October 19, 1973

Crazed gunman kills 2 passers-by and wounds 2 other men in crowded shopping dist on 34th St in midtown Manhattan on Oct 18 before he is mortally wounded in gun battle with retired detective and garment-indus exec; rampage begins when gunman, identified as S Cloud, asks directions of 73-yr-old H Spector and starts shooting before he could even reply; Spector is wounded in leg; later suffers stroke in operating room at hosp and is in critical condition; R Nawroth, chasing Cloud, attempts to pull him to ground as gun fires again, killing passerby C Goldberg; Nawroth is thrown down and shot twice; Cloud continues walking and fires again for no reason, killing P Meistrich, who falls through window of OTB office; security officer and retired detective J Murray and garment exec L Weinberg open fire on Cloud, wounding him and chasing him into subway, where he is apprehended by NYC Ptl T Bischione and Transit Ptl H Begner; he dies at hosp; witnesses L Warner, A Nawroth, brother of victim R Nawroth, E Plaitkais, and M W Shanker comment; illus; map

NY Mets defeat Oakland Athletics, 2-0, to win 5th game of World Series; lead series 3 games to 2; illus

5 guerrillas, hurling grenades and firing fusillade of shots, on Oct 18 storm Bank of America in Beirut, Lebanon, and fight 2-hr gun battle with soldiers, holding 20 to 25 bank employes as hostages and threatening to blow up bldg if their demands are not met; set 6 AM Oct 19 as deadline; demands are reptd to be that bank pay $10-million to Arab war effort, that jailed Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon be freed and that raiders themselves be given safe conduct to Algeria; in another incident, Lebanon's underwater communications cable to Eur is blown up on Oct 18, cutting telephone and Telex cable that links Beirut with Marseilles, France, and provides service to Eur and US; emergency phone service via satellite is put into service; Beirut newspaper An Nahar says charges were planted by Israeli frogmen

The United States National Bank of San Diego, whose principal stockholder, C. Arnhold Smith, is under Federal investigation, has been declared insolvent in what is believed to be the largest insolvency in American banking history. The Crocker Bank has offered to take over the troubled bank. Page 61.

Jordanian press agency repts that King Hussein on Oct 18 visited Jordanian Army positions on Syrian-Israeli front and that Jordanian contingent in Syria 'liberated new positions on the front'; says Jordanians destroyed 3 Israeli artillery pieces and inflicted heavy losses on tanks and vehicles; gives no repts of Arab or Israeli casualties