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HOUSTON — Skylab’s pilots loaded their baggage into
the Apollo command ship Wednesday in preparation for their
Pacific Ocean splashdown at 6:50 a.m. PDT Friday. They
also moved film cassettes and tape recordings with scientific
data from the 100-ton research ship, along with some drugs
and food, so engineers can see how they were affected by
high temperatures early in the Sky lab mission. America’s
first space station astronauts completed their last medical
experiments, taking bloot^ samples, riding a stationary
bicycle and lying in an iron lung-like device that simulates
the pull of gravity to test fra- heart laziness. “I’m tremen
dously encouraged about the future of long duration flight,”
Dr. Joseph Kerwin said in a televised news conference from
orbit. Kerwin said he, Charles “Pete” Conrad and Paul
Weitz appeared free of ill effects from 26 days of
weightlessness. “I see no reason this crew couldn’t go a full
56 days,” Dr. W. Royce Hawkins, the astronaut’s ground
physician, said. The next two teams of astronauts will visit
Skylab for periods of eight weeks each.
| Dollar rallies, but it's still sick
fi LONDON — The value of the dollar rose marginally
if: Wednesday for the second consecutive day, and the price of
Si gold declined. The two-day rally by the dollar, following its
if drop to record lows in most European markets Monday,
if checked at least temporarily the American currency’s two
S: week downward slide. Dealers said markets were very quiet,
$ however, and had what a Chase Manhattan bank spokesman
$ called a “continued nervous undertone ”
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Riot greets Peron, returning from exile
BUFN OS A I RES — Hie return of former Argentine
President Juan Peron from 18 years in exile Wednesday was
marred by gunfights in the tumultuous throng of 1.8 million
that turned out to welcome him. forcing his plane to divert to
a nearby military base. A spokesman at an emergency
hospital set up at Ezeiza civilian airport said several persons
were killed and approximately 100 others injured in the gun
fights. The shooting began when members of a young
Peronist labor union organization confronted members of the
Radical Peronist youth organization Peron. 77, was ending
his exile in Spain. He engineered the victory of Hector
Campora in Argentina’s first presidential campaign in 10
years. Campora had planned officially to take the powers of
presidential office back from Vice President Vicente Solano
Lima at the airport shortly after the plane set down but
Solano Lima was left waiting at Ezeiza. The vice president
had received the powers shortly before Campora left for
Madrid to escort Peron back to his native soil.
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US, SU leaders exchange tokens
CAMP DAVID Md. — President Nixon Wednesday gave
Leonid Brezhnev, a lover of fancy automobiles, a metallic
blue $8,000 Lincoln Continental. The stocky Soviet leader
immediately hopped behind the wheel and took Nixon on a 10
minute drive along the narrow mountain roads here. Mindful
of Brezhnev’s other bobby, hunting, Nixon also gave him a
custom-made rifle. In return, the Communist Party chief
gave Nixon an antique silver Russian samovar, a silver ewer
with 12 stemmed goblets on a large round tray, and a
Bokhara rug. Mrs. Nixon was given a Russian-China tea
service and a Russian coffee service for 12, a crocheted
shawl of white wool with an amber broach attached, and a set
of six cut glass tea glasses. The Continental has a vinyl roof
and a plaque on the dashboard identifying it as a gift to
Brezhnev on the occasion of his visit. The automobile was
paid for by the Ford Motor Co. which is charging it off to
sales promotion. Nixon gave Brehznev a Cadillac during the
Moscow summit in 1972. On that occasion Brezhnev
presented Nixon with a hydrofoil, which he and his family
have used on several occasions.
[ Summit leaders agree on terms
| of disarm talks, peaceful atom
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon and
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev Wednesday worked
;• out final details of guidelines for speeding disarma
:• ment talks. They planned to announce the new
:• guidelines in a joint statement today.
U.S. officials close to the summit talks said a
:• scientific exchange agreement on the peaceful uses
j: of atomic energey also would be signed at a
:• ceremony in the White House this afternoon.
The two documents were viewed by U.S. of
ficials as the major accomplishments of the second
Nixon-Brezhnev summit.
During this week’s meetings high-ranking
representatives of the two powerful nations have
already signed treaties covering transportation
systems, reciprocal taxation terms, oceanography,
agricultural cooperation, and cultural contacts.
The Agreement on Contacts, Exchanges and
Cooperation signed Tuesday calls for increased
exchanges of students, scientists, and performing
artists through 1979.
The agreement states that at least 40 graduate
students, 30 language teachers and ten professors
will be exchanged annually. It also calls for the
exchange of at least 10 performing arts groups and
35 individual performers during the six and a half
year term of the agreement.
The specific artists and groups were not
mentioned in the agreement. State Department
officials said, however, that it included the
Leningrad-Kirov Ballet Company performances for
one month during the summer of 1974 at Lincoln
Center in New York.
The agreement also provides for an increased
circulation from- 62,000 to 82,000 copies of the
magazines “Amerika” in the Soviet Union and
“Soviet Life” in the United States.
The Soviet Union will send either a major in
dustrial-trade exhibition or two circulating
exhibitions to the U.S. during the agreement. The
United States will send two circulating exhibitions
to the Soviet Union. The subjects of the exhibitions
will be agreed upon through diplomatic channels.
White House spokesman Ronald Ziegler said
Wednesday the leaders also discussed European
security and the prospects for mutually reducing
conventional forces in central Europe.
At a mid-aftemoon briefing for reporters,
Leonid Zamyatkin, the Soviet spokesman, said the
Soviet Union was ready to conclude large scale and
long term business deals with U.S. firms.
“We can reach agreement on extensive
economic cooperation spanning a period of
decades,” said the silver-haired director of the
news agency Tass.
“We have no intention of getting anything in the
United States free of charge and neither do we in
tend to let the United States get anything from us
free of charge. We stand for mutual advantage in
trade.” I
Dean says Nixon stalled inquiries
WASHINGTON (UPI) - John
Dean III has testified that
President Nixon succeeded in
stalling a 1972 congressional
investigation of the Watergate
bugging and requested that tax
audits be halted for some friends,
a Senate summary of the ousted
White House counsel’s private
testimony revealed Wednesday.
According to the summary,
Dean testified that the White
House and the Committee to Re
Elect the President blocked a
House investigation at the height
of the 1972 campaign by bringing
pressure on members to vote
against granting subpoena
power.
There was no elaboration in the
terse summary about the identity
:• of Nixon’s “friends” for whom he
allegedly asked that the Internal
Revenue Service stop audits.
“Dean said there were no
i bounds at the White House in
: getting information—Dean said,
\ ‘The President likes that sort of
£ thing.’ That’s why Dean thought
^ it might lead to the President,”
| the summary said.
The seven-page, single-spaced
| summary was prepared for
members of the Senate
x Watergate committee from the
testimony Dean gave to its staff
£ in private on Saturday. It is
expected to be the basis of Dean’s
£ testimony when the public,
£ nationally televised Senate
:j hearings resume next week.
:< The first report on the sum
£ mary was made by NBC News.
According to the summary:
% “Dean met with the President
j: after the indictments had been
•: handed down. Haldeman was
there. Nixon said that Haldeman
Cambodia capital completely cut off
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
PHNOM PENH, June 18 — For the first time
since the start of the Cambodian conflict, all six
main roads leading to Phnom Penh have been cut
by encroaching Communist forces
Red Khmer and North Vietnamese forces
yesterday succeeded after several days of fighting
in cutting the vital Highway Five — the “Rice
Road” — about 30 miles north of Phnom Penh.
Highway Five had been blocked for more than
two months after the end of March and was only
reopened at the beginning of this month following
heavy fighting. Because of damage to the road only
three convoys were able to get through, bringing
much needed rice and livestock to the capital from
the rich agricultural province of Battambang.
The high command announced today that
operations to clear the roads had been launched.
Communist thrusts to cut two main supply
routes — Highways Five and Six — complete its
blockade. Unless they are reopened rapidly, Phnom
Penh now depends for its life-blood on the River
Mekong. But in recent months, river convoys from
South Vietnam have had a hard fight to make it to
the Cambodian capital.
U.S. air attacks have been heaviest in the zone
around Highways Two, Three and Four. For more
than a week Phnom Penh’s population has lived
night and day with the sound of American bom
bardments in the region.
had reported what a good job
Dean had done. Nixon said that
Hoover had told him that Nixon
had been bugged in the 1968
campaign and Nixon said that
some time in the future they
would have to use it to their
advantage.
“Nixon said that the
ACLU seeks new
Watergate trial
due to perjury
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
American Civil Liberties Union
asked U.S. District Judge John
Sirica Wednesday to set aside the
convictions of the seven
Watergate defendants and order
a new trial to involve others
newly implicated.
In a motion filed in District
Court, the ACLU asked that new
indictments be drawn up which
would include the seven con
victed conspirators and any other
person involved in the Watergate
affairs.
The ACLU said “the impartial
and honest justice to which this
court is dedicated has been
abused.”
Citing recent testimony from
the Senate Watergate committee,
the ACLU said “those who en
tered guilty pleas were receiving
large sums of campaign cash.”
The ACLU also cited testimony
that “two convictions were ob
tained after the introduction of
the perjured testimony of Jeb
Stuart Magruder and Herbert
Porter.”
The ACLU filed a report which
it had sent to special Watergate
prosecutor Archibald Cox along
with the motion. In the report,
the ACLU suggested that he
consider several aspects of the
Watergate trial, including the
fact that the original indictment
contained no counts for
disclosure of the illegally
wiretapped conversations. The
1968 Omnibus Crime Control Bill
requires such disclosure.
The seven men who went on
trial in January were G. Gordon
Liddy, former White House
consultant; Hunt; James Mc
Cord; Bernard Barker; Frank
St urges; Eugenio Martinez, and
Virgilio Gonzalez.
All the defendants except Liddy
and McCord pleaded guilty to the
Watergate break-in and bugging.
Democrats had always had ef
fective use of IRS audits, but they
had failed,” the summary con
tinued. ‘‘Dean has documents
where President Nixon requested
that tax audits be turned off on
friends of his. Haideman was
taking notes at this meeting.
According to the summary,
Dean testified he received a
message from Hunt asking for
$72,000 in living expenses and
$50,000 for attorneys’ fees “or
Hunt would have things to say
about the seamy things Hunt did
for Ehrlichman while Hunt was
at the White House.”
It said Dean testified Ehrlich
man told him to call former
Attorney General John Mitchell,
then Nixon’s campaign manager.
“On March 21 or 22, Ehrlichman
asked Mitchell if Hunt’s problem
had been taken care of and
Mitchell said ‘yes.’ Hunt’s asking
for money came to the attention
of the President.”
'Ladies ’ hygiene
sprays no good
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Food and Drug Administration
said Wednesday female
deodorant sprays are medically
and hygienically worthless, and
may cause such harmful reac
tions as blisters, burns and
rashes.
It proposed a warning label on
each can of spray to tell the
consumer:
“Caution—For external use
only. Spray at least eight inches
from skin. Use sparingly and not
more than once daily to avoid
irritation. Do not use this product
with a sanitary napkin. Do not
apply to broken, irritated or it
ching skin. Persistent or unusual
odor may indicate the presence of
a condition for which a physician
should be consulted. If a rash,
irritation, unusual vaginal
discharge, or discomfort,
develops, discontinue use im
mediately and consult a
physician.”
The industry and public were
given 60 days to comment on the
proposal before the FDA decides
in what form to make it final.
In addition to the warning
label, the products would not be
allowed to make claims on the
label for medical or hygienic
value. .