The General Assembly approved a Cyprus resolution today again demanding the withdrawal of Turkish troops that have occupied part of the island for two years. Only Turkey voted against the resolution, approved by a vote of 94 to 1. The resolution also called for an end to foreign interference and requested Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to renew efforts to secure a resumption of negotiations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. The United States and Western European countries were among 27 countries that abstained. Some complained privately that the resolution went too far in describing the Cyprus situation as endangering international peace and expressing hopes that “appropriate steps” would be taken by the Security Council.
At least a half‐million industrial workers across Spain today staged stoppages, held political assemblies in factories or walked off the job in a one‐day protest against a Government‐decreed package of austerity measures. The protest, which only left‐wingers termed a general strike, was strongest in Barcelona, the industrial belt around Madrid. Seville, the Basque country and the northern mining center of Asturias. Called by an umbrella organization of Spain’s three main, illegal trade unions, the protest rallied an impressive number of industrial workers, but scarcely affected the nation’s transportation system or its white‐collar and agricultural workers. Life continued as usual in the principal municipal centers, and, aside from sporadic confrontations between strikers and police, there was little violence.
Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portuguese former national security chief and radical presidential candidate, was released from a military prison today after serving a 20‐day sentence, prison officials announced. Mr. Carvalho was jailed for violating a gag order banning him from making speeches while he faces charges of taking a leading role in the leftist military uprising on November 25, 1975. Mr. Carvalho was stripped of his government post and reduced in rank from general to major. His radical supporters rallied for a brief flurry of protests against his imprisonment, but only a few associates were at the Caxias Military Prison outside Lisbon when he was freed shortly after dawn. He went to his modest apartment in a Lisbon suburb.
Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti won a vote of confidence on his austerity package in the Italian Chamber of Deputies tonight, with crucial abstentions by the Communists. The austerity package included higher taxes and cutbacks in spending, and gave Mr. Andreotti the chance to seek more foreign loans and to raise $6 billion in direct and indirect taxes, besides levying higher charges for public services next year. The vote tonight was in keeping with efforts by the Communist Party to show a moderate face to Italians. It was the first major parliamentary test for Mr. Andreotti’s Christian Democratic minority Government since it won a mandate three months ago following elections in which the Communists made strong gains.
A leftwing Cabinet minister called today for “outright and complete abolition” of the House of Lords, which is trying to block approval of key Labor Government legislation. The proposal by Anthony Wedgwood Benn came as the Government sent back to the House of Lords a series of bills that it considers vital for its pact with the trade unions but which critics have denounced as extreme socialist measures. The House of Lords has been amending the bills and returning them to the House of Commons, where Labor has a majority of only one. This week, the Government just managed to overturn most amendments in the Commons although one bill to extend the job rights of dockworkers was altered extensively. If Labor cannot get its bills through in one week, the current session ends and all unfinished legislation is automatically wiped out. A general move was also growing among Labor members of Parliament for new curbs on the upper chamber, which was founded in the 13th century and which is occupied by non‐elected peers.
Britain’s longest-running missing persons case began when Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew disappeared from Inverness in Scotland. William MacDowell would be arrested for the crime more than 42 years later on September 11, 2019 and found fit to stand trial in 2021, found guilty in 2022, and died in prison in 2023.
Israel today accused the United States of practicing “discrimination” in the United Nations Security Council last night by endorsing a consensus criticizing Israel’s continued occupation of the Arab territories it has held since the 1967 war. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Yigal Allon, summoned Ambassador Malcolm Toon to a meeting in Tel Aviv to express displeasure over the United States vote and to instruct Mr. Toon to inform Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger about Israel’s “deep sorrow” over the “discrimination.”
Increased American influence in so-called moderate Arab countries is being sought by Secretary of State Kissinger. United States diplomats said this was the explanation for Washington’s joining in Thursday’s unanimous criticism by the United Nations Security Council of Israeli policies in occupied Arab territories. Mr. Kissinger’s efforts, the diplomats said, are being made in expectation of possible Arab-Israeli peace talks next year. The move marked a shift in diplomatic tactics by the United States, without changing the substance of its policy. Though resisting previous Security Council condemnations, the United States has never recognized Israel’s annexation of Arab east Jerusalem and has repeatedly criticized the establishment of Israeli settlements in the lands taken in the 1967 war. Israeli and Arab diplomats were consulted regularly by American representatives throughout the days of private consultations that led up to a compromise statement by the Security Council. The Israeli diplomats, led by their chief United Nations representative, Chaim Herzog, have outspokenly criticized the Council’s action in public statements. Privately, they admit that the majority of the Council would have voted a far stronger condemnation if the United States had not used the leverage of providing unanimity in order to tone down the earlier anti‐Israel drafts.
In what are supposed to be the final hours, or days, of the 19‐month Lebanese civil war, sporadic violence and killing are continuing here within earshot of Syrian peacekeeping troops. An estimated 6,000 Syrian soldiers and at least 200 tanks are expected to move toward the center from their positions on the edge of the city at any time. The Syrians have been so close to the center for the last two days that people wake up each morning hoping that they will come, regardless of whether the Syrians are viewed as true “peacekeepers,” as designated by recent agreement of the major Arab nations, or as a foreign occupation force “I don’t care if they stay for 20 years,” said a Palestinian civilian who distrusts Syrian motives in Lebanon. “If they can stop the killing, let them stay forever.”
It seems that no one outside the Syrian military command, and the office of Lebanon’s President, Elias Sarkis — is the nominal commander of the Syrian force that so far is the only active contingent of a multinational Arab force of 30,000 men — knows when the Syrians will drive to the city center. The Syrians began their current operation Wednesday at dawn, taking control of the Damascus-Beirut highway where it enters the city and encircling the seashore capital on land. There is speculation that, for public relations reasons, the Syrians are waiting for promised forces from other Arab countries to join them in the potentially dangerous task or moving through the middle of the battle zone downtown. It is more likely, however, is that the Syrians are compiling intelligence on what awaits them. Judging from the positioning of their forces, the Syrians could advance in at least three directions—through west Beirut held by the Lebanese Muslim leftists and Palestinians, through east Beirut held by the Lebanese right‐wing Christians, or straight down the line dividing the two warring camps.
India’s ruling Congress Party newspaper suggested today that the Indian legal system should be reorganized along “Socialist” lines, asserting that this had proved beneficial in China and the Soviet Union. The paper, The National Herald, said in an editorial that the complicated language of Indian law, derived from the British model should be eliminated. “As in Socialist countries, each Indian law can he reduced to simple sentences without too many conjunctions,” the paper said in an article that praised the way “a Socialist jurisprudence” was working in China and the Soviet Union.
One student was shot dead and more than 50 were injured when policemen opened fire this morning on demonstrators at Sri Lanka University’s Peradeniya campus, 70 miles from Colombo. The police were said to have fired after tear gas and a baton charge had failed to disperse about 2,000 demonstrators, who were obstructing the president of the campus from leaving his office. The campus was closed yesterday following a strike by university employees demanding the president’s removal. The students were seeking money from university authorities to return home. While the state radio maintained silence on the incident, opposition political leaders demanded an urgent debate in Parliament to discuss the deteriorating situation and the budget. The Peradeniya campus was one of the centers of an insurgency five years ago that posed a serious threat to the Socialist Government.
American and Vietnamese diplomats met here today to begin their first formal talks since the fall of Saigon last year. Although the goal of the meetings has been said to be the establishment of diplomatic relations, the contacts during today’s two‐hour session were considered preliminary ones, testing whether conditions were favorable for full‐scale negotiations on all issues between the United States and Vietnam. The prime issue for the United States — the fate of some 800 American servicemen still officially listed as missing in action in the Vietnam war — was raised by the American delegation, headed by Samuel Rhee Gammon, the deputy chief of mission at the United States Embassy here. The United States has long stressed that Vietnam must account for the missing Americans before other problems can be settled.
Two months after the death of Mao Zedong, analysts in Hong Kong believe, Peking has continued its unswerving adherence to his policy of hostility toward the Soviet Union despite hints by Moscow that it would welcome improved relations. Senior Chinese officials have reportedly assured Western diplomats in Peking over the last two weeks that there will be no change in China’s attitude under Hua Kuofeng, Mao’s successor as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese press has continued its almost daily polemics against what it sees as Russian military and economic expansionism. Today the official press agency, Hsinhua, carried five dispatches on Russian transgressions, including one dispatch that accused Moscow of “setting its bag” to conquer Western Europe. Analysts in Hong Kong do not exclude entirely the possibility that the new Chinese leaders may eventually move to lessen some of the dangers of conflict along the countries’ borders, or that there may be gradual improvement in state‐to‐state relations. But they believe it is far too early to expect such changes from Mr. Hua, which could leave him open to charges of national betrayal. The analysts see even less chance of real progress in the party‐to‐party relations, which the Chinese maintain have been broken since the early 1960’s and which involve deep‐seated ideological differences. When Mao died and then again when Mr. Hua was appointed his successor, Peking rejected messages from the Soviet Communist Party because they came from the party, not the Government.
The attorney for the Pacific Development corporation in Washington of Tongsun Park, the South Korean businessman, said today that he was advising the company’s employees to “cease all forms of voluntary cooperation” with a Federal investigation of Mr. Park because the Justice Department had given some of the information to newsmen. In a letter to Attorney General Edward H. Levi, the lawyer, Robert J. Ables, charged that the cooperation extended by the employees up to now in the investigation of possible influence‐peddling by members of Congress and bribery by agents of the South Korean Government had been “repaid by gross abuses of their rights that have resulted in news reports unrestrained by fairness.”
Japan’s economy will be stimulated by a program adopted by the Tokyo government, which faces nationwide elections December 5. The effort to speed the slow pace of economic recovery calls for spending $3.45 billion in public works, private housing and more financing for smaller businesses.
Japanese-Soviet relations were eased by Tokyo’s return to the Russians of the MiG-25 jet flown to Japan by a pilot who defected to the United States. The plane was returned in crated pieces and without ceremony at Hitachi as a Soviet fleet stood offshore.
The United States has sent a note to Cuba responding to that country’s renunciation of a 3‐yearold agreement to prevent hijackings, the State Department said today. Prime Minister Fidel Castro renounced the 1973 agreement on October 15 after a Cuban airliner was sabotaged. Mr. Castro blamed the Central Intelligence Agency. All 73 persons aboard were killed in the crash October 6. A State Department spokesman said the United States response, sent yesterday through the Swiss Embassy in Havana, reiterated American opposition to all acts of terrorism and denied responsibility for the crash of the airliner. The note also called the Cuban renunciation of the anti‐hijacking agreement “arbitrary and unjustified.”
Civil war in Angola has flared again, causing more than 9,000 refugees to flee to South-West Africa in the last two weeks. The refugees, mostly women and children, told reporters that Angolan government forces, aided by Cuban soldiers and black liberation guerrillas, had killed many men, burned huts and destroyed cattle and crops. The broad offensive seems aimed at ending resistance by one of three nationalist groups that vied for power after Angola gained independence from Portugal a year ago.
A wave of 800 recently trained nationalist guerrillas are moving into Rhodesia from Mozambique in a push timed to place pressure on the Geneva talks, a Rhodesian spokesman said today. He charged that this effort represented the third wave of incursions this year by guerrillas into the three military sectors stretching along the northern and eastern borders of Rhodesia. At a briefing this morning, the spokesman said that each of the two previous infiltration waves had involved about 800 guerrillas — most of them 17 to 20 years old. The spokesman said that Rhodesian forces had killed 900 guerrillas this year. In addition, he said, a number of guerrillas are believed to have deserted as a result of tribal and political factionalism. In light of this and taking account of the considerable “to‐ing and fro‐ing” across the border, the spokesman said, Rhodesian strategists believed that fewer than 2,000 guerrillas were inside the country.
The Ford Administration, in its first preliminary look at the budget for the 1978 fiscal year, estimates that Government spending will approach or exceed $450 billion, even if the Carter administration proposes no new programs. The estimated increase in outlays, without any new programs or phasing out of old ones, would amount to about 10 percent, according to the estimates of the Office of Management and Budget. The estimates were contained in a special budget document, required by law to be submitted to Congress at this time of year, showing where the budget is headed under existing programs. The document also specifies the amount that is expected to be spent in the current fiscal year, which began October 1. The Office of Management and Budget said that spending for the current, 1977 fiscal year would range between $412 billion and $412.9 billion, under existing laws and funding arrangements. It said that the budget deficit for the 1977 fiscal year could range more widely — between $54.2 billion and $59.3 billion — depending on what assumptions were made about the future course of the economy.
The tone of President‐elect Jimmy Carter’s Congressional relations may depend on the outcome of a series of battles over the top leadership posts of the 95th Congress well before he takes office January 20. The results of these contests for Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate and for Democratic leaders in the House will be critically important to Mr. Carter, who will need the help of Congressional leaders to shape and pass his legislative programs. The outcome may also answer such questions as whether Mr. Carter will be dealing with Congressional leaders who will work closely with him to enact the legislation he wants or possibly challenge him with alternative ideas, or whether the leadership fights will leave lasting scars that could divide the heavy Democratic majorities in both houses. In the Senate which will select new leaders at party caucuses on Jan. 4, the day Congress convenes, Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who has been majority whip since 1971, is regarded as the front‐runner to succeed the majority leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, who retired.
Mr. Byrd, a highly skilled technician, in guiding legislation and the day‐to‐day operation of the Senate, has been actively in touch with new and holdover senators since the election. He maintained before the election that he had enough commitments to win the majority leadership and has described the election results that will send 10 new Democrats to the Senate as “a net gain” for him. However, other senators regarded the defeat of Democratic Senators Vance Hartke of Indiana, Gale W. McGee of Wyoming and Joseph M. Montoya of New Mexico as an erosion in Mr. Byrd’s support. In addition, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who recently underwent surgery for removal of a cancerous bladder, has decided to wage an aggressive campaign for the majority leadership. The 65‐year‐old Mr. Humphrey is preparing a letter to his colleagues seeking their support and plans to approach fellow senators in person over the next few weeks to demonstrate that he has regained his health. Also, Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina has been actively campaigning for the majority leadership and has tried to rally anti‐Byrd senators, and Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat of Maine, is an announced candidate for the post.
The nation’s economy is recovering more slowly than forecast by the Ford Administration, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said today. In an interview, Mr. Greenspan said that the economy was still in the grip of the “pause” that began last summer and is lasting longer than expected. This means that the nation’s production of goods and services is lower than anticipated for this period and the unemployment rate is higher. Mr. Greenspan said, however, that the recovery itself had not been impaired and that the pause would come to an end. He also warned that “it is very important not to react with quick‐fix, short-term solutions” that ignore what he said were key long‐range problems confronting the economy.
Seeking to clarify an issue, Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said he expected to be able to cooperate with President-elect Carter’s economic policies. He took advantage of a meeting that had been previously scheduled for another purpose with Chairman Henry S. Reuss of the House Banking Committee to explain that he expected to be able to cooperate with Carter’s policies. According to the Federal Reserve spokesman, Dr. Burns had intended only to warn Congress against adding to Government spending as a means of stimulating the economy — not to warn the Carter Administration against cutting taxes, which Mr. Carter has said he might attempt if the economy still looks weak in January.
The Army selected the Chrysler Corporation today to develop and build its new XM1 main battle tank in a weapons program that is expected to cost $4.9 billion over the next decade. Chrysler was chosen over the General Motors Corporation after a two‐year competition between the two automobile manufacturers to develop a tank that would meet the Army’s battlefield needs through the rest of this century. The selection of Chrysler reverses an Army recommendation of last July that the General Motors version be adopted. That recommendation was rejected by the Defense Department, which ordered the Army to reopen the competition between the two companies so that they could modify their proposals to incorporate standard components with West German tanks. In the opinion of West German representatives, the outcome of the extension was a major step toward standardization of tank equipment among members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The new tank, known as the Abrams in honor of the late Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the former Army Chief of Staff who was regarded as a brilliant tank commander in World War II, will be powered by a gas turbine engine, which West Germany has agreed to use in its new Leopard 2 tank.
Lawyers for Patricia Hearst asked Judge William H. Orrick Jr. in Federal District Court today to release her on bail pending appeal of her conviction for bank robbery. Judge Orrick said he would study the motion. He is expected to rule in several days. “The court is concerned about her safety,” Judge Orrick said in response to a statement by Miss Hearst’s attorney that she had received threats because she was cooperating with the Government in the prosecution of other members of the self-styled Symbionese Liberation Army. If Judge Orrick grants Miss Hearst’s request, she must then post the $500,000 bail set in Los Angeles pending her trial in January on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping and robbery in connection with a shootout at a sporting goods store there. Albert Johnson, one of her attorneys, said they would ask to have that amount reduced. F. Lee Bailey, Miss Hearst’s attorney, also made a request for a retrial on the ground that the prosecution withheld evidence during Miss Hearst’s trial that would have helped prove her innocence. Judge Orrick also said he would consider that motion and rule later.
George W. Lattimer, chairman of the Utah State Board of Pardons, indicated today that there was a good chance that the hoard would uphold the death sentence of Gary Mark Gilmore, the murderer who has pleaded with the courts to he executed without further delay. Mr. Gilmore had been scheduled to die before a firing squad next Monday, and the Utah Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to block the execution. But yesterday, Governor Calvin L. Rampton stayed the execution until the pardons board could review the sentence, as required by law. Through his lawyer, Mr. Gilmore said today that he was “disgusted” by the Governor’s action. So much legal confusion hovers over the case that other parties, including the American Civil Liberties Union, are expected to try to delay the execution through the courts.
A key witness who testified for the prosecution 10 years ago at the first murder trial of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter gave new and possibly more damaging testimony at the second trial of Mr. Carter and John Artis. The witness testified for the first time that, hours after three persons had been killed, the police showed her a cartridge and a shotgun shell they said they had just found in the car in which the two men were arrested.
A storm of protest rose in Mobile, Alabama, over a federal court ruling ordering the city to replace its present city government with one more favorable to blacks. A group distributed petitions to impeach the judge who issued the order after concluding that the city commission, with each of its three members elected by citywide vote, “precludes a black voter from an effective participation in the election system.” He ordered that a mayor be chosen by citywide vote and nine council members elected from different districts.
A Chicago attorney for the principal welfare fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters confirmed yesterday that the fund was considering citing Richard G. Kleindienst as an individual defendant in its $14 million fraud suit against five insurance companies, but he stressed that no final decision had yet been made.
The United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union, informed sources said, have agreed on the basic terms for ending an eight-week strike by warehousemen and deliverers in 15 Eastern states. Announcement of a settlement was reported to be awaiting completion of specific contract language and discussion of the proposed terms with local union officers. Operations may resume by the middle of next week.
Senator Alan Cranston, Democrat of California, said today that five new outpatient clinics were being established at Veterans Administration hospitals at a cost of $1.1 million to help combat “virtually epidemic” alcoholism among veterans. Mr. Cranston, who heads the Senate. Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health and Hospitals, said that two of the clinics would be set up in California at V.A. hospitals in San Francisco and Long Beach. The others will be in Detroit, Chicago and San Antonio.
Harvard University will begin construction next week of a laboratory suitable for sophisticated genetic research, school officials said. John E. Dowling, chairman of Harvard’s Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, said yesterday that the laboratory was needed to grow mammalian tissue cultures and for other general research. It is being built in accordance with Federal guidelines for recombinant DNA experiments, which some scientists contend are potentially hazardous, and school officials hope to use the facility for that kind of research in the near future. The Cambridge City Council, meanwhile, was considering imposing a ban on recombinant DNA experiments.
Two major movie studios have filed suit in Federal court to try to prevent further sales of videotape machines with which home viewers may record television shows for later replay. Universal Studios and Walt Disney Productions sought a halt to the Sony Corporation’s production of its Betamax recording machines and asked that anyone who has recorded their motion pictures be forced to surrender the tapes for destruction. The two studios said Sony and various co‐defendants were guilty of copyright infringement, and asked for a permanent injunction to prohibit further manufacture and sales of the Betamax. The lawsuit was aimed at what has become a multimillion‐dollar industry — the production of equipment which any television program can be recorded at home and preserved indefinitely, much like tape‐recorded music cassettes.
The first mention of “Star Wars” came more than six months before the May 25, 1977 debut of the film, as Ballantine Books published the book Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, a novelization adapted from the film script. Although authorship was credited to Star Wars creator George Lucas (who wrote the screenplay), the book itself was ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster based upon the Lucas script.
Stock prices declined yesterday in continuing light volume as investor concern over the uncertain state of the nation’s economy depressed buying interest. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 3.74 points to close at 927.69, bringing the loss for the week to 15.38 points.
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Born:
Tevin Campbell, American singer (“Tell Me What You Want Me to Do”) and actor; in Waxahachie, Texas.
Matt Bowen, NFL safety (St. Louis Rams, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills), in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
Rob Konrad, NFL fullback (Miami Dolphins), in Rochester, New York.
Judith Holofernes [Holfelder-Roy], German singer (Wir sind Helden), in Berlin, Germany.
Died:
Mikhail Gurevich, 83, Russian aircraft designer, co-founded Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau.
Walter Piston, 82, American two-time Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Incredible Flutist), music theorist, and educator (Harvard, 1926-60).
Pedro Dot, 91, Spanish horticulturist and rose breeder known for creating the “Nevada” rose.
