October 14, 1973

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 13 —Visitors from Shea Stadium, and, here were some with their bedsheet banners in the center‐field bleachers, must have felt like strangers in a very strange land today as they watched Oakland's over‐dressed A's elbow the New York Mets aside in the opening match of the great rounders tournament. Nobody threw anything, nobody hit anybody, nobody smashed the furniture or swore or grabbed anybody else by the eyeballs.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—Gerald R. Ford rose before dawn today, while most of the city was still sleeping, and went for a swim.

Owners of mobile homes in NYC met area are forming assns to negotiate with mobile-home park operators and to press for legis action to insure their rights; assns are asking for leases, rent control, end to mandatory 'tie-in' sales and entrance and exit fees and easing of rules and regulations set up by park owners; are also petitioning municipalities and state govts to review tax assessments and zoning for mobile home parks; zoning in many suburban municipalities bars new mobile home parks with result that most parks have waiting lists and owners have been able to dictate terms; NYS passed Mobile Home Bill of Rights last spring which becomes effective Jan 1; law restricts reasons for which park owner can evict homeowner, prohibits rules and regulations that are unreasonable, bars mandatory 'tie-ins' and permits homeowner to sell his home without paying park owner a commission; illus

Israel on Oct 13 claims to have wiped out bulk of Iraqi div in major tank and artillery battle some 12 miles inside Syria; Israeli sources say 70 Iraqi tanks were destroyed; Israeli Premier Meir charges that USSR has airlifted more than 120 planeloads of armament and rockets to Syria, Iraq and Egypt since war began on Oct 6, news conf; concedes that US assistance to Israel is 'ongoing'; denounces Soviet 'aerial railway' as flagrant superpower involvement in Middle East war; says Israel is willing to consider ceasefire proposal seriously; stresses that it is 'senseless' to speculate about what cease-fire lines Israel will agree to while fighting is continuing; on Syrian front, Israeli armored column broadens and consolidates its position; Israeli forward units are reptd to be approaching Syrian town of Sassa, about 20 miles from Damascus; major tank and artillery battles are reptd along Suez Canal but neither Israeli nor Egyptian positions change significantly; Israeli radio repts that Eygptians are moving additional batteries of SAM missiles to western bank of Suez Canal; Israeli spokesman says that 50 to 60 Egyptian tanks were destroyed in fighting; repts shooting down 6 Egyptian and 19 Syrian planes during day; Israelis assume that serious fighting on Egyptian front will begin after Israeli advance into Syria is finished; there is no immediate reaction from Israeli command to Jordan's announcement on Oct 13 that it will commit its units to fighting inside Syria; Israeli sources express opinion that this is largely face-saving device for Jordanian King Hussein, who is under heavy Arab pressure to join battle; Meir says that she is 'sorry' Hussein decided to join war; Israeli army spokesman say helicopter-borne force of Israeli commandos landed deep behind Syrian lines some 60 miles northeast of Damascus and blew up critical bridge and attacked convoy of Iraqi forces; says commandos returned to Israeli territory without casualties; former Israeli intelligence chief Gen C Herzog estimates that 1/2 of Syrian Air Force has been knocked out, as has most of Syria's mil airfields and radar defenses; illus of Israeli soldiers praying in their trenches in Sinai and Egyptian Pres A Sadat praying at Cairo mosque

Syrian forces on Oct 13 fire heavy and persistent artillery barrages at Israeli troops deployed around city of Sassa, about 20 miles from Syrian capital of Damascus; Syrian jets show that country's air force is still operating by making several strikes at Israeli positions; it is apparent at front that Israeli Army is making no effort to advance to central sector on Oct 13; Israeli officer says that his troops are consolidating and strengthening their flanks after advance on Oct 11 and 12 down highway to Sassa area from town of El Quneitra on Golan heights; Israeli forces reptdly fight violent tank-to-tank battle with Iraqi force that joined battle at Syria's side