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Carter cuts Liddy’s sentence WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Carter commuted the 20-year prison sentence of Watergate burglary mastermind G. Gordon Liddy to eight years on Tuesday, “in the interests of equity and fair ness.” Thus, the 46-year-old Liddy will be eligible for parole on July 9 after having served a total of 50 months. Thirty-two months of that time counts toward his main sen tence; the other 18 months were for refusing to testify before the Watergate grand jury. “I’m grateful to the President for commuting my sentence and bring ing it into line with the sentences -World at a glance-\ From Associated Press reports Drought aid to include loans WASHINGTON — A package of drought aid to help distres sed farmers, including emergency loans to cover crop losses, was announced Tuesday by Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland. The emergency loans are available to qualified farmers and ranchers, includi ig fish farmers, in all counties designated for emergency relief. The loans are being handled by the department’s Farmers Home Administration. Bergland also announced that new applications for federal crop insurance are being taken again on 1977 crops. Cosmetic labeling required WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that all labels attached to cosmetics after Friday must list the products’ ingredients. The announcement Tuesday climaxes a two-year legal battle with the cosmetic industry over FDA demands that people have the right to read what they are putting on their bodies. The FDA published regulations in May 1975, requiring that all cosmetic and toiletry products be labeled with their ingredients. Modified saccharin ban eyed NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering modifying its proposed ban on the artificial sweetener saccharin to allow its sale as a nonprescription drug while eliminating it as a food additive, CBS News reported Tuesday. Quoting FDA sources, CBS said packages of the sweetener would carry the warning that it may cause cancer. The packages also would say that use of the substance should be limited to treatment of obesity or diabetes or use in dietary management. Peltier lawyer hits FBI reports FARGO, N.D. —The defense in the Leonard Peltier murder trial alleged in U.S. District Court Monday that the FBI “manufac tured evidence” to tighten its case. “The government’s effort in finding four separate people who related similar stories they said they heard about the shootings...will prove a consequential fact that the FBI manufactured evidence here,” defense lawyer Elliot Taikeff argued. Sasquatch sighting claimed EATONVILLE, Wash. — Spring has sprung, and so have the Sasquatch tracks. A Seattle newspaper reports more mysterious foot prin s have been found in a forest eight miles from the spot where a Fort Lewis soldier maintains he sighted a sasquatch 18 days ago. The footprints appear to have been made by a creature eight feet tall, taking eight-foot seven-inch strides on feet 16 inches long the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said in Tuesday’s editions. US sends Zaire more aid tsiiMbnAbA, zaire (A!') — Moroccan troops sent to help repel an invasion from Angola were digging in Tuesday around the mining center of Kolwezi, as the United States announced it was increasing aid to Zaire’s em battled pro-Western government. Government and diplomatic sources said the 1,500 Moroc cans, who arrived in southern Shaba province over the weekend, were taking advantage of a week-long lull in the fighting to consolidate supply lines. In Washington, the Carter ad ministration said it was stepping up aid to the government of Pres. Mobutu Sese Seko, giving it a total of about $13 million in “nonlethal assistance,” including a cargo plane. At the White House, there was no elaboration on the considera tions that led to the decision. However, spokesman Rex Granum said: “We do not see the situation as an East-West con frontation.” The State Department said it turned down a request for emergency military help, but was sending a G130 cargo plane worth $9 million and other aid including radio equipment and spare parts for airplanes and vehicles. A State Department spokes man said Carter’s announcement came as the Soviet Union said it felt it was “inadmissible for any external forces to interfere in the internal struggle in Zaire.” In Kinshasa, diplomatic sources said six high-ranking Egyptian military officers arrived over the weekend to discuss aid for the Mobutu government. Dept, pushes for police women WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is watching dozens of police departments to guarantee that women get an equal chance to pack a pistol, walk a beat and win promotion. Through lawsuits and threats to cut off federal crime-fighting money, the department is prod ding police chiefs to hire more women and assign them to jobs traditionally reserved for men. In interviews Tuesday, depart ment officials discussed their ef forts to enforce laws banning sex discrimination in police employ ment. Some police officials, particu larly those in charge of the South Carolina Highway Patrol and the Philadelphia Police Department, have balked, federal sources say. Others, however, have become convinced that women can handle police work as well as men. received by Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Hunt,” Liddy told his lawyer, Peter Maroulis. A prison official said that after Liddy was informed of the commu tation, “he was smiling and look ing better than I’ve seen him. He told me, ’Now I’ve got what the rest of them have got,”' apparently a reference to the shortened sen tences of the others. ‘ Liddy’s wife had just ended a visit with her husband at the Al lenwood, Pa., minimum security institution and heard about the commutation on the radio while driving home. “She told me, Thank God,”’ Maroulis said. Once Liddy is released, all the participants in the June 17, 1972 , burglary at Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate of fice building will be free. E. Howard Hunt, Liddy’s lieutenant in the botched burglary, was released Feb. 24 after serv ing 32 months and now is on the lecture circuit. James McCord, the burglary squad’s electronics man, served four months and moved to Colorado. The foot soldiers in Watergate, four Cubans from Miami, served slightly more than one year each and recently re ceived $200,000 from Richard Nixon’s re-election committee as settlement for being duped. But John Ehrlichman, the second-ranking Nixon aide con victed of covering up the Water gate affair, is serving a minimum two and a half year sentence in Arizona. Soviets, US talk SALT WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Carter conferred Tuesday with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dob rynin in an effort to resume dis cussions on a treaty limiting nuc lear weapons. The 40-minute session at the White House was heid against a backdrop of a dispute over appar ent Russian violations of new American fishing regulations. But U.S. officials said this was only “touched on” and that the con centration was on arms. “Good meeting,” Dobrynin told reporters after the session. He then rolled the window of his wait ing black limousine and instructed his driver to proceed. 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