October 26, 1973

UN Security Coundl, 14-0, on Oct 25 establishes UN emergency force, using troops from smaller countries to insure cease-fire; People's Repub of China does not participate in voting; resolution demands that immediate and complete cease-fire be observed and that parties return to positions occupied by them on Oct 22; requests that UN Sec Gen Waldheim increase number of UN mil observers on both sides; Council decides to set up immediately under its authority UN emergency force to be composed of personnel drawn from states that are members of UN except permanent members of Security Council; requests Waldheim to rept within 24 hrs on steps taken to this effect and requests all member states to extend their full cooperation to UN in implementation of this resolution as well as resolutions passed on Oct 22 and 23; vote comes in meeting that is delayed as delegates watch US Sec of State Kissinger's news conf on TV amid concern over big-power confrontation in Middle East; importance of Council's action, as seen by Western diplomats, is that it can head off possibility that USSR might unilaterally send troops to Middle East; Egypt on Oct 24 asked USSR and US to send forces to Middle East to compel Israel to pull back to positions it occupied on Oct 22 when 1st cease-fire was ordered; US rejected Egypt's appeal that US troops be sent; informed diplomats say that Soviet repr Y A Malik was prepared on Oct 25 to veto resolution for emergency force and it was felt that USSR would go ahead and supply mil forces Egypt wanted; Malik and US repr J A Scali held intensive talks before Council session began; Waldheim announces that he is transferring to Egypt 900 mil officers and men from Austria, Finland and Sweden who are on duty with UN's peace-keeping force in Cyprus; names Maj Gen E P H Siilasvuo as interim commander; Egyptian repr A E A Meguid says Egypt accepts resolution; says 1st task should be to get Israelis back to positions held at time of cease-fire; Israeli repr Y Tekoah says noncommitally that his Govt will examine resolution and then decide; says Israel will 'view with favor all constructive efforts to strengthen the cease-fire'; Scali says US will help with transportation of new force to Middle East; France and GB, while accepting final resolution with US-sponsored change to exclude 5 big powers, express objections to being kept out; Scali says that it must be made clear that UN force could not be withdrawn without approval of Council; Chinese repr Huang Hua charges that UN force is 'an attempt to occupy' Arab territories; left unresolved is question of carrying out call for immediate peace negotiations between belligerents 'under appropriate auspices'; illus of UN observers moving to posts in Egypt, of Malik, Scali and Brit repr Sir D Maitland voting in Council and of Iranian repr F Hoveyda, Spanish repr D J de Pinies and Panama repr A E Boyd listening to Kissinger's news conf

Egypt on Oct 25 accuses Israel of continued violation of cease-fire accord and says that Israeli troops have fired on Egyptian forces wherever they were found; A Ghorbal, foreign-policy adviser to Egyptian Pres A Sadat, says at news conf that Israelis have cut vital rd from Cairo to city of Suez; expresses deep bitterness over shipment of US materiel to Israeli forces, 'some of it straight to the battlefield'; UN truce teams take up positions on Cairo-Suez rd 63 mi from Cairo and 12 mi west of Ismailia on Cairo-lsmailia rd; Egypt charges that Israel barred observers from taking up position at Suez Canal site where Israeli forces crossed to western bank; USSR supply shipments to Egypt appear to have been resumed; Western Eur diplomats rept that their foreign ministries told them that US had called in reprs of NATO members for urgent briefing on Middle East; news of alert of US forces convinces Egyptians that war is not local affair but world concern; Egyptian officials stress that Sadat's acceptance of cease-fire was pol decision based on assurances from USSR; say that assurances were in turn based on certain commitments made by US Sec Kissinger during visit to Moscow; feel that they were betrayed by advance of Israeli forces on west bank after cease-fire

Over 150 subway riders on Oct 25 suffer smoke inhalation and other minor injuries and hundreds more are trapped in dark, smoky tunnel in South Bronx for 1 hr after IRT express train strikes rear of another train that had been stalled by fire; passengers recount scenes of confusion, crying, and instances of hysteria; say northbound train with flames and smoke pouring from middle car stalled just north of Longwood Av station on Pelham Bay Pk line and was hit by following train; are upset because there was no announcement of what happened or whether help was on way; praise evacuation efforts of Fire Dept; Transit Auth spokesman describes impact of collision as light, but riders on both trains say many persons were hurled to floor; collision occurred on express track at about 7:20 PM; over 12 ambulances from hosps in Bronx converge on av, along with Manhattan and Queens hosp disaster units, Fire Dept apparatus and cluster of police vehicles; Transit Auth shuts off power on Pelham line north of 125th St and evacuations are begun about 20 mins after accident; rescue workers describe heavy smoke conditions in tunnel, but no serious injuries are reptd; Fire Dept repts that 131 subway riders and 8 firemen were taken to nearby hosps; illus; map

Egyptian 3d Corps, estimated to number 15,000 to 30,000 men, on Oct 25 remains trapped by Israelis, unable to acquire fresh supplies of water and food; plight of Egyptian force is at root of increasingly tense internatl situation, in which US has alerted its forces worldwide; US reptdly is concerned that USSR is planning to introduce troops into Middle East; Israeli spokesmen rept that there is no fighting on Egyptian or Syrian fronts; say UN Truce Supervision Orgn's observer teams are moving into position; 3d Corps might be forced to surrender or ask for free passage through Israeli lines if its isolation is prolonged; surrender during cease-fire of such substantial part of Egyptian armed forces might constitute stinging pol humiliation for Egyptian Govt; Israeli sources have conceded that their army west of Suez Canal advanced 9 mi to encircle city of Suez on Oct 23 and then drove to port of Adabiya to isolate 3d Corps; US Sec of State Kissinger says US will continue to support resolutions in UN Security Council calling for return to Oct 22 cease-fire positions; Israeli sources contend that US has shown 'grave displeasure' at prospective use of USSR troops to intimidate Israel into such withdrawal; Dayan says 'Israel has not been fighting Russians but rather Egyptians and Syrians'; Israeli Cabinet is called into unusual session to discuss message from Israeli Amb to US S Dinitz; Israeli mil spokesman Col N Kami says Egypt has requested that Internatl Red Cross ask Israel to permit shipment of blood plasma to 3d Corps; says Israel has agreed to furnish plasma; says Israel would probably not deny water and food to 3d Corps when needed; illus of Egyptian POWs; map

Fed sources rept on Oct 25 that indictment of Repr F J Brasco on Oct 23 came as a result of information given to Justice Dept by J A Masiello, Mafia capt who was involved in case; Masiello is highest ranking member of crime syndicate known to have 'turned'--converted into Govt informer or witness; sources assert that Mafia leaders had already learned about Masiello's cooperation with Govt and reptdly had issued 'contract' on his life; he is currently under heavy Govt protection in NY; Brasco was indicted on charges of conspiring to receive $27,500 in illegal payoffs in '68 for helping Masiello's trucking concern get contracts to haul mail for Post Office; Masiello was named co-conspirator with Brasco and Brasco's uncle J Brasco, but not as a defendant; por of Brasco and Masiello