LOS ANGELE
F
ri
da
y,
Februar
y 20
, 19
76
Fo
r
Richard
Nixon
-
in
Los Angele~
- a taste
a ain today of the
gl
or
- that
wa
onc
e
his alone.
The
form
r
Pr
e
ident
dra
t
ing
a crowd
of some sixty newsmen
-
a
h
e
boarded a Chinese
j
et
for
the trip to Peking.
Richard
Ni
x
on and
wif
e Pat
- arri
ing
at the air port in a five car
motorcade
-
chatting with their Chinese escorts
- posing
for
Photographers - and then, on their way.
The former President apparently in good
health
displaying no symptoms of his bout with phlebitis a year and
a half ago.
The former First Lady
-
radiant as ever.
Following stops in Anchorage and Tokyo
- due to arrive
in the Chinese capital late tomorrow; the fourth
anniversary
of t h e f i rs t Nix o n
v
is i
t t
o
C
ll i n a
- w h i c
h
l
ea d to t h e re -e ,. try
of China
in the world
community of nations.
And now this ..•
PORT
MOUTH-MANCHESTER
but le
Th
U.S.
c
o
t of
lit
in
index
-
ufJ agatn la t month
than
half
a
fJ
r
cent; this cited
b
President Ford
a
proof that
hi
economic
policie
are
i
orking.
This at
Port
mouth,
New Hampshire
u
·
here he
was
launclaing
Isis
final
day
of
campaigning
-
for
New Hampshire's first-in-tlle-natio"
Presidential primary.
The President also announced today a plan to reform
the
food
stamp program - do it on his own - since
Congress
so
far has refused to act.
(Further, accusing Congress of
attempting to "ham-string the President"
-
on foreign
Policy)
Also saying:
"Today, because we were ham
stru,ag,
the So
iet
Union and twelve thousand Cuban mercenaries -
patrol Angola." At every stop he was saying: "We're
goi,ag
to win."
As for
the opt,osition - all five Democratic
candid a
t
es were criss -c r o s s
in
g the s ta t
e
- bu t form er
Governor
Lester Maddox of Georgia
was
stealing
some
of
PORTSMOUTH -
MANCHESTER
-
2
their thunder
at Manchester, calling fellow Georgian Jimmy
Carter
-
"Power
hungry radical Socialist".
"Tire most
dishonest person I'
v
e e er known," said
Maldox.
To
wlriclr
Carter
replied:
"I don't think this will hurt me at all." A
Carter aide saying "to be called a liar by Lester Maddox
is like being called ugly
by
a frog."
SAN FRANCISCO
Newspaper
heiress Patricia Hearst - age
twenty-two today;
an occasion marked
by
a telephone
death
threat
- and then a resumption of cross examination
on her role
in
that San Francisco bank job.
••t-~e~r
Miss Hearst saying she didn't know whether her gun
was
loaded or not -
m
f
t
,4¥
insisting:
"I was just
supposed to be there -
to
.
get
my
picture
taken."
0
tLI
•
Also, denyingthat she would hai•e fired -
if
necessary to protect those with her; in tears -
saying
''if anything had happened - I was their ticket to get
out of anythi11g."
The defenllant then admitting that later
011
she had been urged by fellow fugitive We•dy Yoshimura
- to call her parents.
Why didn't she?
Because -
said she _ "if
J
had -
do,re anything like that and
the Harrises found that Wendy suggested
it -
they
would
have killed
us
both."
WA LL STREET
On Wall Street - the bull's were
again
in full command today. The Dow Jones Industrials
jumping more than twelve points to nine eighty-seven
point eight oh - their
ti •
highest fln·•l in three
record volume - of more
than
~
forty-four
and
a half million
shares.
AA
day!
U1
years.
BOSTON
At a meeting of astronomers in Boston -
a report oday on attempts to pick up radio sigrtals
from d
e
ep space.
Astronomer Carl Sagan of the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto
Rico -
jl'§Ci
tel li,ag
of checks so far on four galaxies
contai11i11g about
a trillion s t a r s ~
t a ~ ~ . ~ • •
'.,
-
no signs of civili•ed life.~
••r
I•••
•s1••
~ ~ i r • n
lns1slL.,,,
there are probably a millio,a tivili•ations - amo•g
the stars of our o .,,. milky ••
y
alo,ae.
results" - said
lie -
simply sl,o.,.., tllat "al tie time
of observation - not a
sl■~vlll&atlo■
•a•
a
a major effort to commuraicate
•ilia
us."
-
~~~W'
aote
_
.a,,.-na •• •••'
aewr:z1r:e
11 •
rr•4
~
I
MONACO
In th e la t es t Mc Ca l l 's an inter view with
princess Grace of Monaco on the subject of equal
r
i
ghts. The former Grace Kelly saying: "I'm v•ry
much a feminist at heart - I
think
wome,. ca" do
whate
v
er they set their miJtds
.
to do; but I al•o
tlil•k
that,
in
a man-woman relatio•slllp - tlr.e
ma" •lao11ld
be tlle head of the family
an4 u11cllall1111g11d
by
aooma,a."
The Prl,acess
addi,a/ tllat marrlag11
I•,
Indeed, "a part,aership - but
it
can't be fifty-fifty
and aoork."
TIie woma,a's Job - said site
- "Is to b•
the homemaker, tJae wife
('11d
tlae -
motlier."