NIXON President Nixon flew to New Orleans• today - to be welcomed by a Dixieland jazz band and a cheering, flag waving crowd of ea:e. A ( r t ~ ~ ~ h11ndred thousand~a:a•~•--•••ziiZ~•~•tA• motorcade route to "'5• the French qr,arter. It wasaltl almost like Mardi Gras, in Ar,g11st -- as the President a,sd U stPI several top ad v isers arrived to discuss school integration problems with education officials from seven soutliern ats11 states. Standing o,r ~ an a u . t o ~ outside the Royal Orleans Hotel, the President addressed the cJ"owd,c. ;:;;fu~~l:,;-; _,d, "We te,sd to sperid too much time in Washi,sgto,a. That's why we•••• bega,a this program - we're b7"i,sgi,ag tire White House to tire p e o p l e , " ~ ~ 0V'\, GAS Federal Judge June Green ruled today that she would not prevent Army plans to sink some fourteen thousand nerve gas rockets deep into the Atlantic Ocean. But she did urge the army to cleoose a dumping area muclt shallower than tire- sixlee,a thousand feet now conter,,plated some two h1H1dred eighty miles east of Cape Ke,a,aedy. This, slee believes, ~~ w o" I d l e s s e n th e d a n g e · !,A.. tit a I h e a v y w a t e r p re• • " re migh . t ca11se the co,acrele co11tai,aers to burst, releash1g the gas all at o,ace . With possible damage to mari,ae life . .... t::n; , , l&J#HUW I ts•e sa4aaM en f d I u u , •11 s rd CONGRESS A group of Democrats in boll, ,- •• Bouse and Senate is backing legislation that would make Presidential election day a nation.al holiday - a day an which Americans could walk into a voting booth a11ywhere in the nation and cast their ballot. If a voter was 1tot a , resident of the preci1tct where he voted, the ballot would be returned to his home precinct for counting 1 and verification. Also, today, a proposed Co,astitutio,aal amendment, calli,rg for direct electio,ss of the Presider,t by popular vote, was placed o,r the Senate cale11da'Y - though its ,aot likely to be debated before fall. ,,, a,aother area, tlte House commerce committee approved drNg legislatio" that r ■ I woNld double >&st pe,calties for "p11shers" - also set up a White House commissio11 to stud}' legal a11d medical questio,es on the use of marijua,.a. The measure also in . eludes a so-called ',ro l111ock'' provisio,c w.tJsS ~ CONGRESS 2 ... g i v ~ Police , . . authority to enter private premises unanno•nce · d if they believe there is da,ager to themselves or the..._ threat of evidence being destroyed. VATICAN The Vatican and Communist Jugoslavia are resuming full diplomatic relations after a break of eighteen years, a move which makes Jugoslavia the lliia first Communist regime in , eastern EuroJ,e 0. #~~ t6 ~ ) c A - ~ to res tore official Jd, . :.I• • JU 8c M t CIIA . ld:M f _ a 1' The on . ly other Communist cou,atry that maintai11s full diJ,lomatic relations with tl,e Vatican is - Cuba. C YCLAMATES The food and drug administration today ordered that all diet foods and drinks - artificially sweetened with cycla,nates - ..., must be removed from ••••• grocery store shelves by September first. A department spokesman says - any cyclamated foods t:UMZ.~ remaining on shelves after that date~c•I, be seized as adulterated foods under· th " e law. The FD A says its decision is based on a special medical report which says diet foods, s11Jeetened by cyclamates, are ,aot effective in the treatir,g of diabetic and obese persons. ARMS The first round of strategic arms limitation talks came to an end in Vienna today - with American delegates leaviNg immediately for Wnshinglon to report ~ on what's~ll•J.. "important progress" in , negotiations with the Russians . The talks are scheduled to resume in Helsinki on November second. Diplomatic sources -to say a draft treaty ■ Alcl Hmite. both offensive a , nd A 1te.t. defensive missiles will be presente~••:t:l=tt~•~•~•=•~•~•str,. AIRPORT Teterboro airport - in northern New Jersey j ust outside New York City - celeb ratfit. its fiftieth /\ anniversary today with some tn,w hundreF+ guests .m:lf::::-1-hr a ~ ceremonies at 011e of the hangars. Among those invited u•ere pioneerf:sw pilots who used ~ Teterboro in the Nineteen T w e ' l t l i e ; j ~ Li,adbergh wr, Wright engine in "the S/1 irit of St. Ltn,is" •as built at Teterboro;- Clarence Chamberlain another trans-Atlantic flier who later ran a flying school tlterej Billy Diehl, said to be tlte first pilot to la•d at Teterboro ~ ' _.. i,a Nineteen Twentyjand Ber.t Balche,. - · e ss 8 1 mm ender II i • I , d Byrd's Jh • .... t JIJ& • • to the so• t It Pole. 6• Its J•l'••th t inti P s i!•I• ,-6 • .,. .. "-ta st I J\.1 .. • .fa:••, Have you ever lieard of the dhow - the classic Arab boat that still sails the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf - carryi;g cargoes of dates, salt, dry fish and carpets f rom India to Ports along the East African coast, ~ ~ -- Time has done little to change. these vessels which - in the spring - lift their triangula-r sails to the monsoon breezes and return to India with African coffee, ivory, skins and mangrove poles.1Legend sa , ys Noah's Ark was the very first dhow - a rakid,rl"7.•d-,aad•l.,esself ilh a laigh deck ~~ and a l · ow bow. Beca . use o f ~ the Arabs enjoyed a golde,i ~ . age of seafaring in the nidh century wllen Bagl,dad 111as , , , , center of the Moslem world. A'•d in 14 98 Portuguese lt ~ - loaded with gold, silvftr, Jewels and spices. 1f Ve t er an dla o"' s k i pp er s nee d ,. e ·11 her s on a r nor radar. DIAMONDS Diamonds - they say - are a girl's best frie,id. Now it turns out they're also a,.. man's. At least, that's the way New York business man Mike Gingold sees it. "Diamonds", he says, "have gone up in this sagging economy - but lo,k what happened to stocks." Some of the rise in diamonds, he says, is because of higher costs for • ilf mining, cutting, and ,n . arketing. Jlut c: lot of ff=::::A simply because } ~ there a:~•- never eno11.gh fine diamonds to meet the demand. Many I ssl people says GtngolJ, make two ma}or investments in tlaeir lives - their house ' /, \ (\ .t. \;, ~ .t7\\ -e~ . ,- ~ '\ , - and, precious stones . ~ u , INDIA NS Thousands of American Indians crowding "Indian capital of the world." Gallup, a com,nr,nity of fourteen t h o u s a n ~ a Navajo r,atton larger than West Virgi■~ ~ three times its ~ ~ c l } •o••«I size 6~ visitors weari,ig the traditional buckski.11 and Ji rt feather conlumes. <3;-$ .. ts a,s,sual ~ r inter-tribal *. s Ji!&AJ»I SUl nearly every tribe in the US a n d - e r i c # : ; ' . : = t . - 1 : : N " - : , ~ ~ ~~ ~~~ dances/I. games,A.,arts aJtd crafts. Some\"• ; fDllit tajlJJ..g ro ad ieJe lli)ndl■N t letl c J1il• II A '::f c a r r ~ s ig■~ "welcome wh tie immigrants"- and one displaying old Indian-head pennies, a11d labelled - "tile onl . y Indian ..itlllfl . . America ever c a r e d ~ ab • out."