Natl Mediation Bd on Jan 5 asks for meeting of both sides in LIRR strike

STRIKE ON PENNSY IS SET FOR FRIDAY

US BLS repts on Jan 5 that unemployment rate hold at 5.2% in Dec; rept confirms '72 as yr of near-record growth in jobs and substantial reduction of unemployment, which was 6% at beginning of '72; in '72, increase in avg employment was largest annual expansion in post-World War II period; total jobs in Dec after adjustments for such seasonal factors as extra Christmas season retail employment reached a peak 82.8-million; unemployment after seasonal adjustment totaled 4.5-million; although there was a dip in Dec unemployment rate for black workers to 9.6%, rate remained more than twice white rate and did not show much improvement in '72; highlights of Dec rept detailed; chart shows unemployment levels, Feb '70-Dec '72

RATE OF JOBLESS, REMAINS AT 5.2%

NEWS INDEX

NYS Appellate Ct Judges Stevens and Rabin warn on Jan 5 that NYC cts will be unable to operate if Gov Rockefeller's proposal to impose harsh prison sentences on narcotics traffickers wins approval in Legis; maintain distinction should be made between small-time addict-pusher and big-time drug dealer and that state should experiment with Brit form of therapy, under which heroin is adm to addicts; say program should be devised to take profit out of drug peddling

2 TOP JUDGES SEE COURT PARALYSIS UNDER DRUG PLAN

death of M A Marrero, 16-yr-old Harlem, NYC, youth who died after receiving 40-mg dose of methadone prescribed by Bellevue Hosp physician, reptdly was given drug because he had been mistaken for another patient having same name; circumstances surrounding Marrero's death detailed

Methadone Death Laid to Confusion Over 2 Marerros

Pres Nixon tells Cong leaders, Jan 5, that although he knows many of them oppose his Vietnam policies, he is determined to do what he regards as necessary to achieve 'a proper kind of settlement,' remarks, White House breakfast; says he is hopeful about Kissinger-Le Duc Tho talks to be resumed Jan 8; does not permit questions and is silent on details of what he calls the delicate negotiations; says US should know fairly quickly next wk whether Hanoi is ready to negotiate seriously the three major issues of the return of Amer POWs, a cease-fire and an agreement to allow all parties in S Vietnam to determine their future; comment on previous talks, talks breakdown and resumed heavy bombing of N Vietnam; Sen Mansfield, Vice Pres Agnew, Speaker Albert, Nixon and Repr G R Ford illus at breakfast

PRESIDENT INSISTS ON A ‘PROPERKINIY’ OF VIETNAM PACT

Pres Nixon announces on Jan 5 that he is placing into effect, as far as he is able by Exec Order, Govt reorgn plan that he proposed in early 71, but Cong declined to enact; changes will help achieve Nixon's goal of consolidating authority under few Cabinet heads and will reduce White House staff from 4,000 to about 2,000; 3 Cabinet officers will be elevated to level of White House counselor, while continuing to retain their Cabinet titles, and will be given broadened responsibility

NIXON INCREASES SCOPE OF DUTIES FOR 3 IN CABINET

Canadian House of Commons, Jan 5, votes unanimously to deplore recent US attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong areas and to urge US to refrain from further bombing there; Min M W Sharp offers resolution; says Canadians are distressed by violence perpetrated on all sides of the war, but found it difficult to understand the reasons for the latest bombings; says Canada has communicated its view to the US through diplomatic channels; there have reptdly been 4 oral and written protests to US; resolution also notes that Canada will be called upon to play some new supervisory role following end of hostilities, welcomes resumption of private peace talks and asks Canada to convey the text of the resolution to the participants in the peace talks; Sharp, in speech to Commons, says Canada would want to play a constructive role in peace-keeping; only hint of opposition to resolution comes from Conservative MP J Diefenbaker; Prime Min Trudeau in the past has rejected requests for such a resolution because he felt peace still seemed possible and he thought it wrong to interfere

Canadians Deplore Raids In Unanimous House Vote

dignitaries attend memorial service for former Pres Truman, who died 10 days ago, in Washington Cathedral on Jan 5; notables attending include Vice Pres and Mrs Agnew, Mrs D D Eisenhower, Israeli Pres Z Shazar, S Korean Premier Kim Chong Pil, Irish Prime Min Lynch, Philippine Foreign Sec C Romulo, USSR Amb to US A F Dobrynin, Defense Sec Laird, State Sec Rogers, West Ger Min E Bahr, Italian Under Sec G Elkan, Sens McGovern, Muskie and Kennedy, Gov Rockefeller and members of US Sup Ct and Cong; service described; Very Rev F B Sayre Jr says 'There were no wrinkles in his honesty', speech; illus of Mrs Eisenhower, Vice Pres and Mrs Agnew and Truman's daughter Mrs C Daniel and her husband; illus of Ireland's Prime Min Lynch and Amb W Warnock

Truman Honored By World Notables At Cathedral Rites

US airlines at nation's 531 airports on Jan 5 initiate widespread program under which passengers are scanned with electronic weapon detectors and search is made of all luggage in move to implement Fed directive to curb airplane hijacking; situation at airports in NYC met area described; passengers illus undergoing security check

Airports Start Thorough Screening of All Passengers

US Equal Employment Opportunity Comm rules that male teachers are entitled to leave of absence to bring up their children; case was brought by NYC teacher G Ackerman; female teachers in NYC school system are routinely granted 4-yr maternity leaves without loss of tenure; comm holds that refusal to grant leaves to men discriminates against male teachers as class; case may not prompt natl trend toward paternity-leave rights because in much of US right to maternity leave has not been fully won; Ackerman family illus

U.S. Backs Child‐Care Leaves For Men in a School Case Here

USSR, in Jan 6 rebuff to demands by some Western nations for easier East-West exchanges, says Soviet Govt will not tolerate free flow of people and ideas across its borders unless they are acceptable to party ideologists, statement in Communist party newspaper Pravda

Soviet Rebuffs Western Appeals To Ease the Exchange of Ideas

US and Hanoi technical experts meet for 4th consecutive day, Jan 5, Paris suburb, on detailed points that could be part of a cease-fire agreement; Saigon repr to formal talks Pham Dang Lam meets for 40 mins with French Min M Schumann; says Schumann wants to aid in settlement

Experts Confer for a 4th Day in Paris

Philippines on Jan 5 announces it has seized all assets of wealthy F Jacinto family, including nation's largest steel mill; says family is in debt to Govt

Manila Takes Over Assets of a Family, Including Steel Mill

Nicaraguan Govt officials say on Jan 5 that Managua, devastated by earthquake on Dec 23, will be rebuilt on present site; announcement, originally disclosed by OAS Sec Gen Plaza, is confirmed by Gen Somoza Debayle spokesman; Govt spokesman claims city will be rebuilt under strict codes so structures will be designed to withstand future earthquakes as much as possible; adds that most dangerous fault-line areas will be used as public parks; latest estimates of earthquake toll indicate at least 3,000 people dead; 80% of bldgs in downtown Managua reptdly have been destroyed or heavily damaged; Inter-Amer Development Bank signs agreement with Nicaragua authorizing $12.5-million in low-cost long-term loans; Plaza discloses that $250,000 in funds from orgn will be available for construction of emergency housing for people left homeless during earthquake

Many Nicaraguans Want To Return to Capital Site

UN spokesman repts on Jan 5 that Sec Gen Waldheim has recd message from Panama saying Panama will invite Security Council to meet there and will extend formal inv when Panamanian Amb Boyd returns to UN; Boyd has said Council majority favors meeting in Panama; US opposes meeting

PANAMA TO INVITE SECURITY COUNCIL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5&#8212;Administration officials said today that the Soviet Union recently supplied North Vietnam, for the first time in the war, with a missile boat of the type employed by Egypt in 1967 to sink an Israeli destroyer.

Soviet Is Said to Give Missile Boats to North Vietnam

Hanoi Foreign Min statement, issued Jan 5, says US bombs fell Jan 4 in Dong Lai parish in Hoa Binh Prov, 50 mi SW of Hanoi and N of 20th Parallel; says Nixon Adm broke promise to end bombing above 20th Parallel to allow resumption of peace talks; US Defense Dept spokesman Friedheim denies statement; says Nixon policy not to bomb there is firm

Foe's Ground Attacks Rise But U.S. Calls Them Minor

Group of RC politicians, spurred by Pres Nguyen Van Thieu's last decree requiring reorgn of S Vietnam's pol parties within the next 3 mos, form new pro-Govt party, the Tu Do (Freedom) party; party is amalgam of pro-Govt movements headed by Sen chmn Nguyen Van Huyen, the greater Unity Force of ex-Sen Nguyen Gia Hien, and the Social Humanistic party of Prof Truong Cong Cuu; Thieu's decree requires that within the next 3 mos it and any other parties that may be formed must establish branches in at least a quarter of the villages of half of the 44 provs and in every city

Saigon Catholic Group Forms Pro‐Government Political Party

Australians are sharply divided over boycott of US shipping by unions in protest against bombing of N Vietnam; newspaper chain owned by R Murdoch drops backing of Prime Min G Whitlam because of his refusal to intervene in boycott; labor council pres R J Hawke says he made several proposals to dock workers to end boycott; ILA members in NYC, in retaliation, refuse to handle 2 ships carrying cargo from Australia

Australia Divided on Union Boycott of U.S. Shipping

S Vietnamese Sen Nguyen Van Ngai, leader of a 5-man delegation of legislators whom Pres Thieu is sending to US next wk, says, Jan 5, their mission will be to persuade US Cong to keep providing and even to increase US mil and econ aid to S Vietnam if there no peace soon; says he expects Paris peace talks beginning Jan 8 to drag on for at least 2 mos; says Communists try to play on impatience in US Cong to end the war quickly; group met with Thieu Jan 4 and Ngai will meet again with him to prepare for his departure from Saigon Jan 8; Ngai says that most but not all of Saigon's original objections to Oct draft cease-fire accord had been met, and the principal ones remaining deal with Hanoi troops staying in the South after a cease-fire and with any agreement that does not recognize N Vietnam and S Vietnam as separate soverign states; Thieu still insists those conditions must be met before a pact will be acceptable to him; Ngai says group will try to persuade US Cong to authorize more assistance to S Vietnam's air defenses; says Thieu, at a dinner Jan 5, apologized to the legislators for having issued a strong decree in Dec on pol parties which will hamper small ones or cause them to go underground; says he took step to create strong front against Communists

Thieu's Special Envoys to U.S. Will Press for Long‐Term Aid

UN Sec Gen Waldheim says on Jan 5 that 1.7-million tons of grain are needed in Bangladesh if widespread malnutrition and starvation are to be averted

Waldheim Makes New Plea For Bangladesh Assistance

Article on recent student demonstrations in Egypt notes students' oldest political demand is that Govt do something to end Israeli occupation of Egyptian territory

Egypt's Students: Privileged but Rebellious

Distillers Co Ltd, which mfrd thalidomide, on Jan 5 agrees to set up $48-million charitable trust fund for children deformed after their mothers took thalidomide as tranquilizer during pregnancy in '61, compared with recent co proposal of $28.5-million fund; co has been heavily criticized in Parliament, by press and stockholders, ins cos and banks for not offering more compensation for children; Distillers says it will make annual payments of $2.8-million into charitable trust over next 10 yrs; 342 children still seeking compensation, as well as 62 whose parents settled for total of $2.4-million in '68, will be entitled to draw from fund; Distillers also offers to pay each set of parents $12,000 immediately, doubling cash settlement proposed in Dec; MP J Ashley, 1 of leaders in campaign for more compensation, gives new offer cautious welcome; co, which also produces world's best-selling brands of scotch and gin and which made profit in '72 of $150-million, says that its new offer to victims will be its last

Thalidomide Compensation Increased in Britain

Brit reprs announce on Jan 5 that GB is prepared to limit its fish catch off Iceland coast if offer is accepted by Iceland, Internatl Ct of Justice hearing on claim by GB and W Ger that Iceland acted illegally in extending its fishing limits from 12 to 50 miles offshore; Iceland says ct lacks jurisdiction to decide matter; is boycotting hearings

Britain Is Willing to Limit Her Fish Catch Off Iceland

Vasiliki "Vasso" Karantasiou is a female beach volleyball player from Greece, who won the gold medal at the 2005 European Championships in Moscow, Russia, partnering Vassiliki Arvaniti.

January 6, 1973

Headlines from January 6, 1973

STRIKE ON PENNSY IS SET FOR FRIDAY

RATE OF JOBLESS, REMAINS AT 5.2%

NEWS INDEX

2 TOP JUDGES SEE COURT PARALYSIS UNDER DRUG PLAN

Methadone Death Laid to Confusion Over 2 Marerros

Billboard 200

Seventh Sojourn

Rhymes & Reasons

Living With The Past

I'm Still In Love With You

Eric Carmen

Notable Births

Historical Context for January 6, 1973