Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in Moscow for delicate and difficult talks with the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. The purpose of the current talks is to break the crucial deadlock in negotiations on limitation of strategic arms. During his three-day visit, Mr. Kissinger told newsmen, “We will make concrete progress on a number of outstanding issues.” He said that another topic would be the exact dates of President Nixon’s visit to Moscow, which is expected to take place late in June.
The body of a Protestant, John Hamilton, 46, was found on a Belfast street, the victim of a shooting. Police said they knew of no motive for the slaying. Hamilton’s brother-in-law, Neil McCarten, 26, a Roman Catholic, was slain similarly a week ago.
Britons went on a weekend spending spree, hoping to beat tax increases expected in the Labor government’s first budget, due to be presented Tuesday. Department stores, discount houses, jewelers and liquor stores all reported a roaring trade.
Turkey has partially lifted a three-year ban against opium poppy cultivation, an Istanbul daily newspaper reported. The newspaper Tercuman said 445 acres of state-run farmland were put under opium poppy cultivation over the weekend. The Turkish government said recently that any future resumption of poppy growing would be confined to controlled areas with the crop used only to preserve the high-quality Anatolian poppy stock used for medical purposes. U.S. officials were reported concerned that the easing of restrictions on state-controlled farms would eventually spread to individual farmers.
Pope Paul VI beatified a 17th century German priest who was born a Lutheran, became a Catholic and was killed by Lutheran soldiers in 1631 during the 30 Years’ War. Priests from both East and West Germany and 5,000 pilgrims from the West German diocese of Wurzburg, where the Rev. Liborius Wagner was martyred, attended the ceremony at the Vatican. Beatification often leads to sainthood.
Syrian and Israeli gunners again exchanged fire on the Golan Heights. The Syrian front was reported by the Israeli command to be relatively quiet today after heavy shelling yesterday. The military command here said that the Syrians fired an artillery barrage in a local incident at midday and that the Israelis did not return the fire. A Syrian military spokesman said today that an Israeli engineering unit was destroyed and a number of Israeli soldiers killed or wounded during an exchange of artillery fire on the Golan Heights front. He said the clash began at noon when the Israelis tried to consolidate their frontline positions in the southern sector.
An Israeli source said today that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan might cancel his visit to Washington for indirect disengagement talks with Syria this week unless the Egyptians removed what the Israelis say are illicit artillery pieces in the Sinai. Israel charged that the Egyptians have moved more than 100 guns across the Suez Canal in violation of the agreement on the separation of forces. The command of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Sinai has said that it has no information to back the Israeli claim that the Egyptians had moved artillery in violations of the disengagement agreement. Mr. Dayan is scheduled to meet American officials Friday and Saturday to discuss a pact with Syria.
About 6,000 young Israelis shouting “Golda go home” demonstrated outside the office of Prime Minister Golda Meir. They were protesting the refusal of Israeli leaders to resign over the Jewish state’s setbacks in the October Middle East war.
For the Israelis, Motti Ashkenazi, a 33‐year‐old infantry captain who looks owlishly through thick horn‐rimmed glasses, is an authentic hero of the October war. He commanded the only position on the Bar‐Lev Line at the Suez Canal that resisted the Egyptian onslaught and, although surrounded, was not overrun. This should explain his current popularity as a speaker Several times each week at meetings throughout the country. But it is not tales of heroism against the foe that the audiences turn out to hear. What Mr. Ashkenazi speaks about is the catalogue of grievances against the Government and against a political system that, many Israelis feel, has perpetuated itself and its errors, preventing change. Today, about 2,000 people gathered opposite Premier Golda Meir’s office for Mr. Ashkenazi’s second meeting there in a month. He repeated demands that the country’s leaders, who he said had committed errors in sizing up Arab intentions and preparing the nation for the October war, must accept responsibility and resign. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is his principal target, and Mrs. Meir runs a close second.
Communist forces stepped up attacks across South Vietnam to the highest point in four weeks, military spokesmen said in Saigon. The weekend attacks followed by only 24 hours a call by Việt Cộng officers in Paris and Saigon for strict implementation of the Vietnam ceasefire.
About 10,000 Buddhist monks gathered in Phnom Penh’s Olympic stadium to protest the destruction by Cambodian insurgents of historical and religious sites in the old royal capital of Phsar Oudong. Government troops pushed toward Phsar Oudong, which fell March 18. There were reports the insurgents burned temples in the city.
In a broadcast from Hanoi, the Cambodian exile government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk said that insurgents had killed, wounded or captured 3,700 Cambodian Government soldiers in the battle for Phsar Oudong. It said that about 1,500 other soldiers had switched sides to join the rebels. The Government task force approaching Phsar Oudong from the east has scored steady gains and consolidated its beachhead along the Tonle Sap, but another force carried into the area north of the old capital by helicopter on Tuesday has reported almost no progress, the command said. More armored vehicles are being sent up the river on navy gunboats to strengthen the Government forces there, military sources said.
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai accused the United States and Soviet Union of trying to dominate the world but said both were doomed to fail. Referring to the United States, he said: “One of the superpowers, beset with troubles both at home and abroad, is having a hard time. The other superpower entertains wild ambitions but lacks the strength to achieve them.”
The island of Tanna, southernmost of the New Hebrides islands, seceded from the rest of the jointly-administered Anglo-French Condominium and was proclaimed by secessionists as the Republic of Tanna. The movement would be suppressed three months later by British and French troops. Tanna is now part of the Tafea province of Vanuatu.
Two hundred and six Bangladesh nationals left Karachi, Pakistan, aboard a special flight for Dacca — the last of 120,000 Bangladeshi nationals repatriated since last August, when the two countries and India began a three-way exchange of prisoners of war and civilians stranded by the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971.
All 32 people aboard a passenger bus in Pakistan were killed when the bus fell 1,500 feet (460 m) into a ravine while traveling downhill through the Malakand Pass toward Peshawar.
Several hours of fighting among units of the Uganda army ended this morning, leaving the East African country’s controversial President, General Idi Amin, still in power. It was not clear whether rebellious soldiers had attempted a coup d’état to overthrow the Amin regime or whether Amin loyalists had begun a massacre of a suspected tribal group in the army and had met resistance. There will probably be severe reprisals, a diplomat said.
Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee, urged President Nixon to turn over all “relevant” tape recordings and documents to the House Judiciary Committee, which is deliberating the President’s possible impeachment. He said in an interview on the “Face the Nation” television program that the committee ought to honor “whatever reasonable request the President makes, such as the presence of counsel in the principal deliberations and investigation of the committee.”
The cost of college education will rise again next fall, making it 9.4 percent more expensive than this year and 35.8 per cent more than it was four years ago. The College Entrance Examination Board reported that in the coming academic year a student living on campus at an average four-year private college would have to pay $4,039, which is $346 more than this year.
The $2‐million Randolph Hearst food ransom program neared its next, and possibly last, distribution today, nearly seven weeks after the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst. Mr. Hearst has said he hoped that the next distribution could be held tomorrow, but officials of the program said they would probably not be ready. The program’s head, A. Ludlow Kramer, said he hoped for the distribution the “first part of the week.” The program as originally set up came to a halt two weeks ago after the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers sharply criticized it, saying it was only “crumbs” for the people and some of the food distributed was “hog feed” and “unfit for human consumption.”
About 400 small Appalachian coal mines, which for four years have been on notice that they would be shut down at the end of this month unless they installed explosion-proof machinery, have been given more time to acquire the equipment. With a considerable assist from Senator Marlow W. Cook (R-Kentucky), the Small Business Administration has agreed to grant long-term, low-interest loans for equipment that would put the mines in compliance with the law. A committee within the Interior Department has agreed to postpone closure if an operator applies for an SBA loan.
The French Connection has been broken and the narcotics traffic is being handled by amateurs, says John R. Bartels Jr., head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Bartels, in an interview in the U.S. News & World Report, said between 80% and 90% of the top members of the French drug-trafficking rings were in jail. They “are being replaced now by amateurs operating here in this country and in Mexico and South America, coming up across the Southwest border, and in Southeast Asia,” he said.
Walter Cronkite accused the Nixon Administration of an attempt to undermine the press, despite constitutional guarantees of freedom. The newsman said the Constitution gives the press a “duty… to keep all branches of government under critical scrutiny.” Yet, Cronkite said in an apparent reference to the Washington Post, “a newspaper which attempts to expose the scheme of a clique to perpetuate itself in power by subverting our national elections is accused by the White House of shabby journalism, character assassination and innuendo.” The CBS broadcaster spoke in Chicago at a meeting of the Master Photo Dealers and Finishers Association.
The FBI said it had arrested two men who had told an airline president by letter that they would destroy the control tower at the new Dallas-Ft. Worth airport if their demands for an undisclosed amount of money were not met. FBI agent J. Gordon Shanklin, in charge of the Dallas office, said Jerry Lynn Orrick, 28, had been arrested after he picked up a package from C. E. Acker, head of Braniff International Airlines. Shortly after Orrick’s arrest, FBI agents arrested William Wade Fulfer, 38.
A British expert on chemical warfare contends that the disadvantages of a new family of nerve gases that the United States Army wants to produce far outweigh any potential advantages. In a scientific paper being circulated, Dr. Julian Perry Robinson, a research fellow the University of Sussex England, says that these binary nerve gases are not needed a deterrent to chemical warfare, would be substantially inferior militarily to the present nerve gases and would greatly complicate efforts for an international ban on the production of chemical weapons. The objections by Dr. Robinson, who is regarded as an international authority on chemical warfare, are being raised at a time when the National Security Council is engaged in a broad review of the Nixon Administration’s position on chemical warfare.
One objective of the review, according to officials, is to determine whether the Army should proceed with the production of the gases, and, if so, what effect this would have on international efforts to limit the production of chemical weapons. The binary nerve gases consist of two chemical agents, which, when kept separate, are relatively harmless but when combined, such as in an artillery shell after it has been fired, produce a lethal nerve gas. Largely because the binaries would be far safer to handle, transport and store than the present nerve gases. the Army contends that they would represent a “significant improvement in modernizing” its chemical warfare capability.
In treating certain forms of schizophrenia, it has been found that affectionate dogs have been used successfully where human therapists have failed. It has also been discovered that a dog can establish an effective parent-child relationship with a young monkey who had previously formed such an attachment to its own mother. This is contrary to the wide belief that such relationships can develop only once and at the earliest stage of life.
When Carl Huntington, a 27-year-old dogsled musher, reached Main Street in Nome with his five dogs at 12:02 A.M. Saturday, fire alarms greeted him. About 4,000 people, about twice the city’s population, were up to welcome him. He had completed the 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail from Anchorage — regarded as the most grueling and longest of the world’s dogsled trails. He was the first of 28 dog mushers expected in Nome in the next two weeks in the second annual Iditarod dogsled race. His trip took 20 days and 15 hours. He won a $12,000 prize.
The great war continuing against the 10 million birds of Graceham, Maryland, succeeded only in driving them to nearby communities. And officials conceded that many of the birds had got back into Edgar Emrich’s pine grove during the night. State, federal and local officials decided to reevaluate their strategy, admitting that the horde of blackbirds, starlings and grackles was more difficult to scare off than had been expected. But they have hope. One official said the birds were expected to resume their normal migratory pattern and fly off north as soon as the temperatures got into the 70s.
One American couple in every six in the main child-bearing period of 20 to 39 years of age has had a sterilization operation according to federally funded surveys, and some family planning experts believe the trend is growing. The sterilization method, according to these specialists, has apparently become the principal birth control method among couples over the age of 30, and contraceptive pills are second.
In a break with Mayor Beame of New York City, Representative Herman Badillo said that he would not head a cabinet-level committee on ethnic tensions until the mayor appointed more Puerto Ricans to high positions in city government. He charged that the mayor had staffed his administration with “either clubhouse people or civil servants” who would be backward-looking and unresponsive to the poor.
The United States UOP Shadow auto racing team has withdrawn from the South African Grand Prix following the death of Peter Revson, the racing driver.
36th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette, 76-64; Wolfpack first title; first tournament officially designated as a Division I championship
Born:
Alyson Hannigan, American film and TV actress (“How I Met Your Mother”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Chad Butler, American Christian rock drummer (Switchfoot-“Mess of Me”), in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Terry Killens, linebacker (Houston-Tennessee Oilers-Titans, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jamie Arnold, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs), in Dearborn, Michigan.
Jim Rushford, MLB outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers), in Chicago, Illinois.
Died:
Doris Deane [Dibble], 74, American silent film actress (“Stupid, But Brave”).
Yoshida Isoya, 79, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style).
Hristo Iliev-Patrata, 37, Bulgarian footballer with 24 caps for the Bulgaria national team, was killed in a car accident.
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