LARAMIE
Secretary of State Kissinger was again
bitterly critical of Congress -
in
a speech
today
at tlie University of •
Wyoming_., at Laramie.
Dr.
Kissinger accusing Congress of
'~!:tllit•i:ar
"dismant eling
and demoralizing - our intelligence services. Also,
saying tile lawmakers have so restricted U
S
Foreign
Policy - they have left us virtually no option •
,,
except "to retreat, to become an isolated fortress
island in a hostile and turbulent global sea;
aa,aitiflg
the ultimate confrontation - with the only response
we will not have denied ourselves, massive retaliatiofl."
Dr. Kissinger therefore,
11
I •
urgiflg a
--,••x ground swell of public support - so the Ford
Administration can act with assurance and speak with
confidence - on behalf of all Americans.
If not -
we ,/,«e the "danger of progressively losing the ability
to shape events,"
said he.
Adding that "a great natio,s
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that does not shape history - e enlually becomes
its
v
ictim."
GUATEM
A
LA CITY
A
a t area in northern centra
l
Amer
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ca as laard
h
i
t toda
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- b
a ma
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or earthquake.
The tremor measuring
s e en
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/Joint-fi
v
e on the Richter Seale
- a1'1'are ntly centered
at or near Guatemala
City
in Guatemala, where r,erl,aps
two thousand or more were killed, thousands more
i,ajured
and untold thousands left homeless.
TIie quake also brtngh1g deatl, aJtd destr11ctioJ1 ,,.
the surrouJtding countryside
- and to (,arts of
,eelgl,bori,eg
Honduras and El Salvador. Officials
sayiJtg
it's
iMt>ossible
as yet
- to calculate the full effect; but 1'ro1>erty
damage
will run into the hundreds of millions.
COLEJ.1AN
From Transportation Secretary William
Coleman - a decision today
to
allow the British a,sd
French supersonic Concorde lo fly to the U S -
on a,s
experimental basis.
Coleman
authorizi,sg
six flights daily from New York's
J
F K
a,sd Washington's
Dulles
Field.
This for a period of sixteen
mo,stlzs -
to determi,se whether the noise levels of the neao Jet
are in fact, acceptable.
PARIS
,
As
for
react./n - en
vi
ro,nmentalisls s•ying
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they'll sue
in
an effort to ove
.
rturn Coleman's order.
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Pre ident Ford however.,,.dpplauding Col~man~ decision
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saying lte acted "w
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s ely a•d condllionally. "
p{e
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njl'WS also gr'>"ed joyfully in Londo11 a11tJ Paris.
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A spokesman for the British govet'J1me11t
sayi11g: "This could be the breakthrough 111e've bee•
. _ hoping for; wlaile France's Pres ide11t Giscard
d'Estaing,, w,ho 111as fifty yesterday
1
sayi,eg tl1is 111as
the best birthday present he has ever received.
AFARS
AND
/SSAS
~
In
thef'French territory
of
Afars
and
Jssas on
the
Gulf of A den- a bloody climax today
to the kidnapping of
thirty
school children - by
six Africa,i nationalists.
A group of French , -
marksmen opening fire simultaneously on the
kidnappers - killing Jive instantly and fatally
woundi,ig
.
a sixth.
The latter - however, getting off a burst
of machine gun fire before he
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I
collapsed -
1tilli,ag
a little girl
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and 10ounding five more
children.
The French High Commissioner M:ls • sayi,ag:
"We decided w,e must take the ris~ after negotiatio,as
proved futile - and the terrorists again ,,.. started
threatening
to cut the childrens' throats."
DETROIT
TIie
1111tlo11's
Big Four;,,.~..:lf:&:.
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were reporting
le.Cay
a
a11otlaer big i,acreaae i•
tte• •
car sales. Tlae January figure - up t•••IY
seven fercent; giving tlte auto industry tis beat year-
01'•"'"'
,nottlla si11ce tlae Arab oil embargo of .!•vettly-
tlaree.
Ge11eral Motors slao•i•g Ile 111ay - ret,orU••
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made agal••I
SENATE
Tle Preside,at's veto of a,a i,acr•a•• I•
Wlt4.
federal milk price s11pportsl's11stai11ed today
f,a
Ile
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For Ile Preside,at, a,aoller key victory -
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laoldi,ag do••
federal
spe11dl,ag.
USERY
The Senate also co,afirmed today tlae
nomi,aatio,a
of
IV .,
Usery - as Secretary of L•∨
brhtgi,ag llae
Preside,at 's cabi,aet ...
o,ace agaiN
to f•ll
str••wlla.
INNSBRUCK
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winier
olympic games,
originally scheduled
a
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