success of Hen · ry Kissinger's Mid-East peace mission - was due to the "new climate" produced by U.S. fo . re . i . gn policy. "This is the climate" - said he - "that ensued from the President's historic initiative - in visiting Moscow and Peking; the climate that flows from President Nixon's masterful extrication of American forces from Vietnam - the freeing of our POW's - the termination of the draft - and other great accomplishments." Gerald Ford adding that "regardless of our views on domestic controversies - the President speaks for all of us when he seeks peace abroad." EAST BANJ< OF THE SUEZ For the first time in seven years - Egypt's President Sadat ~ today crossed the Suez Canal~ a tour of the East Bank)\ inspectGlg t-- the captured Israeli Bar-Lev Line; also A address.,_. thousands of cheering Egyptian troops. Sadat saying: "'!be sixth of October bas changed the history of the World - militar . ily, politically, and economically." Adding, however, that Egypt's mission will not end - "until the departure of the last foreign soldier - from all Arab land." TRIP The ~ final plans for/ft'esident's ~ Mid East tour:;1 ,,...- Monday for Salzburg, Austria - where he will take a brief "rest stop." And then it's on to Egypt - Saudi Arabia - Syria - Israel - and finally, Jordan in rapid succession. The President due to return home - June 18; whereupon the final preparations for his mission to Moscow ... ~ ~ nine days later. INDIANAPOLIS - FOLLC1N NEW YORK The President was also strongly tacked today - cy Republican Congressman L . andgrebe of Indiana, who is currently running for the Senate. Landgrebe: "The Liberals were desparately in need of an issue - they found it in Watergate - and viciously attacked the ~ ~ • ' _ , , ~ C l ~ President." Iii! .-g 3l adding thae: "What they could not win at the polls - they are detemined to win by lynching our President." WHITE OOUSE nte White House again - President Nixon today accepted the resignation uf Donald Santarelli - as head of the Justice Department's Law Bnforcement Assistance Administration. nt i s following put:lished reports - that Santarelli thought it was the President who ought to resign. Untrue - said Santarelli. But the "circula . tion of these reports, wrongful that they are" - he continued - •may harmfully affect my ability to continue to serve." WATERGATE The House Judiciary Committee'AIIIHh...Nlo8'tlM'IL--t196--!!atJ8iaei,,_fflol"-- ~ t u r n ~ today to the IT&T anti-trust case. 8¥1 NIIA@ Special prosecutor la:S Jaworski earlier clearing IT&T officials - of any wrong-doing. The White H o u s e ~ s a ~ i t 4 welcome testimony - from former Presi.dential Aide Charles Colsoni who pl:eaeleel 911il:ty e-ttn,.,.~•~ S t ' r - ~ 1e91T1§ tte u•• convinced dlllt Colson wJ.P ---,_ be, quote - "highly supportive of the President." TAPES - FOLL<M WATERGATE ~ a court-appointed panel today returned its ~ report - on th:t eighteen minute gap in one of ~nu I t Nixon's tapes. The panel saying it was caused - ty at least five separate erase and re-record o , perations. ..._ _EOW and why, '4 ,,.,ofll accidental~ or intentional~ 1; I I Ii tJ,g: • they simply couldn't tell. 'roKYO Three young children - one each from the U.S., Canada and ~~ SWeden ~ in Tokyo today on a mission of mercy~ping tc meet with Japan's Prime Mini . ster Tanaka - and ~ pursuade him to put an end to Japan's conmercial ~ ~ The youngsters' expenses - pa . id mainly by Operation Jonah, an international whale conservation group. Its U.S. representative ten-year-old Tori Clark of San Francisco - telling newsmen: "I want generations to come - to have the opportunity to see whales." BLOOMINGTON From the University of Indiana - a report today on a study of the excuses heavy smokers use in ePCtlts: to rationaliZt!e lt:sit li•l It;:. Some saying tt11y•m afraid if they quit '1 they'll get fat and have a heart attack. Others saying dla-1..su !dCL t e a a N ~ ~ t h a t smokers ~ c a n c e r - ~ ~ le fr<),n some other source. had "it all to do over again" - they wouldn't. WINDOOR LOCKS From Windsor Locks, Connecticut - the story of Germaine Faivre, age seventy; out for a spin in her eleven year-old car -1Mll6 she noticed her brakes weren't working• _...A'ead' for a nearby ~ ~x~~..:f..- J auto dealer ""e,M · pulled right i n ; . _ with no brakes - crashing 1ifiP ~~ plat:glass window and ~ the show room. - ~rnage ~ "several thousand dollars." h~~ ~ } h e dealer say{. h ~ fix her brakes. I RETHYMNON At Rethymno , n, Crate - a young Australian "streaker" was sentenced today - for bounding nude through a group of visiting tourists . . Trevor Harrison, aged twenty-six getting seven months in jail; which should give him plenty of time to ponder whether . it was worth it.