News stories from Sunday October 27, 1974

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Secretary of the Treasury William Simon predicted that the post-election Congress would enact legislation taxing away some of the "windfall profits" of the oil industry. Mike Mansfield, the Senate majority leader, predicted that Congress would not do so. This point was one of many on which the two men expressed exactly opposite views in separate televised interviews. [New York Times] A new consulting surgeon recommended that former President Nixon undergo further relatively sophisticated tests to determine whether surgery is needed to prevent life-threatening complications from blood clots in his phlebitis-damaged left leg. [New York Times] High-quality oil has been discovered at two widely separated locations in the Norwegian Sea, raising the possibility of extensive petroleum deposits under those deep-sea areas. In drilling in August and September, the American research ship Glomar Challenger also found evidence that a land bridge linked Europe and North America long after those continents had begun drifting apart. [New York Times] Each year, an estimated half of the world's critically short food supply is consumed or destroyed by insects, molds, rodents, birds and other pests that attack the foodstuffs in the fields, during shipment or in storage. Experts believe that control of a part of these losses may be the quickest, least costly way of substantially increasing the food available to the millions of hungry and malnourished people throughout the world. [New York Times] In a candid interview on Canadian television, Margaret Trudeau told how the "frightening" strains of being the young wife of a Prime Minister had contributed to her recent hospitalization for psychiatric treatment. [New York Times] Secretary of State Kissinger is in New Delhi after three days of talks in Moscow with the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, in which he believes the United States and the Soviet Union moved substantially closer to finding a formula for new limits on strategic weapons. But Mr. Kissinger's reception in India was cool, with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi planning to fly to Kashmir tomorrow, in the midst of his visit. [New York Times] King Hussein of Jordan and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, taking equally adamant positions, told the Arab heads of state at the Rabat, Morocco, summit conference that they must choose between them. Spokesmen for both the King and the Palestine Liberation Organization said they would accept no compromise. [New York Times] Five of the 22 hostages being held by four armed convicts in a Dutch prison chapel have been released unharmed. The 17 remaining hostages are reportedly being treated well by their captors. [New York Times] West German economic uncertainty and a threat of growing unemployment cost Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic party seats in the state legislatures of both Hesse and Bavaria, in the first test of the voters' mood since last spring. In Hesse the opposition, the Christian Democrats, pushed the Social Democrats out of their position as the biggest party there for the first time in 28 years. [New York Times]