March 11, 1974

Total US mil and econ aid to SE Asia, including Cambodia and Laos, will be nearly $3.5-billion in coming fiscal yr; econ aid to Cambodia and Laos will total around $190-million; mil aid to Cambodia expected to range around level for current fiscal yr of $325-million (M)

“If you want a winning team,” a visiting rival tells the hockey coach at a college in the Midwest, “you'd better build some dorms and fill 'em up with booze and broads—like we did.”

survey of US food prices finds that sharp increases are result of sudden and vast expansion of US agr exports; notes export values rose 150% in last 2 yrs; holds that experts emphasize that law of supply and demand is no longer limited to US; Agr Dept deputy asst sales mgr Kennard O Stephens, Natl Assn of Wheat Growers pres Ray Davis and Cargill Inc vps Melvin H Middents and Walter B Saunders comment; Middents and Saunders illus (L)

Arab oil mins meeting called by Egypt to consider lifting oil embargo against US flounders in Cairo on Mar 10 and is postponed until Mar 13 in Tripoli, Libya; reprs of only 6 of 9 Arab countries participating in embargo show up in Cairo and they decide that nothing can be done without other 3; 3 absent nations are Algeria, Libya and Syria, who have indicated resistance to lifting embargo and ending oil production cutbacks before more evidence is progress is seen on Israeli withdrawal from occupied Golan hts; oil mins meeting appears to have become test of Arab political unity; sources say Algerian Min Belaid Abdessalam, who is chmn of Arab Oil Mins Conf, insisted on meeting in Tripoli; Egyptian Oil Ministry spokesman Selim Riskalla says there was no discussion of embargo between reprs of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bahrain and Egypt, who met in Cairo; illus of Saudi Oil Min Sheik Ahmed Zaki al-Yamani (M)

SLA taped message demands natl TV news conf whereby Russell Little and Joseph Remiro can communicate concerning their physical health and all conditions of their confinement (S)