PKICES For a change - some good news today on the price f . ront. 1be U S cost of living index - - increasing only six tenths of a percent last month; the lowest rate of increa■e - ni-4. since last a.t April. A due mainly to lower prices ,._ on new car■, clothing, beef and home mortgages. Official■ addina that the picture would have been even better - except for sharp price hikes in medical care, utilitie ■ and new hou■e ■. ICld t he latest: General Motor■ today orderina cut■ e..t. in the base prices • or nine of its small model cara1 )\-ca a hundred --and-four - to three-hundred-and-thirteen bucka . Thia aa in an effort to keep k• cara movina 111 when tbe G M price rebate progr- ends next week. - WATERGATE 1n • Watergate cmter 11p ; • • - the final denouement, The three ma who we re once Richard Nixon's chief lieutenants - ~ ~ v e n ,_..,. die stiff.- sentences.~a:1., ... ,... t•....-o~ ,.. aa1:.-.i -waee11gaee• _,,~ John Mitchell, H, a . Haldeaan and John J.hrlichman -- each getcing a,o-and•a•balf to ei&ht years .,.. in prison. While a fourth defendant - Robert Hardian Aaetting ten month ■ to three years ~ However, the defendant ■~remainina free an their own ,..... recoanizance.-- pendina elle outcOD! of appeal■. For that reason A .. ,,.. ,...,_ - none" displaying any apparent emotion. Ql the way out - John Mitchell aerely saying: " Well, it could have been worse - they could have ■entenced &a me to life - with Martha MitChe 11, II WHITE HOUSE fl'(>m the White House there's a report that the President will delay till next week bia expected veto of the bill dealing with oil import feea. '1be President aaid to be "hopeful" be can build enough support in the meantime ao Congress will not vote to over-ride. " • ~ ~ • , .. , ... , , ' 'II:. JUDGE FOLLOW WHITE HOUS ~ Elsewhere in Washington - a federal judge today rejected a legal att d mpt - to block the oil tariff increase. Judge ratt aaying: ''We must ..... accept the President'• determination of national security - upon which the action waa predicated . " AID ~ Top official■ of the A F L - C I '}<voted near unanlaou1ly to 1upport a continuation of U S aid to South Vietn- and Cambodia . George Meany later saying: "We've inve1ted sixteen year■ out there. 'lbe queation ia" - are we now "goina to walk away froa our alliea · 1 11 Mlany acid in.; that it wa1 hi1 sole wiah - that the people of ::iOuth Vietna - ''have the riaht a& of aelf detel"lllination.' DALLAS At Dallas, Texas - an indictment today naming a aecretary to llouH Speaker Carl Albert - and a lewiaville, Texa1 attorney. Pauline Cervin and Joe Ben Qlaapion - both accu1ed of trying to I C I defraud the faailie1 of ,,__ convict• ancl criainal defendants. BELFAST 'ftle latest truce in northem Ireland - more bloody than m what was once called open war. l a auch of tbe - • ..... bloodshed of the past few days.{ blamed on proteatant ailitanta. ~ . . , - . ~ - I L : , -. Tbe leader of the 1 R A's political wing A.••~ A..-.,.; the truce a till stand a . ''lbe I a A'• war " - ••id be - "ia -- with the Britiab army and . . _ B1 · itiab institutions." ROSARIO The river port city of Rosario in Argentina - auddenly today was the center today of a new wave of guerrilla terroria■. Thi• a ■i•d• included ten bombings of busineasea operated by US and other foreign finu; alao, one aaaasaination - a riaht wing Argentine labor leader. CAPETOWN Then w President of South Africa - selected by the Capetown Parliament. :aeventy one year old Or. Nicbolaaa Diedrich& is the new Preaident. ~ former finance miniater he i• popularly known as "Hr. Gold"• ~ld of courae ia lut the~ve ao aacb of in South Africa. C2v-J ~ . ROSE ISLAND Have you ever thought you might like to own your own island - maybe live in a - converted light houae1 If ao, here's your chance. An abandoned light house and the land that surrounds it on Bose Island - near Newport, lllode Ia land, was put up for sale today by the speculator• who recently bought it. 'lbeir idea had been to turn the island into a gambling center. ~t the Rhode Island legialature put tbe jinx on that; so now there it is - with one amall catch. Witer, water everywhere - but not• drop to drink. You'll have to bring it in. But that abould be easy. .. •