NOH. MARCH 17 , 1969 (Dallas T wnsend) A police ott1c 1 Al 1n "8.ra o a1bo, Venezuela, says there's ' 'real evi ence" that sabotage •1 have ca aed yesterday ' s flaa1ng craah or a Venezuelan jetliner which killed at least one-h 4red-t1fty-f'1ve p ople. The crash - liatery' worst air die ter - took the lives or all eighty-ttar persona on board. AJlit)her seventy-, , ne died when the plane k:n1ted throqh a rea1dent1al e11burb shortly atter it crashed on tak1DI ott trom the loc&l airport. !he U.S. Bllbaeay 1n Venez~•l aaya t'orty-six A .. rlcaaa were uong th- wbo die on bard the plane. IJACIC Five n hijacked a Peruvian Airlines plane to llllba today - but the passengers were lucky - all of the■ were allowed to dise■bark during refueling atop at Guayaquil Ecuador. Th eight ■e■bera or the crew had to fly to Havana. A110ng th+.saengera wer two officiala of the US l!abaeay 1n Li■a Peru - where the flight originated. MIDEAST Fighting continued in the Mideast todat, with Israeli planes boabing and strafing Jordanian border area near the Sea ot Galilee - scene of last nights forty-■1nute artillery and aortar battle. In Beirut, d1plo•t1c sources report ttwt Iraqul mlg Jets have been flown to Syria, possibly tor action 1n the air battles over the Jordanian border. In Jerueale■ the Israeli Pa1 .1 11nent gave Mrs. Golda Meir - an overwhelming vote ot contidenoe. The new Prl• Minister warned the Arab world that Israel will again be victorious it a new war breaks out ln the Middle last. And she declared that Israel has no intention ot giving up any Arab tarrr tory captured 1n the 1967 war, until peace la achieved. King H11asein ot Jordan aonterrecl today with Allerlcan financier and trol!tle-shooter Robert iftleraon 1n a ■eating at Cairo where Hussein ts a visitor . Although Anderson is acting privately and is not on vernaent business, he is NIDBAS - 2 known t be one or the 1n unofficial channels or c01111wi1cat1ona between Washington and Catro. Bgypt a•••red regular d1plo•t1c relat1ona with Washington during the Israeli war two years ago. CUES POR THOMAS TAPE \,I Lowell Thoaaa - still up 1n I rthern lo~••Y - has g1 en ,.. us a report on another ot the earth's reaote areas. Lowell ... Thoaaa tape runa 1.48, ends: "so long." VIETIIAJII American sources 1n Saigon say at le~st one hundred American planes have been shot down over Laos since the b011bing of North Vietnam ca■e to a halt last lovellber. For several ••nths now, hundleds of Allerican planes have been bo■b1.ng Communist supply routes 1n Laos al■ost daily, particularly the Ho Chi Ninh Trail which winds through Laos into South Vietna■. 'nle b011bing raids have never been tor■ally reported by the u-s Co•1nd, but 1ntoraed sources say they average troa three hundred to tour hUIMlred atrikes each day. In ground fighting today, Co•ur 1st forces attacked two A■er1can patpe•ts on the northern approaches to Saigon. Ten Aaerican soldiers we~e reported killed and fifteen wounded, Ene y losses placed at torty-two killed. McGOVERN Senator George McGovern sharply criticized President Nixon tod y, charging him wit . mo 1ng ■uch too slowly 1n getting this country out of the ar. But the South Dakota De■ocrat failed t wins ppor:t troa Senators Edward IemMlly and J1111ke Mansfield, both of whoa said the President lh>uld be given aore t1H. lleOovern c011plainecl that the new ad■inistration is pursu1~ "the aae tragic coursef with the sa• vrag1c results" as the Johnson tdlllnist~ation. IWN President Nixon pbaerved St. Patrioka Day by naa1ng a new ubaaaador to Ireland and playing host to the Irish governaent•s en•oy to this country. Wearing a sprig ot art1t1c1al abaarock on hla lapel and b aat1ng of hie Irish , ~ ancestry. the Pre1dent announced the no■1nat1on ot John D. J. R09re as U.S. a■baaaador to Ireland. lloere 1a a Vlee President or w. R. Grace & Co. The President ala• presented hia wlte, Pat, with a diaaond bracelet tor her t1tty-aeven,h birthday wb1ch •ocYrBet yeaterday but, under ta■ily tll8tOII 11 alwaya observed on St. Patr1ek'a Day. AEtJILLA British paratroopers - wearing combat gear - joined Scotland Yard agents tonight in prepa ra tion tor what appear, to be an 1•lnent invasion ot Anguilla - rebelllol.18 1a1an• in the Caribbean. Reports troa Anguilla 1n tea · te that the islanders •1 resist any effort to invade the 1alan4. Br1t1ah Foreign Secretuy lllchael Stewart ret e4 to reply 1n the Boue of Co•ons today when hens asked what acti•n the goYel'lllll8nt was taking to ,. estore colonial rule to th• laland. !~ullla out lt '• ties with Britain laat aonth and deolare4 ltaelt an 1n4ependent ~ep\lblic. ABU DABI Good eve61ng Dallas, Hello everybody. What would you 1mag1ne would be the at exotic, the 110at picturesque spot on this planet? Well I have one candidate - course it ' s impossible to answer such questieil - llnd what would you imagine is the richest country 1n the world, per capita? The U.S.? Ah, no! The na■e of the country - Abu Dabi - it's one of the independent sheikdou of the Tr11cial Coast - that on the Persian '1alt - jut uroaa the way is Iran, to the East. 'l'he opposite direction - Saudi Arabia next door. Ab11 Dabi, a land ot sand, in •ny ways unchanged s 1nce the days of the Caliphs 1n Bagdad . In aoae other ways it's changing fast, right now. '?hey struck 11 at Abu D r bi, you heard about that? And soon the baref ot Sheikh had a ■illior1 buck8 a day COIiing in. Jlebbe you rea how he didn't trust banks; he hid his ■oney 1n ■attreasea, even 1n the sand. lo wonder he wao confused. The transition juat to much. Finally aeae o is younger associate put hi■ on a ABU DABI - 2 plane and they sent him north t the D&.hrein Archpelaao, also in the Persian Gulf. And there he 1s now, .n exile. At least h has no financ-. WD?T1es. But changes are coming 1n a ~ uri ~ at Ab11 Dab1. High pressure salesmen whave been arriving oc far and w1d. Explorer, writer Wendell fh1111pe, adviser to the Sultan of Oman - Just next door - tells ■e aost of the saleaaen are sent p eking by younger Sheikh Z&id, who 1s now 1n power, aM has r.ta own long ran/, plan. It seeu that with all the centuries of trading tradition behind him and whatever lt la he -.s inherited rroa his sea pirate ancestors, Sh6ikh Zaid 1antt exactly gullible.