News stories from Sunday November 10, 1974

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

The national coal strike has begun. It was scheduled to start at midnight tomorrow, but it was partly under way late Friday when Lloyd Johnson and three other men were the only ones reporting for work at a mine not far from the little town of Ohley in the coal country of West Virginia. They are not expected to go back to work for at least two weeks, but there are many miners who predict that no more coal will be dug until 1975. [New York Times] Three Arab oil-exporting countries, led by Saudi Arabia, lowered their oil prices while sharply increasing taxes and royalties paid by foreign oil companies. The purpose, they said, was to reduce the companies' "excess profits" and to help the world's oil consumers. The combined effect of the measure announced by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, however, appeared to rule out any overall reduction in the cost of oil imports. [New York Times] At the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Joe Namath threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Emerson Boozer at 6:53 of sudden-death overtime and the New York Jets ended a six-game losing streak with a 26-20 victory over the New York Giants. It was the first regular-season, sudden-death victory since the National Football League instituted the overtime rule this year. [New York Times] A new program of cooperation in food and energy resources as part of a "mutual survival pact" between developed and developing countries has been proposed at the World Food Conference in Rome by Richard Gardner, Professor of Law at Columbia University. He helped start the United Nations World Food Program for needy nations more than a decade ago. [New York Times] Several dozen stone-throwing demonstrators protesting large increases in food prices smashed shop windows and looted in a slum area on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. They also damaged 10 buses and an undetermined number of private vehicles. The police arrested 31 persons, including Shalom Cohen, a former member of Parliament and leader of the Israeli Black Panthers, who describe themselves as the protectors of Jews of Oriental origin. [New York Times] The British government has no intention of pulling its troops out of Northern Ireland or yielding to demands for setting a date for withdrawal. This was disclosed in an interview with Merlyn Rees, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who said that public opinion in England "has had enough" of the sectarian violence in Ulster and the frustrations over finding solutions. He said, however, that a withdrawal of the 15,000 British troops would lead to a "real civil war" between the Roman Catholic minority and the Protestant majority. [New York Times] The workers at Hunsfos paper mill in Kristiansand, Norway, are the subject of an experiment in a reform effort throughout Norway and Sweden to make work more challenging and more satisfying for workers in all kinds of employment. Let each worker have a measure of autonomy over what he does and where and how he does it, and his creative energies will be released, the theory says. He will not only do more work, but will also do it more intelligently and more contentedly it is believed. [New York Times]