DETROIT, Oct. 24&#8212;The General Motors Corporation announced today that it would lay off 6,000 workers indefinitely at four plants making small cars, including 2,000 at the Tarrytown, N.Y., plant.

G.M. Will Lay Off 6,000 at 4 Plants

Sec Kissinger, in Moscow Oct 24, confs for over 6 hrs with L I Brezhnev and Min Andrei A Gromyko on major East-West issues; calls talks 'good beginning'; at luncheon, exchs toasts with Gromyko, stressing Soviet-Amer responsibility for preserving peace; Gromyko stresses Soviet interest in continuing policy of accommodation laid out under former Pres Nixon; Brezhnev illus with interpreter Viktor M Sukhodrev greeting Kissinger (M)

KISSINGER MEETS BREZHNEV 6 HOURS ON MAJOR ISSUES

drs defer surgery for former Pres Nixon and decide to try to prevent potentially dangerous developments from his phlebitis with another round of anticoagulation therapy; decision was made after vascular surgeon, Dr Eldon Hickman, examined Nixon; Dr John C Lungren says Nixon is undergoing intensive heparin and Coumadin therapy in effort to build up level of anticoagulants; says that although Nixon feels well, he considered readmission to hospital 'imperative' because blood tests had shown that Nixon was responding poorly to high doses of Coumadin; says venogram test showed that deep femoral vein in Nixon's left leg is almost totally occluded; discloses presence of new or old clots in deep venous system of left thigh; says he suspects clots are new; possible treatment discussed (M)

NIXON'S SURGERY STILL UNCERTAIN

David Oistrakh, Violinist, Dies

Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing holds news conf, Paris, Oct 24 on world econ crisis and French foreign policy; illus (L)

GISCARD ASSERTS WORLD IS IN GRIP OF FISCAL CRISIS

1 of series of articles assessing world food situation notes that agr experts contend that if there were cutbacks on grain-fed meat in US, it would be possible to divert grain saved to famine-relief efforts (S)

Curb on U.S. Waste Urged To Help World's Hungry

NEWS INDEX

NYS Dem gubernatorial candidate Repr Hugh L Carey says if he is elected he will conduct inquiry into Port Auth's refusal to use surplus funds to subsidize mass transit; says pledge was first made by Theodore W Kheel, who has obtained foundation grant to begin such study; Kheel meets with NYC Mayor Beame, City Council Pres Paul O'Dwyer and Deputy Mayor James A Cavanagh to urge Beame's involvement in such study (M)

FULL STUDY ASKED ON PORT AGENCY

NYC Bar Assn departs from usual style of rating judicial candidates in word or two-preferred, highly qualified, not approved-to issue strongly worded statement criticizing Jacob D Fuchsberg and urging voters to choose from among his 3 opponents in Appeals Ct race; Fuchsberg, who is one of 2 Dem candidates in 4-man race for 2 ct seats, asserts assn move does not surprise him since he has long been at odds with orgn; assn pres Cyrus R Vance and assn judiciary com chmn Seymour Klein issue statement urging voters to choose Judge Harold A Stevens, Repub-Conservative-Liberal, first and either Justice Lawrence H Cooke, Dem-Liberal, or Justice Lewis M Greenblott, Repub-Conservative, second rather than Fuchsberg; com cites Fuchsberg's lack of judicial experience; also criticizes his '72 campaign slogans and ad, in which he referred to himself as 'Chief Fuchsberg'; Fuchsberg won Dem primary (L)

City Bar Unit, in Rare Act, Urges Fuchsberg's Defeat By MARY BREASTED

FCC gives final approval to policy statement that TV stations must provide reasonable amount of programing for children and that significant part of it should be educ; statement says that broadcasters should provide for viewing needs of preschool child, that children's programing should not be shown only on weekends and that TV hosts should not serve as salesmen; FCC rejects Action for Children's TV request that it adopt specific rules banning ads on children's programs and requiring specific amounts of programing at specific times; accepts Natl Broadcasters Assn code under which ad on weekend children's programing would drop from 12 mins an hr to 9 1/2 mins in '76 (M)

F.C.C. Approves Policy on Children's TV

Judge John J Sirica tells defendants, attys and spectators, but not jury, at Watergate cover-up trial on Oct 24 that case would never have occurred if defendant J N Mitchell had said 'get them out fast,' when campaign employes 1st presented him with plans for illegal pol intelligence operations; Mitchell's attys, William G Hundley and Plato Cacheris, formally object to remarks; after angry remarks throughout day by lawyers by both sides, Sirica warns against trial having 'carnival atmosphere'; prosecution asks Sirica to call as 'ct witness' Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt Jr; says it became apparent during Hunt's testimony last yr to grand jury that Hunt 'was not being entirely candid'; John W Dean 3d is cross-examined by defense attys William S Frates and Hundley; Dean continues to stand by account of Watergate cover-up that he gave on direct examination in which he implicated all 5 defendants (L)

MITCHELL FAULTED BY SIRICA IN COURT

Sen B Goldwater says he has told Pres Ford that he is no longer bound by his original statement of support for N A Rockefeller as Vice Pres, speech at Ariz State Univ; says question is whether Rockefeller used his money to buy power, which he feels is wrong; says, in Tucson radio int, that he thinks there is better chance Rockefeller's name will be withdrawn than be submitted for further questioning; Goldwater's views are expected to have considerable weight with other conservatives; Sen J A Helms comments; spokesman for Repr J J Rhodes lists areas of 'legitimate concern' that should be investigated by HR and Sen coms (M)

Goldwater Now Undecided On Rockefeller Nomination

Recent disclosure that first giant power station, Yenkuo near industrial city of Lanchow, on Yellow River went into operation as long ago as '62 and has been generating electricity for 12 yrs seen by analysts as first official word on status of project; plant was 1 of several dam projects announced in '55 as part of ambitious flood-control and power-generation plan aimed at harnessing river; dams were designed to put end to catastrophic floods in lower reaches of river; work on some of dams got under way in late '50s but was abandoned in '60 when USSR broke off its econ assistance and delivery of industrial equipment; latest disclosure indicates that some of projects proceeded and were completed with Chinese-made equipment (M)

China Lifting Secrecy on Large Industrial Projects

Book The Ultra Secret by F W Winterbotham, describing cracking of Nazis most secret codes by Allied intelligence, is published in London Oct 23; Winterbotham holds news conf on it (M)

R.A.F. Man's Book Describes Breaking Of the Nazis' Codes

Oct 25: Arab foreign mins on Oct 24 fail for 3d day to reach argreement on how to end quarrel between Palestinian leaders and Jordanian King Hussein; Palestinian delegation, at preparatory talks to Oct 26 Arab summit conf in Rabat, accuses foreign mins of greeting all its proposals 'with complete silence' and threatens that Palestine Liberation Orgn (PLO) leader Yasir Arafat will boycott conf; PLO asst pol dept head Said Kamal says his delegation will rept lack of success to Arafat, news conf; says Palestinians might walk out of preparatory talks; says mins failed to act on Palestinian demand that they obtain control of any area of Israeli-occupied west bank of Jordan River relinquished by Israel and for creation of Palestinian 'natl authority' in these areas; sources say Arab countries would like to couple their recognition of PLO with practical concessions to Jordan that would avert formal break between Hussein and other Arabs; foreign mins also discuss strategy Arab delegations should adopt at UN when Palestine issue come up for debate in General Assembly; Moroccan sources say their delegate, Foreign Min Ahmed Laraki, and others cautioned conf against too hard an Arab stand (M)

Rift With Palestinians Emerges at Rabat

Article on libel suit brought by French author Jacques Isorni against Rev Georges de Nantes, who labeled Isorni 'unpaid lawyer for the Jewish people' trying to absolve them of 20 centuries of collective guilt for the death of Jesus; Isorni, in '67 book entitled The True Trial of Jesus, attributed Crucifixion wholly to Pontius Pilate, who was carrying out Roman law as Gov of Judea; Chief Judge Pierre Bondouaire will hand down verdict Dec 11 at Palace of Justice in Troyes; cased revd; illus of Nantes and Isorni (M)

Libel Action Against a French Priest Turns on Issue of Who Killed Jesus

bomb explodes on Oct 24 in office owned by Peruvian newspaper la Prensa causing substantial damage but no injuries

Peru Daily's Office Bombed

Israeli Natl Religious party on Oct 24 votes to join Govt of Premier Rabin; party, in yielding, accepts undertaking that Cabinet com would examine entire problem of conversions abroad and seek agreed settlement (M)

Religious Party to join Israeli Coalition

security arrangements planned for visit of PLO reprs to UN for Assembly debate on Palestine; some Jewish Defense League members are ejected from Assembly bldg (S)

Palestine Debate Protest At U.N. Is Set by Jews

S African Amb Roelf F Botha, in Oct 24 speech to Security Council on move by black Africans to have S Africa expelled from UN because of its racial policies, concedes discriminatory laws and practices but insists S Africa's race relations are changing; appeals to UN to 'keep open channels of communication' to encourage further change; Michel Njine of Cameroon presides as Botha speaks; Botha given opportunity although Gen Assembly voted Sept 30 to challenge credentials of S African delegation; holds S Africa wants to cooperate with its neighboring black countries and will do 'everything in our power to move away from discrimination based on race or color' (M)

U.N. CASE ARGUED BY SOUTH AFRICAN

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Canadian Prime Min P E Trudeau has been visiting Paris and Brussels this wk in effort to promote 'third option or diversification of econ and pol relations to reduce Canada's dependence on US; has managed to accelerate machinery designed to strengthen econ and commercial ties; is unable to win support of French Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing for special trade treaty desired by Canada with Eur Common Mkt; Paris and London both prefer their traditional direct relations with Canada; Trudeau seeks non-preferential agreement with Common Mkt in which neither side would gain special trade advantages; also seeks 'contract' with community that would underscore Canada's interests (M)

CANADA TIGHTENS TIES WITH EUROPE

FDA study group that concluded that prescriptions should be required to buy hearing aids eliminates requirement in final recommendations; David M Link, acting dir of FDA's Bur of Med Devices and Diagnostic Products, says change is intended to avoid fixing on hearing aids prescription system designed for drags; indus has opposed prescription requirement (M)

U.S. PANEL SHIFTS ON REARING AIDS

EEC exec comm has proposed that world's chief trading partners agree on system of controls aimed at preventing 'brutal ruptures' in flow of trade, apparently referring to those caused by Arab oil embargo in '73 (S)

EUROPEANS URGE TRADE CONTROLS

Greek Cypriote-led Govt maintains that advance of Turkish forces near Famagusta violates new US terms for continuation of mil aid to Turkey (S)

TURKS ARE ACCUSED OF VIOLATING TRUCE

Lee Byung-kyu is a South Korean retired baseball player who played 17 seasons for the LG Twins of the KBO League, as well as three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He played as an outfielder.

Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player

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Yoo Yong-sung is a retired badminton player from South Korea. He is two time Olympic silver medalist.

October 25, 1974

Headlines from October 25, 1974

G.M. Will Lay Off 6,000 at 4 Plants

KISSINGER MEETS BREZHNEV 6 HOURS ON MAJOR ISSUES

NIXON'S SURGERY STILL UNCERTAIN

David Oistrakh, Violinist, Dies

GISCARD ASSERTS WORLD IS IN GRIP OF FISCAL CRISIS

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