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Congressman Says He Has Seen Proof Dispite Denial
By JEFFREY MILLS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP> - A congressman says he has seen proof that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, despite his swowi denial, ordered national security wiretaps. Rep. Joshua Eilberg, D-Pa., a member of the House Judiciary Committee. said Tuesday, “Materials have been supplied to us which constitute positive proof that Kissinger did institute those taps.” The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided earlier Tuesday to take another look at Kissinger’s testimony concerning wiretaps last September during his confirmation hearings. Kissinger, at a news conference at Sal/burg, Austria, threatened to resign if con-
troversy over his role in the wiretapping is not cleared up. He asked for the committee’s review and denied that he lied to the panel. At issue is the extent of Kissinger’s involvement in the wiretapping of 13 government officials and four newsmen between May 1969 and Februarv 1971. Last September Kissinger testified that he never recommended the wiretapping, but supplied names of persons who had access to sensitive documents leaked to the news media. However, recent press reports have described a larger Kissinger role in the wiretapping The New York Times said today an FBI report says either Kissinger or his former deputy, General Alexander Haig, now a
top White House aide, ordered some of the wiretaps. Eilberg, in a telephone interview, told The Associated Press, “I can say categorically there is a direct conflict between what we have and what he said to the Foreign Relations Commitee." In a television interview Tuesday, Eilberg, asked whether he was saying that Kissinger did not tell the truth, replied, “I’m saying that.” However, he told The AP. “There’s a clear conflict as it appears to me. I wouldn’t say he lied.” He said the information he has seen shows Kissinger received more than 50 logs of wiretapped conversations. “It was quite clear that he instituted those wiretaps," Eilberg said.
Research Boosts Lead
By LA WHENCE L KNUTSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Soviet research and not spying has boosted Russia ahead of the United States in the nuclear arms race, the man commonly regarded as the father of the hydrogen bomb has told a Senate Committee. Dr. Edward Teller used this testimony Monday to argue for an end to most secrecy surrounding nuclear technology. He said secrecy impedes the work of American scientists and fails to halt Russian nuclear progress. The Soviets, Teller told the Senate Government Operations Committee, “are moving ahead at a rapid rate while we are practically standing still. There is no doubt, Russia is No. 1.” he said. Teller said he believes word of any major scientific breakthrough in the United States
will reach the Soviet Union in a year or less. “The number of people to whom the main lines of relevant information about nuclear weapons is available is probably between 100.000 and one million.” Teller said. “Under these conditions one must accept the conclusion that nuclear secrets, as a general rule, are secrets in name only,” he said. Teller proposed that Congress legislate declassification of most basic scientific information immediately and create a two-year classification for some details. Little information deserves to be held longer or more securely, Teller said. “I believe that only essential details, blueprints and descriptions on how to make nuclear weapons effective can continue to be safeguarded on the rela-
tively informal basis ot U.S. proprietary information," he said. While novel ideas and plans for such weapons can be classified for the two-year period, he said, “the general ideas concerning nuclear weapons should be made available to the public." Teller said he has concluded reluctantly that scientific intelligence information on Soviet achievements should be withheld from publication even though its release would inform the public as to “the great strength of Russia’s military information.” Publication, he said, likely would cause the sources of the information to be discovered and shut off. Secrecy, Teller said, gives a false feeling of safety and permits people to avoid the hard decisions that they would have to face if all the facts were out in the open.
Henry’s Hoir Is Trick To Cut
By TOM RA UM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON<AP>- President Nixon's hair is easy to cut. but Henry A. Kissinger’s? It’s a problem because it’s so curly, their barber confided. “First 1 have to shampoo it, then cut it with scissors. Then I use a ra/or to blend the hair, and the hot air blower to dry and style it. “That gives it a curly but smooth look. There, look how smooth it looks in the photograph." Milton Pitts, who has been clipping the presidential hair for four and a half years, pointed to a photograph of Nixon with his secretary of state. “1 gave them both haircuts yester-
Nixon’s haircuts—once a week, “never any longer than 10 days"—take about 20 minutes. During that time the President is quite congenial, Pitts says, and “talks to me quite a bit. but usually in generalities and never about politics.” From his vantage point. Pitts sees no physical change in the President despite the rigors of his office and the troubles of his administration. “I’ve never seen a person under the pressure he’s under so relaxed.” he said. “I see no change in the President." Pitts spends each Tuesday and Thursday manning the onechair barbershop in the White House West Wing, trimming.
clipping and styling the hair of the President. Cabinet members and top White House aides. Pitts, a 58-year-old native ol Greenville, S.C.. also runs a barber shop in the SheratonCarlton Hotel a few blocks from the White House. He charges $4 for a straight haircut and $8.50 for the kind of ha>r styling he does on Nixon and Kissinger. He is on call at all other times if the President suddenly decides to get a haircut. Pitts said. “When I read about some of the people that are in trouble. I’m quite surprised.” Pitts said. “They were all such nice people.”
Nixon Gets Rousing Welcome
By DA VID MIC HELM ORE Associated Press Writer CAIRO. Egypt (API - Busloads of workers shouting “Nixon! Nixon!” and waving “Nixon for Peace” banners roared through Cairo today, on their way to the airport four hours before the arrival of the first American president to pay a state visit to Egypt. The route to be taken by President Nixon and his host. President Anwar Sadat, was marked by triumphal arches, American flags and billboards displaying large portraits of the
two presidents. The Arab Socialist Union. Egypt’s only legal political party. was reported teaching villagers along the railway line from Cairo to Alexandria to chant “We welcome President Nixon” in English as Nixon travels to the Mediterranean port Thursday. Egypt's two best-known belly dancers, Nagwa Fouad and Soheir Zaky, headed the floorshow for the state dinner Sadat is giving tonight for President Nixon and his wife. Press reports said Sadat would bestow the Order of the
Nile. Egypt’s highest-ranking decoration, on Nixon and the Order of Perfection on Mrs. Nixon. Asked about the cost of the welcome, an Egyptian assured one American: “Don’t worry, Nixon will pay for it before he leaves.” Heavy security precautions were in effect. Bulletproof limousines were lined up. Helicopter patrols were set up. Hundreds of american and Egyptian agents were checking danger points, including rooftops from which snipers could fire.
It’s Still Home
B\ JERRY BUCK Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (API - Barbara Feidon divides her time among her home in the Hollywood Hills, her boat, her studies, writing and television. Barbara, who was Agent 99 on “Get Smart” for five years, is doing hostess duties on “Dean Martin’s Comedyworld." a Thursday night summer show on NBC. She taped her appearances in such places as London, San Francisco and Great Gorge. N.J. "Comedyworld" features comedy performers from
around the country and in London. Since leaving “Get Smart” in 1970, Barbara' made numerous appearances on series, TV movies, specials and game shows. She says she doesn't miss the regularity of a series at all. “It’s the best of all possible worlds." she said. “Consistency is not something I'm fond of. 1 love variety." It permits her to pursue a life style suited to her interests. Last summer she bought a 43foot cabin cruiser, Ciopinno, and took up the study of navi-
Killed In Accident
BLOOMFIELD Ind (AP>Willis Martindale. rural Bloomfield, was killed Tuesday evening when his tractor flipped over in a ditch and landed on him.
The Greene County Sheriffs Office said Martindale had pulled off a county road to let a car pass and the tractor tipped over in the ditch.
gation. That is in addition to her study of art and history. She lives part of the time on the boat, anchored at Marina Del Rey, and it is there that she does her writing. With actress Joan Darling, she wrote for a Dinah Shore special and for the Public Broadcasting System. She said she’s been writing for years. Most of her work has been in comedy — “It’s my favorite” — but Barbara doesn't consider herself a comedic actress. She said, “I began as a dramatic actress. The first thing I did was opposite George C. Scott in ‘East Side, West Side.’ When ‘Get Smart’came along I fell into that and I’m thought of as a comedic actress. “It’s fun to do. Dramatic acting can be great but you can’t spend the whole day weeping in your bandages. Comedy has a pace and a style to it. You can improvise like musicians. I love the energy and vitality of it.”
Eilberg declined to say what materials before the committee constituted the proof. However, the committee has results of an FBI inquiry into the wiretaps. Another committee member. Rep. Charles Wiggins, R-Calif.,
disagreed. “1 cannot share my colleague’s certainty as to the evidence,” Wiggins said on the same television interview. A third committee member. Rep. John F. Seiberling Jr., DOhio, said the only direct evi-
dence is from a memo by the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. “It doesn’t prove Kissinger asked for them, but at least it’s evidence.” Chairmen of three Senate subcommittees have requested
the FBI documents on the wiretaps. Foreign Relations Chairman J.W. Fulbright, D-Ark., said Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe will be brought before the committee and asked in person to supply the records he has so far refused to furnish.
Most Foreign Relations members and several other congressional leaders expressed support for Kissinger “I would hate to see him resign over a matter like this,” Fulbright said. s
Premier Mariano
Resignation Plunges Italy Into Political Vacuum
B\ VICTOR LSIMPSON Associated Press Writer ROME (AP) — The resignation of Premier Mariano Rumor plunged Italy into a political vacuum today, compounding the nation’s worst economic crisis since World War II. Rumor quit Monday night after the Socialist party, the No. 2 faction in his coalition government, and the trade unions refused to go along with his proposals for an austerity program of tight credit and higher taxes to stave off national bankruptcy. It was the second center-left coalition headed by Rumor to collapse in 11 months. Italy’s 36th government since World War II lasted only three months. President Giovanni Leone asked Rumor and his cabinet to continue in office as a caretaker regime until a new government is formed. The president was expected to start consultations with political leaders today in search of a new premier. The government fell at Italy’s darkest hour in its 28 years as a republic. Inflation is soaring at the rate of 20 per cent a year. The government’s foreign credit is exhausted. The lira has dropped 18 per cent in a
year. The foreign trade deficit is more than a billion dollars a month. Crime is up, and political terrorism is plaguing the country. ‘Italy is deeply sick,” said Transport Minister Luigi Preti, a Democratic Socialist. “It is clear that this is the most serious of the government crises since the war.” With no party having a majority in Parliament and no majority possible without the participation of the Christian Democrats, the largest and dominant party, Leone has few options. He could ask Rumor or another Christian Democrat to try to form another coalition with the Socialists. Or he could call for new elections, a prospect that doesn't appeal to the Christian Democrats because of the beating they took in last month’s referendum on divorce. The Communists, the country’s second largest party, have been pushing for a “historic compromise” government uniting them with the Christian Democrats. But some political observers believe the Communists now have doubts about taking on official responsibility for an apparently unmanageable economy while they have already achieved a hand
in power through their influence with the powerful leftist
labor unions.
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MIAMI. Fla. (AP) - A Cuban refugee who works as a dog groomer went to the pound a few weeks ago looking for a friend’s lost dog and found 400 ill-kempt strays in need of homes. Since she couldn't take them all in, Angela Rossie now spends her only day off each week prettying up the animals so they’ll have a better chance of being adopted and escaping the gas chamber. “As long as a dog is healthy and nice, it’s a shame that it can't find a home because it doesn't look good.” Miss Rossie, 35, said Tuesday. “I saw one in particular, a poodle that looked terrible." she said. “1 knew I could make him look beautiful. “Grooming dogs is how I make my living. If I make my living off them, then this is the least I can do for them.”
Each Monday, she and her assistant, Alicia Lopez, pick up several dogs at the Dade County Humane Society and take them to Miss Rossie's shop for a thorough grooming. Kenneth McGovern, executive director of the society, said Miss Rossie’s work has had a dramatic effect on adoptions. “Once a dog is groomed, it seems to find a home immediately.
GALLIPOLIS Ohio (AP) Fire early today raced through a barge on the Ohio River about 15 miles south of here, authorities said. They said the fire on the owned by Harry White Salvage Co. was fought by firemen from the West Virginia side of the
“I remember that poodle well. It had been here for three weeks and didn’t look like much of anything—just a fuzzy dog. The same day it was clipped, it found a home." McGovern said he is hoping other dog groomers also will donate their services. Miss Rossie. who owns two lhasa apsos. says she Jlill keep spending her time and money beautifying stray animals.
river. They said the blaze apparently was touched off by an explosion aboard the barge. Details of the mishap were not immediately available. There was no indication whether anyone was injured.
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