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Twelve foreign ministers signed in Paris yesterday a formal declaration endorsing the Vietnam cease‐fire agreement. An article on the ceremony and the text of the declaration appear on Page 6.
bipartisan agreement that would have eliminated primary and election fight over chief judgeship of NYS Appeals Ct collapses on Mar 2 when Dem County leaders Troy (Queens) and Esposito (Brooklyn) refuse to abide by it after denouncing each other in dispute over Esposito's alleged reneging on agreement on who should be next in line as Sen minority leader; effect of feud is to guarantee multi-candidate primary fight for judgeship nomination; Repub Judge C Breitel will have to face Dem opponent in gen election; 2 other judgeships which would have gone to Dems as result of their endorsement of Breitel will be contested by Repubs; leadership of NYS Dem Chmn Crangle is undermined by collapse of deal, which he negotiated with his Repub counterpart; Troy, Esposito and Crangle comment
W B Macomber Jr is on his way to Sudan for discussions; later, asks Macomber to remain in Khartoum to make arrangements for return of men's bodies to US; US Sec Rogers comments on killings; Macomber illus
NY Urban Coalition pres E S Callender on Mar 2 urges coalition dirs not to finance Mayor J V Lindsay's summer youth program because of inadequate accounting of funds previously allocated; program specializes in outdoor entertainment events
Pres Nixon promises that postwar aid to N Vietnam, if approved by Congress, will be financed from existing defense and foreign aid funds, not from further slashes in 'domestic side of the budget', news conf, Mar 2; concedes that there is opposition to such aid, but predicts that Cong will eventually support it 'in the interest of creating lasting peace and stability in the area'; announces that his meeting with S Vietnamese Pres Nguyen Van Thieu will be held Apr 2-3 at San Clemente, Calif; defends Laos and Vietnam cease-fire accords; expresses confidence that Amer POWs will be released on schedule; says number of cease-fire violations and intensity of the fighting has been reduced; denies that what brought about Hanoi's resumption of POW releases was pressure on Saigon for better compliance with the cease-fire
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1973, covering March 3, 1973.
Elton John
Carly Simon
War
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Neil Diamond
1973Xavier Bettel, Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg[†]
Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourgish lawyer and politician who serves as the deputy prime minister of Luxembourg and as the minister for Foreign Affairs since 2023. He served as the prime minister of Luxembourg from 2013 to 2023. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2013 and mayor of Luxembourg City from 2011 to 2013.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]