Mon. August 28, l972 MID EAST Go i· er nm en t control led news pa fJ er s ; n E g y I> t leveled som .. strong criticism at Washington today _ clrarging tire U,rited States with slowly Pushing the mid-east toward another crisis. One fuit,er - Al Ahram - claiming this trend is reflected in statements by both President Nixon and preside . ntial candidate McGovern . And it's unt,recedent«l sa}'S another paper, "for a state so small as Israel to boss around a country as big as the United States." It was announced also that Egypt's deputy premier Mohammed Marzaban Mlill v isit Wa · shingtoN next montla - the laiglrest ranking Eg} , t,lian to do so in quite some time. VIETNAM President Nixon announced today that he .,;11 not seek an extenlion of /Le curre I "lit n n m, a ry draft la,o when ii expired next June. Instead he adds, lite nations armed forces .,,u consist entirely of v ol 101/ e er s. The President issued his draft statement after meeting 11Jilh Defense Secretary Laird al the .,eslern While House and vie•h•g a Pentagon study .,hich says an all-volunteer force of more llaan lt110 million men and a millifln reservists could be achieved. 0 T ' he Pentagon says tltal for the first time a Chinese mine-s11Jeeper has sailed into HaiJ>1aong harbor tile North Vietnamese seaJ>ort mi,.ed /t,, U S naval craft - four months ago. There's no word as t o tl1e actual mission of the Communist craft - but lhe Pentagon spokesman says the U S .,;u do t11halever t L ine fields as long as the necessary to maintain ne m enemy offensive contin14es. VIETNAM - 2 c:J In Da Nat1g) South Vietnam's second larges/ cil}', some five hundred thousand gallons of gasoline H1·1111ly 1•et htlB 11,e 111..,. And farther north, tropical storm Cora is bearing do•n on the Red River Delta - creating a flood 11,real lo those' Nof"lh Vietnamese ~~ dikes 1Dhich the Communists say American planes 1 ,.,,,. United Slates. CAPITOL The Justice Department · sa _vs serlo · us crimes commilled in the U ·1 d ~ ni e Slates increased oy~seven pe1 • ce11I during Ninele·en s evenly One, tuhlc1i means tit a I a b o u I I II r e e o u I of e v er y O ,, e h u n d r e d cit, z ens . . . . were vi ctims. Even so, Attorney General Richard Kleindie,zsl notes that ii •as lite smallest rise In six ye · ars - and /he third straight year in •hicla the role•••••••• has slowed down. A /rend •hich he calls tM•••■s• "encouraging." 0 - ~ Po s t Ma s t e Y Ge n e ra I ' & P;. Klass en says his department _. may not have lo ask for that four hundred fift} ' - . million dollar postal Increase •hich President Nixon incl11ded in the current federal bl4dget. The reason - about ,U,. thirty-three lhouaand postal employees have left the service - either ~ through relireme,it or Job attrition. -~greatly reducing lhe - . department's operation costs. APOLLO At Cape Ken11edy, Apollo Seventeen went to tire taunchiug pad - the first step toward an unprecedented blast off to the Moon on December Sixth. The three astronauts ,uho will be aboard are Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans; and Dr. Jack Schmitt - a geologist. They were on ltand for Ilse roll-out. OLYMPICS In Munich, Mark St,ilz, of Califor~on the first gold medal for the United StatesJ breaking a world 1·ecord in the two hundred meter butterfly s111immi11g event. His lime - 11110 minutes a . nd seven tenths seconds. lie also anchored the American a four hu11dred meter relay swim team lo ~••U• I 111orld 1-ecord victory.-- still anotlter g11ld medal for the United Slates. PRINCE WILLIAM Tile Ni,ith in succession to Britain's throne, Prince William of Glouc e sl e 1· - ,l i ed today in the flaming crash of /,is light (Jla11 e durin g <lll a i r race near Wol v erhampton, Engl a ,z d . Ki l l e d a l s o was th e Prince 's c o - p i·l o t . The plane c lipped the lop of a tree ji,st as the Goodyear air race was getting under way . The thirty year old prince was a first cotisin to Queen Elizabeth; son of the Duke of Gloucester. As th e firs I English Prince William in a hundred fifty years , ·I he, established, firsts in many fields. Among them he was tile first of the royal fam i ly to live in college, at Cambridge ; the first to attend an American university, Standord ; and, first to take part in an air race . MILTON Millon Machlin ~,., ~ editor of Argosy, Ille adr e11/ttre magazine 1 says /here's nothing in his career of /ravelling lo far away Places with strange s o ,,,, di "g u a m e s I ha I ca n e q u a l hi s I r a v e ls on I h e Penn Central . . railroad. Machlin who commutes --•••a Io New York Ci/ y from his home in Connecl'icul fa ' ces a cliarge of "the/I of service" for refusing to pa} ' a dollar sixt·y-five cents train fare because - nU-t - lie had Io ■, ?ta a Penn Central coach in A ni11cly degree heal without any air conditioning. Says Edilo1· Machlin - "I've travelled nearly everya,here in the world, New Guinea, Vietnam, Yuca 1 ,zn, . _ Haiti -but ~~ ,·iding Ille Penn--Cenlral ,::s- my most hazardous. 12its: ltae-c . SWITCHES An electrical supply dealer in the Slate Li,ie City of Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, has Isis own special way of advertising. Whal he has lo sell and : r .. ) · ~ - "'" e" lie sells ii. ,,. A sign outside his place of business reads : "We sell switclres - on and off." CRASH LANDING A l Sa n Jo s e , Ca li for n i a , a p ii o t bro u g I, t l,is light plane down lo a crash landing on the roof of Macy's department store: and he sustained only . - J ~ minor injuries. Tire pilot must have bee,rAnon- s: chalanl about if • .tf- - ~ report sayaaw he lhouglat he was landing on Gi'l!!!ls where he had a shopping QJ # , , ./ / ) ~- . , "' )~A,'- C 11 o 1· e I o do for his wife . .,,. ',.J -' ~,._' ~ ., 1 '