Tuesday, No · v ember 18, 19?5 WHITE HOUSE At tl,e Wliite Bo11se - Preside11t Ford met today ,oitl, Hot1 e a,ad S II ate Ret,ublica,as from Ne• Yori, again ext,lorl,ag 11,e possibility of Federal loa11 g11ara,alees - to laelt, save Ne• York City from .1lefa•lt. A11 i,adicafio,a - •e ar• told - tlaal llae're laas been same moveme,al 011 ll,e Pres Id•,. I 's I> art . SI> o k es m an Ro 11 Ness en s a y hag: TI, e President will make a statement on this some time tomorro•. DEFENSE After much controversy, the Senate finally approved today - a new one hundred and twelve point five billion dollar defense spending bill; a measure that now goes to a conference committee - to iron out the minor # differe•ces. Botl, ho11s es agreeiflg though to moth ball the naU011 's o,sly safe missile guard anti-, Irr 11 'X defense site - - at Gra•d Forks North Dakota. RUMSFELD Tlte full Se,sate today at,t,roved over,ol,elmi,egly tile ,iomination of Do,sald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Def••••• At /lwul &OIWJ Ni,iety-Five in Javor - and o,aly T11Jo agai,ast. After seven years as a fugitive abroad - former black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver fi,aally returned today to the U S 1 - 9n arrival at J F K i,a -f:J? wa,a. New York 1' immediately placed under arrest. c,, ..... larlier sayi,ag he'd rather face priso,a i,a Califor,aia - tlJa,a live any lo,sger like "a fish o•t of water." WASHINGTON w ••• ,.,,o • . ,.- .. ~ e rates) ~ . ~ A ti o T n e y Ge n e r a l L e v i s a y blqJ.: "It 's very hard lo detect and catch cTiminals. WIien you do, prosecutoTs use tlteir discTetion not to go allead will, tle case - witnesses don't ,oa,at to at,t,ear - a,ad jNdges, ,ol,o are ltarassed any,oay, do,a't se,ate,ace." L wil:f {J,,di,agr,lo+e;;• r, Ille crime rate can aad •ill be cut - "wlle• t,eot>le decide tlley've ltad e'!ougla of it;"•••• - ~ - - _ . . ...--- , _ , - . . _ ---- tleey make it kt1own "tlley do ,oat1t a crh11i,aal Justice syst•• - - - tliat does require a 1>et1alty of tlose •lo commit serlo•• crimes." LONDON A crowded restaurant in the fashionable ~ Chelsea district of London 1'.. the target tonigllt of another I R A bombi,ag attack. Police saying 2.. ~ / injured,- al" lo••• a•• •••'•••'1· NEW MADRID The body temperature of Franco dropped today to ninety-three degrees; with his doctors attempting to slow down his bodily functions - in order to stem internal blseding and it worked - for the time being, at least. A spokesman saying this will not lead to a recovery - "but will prolong his life a little." MEKONG RIVER Thai and Laotian troop were again tfne«l ■ j. ass, at each other today - from opposite sides of the Mekong River near ll1Jo6. Vientiane. The battle that ~egan yesterday resumf£ today - when Thai /\ commandoes attempted to recover the body of a Thai sailor from a sunken gunboat. - . UNITED NATIONS U N Secretary General Kurt Waldheim £; iutmrrsd jitl■Rs to leave -l-llfA, Thursday - on a trip Heat wtlf lake lzJ,. to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan. Egypt and Israel. Waldheim saying his main goal is tliat of extending the mandate of U N peace keeping f,~f\..f> forces - on the Golan Height~ The U N's present ~ six months mandate}-. due to expire at the end of the month. CAPITOL HILL On Capitol Hill - lhe Senate Intelligence Commillee b gan public hearings today on domeslic •-• jM ••tft1•••••,i• s PY ing by the F B I. This including the reading of testimony - previously gi en in closed session. Sullivan - s - were persons Commitlee Counsel . also introducing part of t h e l e It er - supp o s e d l y s e "t ■■nr · anon y m o "sly by the F B l to Civ i l Rights leader Marlin Luther King. The writer .W■ au threatening lo expose Dr. King for conduct as ye/ unspecified - if he wen/ ahead w'ith plans to accepl his Nobel Peace Prize - furtlier, suggesting that ■rmri suicide might be the only way out. CANCER From the National Health Federation, a t,rivate ~ organi%ation A a report +use.aU, saying the fluoridatior, of U.S. water supt,lies - may have caused an increase ir, car,cer deaths. From the National Cancer 1,estitute, a governfflertt ~~ agency - a ret,or t today call hag ,._ alleged car,cer-JZ,,flrldatlolt A link - pure b•nk. This 011 the basis of stu.dies - involvi11g a na,mber of U.S. cities, both big a11d small. Tiu, Cancer lnstita,te saying it "found no tre,sds in ca,ecer mortality - att rib,,table tn the consumt,tion" of fluoridated 111ater. Adding, indeed, in communities with high leve,s of natural fluorides h1 tl,e water - there were ■ c aw ■ Uy fe111er deatlts ./reM •••••r• t1f tlee irelw &Aid """"oas s;cf1