric potential has been realized, and only coal and nuclear steam generation can be counted upon to meet future needs.
Proposed sites for a $100 million experimental solar electric plant were narrowed from nine to three — Barstow, Gila Bend, Arizona, and San Antonio — by the Energy Research and Development Administration in Washington, D. C. The site will be selected from these three early next year, an ERDA spokesman said. If Barstow is picked, contractors would be the Southern California Edison Co., the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the California Energy Commission. The federally-funded plant will use energy from the sun to produce steam that will turn generators to supply enough power for a city of about 10,000.
New York, Illinois and Massachusetts asked a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block a plan by the Federal Aviation Administration that would exempt supersonic transport aircraft like the Anglo-French Concorde from current international noise standards. Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz of New York said the states filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against an FAA plan to direct the U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization to propose barring SST international noise limits until 1984.
Federal safety regulations that limit Government-funded research in a new area of genetic experimentation involving recombinant DNA should be extended to govern similar research by all laboratories, including those of private industry. This contention is made by the country’s two largest environmental law firms in a petition to the Government to be filed today.
Winter is likely to be colder than in recent years for most of the country, the U.S. Weather Service reported. It said winds carrying arctic air across the top of the North American continent have swung lower over the eastern half of the United States, thus indicating a winter colder than in the last five years.
Stock prices tumbled again in mid-afternoon, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing at 924.04, down 6.73 for the day. A heavy volume of new issues came to market as interest rates on state and city bonds rose.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 924.04 (-6.73, -0.72%)
Born:
Mike Leclerc, Canadian NHL left wing (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim; Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames), in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Jaroslav Hlinka, Czech NHL centre (Colorado Avalanche), in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Mario Monds, NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins), in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Bobby Myers, NFL safety (Tennessee Titans), in New Haven, Connecticut.
Died:
Billy Arnold, American auto racer (AAA Championship Car 1930; Indianapolis 500 1930), from a cerebral hemorrhage.
