MANNINGTON any Jc chance of survival for th..._ seventy-eight trapped miners. . ~ ~ ..... i9.tar. .. But still they waij :;'mlly, friends and co-workers - hundreds of men, t1omen and children - hoping aga1nat hope. ~ Praying for a miracle - for lt seems~that nothing less will do. VIETNAM War newa rom Vietnam - tells t;Aay of a sudden crash program in the Communist North) ,.){1th thousands of North Vietnamese laborers ■ &ld ~c IN rushing the reconstruction of bombed-out h1ghways,1,peed1ng tor.s of war supplies - southward toward that D.M.Z. Eventual destination - hard to tell. As one observer put it: "They can · move the stuff to the Northern border of the D.M.Z. - or they can shunt it off into Laos." But either way - said he - lt points 1ncreas1n&t, toward aft 1■,sul;N Viet Cong "winter-spring" offensive. P AR! k~ Me an 'lhile pro re ss at Paris , :t:f any • appa,•arat 1,- ttE::BeR!H!:;:~ift~Wubl i c talks 1 ng suspen ed . - ~ North Vietnames e ne otia~nounc~ &ed!fy that_. se c ret talks are also bein g terminated. Reason - acc ordin to Hanoi - Saigon's attempt to 11 torpedo" an ex pande d peace parle y . Both sides hoping though - it will only be temporary. In deed , North Vietnam's Xuan Thuy saying he is ready 'to meet Prestdent Johnson' s delegabes any time - even tonlgllt" - 1. f it will help to get t h e talk started again. ST FORD T he world' s · rst double hf' art tran -, plant pa t ien - rep ort ed to a from t e Stanford l.ID.iv er ity Medical Center, Pal o lto. ar e ll HammarMf - fifty- ix - the recipient of first one heart· and then another six hours later - when the ori inal transplant failed to function properly. His condition - at last report - "satisfactory." NEW YORK N e w hope f or v 1c t ms o f Par kinson ' s Disease. Th e ~ v U.S. P ub li c Health e rti ce an nouncing toda y in New York - the start of a c ra sh L -Dopf,1: t o have program to te s t a drug calle d brought about "dramatic improvements" - in 'up to s e v enty- f ive per cent of the patients' who have use d it so far. Doctors warning symptoms of Parkinson's that L-Dopa merely - ~ Disease - Mlll no / alleviates the - - - known cure. Adding that 1n certain cases - it also has "serious and unpleasant side effects." Neve;t~ ~paring the de v elopment of L-Dopa at this stage - with "the early days o f penicillin." KEY B I C A YNE A t Ri ch ar d N ix on ' " pre -ina ugural White Hou se" in K ey Bi s ca y n e - the pac e o transition be g in to pick up. P n a id e t o t he Pre id ent-elect announcing toda y - the ppo int m ent o f ten s p ecial task f orce s tu dy group~ ~signed to "pinpoint issues 11 in ten special problem area s - where the new President " will have immediate power to act." Economics professor Paul McCracken of the University o f Michigan - a f ormer member of the Eisenhower - in overall char ge o f the operation. Subjects inclu d ing: Labor relations - fiscal policy - taxes - public welfare - tran sp ortation - nousing an d urban renewal and so on. BONN - Bonn, We s t G erma n y - a sec on d day o f deliberations today - amon g the inance ch i e s o f the f ree world' s ten richest nations. The so-called "group o f ten 11 - supposedl y nearin g agreement on a new stopgap credit plan. One th a t would not only s a v e the French f ran c - but also ease pre ssu re on the British pound and the American dollar. Exact details - still a secret. However, the plan expected to pro v ide France - wit h a new "cre d it line" of k ~ J One-to;6o BillionA while giving Britain similar a.sistance - as nee d e d . FRANC FOLLO or n ~ the urgenc y o f t h at Bonn meetin -~ s imult neo u s n nouncement to ay fro m th e Frenc overnment in P ar i s . )(e po tin figures f or la s t week alone - showin ) a loss o f nearl y T wo Hun red Million Dollars in gold and f orei g n exchange res er es. A seven- ay lo s - gr eater th n that f o all o f Octob~~France's carefully b oarded reserves below the Pour Billion level - for the first time in f our yeaEs. DEG UL LE reportedJi a:: ::<JS,~;:1 e ~ ~ n g ,f;:[ ~ 1'( actual ly e · lerated t, ., the pre ent French monetary crisi - whic h make Paris again the f ocus o f world attention. \ \ A s L or t h e uestion of possible retirement - some dayf ~ r:fs~ has been heard to tell f riends• '!Diill' C - A ~ o u will know when I am no longer here. 1 What {( about a successor ? lufhete wtll t)e no dearth of heirs" - De Gaulle. A ding: "After me - the flood." / 4 ~ ~ In the meantime though - Be Gaall'J remains t h e ~ say ~ f,., imperious D e Gaulle) ~e man who once said and still ~10111 .ty belie v e~: I am France - Franc e is I.' PORT L H e e I o n - Po t an t o t h e r e cue . ..K story · n D 1 n out h ietnam - wit h t h e a cci e n t al hoo n of a n e l e h ~ ta t ~ local z o o . The G . I . 1 s w o were r es pon s bl e - - ~ i o uin g a orldwide appeal for a eplacement pach derm. Next t o p - Portland Oregon - wh ch likes to call it elf "t h e elep h ant capital o the world." T his t h ank to a prolific bull by the name of Thonglaw ••• at t he ~ Z oo. '.fl y way a gr oup o f Portland busines s men uickly picking up t h e appeal - in behal f o f the people of Dalat. Result: One replacement elephant - coming up - as soon a s the c an fi ure out how to get it t h ere. -- • • SENATE From the U . . ena t e - a cen ored trans cri pt today o a ec r et de bate lat month. Deali n with the p o ss ibili ty - o a "nuclear x c h an e' wit h Ru s ia. Ending in a vote o app ro val - for con st ructio n o f a new U.S. antiballistic mi ssile ef en es ste m. Perhap the cisive arg ument - that of Senator Russell o f Georgia - who said: "If we have to start over again with anot he r Adam an Eve - then I want them to be V c ,/ ' j • I ' • t I , ,. I I A meri c ans an d not Russians. 8ft8.--~ 4'AM-et1i 'ffl~n •en4;-tMMt