January 9, 1972

WASHINGTON — There has never been much doubt about the sympathies of the Nixon Administration as it watched Pakistan bloodily dismember herself and India’ Move in to help strip the corpse. The Administration was partial to Pakistan. The question, for a year, has been not whether Washington was even‐handed but whether it was level‐headed.

DANBY, Vt.—My wife, a nativeborn Vermonter who is past 50 and has never been on skis, is finally ready to give it a whirl this winter. She has been hearing about the Graduated Length Method, better known as GLM, and has almost convinced herself that she will be carving stylish turns in the Alps by spring. Her attitude comes as a revelation because although she has always had a home in Vermont and our place is ringed by seven ski areas, she has never, as I've said, slid down a slope—not with skis and poles, anyway.

Dade Metropolitan Hdcp: Spanish Riddle wins Dade Metropolitan Hdcp at Tropical Pk, Fla

WASHINCTON — Last Sunday, in a nation‐wide television interview, President Nixon gave the impression that he was willing to withdraw all troops and end all bombing and other American military activities in Indochina if North Vietnam would only agree to release American prisoners of war. In fact, Mr. Nixon seemed to be saying, this proposal had already been put to the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris, but Hanoi had “totally rejectnd it.”

Basketball's “home‐court advantage,” an accepted feature of the game throughout its history, came into sharp focus for an unusually large audience last week when the New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks traded home victories on successive nights in televised games.