June 14, 1973

Pres Nixon orders on June 13 freeze on all retail prices, including food prices, for as much as 60 days, nationwide TV address; says he will not freeze prices of raw agr products, but retail costs of those same products will be frozen at supermkts; says during 60-day period of freeze, which in effect will give him time to draft a Phase 4 econ policy, he will search for new mechanisms to control food prices at retail level

PATH line on June 13 announces fare increase from 30c to 50c, effective July 29; rr spokesman, when Ry Carmen's strike against line was settled on June 3, had claimed that there were no immediate plans for increase; settlement for carmen amounted to 6.9% wage increase, while increase in cost to riders will be 66.6%; Port Authority of NY and NJ spokesman says effect of Pres Nixon's June 13 announcement of new price freeze on PATH increase will have to be studied; spokesman notes increase is 1st in 12 yrs

Sen, reflecting consumer unhappinness with energy crisis, votes, 49-44, on June 13 to recommit nomination of R H Morris to be FPC member to Sen Commerce Com, ostensibly for further hearings; Morris por; controversy over nomination discussed

US, N Vietnam, S Vietnam and Vietcong join on June 13 in calling for end of all cease-fire violations beginning 4 AM June 15 Greenwich mean time, joint communique containing 14 provisions to improve observance of original Vietnam cease-fire agreement signed Jan 27; Kissinger emphasizes that June 13 agreement is not new one but 'amplification and consolidation' of basic accord, news conf; stresses that goodwill continues to be needed for observance of cease-fire; 14 points were worked out by Kissinger and Le Duc Tho and signed by them and 2 S Vietnamese adversaries; S Vietnam signs only after US overrules some of its suggestions, including Thieu's demand for definite timetable for elections and his reptd demand for reference to N Vietnamese troops in S Vietnam; wording of communique is reworked to call for demarcation of 'areas of control' as soon as possible, in deference to Thieu's objection to use of word 'territory'; communique is initialed by Kissinger and Tho on June 13 in villa at Gif-sur-Yvette and later signed again by Kissinger and Tho in former Hotel Majestic, Paris, with Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu Vien signing for S Vietnam and Min of State Nguyen Van Hieu for Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Govt, in 1st of 2 signing ceremonies; 2d ceremony was concluded 3 hrs later at same site with only Kissinger and Tho signing document; 14 points of communique listed; include US agreement to cease 'immediately, completely and indefinitely' its reconnaissance flights over N Vietnam and to resume minesweeping within 5 days of signing and complete it within 30 days; at news conf preceding Kissinger's, Nguyen Xuan Phuong, deputy head of Saigon delegation, asserts that not only must infiltrations cease but troops that are not Vietnamese must leave S Vietnam to settle its pol problems itself and exercise its right to self-determination

Pres Nixon, ordering 60-day price freeze on June 13, says raw agr products will not be frozen