NIXON-)w...)<PoaJ;-~~ --W..eJ. a.,._,., 11-r~ - ~ ~ Presidenl Nixon"'-signed inlo law lhe bill ~ ~ - ~ 1:., 1 ,ll:•N=P:i.i-g~AN• ~.=t:t ••,e~-=::Qw:11Ff1~C-llf"r:a a n e w Po s t Off i c: e A.. - one w hi c It we (re /old, no longer will be operated as a ~••••••• dispenser of polilical Palronage. Six former Posl Master Generals we >· e Present at I I, e c ere ,n on y - w i ll1 I he President predicting better mail service, better working conditions ~ andApay _for postal . . employees. TIie new system removes lhe post office from a cabinet status department a,r.d moires it an indef,ende,at government agen~y - operated by a,a eleven member board of governors appointed by tlae Pres idenl. And o,re of the first results of the ,reac, organization ~..1-~-to~a.., i~a55 f '1••47"-.increase in first class postage from six to eighl cerats. 0 The Preside,at will fly to NeUJ Orlea•s Friday, there to confer with C'iti%en representatives from seve• southern states who face desegregation problems this fall. DRAFT Senator Ba1·r y Goldwater predicts that lhe Se ,ia I e - some time next week - will II o t e to abolish the mil i tary draft "a practice'' says tl1e Senator, "tc,hich has no place i n our sys t em of freedom except as a temporary expedient." He aJtd Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon plans to offer the proposal as an amendme•t to the defense procurement bill now before the senate. There's considerable doubt, however, as to whetlaer Ille house would approve the measure. SAFEGUARD The Se11ale - by a five vole ma1·gi11 - re} ected a pr op o s a l I ha t w o u l d l i m it I It e exp a " s i o 11 of t II e Safe g u . a rd a,ili-ballislic missile syslem. Liberal Senators angered b)' President Nixon's veto of tlie housing and ed11cation bill, vowed to continne' tl1eir figltt against ' - Safeguard. t,;A;Jh. GAS Al S01lll1port, Norll1. Carolina, . steve · dores liave begrrn ~ fourteen thousand dt•dly nerve gas rocltels -'::,.board a delapidaled Liberty !':hip - f;i.~H ,.,.. s i n k ~ ship, cargo and alllrc.._ some trvo ltu.n.dred and eight), miles out in the Atlantic ' east of Cape Kennedy. But the Arm, , promises the sinking w on't occur until a federal judge rules on tire matter .. A hearirtg is set Jor tomorrow morning in Washington to consider Florjda Gove,·nor CJas•e Kirk's argu,nent for a temporary C restraining order which 't.ould halt J, • lans to dump tl,e gas off the Florida coast. J{.Ao- -4 . ~ ! ,,_ TREATY On a table IJJthe Kremli~t. Catherine H a l l ~ signati,res were affixed to a treaty under which West Germany and the Soviet Union agree not to use force against each other. lVesl German Chan , cel lor Willy Brandl atid Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin - sign i,ag and shaking hands - after reaching the first such agreement between Russi , a and a ,,. German nation since Nineteen Thirty Nine. Said Brandt: "This is n . ot only the end of an era, it's al so a good beginning." To which Kosygin re s ponded - - "I 'm i n full agr e e ,n en t wit h yo 11. " f T la e treaty al so •••••<n•• contains pledges by both cou,etrles to re spec t d + • •• t la e ex is ting b o u,. d a r i e s of · na ti o,. 's I• Europe. II did 1101, however, make any ••f•••• refere•ce to the so-called "German . option" - under wlaic,, West Germany works for the reunification of East a•d West Germany through peaceful means. This ,,,,. option right Brandt has promised to uphold. MID EAST Milita,- y sou,-ces in Js,-ael sa y Egyptian t,-oops ha v e b,-oken the Suez Cease fi,.e f or the fi rst time by f iring across the canal at an Is,-aeli pat,-ol. And again today Js,-aeli planes car,.ied 011t ,-aids on gue,-,-illa hide-outs in Lebanon, the fs,-aelis claiming the gue,-,.illas have killed ,n ore than a sco,-e of pe,-sons du,-ing the t,asl twenty-fou,- liou,-s. RANSOM OFFICIALS o f Western Airlines ~ 1 ~ 1 : , 1aut:Uh'r:,:-o• f or the firs t time in aviation lits history 4 paid a ransom o f twenty .. five thousand dollars in cash lo a man who told them he had Placed •••x•• x a bomb .. on an airliner. It all happened Jast night. Westert1's I ~ - ~ - 't;;/.~ JJ flight !J!Ven-twent,-two from Alliorage, Alas .J. i cl'.tiir IFtr'II over Seattle lldvi¥• while the plane was searched for the bo,nb. A telephone call from At1chor . age - a man's voice claiming he had placed a pressure sensitive bomb on the Plat1e set to explode when the plane descet1ded to ten thou sat1d feel. For twenty~five thousand dollars, said the caller, he would tell where the bomb was located on the plane and laou, to keep it from explodit1g. The money was delivered by a bank messer,ger on the streets of did-n 1 e t ~ ~ ~ ) { , ~ anchorage but I he extortionist~~ call back willl the promised information. RANSOM - 2 ~---'}-T The Plane landed safel~· at Seattle airport TANGIER Tangier, - the Moroccan port on the northwest tip of A fr ica - is experiencing the latest - and by far the most welcome - invasion in all its four thousand year Iii story. Tourists. So many of the . m that tourism has replaced intrigue as Tangier's leading industry. Long an international haven for spies, smugglers, agents, an , d refugees, the city's s tormy history can, in part, be b I" m e d on it s s tr at e g i c blx l o ca ti on where t he A tl a• tic meets the Mediterra,asan in the Sir ail of Gibraltar.W Built on the slot,es of hills that ring a crescent shaped bay, Tangier was known as Tinga, the city on the lagoon, whefl the first Phoenicians traders arrived about t1Do thousand B. C. After World War Ta:o, Ta-ngier teemed with refugees from Nazi regimes in Europe - from Iron Curtain co• ■ lries - and politicians who had failed to make a go of it i• llieir homelands. Today, sail boat regattas have ret,laced the smuggling fleets in the bay. ll:a wlare plJ ; Isita s 11 e' ~ TANGIER - 2 1'he famous American golf architect Robert Tre,i/ Jones ~ is building golf courses for lite King of Morocco. Where camels once atra-x• raced across lite sands, and where rebel tribesmen once skulked in the 11nderbush outside the exotic Moroccan city oj ~ ~ Tangier - Warren, duffersl\..now loo~for lost golf balls. BASEBALL A F e d e ral judge toda3 , "plield organized basebal l 's contro v ersial reser v e clause system; riding against Cto·I Flood, a Player who had challenged its legalit3 , . Flood bro t ,ghl /1,,e suit last Ortober •6 after being trad e d to the Phillies by the Cardinals. Curl Flood contended Iha . I ll,e system was unlawful, that he was being sold as a "chattel'', and beif1g made to wor'l as a "slave" by playing on a team against his own will; e v en though his salary was to be ninety thousand dollars a 3 , ear.