WHITE HOUSE TIit ••us .'Tma1• ~ President Nixon conferred today with the Republican high command irt Cortgress. Ho11se Min . ority J.eader Girlll Ford - later criticizirtg the Democrats for what he called their "spertd-tltrifl way · s"; 11J■ contertdirtg that these are provirtg "very harmful" to the Presidertt -"irt his battle to co,atrol i,aflatiort~ Se11ate mi,sority leader Hugh Scott 1111to _,. was also prese11t - urgirt.g ertactmertt of the Presidertl'• ow11 ecortomic proposals ma11y of wllich are NOll1 lar,g11ish i,ag ,,. Co,egres~•cott .:::;Q~.uaJ lh ese ~ /"- are esserttial - if the Presidertl is to guide llte ••tJt a peacetime 11atio11's ecor,omy from a war-time to a,J!••••U ••• fooli11g 111ilhout a recessiort. ' . CAPITOL HILL FIDLLOW WHITE HOUSE •so.I on 8 JULI JJIJI •senate Majority leader Mike Mansfietl 7:,1:::a:,_•-• a.I" r»l■M 1011, 1131 his fellotfJ Democrats are going too far - i,s dema,rdi11g equal b roa de as I time to reply to speech es by Pres ideN t 7¼ ' Nixon. "I thiflk ~ getting 011t of boNrtds" - s a i d ~ . ),, A. Mn+e/fil" Adding that the President must be give" • ••• lee - WLf"'--tfs;.aki•:,Periodic reports toltAe A 7, ~ ,- nation. The Se11ator also challenged a recent state me,at - from Democratic Nati ONal Ch.a irma,a Lawre,ace O'Brien who said...,. the chief issue irt fall electioNs - would b , e ll•ote, "a crisis of co11fidence' ;,. the Preside,at. Not at all said Mar,sfield; adding that th e key issues - as far as he co" l d see - would be Southeast Asia artd the 11ation's eco11omy. SA /GON .ao A • J :t • t n .e •1 la\ e a• , .,, 1 hi• •1 • I a w - < ~ rW-iff /;om Saigo"A"'' •7 the ,iumber of America,s ~ e•.,_ combat deaths this past week~ "fewer Iha,. s i x t y-f i v e . " A JI I a : a a JI ,t • : a " H s 1 , U I• g a II e ,c, l ow - . , for the wwld: c year. At the same time, US Army Secretary Sta,iley Reso' - wi11di11g up a,. ;,.spectio,a tour of the war zone/ ,aotj!lw that U S casualties have bee,a cut more than .fYty perce,at this year., • • .rg ,, ■ rad •UI lure l!eilrflalli11g this a clear i,adicatior, of "substa,.tial progress• - ;,. "Viet11ami•i11g" the •ar. A11d lae added tlaat tlae s•ccess of allied - operatio,as i,a CambodiaY.,ould be reflected ;,. So•tlt Vietftam "for some mo,.tlas to come." TEL AVIV ~~ bl •lt:::ltfll11«r:::::::ilflt:il:lidtlcffil:ze:=:ISra1:c111:tt:-- Is r a e l i b o m b e rs I(, ■ d■ , attack;:,--Egyplian positions along the Suez Cartal '"'-- for the forty-eighth straight day. Mea11wlile Radio ~ Tel Avi~accusirtg Egypt of seeking direct Russla,e support~ for the••~• establishment of a beaclt ltead across tlt.e Suez . Two •1 •• Is raellt• en a a• J ,eewspapers addi,ag that the Middle East co,afllct - has ,aow become a power strr,ggle betwee,a lite US a,ed the Soviet Unio,a. Israeli Foreig,s Minister Abba ' A4 Eba11,tfr,rllaer qr,oted as sayi,ag the threat of Soviet i11terve,etio11 ;,. lite Middle East - poses a pote,atial da,ager to all of Europe. LAKE BAIKAL Sometimes you llear it spoken of as tlle largest lake i,r tlle world . But tl'lis depends on llow you defiNe a lake . TIie Cas1>ian Sea covers a greater area tlta,r Lake Baikal. TIie Caspia,r is eNtirely land locked. as you k,ro,o; will, llae Volga flowl,ig i,rto It from Russia. Because tlle Casf>ia,a is laeavy will salt it is usually referred to as "a sea". Lake Bail,al. - sa,rrou,rded by mountains. rigllt in tlle lleart of Asia, o,rly a I• mile• from lrllutsll tlle capital of Siberia. is cleaf' fresll ,oat•r i,rto wlllcla /lo• some tllree l, , a,,r.dred rivers. Tllree leu,atlred flow i11to It a,ed o,rlJ o,ee flows out - Ille A,r.gaf'a, a,aotllef' of t i • gr1u1,t f'ivers of Asia. We st,ed across o,re cor,aer of Laite Baikal i,e a llydro/oil - also •P Ille A,rgaf'a. Laite Baillal, so ,oe ,oe,-e told, co,etal,rs more water Ila• all of ouf' Great Lakes t,ut togetlaer. It's Ille deepest lalte ,,. tlte world, a ,rd is over tit ree ltu ndred a11d fifty mil es b,rg. Now tllat tlte Russia,r.s a1>pear to be 011 tlte verge of opening up tlleir vast empire ;,. Asia. Siberia tic1lllcla is larger tlta11 all of tl,e U,r . ited States plus Alaska, larger tl,a,r tlte . LAKE BAIKAL - 2 continent of Australia, we will be hearing a great deal about Lake Baikal, and the nearly two thousand different varieties of aquatic life that li v e in this deef>est of lakes. The Casf>ia11 a,rd the Volga a re famous for their sturgeon, for their caviar • Baikal to tltose who know anything about it is famous for its l ake salmon and trout. Also for /res II •ater seal 1•at must leave been trat,t>ed in tllis lake tens of thousands of years ago wllen ii was adjacent to the Arctic Ocean. It 111ould be laard to over estimate what Lake Baikal is likely to mean in future to the U.S. S.R. LE NINGRA ~/~_ ~' ~ . . . ~ 61+\ ~'~~ . . _7:n ' "-1' ~ __,,7--~ - ~ . / Na• tlli ■;,<rom Leni,agrad -- a:: ■ 111,U•• ~ - ; ii wasn't ColNmbus who discovered A mertca - nor the Viki,ags, 11or the Egypti,a,as. A pair o,f Soviet scie11tisls say,-: "The ho•or of the discovery of the Americas possibly beloags to a11cie11t Asia11 adventurers...U-d ,01'¼ , r ~ ! ~ . The Soviets basi,ag their conte11tio,s - 011 a series of maps collected from ancie11t Tibetan books; maps that are said to be tlae oldest in tl,e world - showing, we are told, the e ' xistence of "a gree11 land ly i,cg far across the Eastern Sea;•• in other words - Indeed, the So viets further co•te11d that Asia,a geographers were probab1' familiar will, the New World - as early as fifteen hundred B.C. A11d "I h i s g u e s s is s u b s tan t i a t e d" - - s a y s the So v i et News Agency Tass - "by the notecvor · thy fact that LENINGRAD - 2 the purely American word tobacco - had already penetrated by then a number · of oriental la,aguages a ,. d .W a I, di a le c t s . " A n d th e R us s i ans a d d - i II e ff e c t - the re a re ,. o buts about it. SOUTH ATLANTIC l o t e k Thor Heyerdahl's Ra-Two ),, 76e - - somewl,ere in the South Atlantic : A radio report ~~ ~~ todaK' Ii Jee';? the papyrus craft/\ al .a~ three llundred miles due navigator East of Barba dos. sayi•~ltot>e• to ,.. The a« s .\Tl. &J8~■ L make land-fall at Bridget owr,, Barbados with a,sy kind of luck, some time th is MJee k~.i ~ rs sl •• Iha I a Mcie •I Egypllau A. ./\ c o u l d ha v e s a i l e d t o th e •» Ne ll ' W or l d - • x • as early as Jive thousa,sd years ago. Thor adding that whe11 it's all over - he hopes to install the Ra-Two alo11gside ~....,,~+«~ f,!,,.r;£.· his famed Kon Tiki a t , . Museum i,s Oslo. \ 1 L, ' ? WARSAW ~ Wa rs aw - the Po Ii sh go v er II men l,1 a" 11 o u II c e d Jada; a new crackdown against Polish moonshir,ers . Police usi11g specially trai11ed dogs - said to be capable of sniffi,ig out illegal whisky a11ywhere; in bushes, cellars and attics - even whe,i it's buried ;,. the ground. Members of the ,.,, Polish caJtirte J~. corp - qualifying as real "booze hou,ids,. ''J,.•• IIHr. PAMPLONJt Pamplona, Spain,/_ =~~-- festival of the bulls ~~ ll'$#t Te,.s t o d a y _ , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ O H ~ of thousands of tourists,t:11lJag (bj..._ ~ officials releasj/, a herd of figh I ing ball• htlo a crowd of you,ag men; humans a,ad animals chasir,g each other through the streets of Pamplona -- er,route to the local bull ri,ag. And then - seemi,ag disaster. A young lad falling to the street -- t1,e entire herd stampeding over llim wllereupo,a ,he youagster picked himself up - :b• brushed himself off - and started all over again. Officials say lie was untouched by either .t21x hoofs NU t ■ n:.