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Palestine head PLO given big boost by Arab summit meeting

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Arab summit conference has recognized Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization as the leadership of a future independent Palestinian state to be established after the West Bank of the Jordan River is liberated from Israel. But the Arab leaders are leaving Egypt, Syria and Jordan a free hand in peace negotiations with Israel. The endorsement of the Palestine guerrilla movement appeared to doom resumption of the Geneva Middle East peace conference soon since Israel refuses to deal with the PLO. Thus, the way appeared open for the individual, bilateral negotiations advocated by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. After three days of intensive discussions, the kings and presidents of the Arab nations agreed on a formula Monday that papered over the rival claims of the PLO and Jordan to control of the West Bank territory, which Jordan captured in the 1946 Palestine War and Israel took in the 1967 war. A spokesman said the leaders unanimously approved a resolution ‘ reaffirming the rights of the Palestinian people to set up an independent national authority, under the leader-

ship of die PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people on any Palestinian land that is liberated. "Arab countries must support this authority when it is established in all fields and at all levels,” the resolution added. King Hussein of Jordan and Arafat exchanged expressions of mutual support, the spokesman added. However, conference sources said the king expressed explicit “reservations” to the resolution. They explained that this would allow him to negotiate with Israel without being identified with the PLO.

The spokesman said the summit called on Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the PLO to organize relations among themselves so they can implement the summit decision. The other sources said this might produce agreement between the PLO and Jordan for Jordan to represent the Palestinians in negotiations with Israel. The sources also reported that Sadat made clear he intends to pursue further peace efforts in the interests of Egypt. He thus refused to be boxed in by any complications that might result from the endorsement of the PLO.

Secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger refocuses U.S. policy in Indian address

No loss for skills

RSVP volunteer Elmer Abbott a retiree from Lone Star Industries. employees his carpentry skills to put the new Senior Center in shape for full occupancy. <Banner-Graphic Photo).

Stockpiling urged to ease prices

Chile still tightly ruled country

WASHINGTON <AP> - Chile’s military dictatorship has eased some of its repressive domestic policies, but there is no sign democracy will *etum soon. U.S intelligence sources say. When the generals overthrew the elected government of Marxist President Salvadore Allende 13 months ago. they moved hard against anyone even remotely suspected of opposing the new regime, the sources said. But the new government has eased its policies in the last six or seven months, the U.S. analysts said Two explanations are given for the shift First, the regime has increasing confidence in its own strength internally, primarily because an opposition has not formed Second, the LLS Congress has applied pressure with threats to cut off arms aid. Chile's army is equipped almost entirely with U S weapons. and there are no other governments willing or able to become a major arms supplier to the junta The generals also realize they don't have many friends in the world and they need good relations with the United States, accordng to the .American sources. Still, this accommodating at-

titude has definite limits, their assessment holds. The junta resents the congressional attitude.

By JEFFREY MILLS Associated Press Writer The federal government could help insure relatively stable food prices for American consumers by directing that food be stockpiled, the Committee for Economic Development says. “Such a policy is urgently needed to enable the nation to cope effectively with the shortterm consequences of poor harvests here or abroad,” the pri-

vate, non-profit research group said Monday. The reserves of key commodities also would serve as a buffer against world hunger and depressed prices for U.S. farmers, the committee said. U.S. grain reserves are at their lowest levels in 26 years, mainly because of huge export sales the past two years. No formal U.S. food reserve policy exists now.

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger says the United States government has abandoned its Cold War opposition to governments that take neither side in America’s rivalry with the Soviet Union. “The United States accepts nonalignment,” Kissinger said Monday in a major address to the Indian Council of Foreign Affairs. “In fact, America sees a world of free, independent, sovereign states as being decidedly in its own national interest.” Kissinger acknowledged that Washington is partly in debt to the late Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister and one of the pioneer advocates of

nonalignment, for “this new American view.” He suggested it might have been adopted earlier. He said that at least now, “support of national independence and of the diversity that goes with it has become a central theme of American foreign policy.” A U.S. official said this was the first high-level U.S. government declaration endorsing non alignment. Clearly pleased with his goodwill visit and his meetings Monday with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan, Kissinger said in a dinner toast: “We talked to each other for the first time in a long time free of

complexes.” He said when U.S. officials talk to Indians now, they do not seek “moral approbation ... We now realize that what ties us together is a common perception of the kind of world which leaves both of us secure

and in which both can prosper.” In reply, Chavan said he thought Kissinger’s visit “will prove to be an important step and marks a landmark in our relationship.”

Nixon undergoes surgery for clot

E. Howard Hunt says he lied several times but tapes forced him to tell truth

WASHINGTON (AP) - E. Howard Hunt Jr. says a "rude awakening" brought on by release of the White House tapes persuaded him to stop lying about Watergate. Hunt testified Monday at the Watergate cover-up trial that he lied more than a dozen times before grand juries in the spring of 1973, even though he could no longer have been prosecuted for his part in the Watergate break-in or subsequent attempts to cover it up. Hunt, free mi appeal from his guilty plea for the burglary, was to return to the witness stand today for the first crossexamination by defense lawyers who represent the five defendants — H R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman. John N. Mitchell. Robert C. Mardian and Kenneth W. Parkinson. As the sixth week of the trial opened Monday, the 56-year-

Sawhill backs energy saving

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Energy Administrator John C. SawhiU is backing energy conservation in a policy struggle to decide whether the nation should bum less fuel or mine and drill for more. Sawhill said in an interview Monday that he believes energy conservation is the nation's only short-range answer and is better than damaging the environment by all-out fuel production, which might require massive stripmining in the West and drilling off the untouched Atlantic and Alaskan coasts Sawhill said this was the key energy decision facing President Ford. He said he thinks the public favors energy conservation and he will seek public hearings before the Cabinetlevel Energy Resources Council advises the President on what his decision should be The council is chaired by Interior Secretary Rogers C.B Morton, whose department leases federal coal and oil areas for development. SawhiU said that “others in the administration." whom he did not identify, probably would argue for increasing energy production, but he indicated he would rather quit than back off his support for energy conservation. SawhiU’s FEA is soon to give the President a “Project Independence” report, whose first draft makes no specific recommendations but presents a strong case for energy conservation. SawhiU said no ma-

jor changes are expected in the final version. Here are SawhiU's answers to key energy policy questions: Q. Is it possible to have continuing growth in the economywhile reducing the growth erf energy consumption'’ A. We did not explicitly study that question, but I do feel there is a great deal we can do to reduce energy demand without having a significant impact on economic growth ... I don’t think any other steps that we proposed in our demand-reduc-tion strategy would have serious impacts on GNP (gross national product). Q. Is there any general agreement on the energy situation and goals, in terms of conservation and supply increases, or is it stiU wide open 0 A. I think it’s stiU pretty wide open I think it's clear that FEA has a bias towards conservation, and that we feel strongly — I do. personally — that in the short range this is the only answer, and in the longer range it’s preferable to taking some of the environmental risks associated with massive efforts to increase supplies On the other hand, there are others in the administration that, I'm sure, wlU argue for moving more rapidly to expand energy suppUes Q So that’s the major tradeoff : whether to cut your energy growth in half or to double your production rate? A. Yes, it's that kind of tradeoff .

old retired CIA agent said he read pubUshed transcripts of the presidential tapes last spring shortly after he was released from prison. The tapes disclosed increasing discussions among former President Richard M. Nixon and aides about Hunt’s continuing demands for money. Former White House counsel John W. Dean III told Nixon it was blackmail. "I felt a sense of rude awakening and I realized that these men were not worthy of my continued or future loyalty," Hunt testified near the end of his first day on the stand. By March 16. 1973. Hunt by his own testimony had received at least $165,000 for lawyers’ fees and other expenses. However. by last spring the money had long since stopped. Hunt cited another reason for telling the truth about Watergate. He said his four children “were not fully persuaded that the testimony I had given in prior public forums was in all respects factual and candid.” Hunt, a CIA agent for 21 years who now lives in Miami, was a major witness at the Senate Watergate hearings in the spring and summer of 1973. He is testifying at the trial as a court witness, which allows Watergate prosecutors to ask questions that suggest the answers. Under that arrangement. agreed to by U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica, neither the prosecution or the defense vouches for Hunt's credibility. Sirica on Monday suggested that when and if defense law-

yers get Nixon on the stand, they might want him called as a court witness. Nonetheless, most of the defense lawyers complained repeatedly about the prosecution’s unwillingness to stand behind Hunt’s testimony. Hunt was faced Monday by assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, an aggressive, rapid-fire questioner, to whom Hunt lied during three spearate grand jury appearances in 1973. In a staccatto series that built to an emotional pitch, Ben-Veniste established a pattern of lying, drawn from the grim-faced Hunt, whose voice trembled slightly. Hunt acknowledged that even when he learned that another White House and Nixon re-election committee official had begun to appear before the grand jury, he still told some lies under oath. He said that while he recanted some of the false grand jury testimony, he also lied before other public forums. Hunt said that included his book, “Undercover Memoirs of a Secret American Agent," written last spring. Earlier Monday, Hunt testified for the first time that former Atty. Gen. Mitchell approved the intelligence plan that ended up as the original burglary. Hunt said convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy gave him regular reports on attempts to persuade Mitchell to approve the plan. In early April 1972, Hunt said Liddy told him, “the big boy

(Mitchell) has given his okay ... and the word is go.” Hunt said Liddy told him of Mitchell’s concern about the plan of bugging of the Miami Beach hotel room of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O’Brien. By coincidence, when O’Brien left the room at the end of the Democratic National Convention, Mitchell was to take over the same suite for the Republican convention. Hunt said he was told that while it was all right to bug the suite .Mitchell had said, “be sure to get those bugs out before I go in.” Once the Watergate burglars were caught inside Democratic National Committee headquarters, Hunt said he traveled first to New York, then to Los Angeles, then to Chicago, where he met with his wife, and told her all about his involvement. While in Los Angeles, Hunt said he met with Liddy, who “assured me everything was going to be taken care of company style, or CIA style.” Hunt said that phrase meant to him, and, he was sure, to Liddy, that families and legal expenses would be taken care of. There began, Hunt testified, months of contacts with a man known only to Hunt and his wife Dorothy as “Mr. Rivers." The Senate Watergate committee has shown Rivers to be the pseudonym for retired New York policeman Anthony Ulasewicz. Evidence introduced Monday showed that before she died in a plane crash in December

1972, Mrs. Hunt disbursed more than $141,500 to the seven oiginal Watergate defendants. Hunt said that gradually the money provided by “Mr. Rivers” dwindled to “dribs and drabs,” and he began making his own direct appeals to the White House. Hunt said that because “we were protecting the men who were responsible for Watergate,” he made repeated demands for cash to White House officials, including Charles W. Colson, who got Hunt his first White House job. Hunt said cash came to him in amounts as high as $75,000 delivered to William O. Bittman, then his attorney. When Hunt has completed testifying, prosecutors said Monday they will call Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of me Nixon re-elec-tion committee. Gov. Bowen names Till to committee INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Otis R. Bowen has named Dr. Thomas Till of Franklin College as chairman of a central Indiana regional manpower committee. The committee, one of 14 in the state, will work with problems of unemployment and manpower development in Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Morgan, Johnson and Shelby counties.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Former President Richard M. Nixon will undergo surgery Tuesday morning to arrest a worsening blood clot condition that threatens his life, his personal physician said Monday night. Dr. John C. Lungren said through a hospital spokesman that the 61-year-old former president will be operated on at 5:30 a.m. PST. Lungren said the decision to operate followed a venogram which confirmed the presence of a large clot in a major artery in Nixon’s left thigh. Following consultation with two surgeons at Memorial Hospital Medical Center, Lungren said: “Dr. Eldon B. Hickman and Dr. Wiley F. Barker, following the venogram, concurred that the new clot threatened to become a pulmonary embolus and thus endangers Mr. Nixon’s life.” Nixon was readmitted to the hospital last Wednesday night when Lungren concluded that oral anticoagulant drugs were ineffective in treating the phlebitis which Nixon suffered in his left leg. Nixon had been hospitalized for 12 days in late September and early October. A source close to Nixon had described the former chief executive as being in great pain during his current hospital stay. Hospital spokesman Norman Nager said in a telephone bulletin that the surgery on Nixon would last about one hour. “X-ray pictures made during the special test confirmed the presence of a large clot extending to the left external iliac artery, the vessel that connects the femoral artery in the thigh to the interior vena cava,” Lungren’s statement said. The vena cava is one of two large veins in the leg. “Based on this concern (the new clot), the doctors agreed that urgent surgery should be scheduled at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday,” Lungren said.

“Mr. Nixon agreed to take the advice of the Memorial Hospital Medical Center surgical team headed by vascular surgeon Eldon Hickman." In Washington, Nixon’s younger daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, told a newsman, “They wanted to operate tonight, but he was too weak. He’s exhausted.” Mrs. Eisenhower said she was advised of the planned operation by a call from her father’s doctor about 1 am. EST. She said, “I know my mother’s going to be there.” But Mrs. Eisenhower said she does not plan to come to Long Beach immediately. “We think it would be better to wait until after the operation,” she said. Nixon’s older daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, is in New York City and could not be reached immediately by newsmen. Lungren said Nixon would be under general anesthesia during the operation, which will be performed by Hickman. Because Nixon is being treated with anticoagulant drugs, “there is somewhat more risk than normal for this type of surgery,” said Lungren, Nixon’s personal physician for 22 years. Nager said Nixon’s wife, Pat, and Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Eisenhower spoke earlier in the evening with the former president. A source close to Nixon said Monday that the former president was “still very depressed and upset” about his health and that “reports that he isn’t just aren’t true.” The source said Nixon remained in bed, lying “back a while with his foot up in the air, then calls for the nurse, then sleeps a while, then calls for the nurse, then lays back quietly or talks to one of his aides, then calls for his nurse to get him one thing or another. “He’s very uncomfortable most of the time ... He’s in very bad shape.”

Lugar charging Political analyst terms Senate race “too close” to call

By The Associated Press A nationally recognized political analyst says the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh and Republican challenger Richard G. Lugar is “too close to predict.” Speaking at Wabash College in Crawfordsville on Monday, election statistician Richard Scammon said Bayh started the campaign as a heavy favorite but Lugar has closed the gap “rapidly.” Scammon, author of “The Real Majority,” is an analyst for both Newsweek magazine and National Broadcasting Company. “In the closing weeks of the campaign, I notice that Mayor Lugar is creating quite an interesting following,” Scammon said. “It looks like it will be too close to predict.” He added that Lugar was still trailing as the Nov. 5 general election nears. Scammon said while the Bayh-Lugar race maybe close, it appears that Democrats, will make significant gains at local, state anct national levels. “I feel that the Democrats would consider it an upset if they do not win back the 12 seats in Congress they lost in 1972,” he said. Democrats, Scammon explained, have no national policy to defend and are not campaigning under the burdens of Watergate or inflation.

“An average person will be hit very, very hard by inflation,” the political analyst added, “while an overseas problem makes vei7 little difference to them.” In another political development Monday, Democratic State Chairman William K. Trisler said Bayh was leading Lugar by 6 per cent. Trisler said he didn’t believe a Republican telephone poll showing Bayh and Lugar even with 24 per cent of the voters still undecided. The chairman said he was basing his 6 per cent figure on informal Democratic telephone polls taken in each of Indiana’s 11 congressional districts. Party organizations in 89 of Indiana's 92 counties will participate in “Democrat Appreciation Day” this Saturday, Trisler said. All state candidates and Sen. Vance Hartke, DInd., will be touring the state in a final weekend blitz. Bayh will travel by helicopter to make six stops in the 9th District and end the day at a Pricneton rally. Hartke will make nine stops in Porter, Posey, Warrick and Vanderburgh counties. On Monday, Bayh told a student gathering at Ball State University in Muncie he was disappointed that fewer than half of all persons 18 to 24 voted in 1972. "The unfortunate actions of a few public officials in the past months may have turned many of you off,” Bayh said. “But now is not the time to quit the system. ” Lugar, in a speech before a Marion County GOP organ-

ization, said his Indianapolis city administration has “enjoyed good fortune and a great deal of success in seven years.” He said it was his hope that the ideas that worked for his dty can benefit all of Indiana if he is elected. Lugar called attention to increased jobs in the Hoosier capital and cuts in property tax rates. Meanwhile, American party Senate candidate Don L. Lee has had his campaign organization circulating flyers to announce a rally Sunday at the Indianapolis Convention-Ex-position Center. Tom Anderson of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., national chairman of the American party, will be featured speaker. As the flyers were going out, Lee was in Lake and St. Joseph counties. There he attacked Bayh for “voting to transfer the constitutional rights of the citizens of Indiana to Washington...” Lee said Bayh recently voted for a federal land-use lull that could be damaging to the American concept of private land ownership. “He voted to take away the property rights of the people in the state of Indiana and to transfer them to Washington,” Lee said. In Fort Wayne at the Magnavox plant today, Bayh called on President Ford to undertake a fall “White Housecleaning” of leftover Nixon economic advisers.