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Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

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Brezhnev Best Politician: Nixon

By SA UL PETT A P Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) “He is the best politician in the room," said an expert, Richard Milhous Nixon, in a room full of the species. ‘But I am not dangerous," said Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev to assembled members of the capitalist Congress. What Brezhnev may have meant by “dangerous," in a town where definitions lately have been blurred, was lost in the banter Tuesday at the signing of four new Russo-Ameri-can agreements in the Benjamin Franklin Room ol the State Department. What was increasingly clear, after two days of summitry, was that the leader of Soviet Russia has impressed Washington as a man of skill, force, confidence, warmth, humor, ham and tempered spontaneity. A kind of housebroken Nikita Khrushchev. Unlike his predecessor, who brought a new level of show biz to summitry in 1959, Brezhnev is not likely to pound the table with his shoe or stamp the floor petulantly if he can't go to Disneyland. But he does have his moments of whimsy. One such produced the President's rave review of the Russian’s political talent. I he treaties had just been signed and the champagne poured when Brezhnev reached for a napkin that wasn't there, spilled his champagne, and finally. to applause and laughter, pretended to hide behind a napkin while he drank and the cameras rolled Brezhnev and the President sat side by side during the cer-

emony and, curiously, it was the visitor who appeared more relaxed than the host. Students of both agreed the difference was probably more a matter of personality than recent events. “If the senators won't come to me. I’ll come to them." Brezhnev said, quickly joining the legislators in a cluster of toasts and small talk. For a moment, the President appeared alone, outside the circle, looking lor a way in. Later, the summit was delayed 40 minutes while the Russian leader took a three and a half hour lunch at Blair House with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He delivered a low-key speech for an hour and a half and fielded questions in a soft, almost cooing voice. “You got the impression he is determined not to come across like Khrushchev," said Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind. “He walks a fine line between his natural spontaneity and sense of propriety. You got the feeling he'd much rather be uninhibited and not have to worry * about each word being measured ” Where Khrushchev might have blown his stack, Brezhnev fielded the sensitive question of Jewish migration from Russia with quiet patience. Sen. Charles Percy, R-lll , noted that Brezhnev was physically smaller than he expected, polished in his own way, and “powerful, resourceful and a political man." All in all, said the senator from Illinois, the man from Moscow reminded him of a fellow in Chicago named Richard J Daley.

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Dr. Kerwin Reports All Skylab 1 Crewmen Okay

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Completed last month, this 85 ft. high elevated water tank at Van Bibber Lake, Inc. mobile home park north of Greencastle is the only one of its kind in the state, Virgil Van Bibber noted. The tank, built by Uni-

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and holds 100,000 gallons. (Banner-Graphic Photo)

SPACE CfcN TER Houston (AP) — Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, the first physician to fly in space, reported today all three Skylab 1 crewmen are in excellent condition and “this gives me tremendous encouragement about future long-du-ration flights." After 26 days in orbit, Kerwin said “right now the score is: man 3, space 0. But the game isn’t over. Let's wait ‘till we get home and look at the results.” Flying high above the earth in the space station, Kerwin, Charles Conrad Jr. and Paul J. Weitz answered questions from newsmen relayed to them by radio by mission control. The conference, as they neared the end of their 28-day mission, was televised to the control center. Questions focused on the medical condition of the crew, who have spent more time in space on a single flight than any other humans. Kerwin, who has conducted exhaustive tests on all three crewmen in his onboard medical laboratory, said as a result of long exposure to weightlessness “there seems to be some body changes in some areas and none in others.” Conrad said, “1 he doctors may make me eat my words later, but 1 feel I’ll be in better physical condition when I get back than 1 did on any of my previous three flights.” He said he felt riding a bicycle device for exercise throughout the mission “has left me in as good a shape as when 1 was launched May 25. The commander said he

thought their most significant accomplishment after all the initial Skylab trouble “is that we’re turning over a 90 per cent operating space station to the next crew.” He referred to a number of problems that the Skylab 1 crew were able to fix with repair missions, including erection of a makeshift sun shade and freeing a stuck solar panel. Asked what advice he had for the Skylab 2 and 3 crews who will inhabit the station later in the year, Weitz replied:

“We’re going to go down there and debrief them. We’ll take them through the trainers and tell them exactly what we have learned. We’ll tell them if they can run the telescope mount in training they can do it here. We’ll tell them if they can do the medical in training they can do itshere.” “You betcha,” Weitz answered when asked if he thought the Skylab 2 and 3 crews could complete their full 56-day missions.

Bids For Seabottom Lease Reviewed By Govt.

They Just Keep Kissing Us” As Children Return After Two Years

CHICAGO (AP) “ I hey just keep kissing us.” said the mother of two children returned to her by a Chicago private detective alter a two-\ear absence. Mrs. Roberta Casamiri of New Castle, Pa., and her children. Dewey, 7, and Kristin, 5.

were reunited Monday at a Youngstown, Ohio, airport tollowing a flight from Mesa, Ari/.. where they had been living with their father Mrs. Casamiri, 28, and her husband, Dewey, were divorced in 1969 I he children were taken by Casamiri in September

1971 Mrs. Casamiri had been awarded custody Anthony Pellicano, a Chicago investigator who specializes in locating missing persons, was .hired by Mrs Casamiii alter she read an Associated Press story about private investigators. I he stoiv included men-

tion of Pellicano's successes in locating persons. Pellicano said he had spent 18 months Hacking down leads in Florida, Texas and California trying to locate the children. He declined to say what clue led him to the children. Pellicano filed a suit in Ari-

zona courts which resulted in the children being placed in a foster home Friday. A judge ruled Monday the children could be returned in Pellicano’s custody to their mother. In a telephone interview, Mrs. Casamiri said, “I never

believed I’d see them again. When we saw them again at the airport, they knew us right away. They started asking questions about their old toys and their old clothes. I couldn’t believe my daughter remembered so much. She was only three when I saw her last.”

By BILL CRIDER Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS La.(AP)The federal government, anxious to boost oil and gas supplies, reviewed bids totaling $$.598 billion today for leases on 104 tracts of seabottom in the Gulf of Mexico. Bids from oil companies angling for new drilling space in the Gulf were opened Tuesday in the third offshore lease sale in nine months. Despite objections from environmentalists concerned about sea pollution, lease sales have been hurried along under President Nixon’s policy of expanding offshore production to help deal with the nation’s “energy crisis.” Another sale is expected in the fall involving offshore areas of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. A California offshore sale is tentatively slated before year’s end. Of 104 tracts offered Tuesday, five were off the Louisiana coast, the rest south of the Texas shore. Ninety per cent were more than 50 miles from land in water from 100 to 300 feet deep. Less than 10 rated as likely to produce oil. The rest, according to geological tests, were gas-prone. The high bid of the session

was $77,708,000 for 5,760 acres 70 miles south of Galveston, or $13,490 an acre. The bid was offered by a combination of Mesa Petroleum, Canadian Occidental of California, Quintana Offshore, Inc., and Burham Oil Exploration. There were 16 bids on that one tract. Nearly all big bids were made by varying combination of oil companies. Officials said there were more bidding combines at the sale than at any other in the history of offshoreleasing. Big plungers, who turned up in various combinations, included Cities Service Oil Co., Pennzoil Louisiana & Texas Offshore (PLATO), Mobil Oil Co. and Pennzoil Offshore Gas Operators, Inc. (POGO). The total of high bids was about $57 million less than the record set in the sale of 16 Louisiana offshore tracts last Dec. 19. Final decision on which bids would be accepted was withheld pending the review. Winners of leases have five years in which to begin drilling The lease is good as long as wells produce. In addition to the purchase payment, the government draws royalties of onesixth of production.

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