Pres Nixon on Mar 15 addresses Exec Club of Chicago and answers question (M)

Nixon Reception Mixed Applause and Protests

WASHINGTON, March 15&#8212;A Federal judge ordered the Government today to stop paying for the sterilization of children and mentally incompetent persons and to redraft its regulations for all such operations on welfare patients.

COURT CURBS U.S. ON STERILIZATION

Pres Nixon, in question‐and‐answer session at Exec Club of Chicago, says he hopes Sen Percy or whoever wins Repub Pres nomination in ‘76 is able to run on good platform as result of his, Nixon's, efforts while he is Pres (S)

PRESIDENT BARS IN EASY COPOUT’ BY A RESIGNATION

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sequestered jury in Mitchell‐Stans trial to view St Patrick's Day parade from 5th Av office bldg (S)

WITNESS REBUTS MITCHELL ACCOUNT

Cost of Living Council on March 15 exempts newspaper, broadcasting, advertising and other communications industries from price controls; repts newspapers will not be exempted immediately because of some important labor negotiations currently under way; industries have more that 500,000 employes, include about 72,000 concerns and take in $59.5‐billion in revenues; council deputy dir James W McLane says price action recognizes that paper and paper products represent large part of production costs in industries concerned; notes that for print and broadcast media, ad accounts for estimated $28.3‐billion in revenue

ALL MEDIA FREED FROM PRICE CURBS

Pres Nixon, in Mar 15 question‐and‐answer session before Chicago Exec Club, defends his policy of improving relations with USSR as vital to prevent ‘massive crisis’ that might produce nuclear confrontation; defends also his personal contacts with Soviet leaders; denies US makes all the compromises; says Soviet policy will not change because of being deprived of US trade credits (M)

NIXON CAUTIONS THE ARABS NOT TO ATTACH CONDITIONS TO LIFTING OF OIL EMBARGO

NYS Sup Ct Justice Thomas S Agresta on Mar 15 releases grand‐jury minutes to state panel investigating handling of $10‐million narcotics case by Sup Ct Justice James D Robertson, former Queens, NYC, asst dist atty; minutes involve case of 3 men and 1 woman arrested in ‘69 for possession of $10‐million worth of heroin and cocaine; Aresta says panel seeks minutes to determine: why 1‐yr sentence was harshest meted out to defendant in case described as ‘one of the largest seizures of narcotics. in New York City’; why indictment of ringleader had been ‘dismissed on the motion of the Dist Atty’; why indictments cited only ‘one ounce or more’ of narcotics, not mentioning that $10‐million in drugs had been seized and that ‘kilo quantities’ had been found in possession of some defendants; ‘nature and quality of the evidence’ available to dist atty, and other factors that led to ‘the extraordinary disposition’ effected in case; case detailed (L)

Judge Gives a State Panel Queens Drug Jury Minutes

NYS Gov Malcolm Wilson on Mar 15 submits proposal for $100‐million state transit subsidy to Legis, $70‐million of which could be used to maintain NYC's 35c transit fare for half‐yr; proposal will require localities to provide matching amounts; will permit concentration of state‐local money so that current fares can be saved for at least 6 mos; authorizes $20‐million in state funds, with no local funds required, to protect upstate rr rights‐of‐way and service currently threatened by abandonment; increases responsibilities of State Transportation Comr in planning transit needs and auditing accts of MTA and state's other regional transit authorities; authorizes comr to operate, directly or through lease‐back procedure or regional authority, any rr in state; provides $70‐million to maintain NYC's transit fares, $20‐million for met commuter lines and $10‐million for upstate bus lines; includes formula for determining each system's subsidy, but provides flat subsidy amounts totaling no more and no less than $100‐million; Wilson also submits $250‐million bond referendum for capital improvements for rrs, which would be placed on Nov 5 election ballot (L)

$100‐Million Transit Plan Is Submitted by Governor

Mobil Oil Corp's offer to buy time on TV for its critics, on condition that it is allowed to state own position in energy crisis in manner it chooses, is rejected by networks; oil cos charge that network news coverage is against them and that they are not allowed to state their position in commercials in same manner newspapers allow them; consumer groups and congressmen have charged that even present oil co ad verges on pol advocacy and seek equal time; Mobil vp Herbert Schmertz comments; ABC, CBS and NBC spokesmen say that proposal for dual‐commercial would violate policies against accepting ad on controversial issues and would invite return of counter‐commercial; defend current oil co ad on grounds that unprecedented nature of energy crisis has made it difficult to adhere to standing policy; TV Ad Bur says oil cos have spent $73‐million in ad, of which $36‐million has gone to networks; charge that networks are allowing current ad to accommodate ‘good customer’ noted; Schmertz discusses future Mobil ad campaigns (L)

Networks Reject Mobil Equal‐Ad Plan

Article on Loudun, France, site of 17th century burning at stake of Urbain Grandier, parish curate who was accused of witchcraft; current parish priest Rev Jacques de la Houpliere describes his parishioners as fascinated with sorcery, death and rituals of death; map (M)

In French Town, Demons Linger

3 persons are killed in Northern Ireland as terrorists stage series of bombing attacks and hijack trains, buses and trucks; Brit Army officer describes explosion in Magherafelt, where bomb destroyed several houses and killed 1 person; IRA issues statement warning that it plans to step up campaign against Brit troops (S)

Three Die as Ulster Terrorists Step Up Bombing and Hijacking

Gen Ernesto Geisel is sworn in as Brazil's new Pres on March 15 amid cautious hopes for some liberalization after decade of authoritarian mil rule; Bolivian Pres Hugo Banzer Suarez, Uruguayan Pres Juan Maria Bordaberry, Chilean repr Augusto Pinochet, Mrs Richard M Nixon and Papal reprs present; Geisel swears in new cabinet; Gen Vicente de Paulo Dale Coutinho, Defense Min; Mario Henrique Simonsen, Min of Finance; Alysson Paulinelli, agr sector; Antonio Francisco Azeredo da Silveira, Foreign Min; Armando Falcao, Min of Justice; Gen Golbery do Couto e Silva, head of Pres civil household; Sen Nei Braga, Min of Educ; Deputy Arnaldo Prieto, Min of Labor; Celio Borja, leader of Govt party in Cong; Geisel's aides have worked actively to win natl consensus through private meetings with leading critics of regime among press, Catholic ch and intellectuals; results of meetings reptdly is that new Govt will relax censorship, end abuses of civil rights and give Cong new voice; mil rulers face serious econ and soc problems; econ inequalities have widened with heavy dependence on oil imports meaning stringent belt tightening, noting shortages and surge in inflation have sharpened public discontent; illus of Geisel, Medici, John H Crimmins, Pinochet, Bordaberry and Mrs Nixon (M)

General Geisel Is Sworn In as President of Brazil As Hopes Rise for Some Political Liberalization

BUENOS AIRES, March 15 (AP)&#8212;The whereabouts of Victor Samuelson, the kidnapped American oil company executive, remained a mystery today. He was presumed held by his Marxist guerrilla abductors for the 99th day even though a huge ransom had been paid.

No Sign of Oilman in Argentina 4 Days After Ransom Payment

BUENOS AIRES, March 15 &#8212;The last institutional bastion of the Peronist left is on the verge of collapsing with the passage of a legislative bill giving President Juan Domingo Perlin the power to appoint conservative followers of his choice as rectors of national universities in Argentina.

Peronist Left Faces Collapse on Campus

authoritative sources disclose on Mar 15 that Pres Nixon is expected to nominate former Labor Sec James Day Hodgson new US Amb to Japan (S)

Nixon Expected to Name Hodgson Envoy to Japan

Cambodian mil sources rept, Mar 15, US transport plane parachuted ammunition to beleaguered Govt troops in Kampot opening counteroffensive against insurgents; Govt troops fight insurgents on Chong Koh island; other mil action reptd (M)

U.S. AIRLIFTS HELP TO CAMBODIA POR1

TORONTO, March 15 (Canadian Press)&#8212;An exhibition of more than 600 Chinese archaeological treasures insured for $50&#8208;million will open, at the Royal Ontario Museum here in August under an agreement between Canada and China announced today. The exhibition, now in Vienna, would remain in Toronto until Nov. 16.

Chinese Art to Coto Canada

Saigon Govt and Vietcong denounce each other over killing of 32 children and wounding of 56 children and adults at Cai Lay schoolyard, meeting of Joint Mil Comm; both sides seek probe by Internatl Control Comm (S)

Vietcong and Saigon Blame Each Other for Killing of 32

Chilean mil junta announces that Jose Toha Gonzalez, former Interior Min and Defense Min in overthrown Marxist Govt of Salvador Allende, has committed suicide; Toha was among closest advisers of Allende and 1 of few members of Govt who could negotiate with moderate elements of anti‐Marxist Opposition during repeated crises that preceded Sept 11 coup; was arrested during coup and imprisoned on Dawson Is until chronic stomach ulcer forced mil to remove him to Santiago hosp; his wife has reptdly complained that she recd no communications from him for almost 2 wks before his death; por (S)

Allende Minister a Suicide, Chile Says

Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev notes plans for Siberian development include Baikal‐Amur rr running parallel to present Trans‐Siberian RR; his illus

Brezhnev Unveils a Vast Effort to Farm Steppes of Northern Russia

Noted Soviet sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, who caused sensation by arguing merits of abstract art with former Communist party leader Khrushchev, has posed challenge to authorities by preparing dramatic, modernist gravestone ordered for Khrushchev's grave by his family; charges that authorities have systematically rejected at least 40 requests for permission to travel to West in response to professional invs even though he has become most sought‐after sculptor in Moscow, news conf; contends that in recent mos Soviet orgn vetoed plans for him to do bas‐relief on monument to Soviet‐Egyptian cooperation to be built at Aswan, Egypt; internatl jury selected entries of Neizvestny and 2 other Soviets; Neizvestny says he submitted anonymously entry to competition and when it became known that bas‐reliefs belonged to him, it was rejected by Soviet orgn; his conflict with Khrushchev recalled; por (M)

A Noted Soviet Sculptor Asserts Officials Curb Work and Travel

Bodies of 4 Jewish women were found recently in cave in Syria near mountain trail leading to Lebanon; Syrian Interior Min Ali Zaza says women were robbed and killed by 4 smuggler‐guides, 2 of them members of Syria's small Jewish community; trail near where bodies were found has been used by Jews leaving Syrian and hoping to pass through Lebanon; Zaza says 4 smugglers have been apprehended (S)

14 JEWISH WOMEN DEAD1N SYRIA CAVE

Diplomatic source repts that final decision on basing US aircraft carrier near Athens has been postponed for at least a yr because new Greek regime seeks modern arms and equipment in exch for granting home port facilities (S)

U.S. DEFERS BASING CARRIER IN GREECE

Israeli Cabinet on Mar 15 meets in special session apparently devoted to tense situation on Syrian border; Defense Min Dayan, C/S Lt Gen David Elazar and Mil Intelligence Dir Maj Gen Eliyahu Zeira rept on security matters; Israeli high command repts Syrian artillery fired in 3 places along salient and Israeli guns did not return fire (M)

Artillery Exchanges Diminish in Syria

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Nixon Reception Mixed Applause and Protests

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PRESIDENT BARS IN EASY COPOUT’ BY A RESIGNATION

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