Pres Nixon's accountant Arthur Blech discloses on Jan 17 that IRS is auditing tax returns of Richard Nixon Foundation in addition to Pres Nixon's personal tax returns; foundation was created in ‘69 to finance and construct library to house Nixon's Pres papers (M)

I .R. S. Is Auditing Nixon Foundation; Errors Indicated

TRENTON, Jan. 17 &#8212; The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority announced this evening that a syndicate of New York financial underwriters had sold a $302&#8208;million bond issue to finance the construction of a sports complex in the Hackensack Meadowlands in New Jersey.

BOND SALE SAVES SPORTS COMPLEX

New York City: NY Times survey of what New Yorkers think about city cites places that New Yorkers say tourists should or should not visit (S)

Where New Yorkers Go—and Don't Go

Fed Reserve Bd repts capacity utilization of mfg industries was 82.6% in 4th qr, down for 1st time in 2 yrs; chart showing percentage of capacity use in mfg, ‘71‐'73; mfg output for 4th qr at 126.7% of ‘67 avg of 100 (S)

ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOS MARKEDLY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17&#8212;The White House promised today to &#8220;cooperate totally&#8221; with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inquiry into the erasure of a key 181/2&#8208;minute segment of a Watergate tape recording.

WHITEHOUSEVOWS FULL COOPERATION WITH F.B.I. ON TAPE Agents Question Members of Presidential Staff on Erasure of Segment

Representative Hugh L. Carey of Brooklyn opened his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, becoming his party's third major contender in that contest. Page 17.

Carey Enters Race

JERUSALEM, Friday, Jan. 18 &#8212;Senior American officials disclosed this morning that a detailed American proposal limiting what arms both Israel and Egypt could deploy in the Suez area would be signed today by Premier Golda Meir in Israel and by President Anwar elSadat in Egypt, both in the presence of Secretary of State Kissinger.

Suez Arms Pact Emerges From American Proposal

Israeli Foreign Min Abba Eban on Jan 17 announces Israel's unanimous approval of agreement to separate Israeli and Egyptian armies along Suez Canal; calls it an important step toward permanent peace in the Middle East, news conf; says Israel is ready to negotiate similar agreement with Syria; agreement will be signed by Israeli and Egyptian chiefs of staff on Jan 18 at Km 101 on Cairo‐Suez rd; Israeli Deputy Premier Y Allon says US was ‘indispensable,’ reflecting gen Israeli satisfaction at role played by Sec Kissinger; describes pact as balanced agreement with neither side achieving all it wanted; US officials say 2 separate documents will be signed; first, stating gen terms of agreement between Israel and Egypt, will be signed at Km 101; 2d, containing US proposal for limitation of arms on both sides of demilitarized zone, will be signed separately by Israeli Premier Meir and then by Egyptian Pres Sadat; Kissinger is expected to fly to Jordan on Jan 19 for talks with King Hussein and then to Syria; Eban says that breakthrough in negotiations came when Kissinger put forward compromise proposal on limitation of Egyptian force on eastern bank of Suez Canal; earlier in day, Kissinger met with Allon, Eban, Israeli Defense Min Moshe Dayan and C/S Lt Gen David Elazar; later met with Meir at her home where she is recuperating from viral infection; meets with Israeli Pres Katzir (M)

Eban Terms Agreement With Syria Now Possible

US officials on Jan 17, rept US plan to disengage Israeli and Egyptian armies will be signed by Premier Meir and Pres Sadat in presence of Sec Kissinger, decline to link disengagement with lifting of Arab export embargo; speculate such event may occur and imply matter has been discussed

Egypt, Announcing Pact, Offers, No Hint on Terms

Jan. 18, 1974 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Tass on Jan 17 issues without comment Pres Nixon's announcement of agreement by Egypt and Israel to disengage their forces on Suez Canal front; Soviet news coverage of Sec Kissinger's negotiations has been slight (S)

Tass Issues U.S. Statement On Accord Without Comment

text of statement by Pres Nixon announcing agreement on disengagement of Israeli and Egyptian forces; Nixon illus

Statement by President

UN Sec Gen Waldheim on Jan 17 says that UN Emergency Force is prepared to aid in arranging separation of Egyptian and Israeli armies; statement tacitly accepts prospect that UN force will be interposed between opposing armies: UN spokesman says that force now totals 5,545 men, but will reach 7,800 in few wks (S)

Pact on Disengagement Welcomed by Waldheim

Vienna conf between NATO and Warsaw Pact on mutual troop reductions in Central Eur resumes Jan 17 after recess starting Dec 13; Czech repr Radoslav Klein holds news conf to reply to statements by Dutch repr Byran Quarles van Ufford, spokesman for West on previous occasions; West has demanded that troop cuts must begin with USSR and Amer units and go no further than gound forces; Klein says Pact countries insist on inclusion of nuclear and air forces at beginning of any reductions and that cuts should begin with forces of all 11 directly negotiating govts rather than just 2 superpowers; rejects Western demand for commom troop ceiling of 700,000, which would mean cut of 77,000 by West against 225,000 by East; says Pact demands strict percentage reduction (M)

East Bloc Nations Again Bar West's Troop‐Reduction Plan

Brit Energy Min Lord Carrington's annoucement that Govt plans to relax power cuts in steel indus and lengthen 3‐day workweek to 4 days is seen as part of pre‐election build up by Prime Min Heath; Labor party politicians cite move as proof of charges that Govt has overreacted to miners’ work slowdown; Govt officials assert that decision demonstrates that Govt will not needlessly continue tight restrictions (S)

Britain Relaxes Power Curbs on Steel

US officials, commenting on Nixon Adm's expected budget request for nuclear arms, say Adm will argue that Pres needs a choice between weapons for all‐out and for limited nuclear war to prevent USSR from gaining a future diplomatic advantage, which, they say, Pres does not now have (S)

U.S.Forming New Policy As Arms Talks Approach

Prosperity (Freighter): Cypriot timber ship Prosperity is wrecked on reef in English Channel off Guernsey during Jan 17 storm; illus; 16 killed; 2 missing (S)

Gales Sink 2 Ships in English Channel and Leave 34 Dead in Britain and on the Continent

Laotian Govt and Pathet Lao initial accord Jan 17 on organization of their armed forces that would insure neutralization of Vientiane, the adm capital, and Luang Prabang, the royal capital; details on provisions; Jan 17 meeting of 2 sides was unable to deal with organization of joint police forces in 2 cities because Govt delegation was not authorized to sign; illus of Govt policeman talking to Pathet Lao soldier (M)

Government and Pathet Lao Initial Accord on Capital Forces

S Vietnamese mil sources rept, Jan 17, China sent 2 gunboats to disputed Paracels after shooting incident there involving s Vietnamese troops; S Vietnamese Lt Col Le Trung Hien says 6 of Saigon's biggest warships were sent to area (S)

2 Chinese Gunboats Are Reported Sent To Disputed Isles

Thai Foreign Min statement, Jan 17, expresses first official dissatisfaction to US over admitted CIA interference; says Amb William R Kintner, at his request, met with Premier Sanya and was told of Thai popular dissatisfaction with the event as well as with the general beheaviour of CIA units inside Thailand; was told that people demand that US stop all interference in Thai internal affairs; Kintner reptdly assured Sanya he will do everything to prevent interference; statement details his assurances; Kintner says plot was stupidly conceived and executed; says its purpose was to produce dissension among insurgent leaders (M)

Thailand Officially Chides U.S. Over C.I.A. Interference There

50 opposition S Vietnamese Assemblymen say Jan 17 that backers of proposal to let Pres Thieu run for a 3d term are ‘annihilating democracy for a totalitarian regime'; hq of Gen Duong Van Minh issues opposition statement (S)

A THIRD THIEU TERM MEETS OPPOSITION

FRANKFURT, West Germany Jan. 17 (Reuter)&#8212;A former student leader, Daniel Cohn&#8208;Bendit, was sentenced today to five months in jail for assaulting policeman and knocking out two of his teeth.

Ex‐ Student Leader, Ousted By Paris, Jailed in Germany

troops occupy Univ of Indonesia campus shortly after visiting Premier Kakuei Tanaka leaves for Japan; action follows arrest of student council chmn Hariman Siregar and reptd detention of several lecturers; Jakarta returning to normal; Pres Suharto summons Cabinet and Gen Sumitro to discuss anti‐Japanese rioting triggered by Tanaka visit; Information Min Mashuri Saleh says disturbances occurred despite Govt willingness to accommodate students on improving natl econ welfare; Jakarta mil garrison repts 10 people were killed, 105 injured during riots (M)

SOLDIERS OCCUPY JAKARTA CAMPUS

Libya on Jan 16 denies it had anything to do with alleged plot by Arab terrorists to assassinate Sec Kissinger in Beirut on Dec 16, ‘73; there were press repts that this was aim of Palestinian guerrillas who shot up Pan Am Boeing 707 in Rome airport on Dec 17 and then hijacked Lufthansa Boeing 737 to Kuwait (S)

Libya Denies Any Link With Plot Against Kissinger

Former Under Sec of State George W Ball elected to succeed John D Rockefeller 3d as Asia Soc bd chmn; soc pres Phillips Talbot comments (S)

George Ball Named to Head Board of the Asia Society

Christian Anthony Burns is an English singer. He is the son of Tony Burns of the Signs, a Liverpool-based rock band signed to Decca Records in the 1960s.

Christian Burns, English singer-songwriter

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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It occupies the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is its largest urban area and economic centre.

A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

January 18, 1974

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I .R. S. Is Auditing Nixon Foundation; Errors Indicated

BOND SALE SAVES SPORTS COMPLEX

Where New Yorkers Go—and Don't Go

ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOS MARKEDLY

WHITEHOUSEVOWS FULL COOPERATION WITH F.B.I. ON TAPE Agents Question Members of Presidential Staff on Erasure of Segment

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You Don't Mess Around With Jim

The Singles 1969-1973

I Got A Name

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The Joker

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