News stories from Thursday November 27, 1975
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The jurors who convicted Lynette Alice Fromme of attempting to kill President Ford remained silent about their deliberations, apparently because they were afraid of reprisals from the so-called Manson family -- followers of Charles Manson, the imprisoned mass murderer. Miss Fromme has been a Manson follower. [New York Times]
- King Juan Carlos I of Spain was greeted today with popular acclaim, but also with serious warnings, as he and Queen Sofia celebrated with prayer and pomp his accession to the throne. One warning came from the Roman Catholic Church through Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, the Archbishop of Madrid, who told the King at mass that the church intended to speak out, "and shout if necessary," for human rights and justice. Another warning came from the largest crowd the clandestine Communist Party has managed to gather since the end of the Civil War. About 2,000 persons marched on Carabanchel Prison in Madrid to demand freedom for political prisoners. They were repulsed by the police with water hoses and tear gas. [New York Times]
- A slowdown by thousands of "junior" British physicians, the equivalent of interns, forced dozens of hospitals in the country to refuse new patients and some to start closing. Thousands of their senior colleagues have agreed to join them tomorrow. The junior doctors are agitating for higher pay and removal of what they consider to be inequities in the overtime pay system under the National Health Service. [New York Times]
- It seemed clear from statements by Portugal's President and other leaders that the country's centrist forces had emerged from the latest crisis with new strength. President Francisco da Costa Gomes said that a coup of vast proportions had been quelled, and he pledged to defend a multiparty democracy. It was announced that the army's Chief of Staff, Gen. Carlos Fabido, had been dismissed. Gen. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who had become a symbol for the far left, has been stripped of his post as military security chief and his command dissolved. President Costa Gomes attributed the military rebellion "to a false left." [New York Times]
- Recent visitors to China report in Hong Kong that Chairman Mao Tse-tung's wife, Chiang Ching, has come under strong criticism and may have suffered a decline in Communist Party standing because she disclosed confidential information in interviews with an American scholar. [New York Times]
- Israeli soldiers crossed into southern Lebanon and reportedly killed a resident of Kafr Kilat and blew up a house they believed to be a guerrilla base. [New York Times]
- China has turned to American companies for highly sophisticated oil equipment and technology. Negotiations for millions of dollars worth of oilfield apparatus are now under way between Peking and a half dozen companies in Houston. Petroleum industry experts believe this is the beginning of an advanced phase in China's oil development efforts. [New York Times]