NY Times survey finds 131 UN members so evenly divided on China representation issue that predictions on outcome are still impossible on eve of debate; voting now, 48-60 members would back retention of Nationalist seat, 55-63 would oppose it; some national positions discussed; differences between current debate and previous ones discussed

U.N. Found Closely Split On Eve of China Debate

Connally says some US trading partners are making US 'the whipping boy' for their domestic problems, TV int; notes it is impossible to predict when 10% surcharge might be ended but says he hopes it will not be needed in 2 or 3 mos; says lifting of surcharge depends on what US trading partners are ready to do and willing to do; holds some trading partners use imposition of surcharge as bargaining lever

Heller Suggests a Thaw Of Pre‐Freeze Pay Pacts

club wins World Series by defeating Baltimore, 4-3

PIRATES TRIUMPH OVER ORIOLES, 24; WIN WORLD SERIES

Census Bur study shows that 61% of black women between ages of 25 and 44 work, compared with 22% of Puerto Rican women, 41% of all Spanish women and 47% of whites

Families of Spanish Origin Earn More Than Blacks Do

Premier Kosygin arrives in Ottawa for 8-day visit during which he is expected to seek new mkts for Soviet goods; is seen eager to persuade Canada of importance of 2-way trade; illus

Kosygin Arrives in Ottawa To Begin Friendship Tour

Johnson, in his Pres memoirs, describes his first contacts with the problems of Vietnam after he took oath of office following Pres Kennedy's assassination; details conf with Amb H C Lodge, Sec Rusk and other Adm officials on Vietnam; describes his May '61 visit to S Vietnamese Pres Ngo Dinh Diem when he gave him lr from Pres Kennedy saying Kennedy was ready to join him in 'intensified endeavor to win struggle against Communism and to further the social and econ advancement of Vietnam'; details ways Kennedy thought US aid could best be used; says Kennedy shared his (Johnson's) view, expressed on return from visit, that 'the fundamental decision required of the US...is whether we are to attempt to meet the challenge of Communist expansion now in SE Asia by a major effort in support of the forces of freedom in the area or throw in the towel'; gives his version of Kennedy policy in Vietnam up to the time of Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in Nov '63 and of events following Johnson's assumption of the Presidency at end of Nov '63; comments on 'gloomy' appraisal of situation by Sec McNamara after a Dec '63 visit to Vietnam; says '64 events confirmed gloomy forecast

By Lyndon B. Johnson: Vietnam Problem

Majority of NYS Comm on Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Educ favors plan for financing state's pss that would allow dists with many disadvantaged children to receive significantly higher state allotment per pupil than middle-class dist; proposal is based on theory that it ismore costly to provide equal educ opportunities for students; comm members and staff believe that recent ct rulings that declare disparities in ps expenditures unconst would allow permanently higher expenditures for dists with disadvantaged youths

PANEL WOULD GIVE STATE FISCAL RULE OVER THE SCHOOLS Special Commission Sees It as a Way to Make Public Education ‘Equal’ for AU PRESENT OUTLAYS VARY Cities Spending Less Than Suburbs, and U.S. Courts Have Decried Inequity

Scenic Airlines: All 10 aboard killed as Scenic Airlines Cessna-402 encounters bad weather on flight from Las Vegas to sightseeing tour of Grand Canyon and crashes, Peach Springs, Ariz, while attempting to return to Las Vegas Airport; map; former US Educ Comr Allen and wife among victims; illus

Crash Kills James E. Allen Jr. and Wife

Ford Grants $10‐Million To Debt‐Ridden Troupes

Sunday Times of London pub rept on alleged interrogation tactics, including disorientation techniques and brutal physical and psychological treatment that is being used against men detained as pol prisoners in Ulster; Heath orders immediate inquiry into charges and invites Wilson and Home Sec Callagnan to discuss them with him; paper says it has statements from 11 internees, smuggled from prison, and gives their names, addresses and ages ranging from 19 to 42; says all 11 were taken to isolated compound at Holywood Barracks outside Belfast; article describes mistreatment in great detail, including testimony from 1 prisoner P Chiver; says prisoners were subjected to psychological disorientation, then taken to another room and questioned by men who were presumably officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; paper says psychological techniques were developed by secret Brit armed forces interrogation center; says 1 prisoner, who was subsequently released, is now being treated for mental disorders; Faulkner denies use of brutality; urges anyone who feels improper methods were used to check with group of Brit MPs who recently visited internment camps; Labor MP K McNamara says he cannot support Faulkner's claim as team did not visit barracks where interrogation was taking place

Torture in Northern Ireland Is Charged

preparations being made by Garagalianoi, Greece, for Agnew's visit described; town is where his ancestors lived and from which his father emigrated to US

Greek Town Ready for Agnew

Agnew has unscheduled private matting with Premier Papadopoulos at latter's Athens home; they also dine; illus; Agnew places wreath on Tomb of Unknown Soldier

Agnew: and Papadopoulos Hold Meeting

Indian Defense Min J Ram warns Pakistan that India will not withdraw from occupied territory in event of war; says India will not submit to internatl pressure and will not withdraw troops from E Pakistan border until E Pakistan problem is settled; hints war is imminent

PAKISTAN IS WARNED BY INDIANS ON WAR

Moscow gets nearly 9 inches of snow; it is 1st time in 30 yrs that amt of snow has fallen so early in season; pub reactions noted

And Suddenly, Moscow Is Under 9 Inches of Snow

US Pentagon repts that task force of Soviet ships, including reconnaissance submarines, are sailing through central Atlantic, near Azores, possibly on way to Cuba

Soviet Ships Reported In the Central Atlantic

Yahya Khan proposes withdrawal of troops from India-Pakistan borders

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Princess Margaret (air-cushion vehicle): Ship sustains gash after hitting wave in English Channel; arrives safely in Dover

Hovercraft Ripped by Wave

Party announces that Oct 15 meeting of Politburo opened way for submission of '71-75 econ plan to next meeting of Central Com and then to Sup Soviet session expected in Dec; 5-yr plan, for 1st time in Soviet postwar history, schedules growth of long-lagging consumer sector at slightly higher rate than further development of 'basic capital-goods industries'; Politburo action follows delay in complex chain of approval of plan, reptdly caused by complexities of coordinating plans of nation's indus establishments and breaking down program into annual segments; as result of delays, at least 1st yr of 5-yr plan will nave passed before final draft is endorsed; announcement suggests that instead of customary annual econ plan and annual budget, Sup Soviet will be asked to endorse 5-yr plan and annual '72 budget, but not separate '72 plan

Politburo Clears Soviet Five‐Year Plan

N Vietnamese shell allied fire bases along Cambodian border; allies respond with air strikes

SHELLING REPORTED NEAR CAMBODIA LINE

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 17&#8212;A British soldier was (shot dead in West Belfast this afternoon, the third serviceman killed by the Irish Republican Army this weekend.

3 Weekend Deaths in Ulster

Dutch police seize planeload of over 3 1/2 tons of Czech-made arms they believe was intended for IRA; arms shipment was flown from Prague to the Hague on Belgian charter airline Pomair and was consigned to nonexistent co in London; shipment consisted of 116 boxes of arms and ammunition; Dutch authorities are now searching for IRA provisional wing leader D O'Connell, who, according to Brit intelligence officers, planned to tour Eur to buy arms for IRA; Eur police, alerted by Brit police, make unobtrusive checks throughout West Eur of aircraft and trucks arriving from E Eur; Scotland Yard officers are in Holland aiding Dutch police; police detain pilot Capt J M Van Homwegen and plane's lone passenger E A Koenig; Dutch say Koenig bought arms in Prague and had instructions to deliver them to a Mr Doogan; Doogan and O'Connell may be same person; police trace O'Connell to his hotel and find his rented car near Amsterdam's central railroad station; he is believed to have left the Netherlands by train with woman named M McGuire, whom police are also seeking; aircraft and 2 crew members are released

3½ TONS OF ARMS SEIZED BY DUTCH Planeload Was Reported to Be Destined for I.R.A.

Ulster officials receive news of arms seizure with relief that Dutch were alerted in time and shock that deal was nearly completed; some repts say plane would have been flown directly to Ulster, but it is more likely that plane was destined for Dublin, from where arms would have been smuggled North; smuggling attempt in '70, resulting in indictment of 2 Irish Repub Mins, recalled; Brit Army sources say captured supplies provide no evidence of large-scale imports from Communist countries, as arms are believed to have arrived in mixed consignments; case surprisingly links IRA provisional wing, which is strongly Cath and anti-Communist, with Communist bloc; it is assumed that all other sources were tried and only Communists could supply such arms in bulk; events support belief that provisionals have generous supply of funds as more than $720,000 has been seized in border raids this yr

Relief and Shock in Belfast

AUSCHWITZ FRIAR BEATIFIED BY POPE Vatican Honors Kolbe, Who Gave Life for Another in ’41

Meets at 10:30 A.M. and 3 P.M. on the issue of China's seat.

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Kissinger and aides spend day in seclusion in Hawaii

GUAM IS NEXT STOP FOR KISSINGER PARTY

Nicholas Simon O'Hern is an Australian professional golfer.

October 18, 1971

Headlines from October 18, 1971

U.N. Found Closely Split On Eve of China Debate

Heller Suggests a Thaw Of Pre‐Freeze Pay Pacts

PIRATES TRIUMPH OVER ORIOLES, 24; WIN WORLD SERIES

Families of Spanish Origin Earn More Than Blacks Do

Kosygin Arrives in Ottawa To Begin Friendship Tour

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