Secretary of State Kissinger flew from Egypt to Jerusalem and quickly set in motion talks between American and Israeli officials aimed at producing a concrete proposal to end the stalemate over the separation of Israeli and Egyptian troops along the Suez Canal. The officials were trying to work out a formula that Mr. Kissinger could present to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and the announcement that they had begun their efforts shortly after Mr. Kissinger’s arrival indicated that the Secretary of State had persuaded the Israelis to quicken their efforts to agree on a concrete disengagement position.
U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, in a report to the Security Council, described the Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire sector as unstable and potentially explosive. He said the U.N. peacekeeping force was having trouble interposing its units between the two sides but was “using its best efforts to prevent a recurrence of the fighting.” Waldheim said the force totaled 5,545 men and told of plans to add 2,020 men by February 9.
Israel admitted that a misguided missile started a fire which has raged for 11 days in oil wells off the coast of the Occupied Sinai Peninsula. An Israeli Hawk missile, fired at a suspected enemy helicopter, hit an offshore oil rig instead, triggering the fire. The fire has cut Israeli oil production 17%.
President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya decided on a union between Tunisia and Libya, it was announced jointly over the radio in Tunisia and Libya. The announcement said that a referendum on the merger would be held Friday. Tunisia and Libya will supposedly be one nation, under one president and one flag with joint institutions, as the “Islamic Arab Republic”. It never actually happened, however.
The Ethiopian Revolution began as rank-and-file soldiers of the Negele Borana garrison of the Fourth Brigade of the Ethiopian Ground Forces mutinied over bad food and the lack of drinking water. The mutineers seized Lieutenant General Deresse Dubale, Emperor Haile Selassie’s personal envoy, and forced him to eat and drink as they did for a week.
In a harsh crackdown after a month of liberalization, President Park Chung Hee’s government in South Korea has detained at least half a dozen opposition leaders and assigned the police to accompany more than 20 others on a 24-hour-a-day basis. This followed President Park’s proclamation last Tuesday of an emergency decree banning further criticism of South Korea’s constitution and ordering violators imprisoned up to 15 years.
The Viet Cong charged that South Vietnamese planes bombed Đức Cơ, 215 miles north of Saigon, although “Saigon knows very well there is an ICCS team there.” In reality, only two Viet Cong assigned to the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision live at the Đức Cơ field station, site for a planned release of prisoners of war. Other ICCS members have yet to move to the station.
Former Cambodian Premier Son Sann urged President Lon Nol to leave the country so a peace accord can be reached. Son Sann, 62, who served under exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was the first Cambodian political figure of high stature to issue such a call. Speaking to students at Phnom Penh University, Son Sann said he sent Lon Nol a letter urging him to go to the United States for medical treatment, removing himself as an issue in the struggle with Communist-led rebels. Lon Nol suffered a stroke in early 1971.
Cambodian Government gunners loosed a one‐hour artillery barrage early today against an insurgent force threatening the capital from the northwest. The impact of the shells reverberated in downtown Phnom Penh. The government front against the insurgents is only five to seven miles from the city.
An official who was purged during the Cultural Revolution from his position as General Secretary and fourth‐ranking member of the Chinese Communist party has now been listed in Peking among the leaders of the party. A Peking dispatch today from Hsinhua, the official press agency, ranked Deng Xiaoping just after members of the nine-man standing committee of the powerful Politburo and above 11 other Politburo members. Mr. Deng reappeared in public last April with the title of Deputy Premier but he has seemed to perform mainly protocol functions. His listing now among Politburo members has caused speculation here that he has been marked for return to high leadership. Mr. Deng, a short, sharp-tongued Szechuanese who has a slight limp, was the object of violent denunciations by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of the late nineteen sixties as a “revisionist” and “capitalist‐roader” second only to the purged former chief of state, Liu Shao‐chi.
While Soviet authorities have drastically reduced the size of their prison population in the 20 years since Stalin’s death, Western experts believe that more than a million Soviet citizens, including about 10,000 political prisoners, remain in captivity in a network of about 900 prison and labor camps. Interest in the Soviet penal system has been raised by the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s latest book, “The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956,” which discussed the system before the prison population was cut from its Stalinist-era peak to about one million, a figure most Western experts believe has remained constant since the mid-fifties. The Central Intelligence Agency, through the use of satellite photographs, estimates a higher figure between 2.4 million and 2.5 million.
British Prime Minister Edward Heath got a big public boost for his tough defense of the government’s anti-inflation policy as crippling coal mine and rail disputes appeared no nearer a solution. The Harris public opinion poll found that 63% of British voters believe the Heath government should stand firm on its pay and price restraints. Twenty-nine per cent disagreed and 8% were undecided.
The Netherlands, the only European country under an Arab oil embargo, began to ration gasoline in an attempt to conserve fuel. Dutch motorists, who are allotted 16 gallons per month for private use, jammed gas stations Friday for the last fill up before rationing. Few motorists were expected to take advantage of the lifting of the 10-week-old Sunday driving ban, which was replaced by the rationing measure.
Gasoline rationing began in the Netherlands, as residents were limited to 60 liters (less than 16 U.S. gallons) of gasoline for a month. The Dutch government ended the rationing eight days early, ending on February 4.
Stephanie Britton, 57, and her 4-year-old grandson, Christopher Martin, were stabbed to death at their home on Hadley Green Road in the London Borough of Barnet. As of 2019 the case remained unsolved, although serial killer Patrick Mackay was a suspect.
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam ordered an inquiry into leaks to the press of alleged secret cables between the Australian government and its embassy in Washington. The weekly newspaper Nation Review has published the contents of several such cables marked confidential, secret and top secret. The cables. reveal Whitlam’s acceptance of the present status of U.S. bases in Australia and his continued backing of the South-East Asia Treaty Organization. They also tell of a plan by Whitlam for a joint protest by Japan, Indonesia and Australia against U.S. policy in South Vietnam in late 1972.
Panamanian strongman General Omar Torrijos said Panama and the United States had reached a tentative agreement on the basic points of a new canal treaty. He said the eight points constituted a “philosophy of understanding” for drawing up a new treaty to replace the current pact which gives the United States perpetual control of the canal.
Felix Díaz Ortega founded the right-wing Nuevo Orden political party in Venezuela.
Television was introduced in the African nation of Tanzania as TVZ (Television Zanzibar) was inaugurated in a ceremony by Zanzibar’s President Aboud Jumbe.
The Watergate special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, citing legal restrictions, has indicated that he will not make the mass of material collected by his office available to the congressional inquiry into the impeachment of President Nixon. In an interview with The New York Times, he said that he was eager to cooperate with the inquiry, but he could “see no way at the present time” to allow the congressional committee or its staff access to material that his office had obtained from the White House.
A proposal that Congress grant President Nixon immunity from criminal prosecution if he decides to resign is under discussion in Washington political and social circles. The idea is that such congressional action would remove from the President’s mind any obstacle to leaving the White House based on concern over possible subsequent prosecution as a private citizen. The apparent author of the proposal is Abe Fortes, the Washington lawyer who served on the Supreme Court by appointment of President Johnson from 1965 to 1969, when he resigned during a controversy over his acceptance of a $20,000 fee from a foundation while a sitting Justice.
A court ruling that the October 20 firing of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was illegal will be appealed by the Nixon Administration. The decision to take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals was authorized by Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, who, as acting attorney general, fired Cox on President Nixon’s orders.
Representative Hugh Carey, Democrat of Brooklyn, charged that President Nixon had illegally used Bryce Harlow, then and now a member of the White House staff, to influence legislation for the President’s benefit. Mr. Carey made the charge in an interview taped in advance for broadcast tomorrow night on WOR-TV. Mr. Carey’s accusation relates to the controversy over the $576,000 tax deduction that Mr. Nixon is claiming for giving his vice-presidential papers to the National Archives.
The White House told the Senate Watergate Committee last summer that a government official who participated in the investigation of the unauthorized passing of National Security Council documents to the Pentagon, had, in effect, sought to “blackmail” his way to a more important job by threatening to make the secret materials public, well-placed sources said. These sources said that the threat came during a White House investigation into what was believed to be a military spy ring.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that 134 law enforcement officers were killed by criminal action in the line of duty last year, the biggest toll since it started keeping the records. There were 116 slayings in 1972 and 132 in 1971. The deaths in 1973 included 131 local, county and state officers and three Federal officers. One was an FBI agent killed last March while trying to arrest a robbery fugitive at Charlotte, North Carolina. The other Federal officers were a drug‐enforcement agent killed in August while on a narcotics case at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and a United States Park Police ranger killed in August at Olema, California, while trying to arrest poachers.
Three teen-agers were arrested in the kidnapping of a doctor’s son but the victim was still missing, the FBI said. The bureau said that Glen M. Ebersole of Lakewood, New York, had paid $15,000 for the release of his son, Daniel W., who disappeared Tuesday after saying he was going to a Jamestown teenagers’ center. The money was left at a point designated by the kidnappers, who called the senior Ebersole twice, the FBI said. Being held in lieu of $100,000 bond each are Martin C. Whitmore, 19, and Kenneth Leroy Williams, 18, both of West Ellicott, New York, and Jeffrey Loren Swan, 18, of Jamestown. The FBI said it appeared that other persons had been involved in the abduction and that its search for the boy was continuing.
The world’s biggest airport was getting its first scheduled landing today — nearly three months late. The 17,500-acre Dallas-Fort Worth Airport was to have opened last October. But the opening was delayed because of unfinished facilities, and much work will remain to be done when American Airlines Flight 341 from New York touches down. The biggest headache is the field’s computerized AirTrans system, designed to move people and objects from place to place on tracks in enclosed cars. It is still having problems and the airport plans to use conventional buses and trucks temporarily.
A dazed New York City policeman shot to death a fellow officer who was giving him first aid, authorities said. Officer William Donahue, 28, was charged with homicide in the death of Timothy Murphy, 29. Police said the two had “been socializing” at Murphy’s home when Donahue fell down the basement stairs, gashing his head. He was knocked unconscious. Murphy carried him upstairs and was administering first aid when Donahue came to, drew his revolver and fired, police said.
Joey Newton Kagebien of DeWitt, Arkansas, sentenced three years ago at the age of 15 to die in the electric chair, may be a free man in a few years. In a new trial here last Monday, he was convicted of second‐degree murder and received a 21‐year prison sentence, with 12 years suspended. Under Arkansas law, the youth would be eligible for parole in about two and a half years. Mr. Kagebien and three Other DeWitt teenagers were originally accused of the shotgun slaying of Jimmy Wayne Wampler, 27, a Wynne rice farmer, eight miles south of here on his way to a hunting camp. The others charged were Teddy Kittler, 18, who received a life term; Benny West, 18, who was sentenced to 21 years, and Larry Mannis, 20, who pleaded guilty on Thursday to reduced charges and received 19 years. The severity of Mr. Kagebien’s original verdict was attributed by observers to the fact that he was the first to stand trial, when public revulsion over the crime was at its peak. The youths said they had killed Mr. Wampler in self‐defense after he bought them beer and then made homosexual advances toward them. Mr. Kagebien admitted striking the man with the butt of a rifle, but Mr. Kittler supposedly fired the fatal shot at point-blank range at the man’s head.
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dropped a court challenge to the Democratic primary election he lost last month to Harry Connick, saying the courts had imposed “such restrictions on any possible trial of the matter that only a fraction of the story” could be brought out. Garrison, who tried to prove that the assassination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy, had charged there were at least 2,300 instances of voter irregularity in the December 15 election.
25th Senior Bowl, Mobile, Alabama: North 16, South 13. David Jaynes of Kansas fired a 17‐yard touchdown pass to Lynn Swann of Southern California with 26 seconds remaining today as the North All‐Stars rallied for a 16—13 victory over the South in the silver anniversary Senior Bowl football game. Jaynes completed four passes in the 80‐yard drive to victory and the North was also helped by a 19‐yard pass interference call against the South as the Yankees trimmed the Rebel won‐lost-tied lead to 14‐9‐2 in the series that opens professional careers for the players. The North surged to an early 9—0 lead on a 31‐yard field goal by Rich Sange of Nebraska and a 1‐yard plunge by Bo Matthews of Colorado. However, the South, turning to some daring fourth down gambling, rallied on a 35‐yard field goal by Greg Gantt of Alabama and a 2yard scoring run by Woody Green of Arizona State to take a 13—9 lead early in the fourth quarter. Green’s touchdown was set up by Wilbur Jackson’s 53-yard run to the North 2, where the Alabama star was nailed from behind by Jeris White of Hawaii. Defensive tackle Bill Kollar from Montana State was the game MVP.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame elected four new inductees, who would be enshrined on July 27: From the Chicago Bears, Bill George, Cleveland Browns long-time placekicker Lou Groza, Detroit Lions interception master Night Train Lane and Green Bay Packers running back Tony Canadeo.
Born:
Melanie C (stage name for Melanie Jayne Chisholm, “Sporty Spice”), English singer-songwriter for the Spice Girls; in Whiston, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom.
Nina Proll, Austrian film and TV actress; in Vienna, Austria.
Aaron Seltzer, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter and partner with Jason Friedberg; in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Séverine Vandenhende, French Olympic judo champion, 2000 Olympic gold medalist; in Dechy, Nord département, France.
Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier and 2002 gold medalist; in Stavanger, Norway.
Died:
Nunzio Malasomma, 79, Italian film director and screenwriter known for 41 Italian and German films from 1923 to 1968, including the popular Italian comedy Il Diavolo in convento and melodrama Quattro rose rosse, and the German dramas Die fromme Lüge and Die Nacht der Entscheidung.
Jack Jacobs, 54, NFL and Canadian Football League quarterback and halfback, died of a heart attack.
Chris Mackintosh, 70, Scottish all-around athlete who played rugby union for the Scotland national team, as well competing in the long jump finals in the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1938 world championship in the bobsled competition.
Lady Patricia Ramsay, 87, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who renounced her royal title of Princess Patricia of Connaught in 1919 in order to marry a commoner.
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