November 17, 1973

Japanese Govt announces on Nov 16 emergency program to ration oil and elec power for indus and appeals to Japanese public to conserve fuel voluntarily at home, at work and on hwys; under Govt plan, which will take effect next wk, indus will be required to cut its consumption of oil and electricity by 10%; Japanese economists estimate that such rationing will reduce nation's econ growth over next few mos to zero or that output might even decline; economists also calculate that as result Japan's over-all rate of growth for current fiscal yr will only be 5% instead of 10% that nation has averaged for more than decade; indus officials comment

Dairylea Cooperative Inc reprs admit on Nov 16 that co has adulterated and mislabeled milk and milk products sold in NYS, testimony, formal hearing at NYS Agr and Mkts Dept; lawyers for cooperative sign document admitting 19 different violations of Agr and Mkts Law, including adulteration, mislabeling, filing of false repts and destruction of records; violation took place at 6 of 8 processing plants in state--Goshen, Binghamton, Buffalo, Jamestown, Syracuse and Woodside, NYC; co contests charge of failing to take corrective steps when violations became known and allegation that it had attempted to prevent disclosure; dept s Asst Comr T D Day announces that hearing will be held in Dec on disputed charge; penalties, if any, are expected to consist of heavy fines or co's loss of license, which sources claim is unlikely; state farm officials are concerned about possible impact of uncontested adulteration charges on public and its milk-drinking habits; say that most of milk sold in state is properly labeled and safe; are unable to give estimates of how much money consumers had lost because of illegal practices; charges against co, filed by State Div of Milk Control Dir H R Kling, center on misuse of tech procedure in milk processing called 'standardization,' in which fresh milk can be brought down to butter-fat content of 3.4% by addition of skimmed milk; 1 of charges against co is using reconstituted skim milk instead of fresh skim milk, practice that is illegal in NYS; co attributes illegal actions to few employes, stating that under rigid new plant controls violations could not happen again; Agr Dept counsel T G Conway suggests that pattern of illegal actions that had taken place at 6 plants cannot be explained solely by activities of few employes; Dairylea pres J R Donnan replying to question by cooperative's lawyer N Earle Evans Jr, insists that its policy is to be honest and put out quality product

Greek troops using a tank crash through iron gates of Athens Polytechnic Univ on Nov 17 to help police dislodge some 2,000 students who had seized campus and demanded overthrow of Govt; attack on univ follows night of clashes between students, who had occupied univ since Nov 14, and police; student challenge to Govt of Pres G Papadopoulos appears to be most serious since he came to power in Apr '67; many student demonstrators are arrested as they try escaping army's advances; students who are not arrested as police enter univ try to stage march along main av, but they soon disperse as police, supported by tanks, follow them firing into air; sporadic small-arms fire could be heard until after 4 AM; Govt officials rept that 4 persons were killed in street fighting on Nov 16-17; authorities cordoned off area around univ on Nov 14, and there is no indication that foreigners have become involved; police rept that 14 policemen and 9 demonstrators are hospitalized as a result of Nov 17 clashes; leading members of Cabinet under Premier S Markezinis meet on Nov 16 to discuss situation, and informants say that army was called in after repts had been received that at least 1 demonstrator, and possibly as many as 3, had been killed; Under Sec for Press and Information S Zournatzis asserts that action does not mean that martial law has been imposed, but all key points in city will be put under mil guard; at 1 point on Nov 16, thousands of anti-Govt demonstrators started marching toward office of Papadopoulos and other leaders in Const Square, but they were turned back by police using tear gas and armored cars; fighting continues into night near univ, where student leaders on Nov 16 called on Greeks to join in gen strike to bring down Govt; statements of support for protestors came on Nov 16 from P Canellopoulos, former right-wing Premier who was toppled by mil junta headed by Papadopoulos in '67 and who is now leader of Natl Radical Union, and from G Mavros, former Economics Min who is acting leader of Center Union party; both declared, however, that they disagreed with extremist and anarchist slogans raised at univ; police on Nov 16 had been ordered to keep off Polytechnic campus after students protesting against regime occupied it; Govt had said that it would not order storming of univ out of respect for traditional inviolability of campus; demonstrators stopped cars and buses and pasted or painted on anti-Govt and anti-Amer slogans; student leaders, in statement, assert that primary condition for solution of people's problems is immediate downfall of junta's tyrannical regime and establishment of popular sovereignty; call for 'restoration of natl independence' from foreign interests that have supported tyranny in country for yrs; new element in protest on Nov 16 was appearance of about 200 bldg workers, who are regarded as most militant leftists in Athens; they were dispersed after demonstration, but were reptd by Polytechnic Univ radio station to have captured bldg of regional gov of Athens; map of univ area; illus of Greek army tank advancing toward univ gates and street demonstrations

Honest Ballot Assn head G J Abrams says on Nov 16 that NYC firemen, who staged 5 1/2-hr strike on Nov 6, actually voted 4,119 to 3,827 against any strike, although UFA pres R J Vizzini told them that vote was 'overwhelmingly' in favor of strike; Manhattan Dist Atty's office announces that secret ballots, which Honest Ballot Assn counted, were destroyed when they were turned over to union; Acting Dist Atty A J Scotti says that Vizzini and 9 other members of union's exec bd refuse to sign waivers of immunity to testify before grand jury; says he has given union vp J R Donnelly and treas J G LaFemina immunity from prosecution and that they have testified before grand jury; says that 2 members of Dist Atty's staff knew all along that vote results announced by union were misleading, but that he would only have acted on information if strike continued; union sec J O'Sullivan says ballots were destroyed because fact that the results were verified by Honest Ballot Assn made them unnecessary; NYC Corp Counsel N Redlich says disclosure of strike vote will bear on city's contempt motion against union officials; Fire Comr J T O'Hagan announces that exec bds of both UFA and Uniformed Fire Officers Assn have acknowledged that their actions during Nov 6 strike were irresponsible

3d and final Skylab mission is launched from Cape Canaveral at 9.01 AM on Nov 16 after 6-day delay caused by discovery of cracks and corrosion in stabilizing fins of Saturn 1-B rocket; 8 hrs after launch crew members, Lt Col G P Carr, Lt Col W R Pogue and Dr E G Gibson, dock Apollo command module with orbiting laboratory 270 mi above earth; Pres Nixon lauds mission; crew repts Col Pogue is suffering from nausea but that they are making 'an over-all satisfactory adjustment to zero gravity'; experiments, which will be performed by crew revd; launching described; crew illus at breakfast prior to launching; Saturn rocket illus leaving launching pad at Cape Canaveral