Tuesday, July 3, 1973 SAN CLEMENTE In the Lo Angeles Time - a story today that special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox i as inv•stigating tlte purchases of President's Nixon's California and Florida estates. A sto · ,-y - later denied by Cox himself; and now bitterly criticized by the western White House. Press Secretary Ziegler saying: "The President is appalled - by th es e cons tan t efforts to s u g g es t wrong - do in g in t I, e t, u,,. c II a•• in qrtestion. Ziegler adding that suclt charges are "malicio•• ill-founded, and scurrilous in nature - and are categorically and flatly untrue. " HELSINKI At H e lsinki - the op e n i n g of that long awaited all-Europ e ans curity conferen e; JIiii-• drawing together the foreign minist e rs from thirty-fi ve nations in both th e East and the West; all aimed at turning the dyh1g 'J,{/r:Vl_ cold~-- t!' - i,st o an era of peace; and off to a flying start - or so it would seem. The first speaker - Soviet Foreig,e Mi11ister A-,,d,el Gromyko; fully endorsing the guidelines for Ille cortferer,ce - as earlier developed ~mo•tlts of hag g li11g; calli,eg now for the developme,at of a ,aeav "code of key provisio,es - for peace i11 EMrope." a ban or, the use of force 1 - a system for mediati,eg disputes,- and non-i,etervention in i,eter11al affairs.~ ~-& r'ro be worked out by the e %I> e rt~ - I e +: ,, •ii• ■ • d, :.ea.4 then eNdorsed - ' ' at the highest level." Kosygin adding, what's more: "There exists every possibility to HELSINKI - 2 omplete the entire work of th e conj rence - before the end of Nineteen S venty-Three." VIENNA Russia's Alexei Kosygin - a visitor today in Vienna; there laying a , reath - at the monument to an unknown Russimsoldier., The Soviet Premier tlaen emulating a western style politician - the same as Brezhnev did here in the U S. Instead of retur,ai,ag to his car - _.. wading into a crowd of on-lookers; shakheg hands and excha,aging greeti,ags all arou11d - as he walked the two blocks back to his hotel. 2. O,ae of Kosygin's security gNards later sayi11g: "All our efforts 11Jere for 11ot1,i11g - lae •as 011 his o.,,. so lo11g out there • 321 fga11ythi11g co,dd laave 1tappe11ed." From others · tho•gll - Kosygi11's u11expected warmtl, dra•i11g mostly praise. Frau Magda Sclu,eider for o,ae. sayi11g - "it was the first time I ever saw him smtli,rg." And she added: "He looked really nice." LONDON Britain's so-called "cod-war' with Iceland - was again heating up today. - -.t.0111do• (f British warships protecting · IJ.--11• • trawlers off the c oa t of Iceland - tfl':i now tutfl authorized to return /4 fire in any clas( with Icelandic gun boats. This followi,ag a co,afro,atatio,a - beta,ee11 the lcela11tl'k w••=•••t Aegir and tire West Germa,a trawler, Teutonia. Tire Aeglr allegedly flrl11g ta,o shells - wla lch la,aded ''da11g · erously close" to tlae British frigate Leopold. London observl,ag tlaat Ille Aegir's actio,as - "were a,lt~lly 11,apredictable" aildl•I aw.I~ ,1,, 10111a, ••• wl1•2 r, 1 ■ fliJ at/, or:r,at"disregard - for tlae rlgllts of other natio11s. TOKYO London again - a decision today by Britain's giant engineering workers unio,i - to boyco,t everything French for one week. This in support of Australian and New Zealand protests against the co,atinuatio,a of French nuclear testing i,a the South Pacific. - - l ) •at/ a ■10,Jd oeu1 -b Tokyo - Japar, 's liberal d.§mocratic party rulir,gt<Wt nl 111 I \Juaaa A was drafth1g a resolutior, -- callir,g for a worldwide ban on - r,uclear testirag; a resolution said to be strongly endorsed - by all oppositior, parties, except lite Japa,. Commu,.ist party. At Ille sam,· fl ; 11~1',.. fall-a•t -c:4. from Red Cllir,a's latest "•clear test A laeadirag•• ~ / 4 straight for the . . , US A expe·cted to reach tl1e Pacific Northwest some time l a t e - to,.ight or early tomorrow. GoveY,.ment expeyts pyedicting 011ly "mi,aimal" ,-adio activity - but planning to keep a close check - just in case. PENTAGON From the Pentagon - an order today dismissing all charges against . . seven returned PO W's. These including five soldiers and two marines - enlisted men all - earlier accused of collaborating with the enemy. Army Secretary Howard Callaway a,sd Navy Secretary John Warner - saying there was simply insufficient evidence. Adding that this was also,,. lhee with "the policy of the Department of Defe,sse - agal,sst holding trials for alleged propaganda." ~ > k , On his own, Callaw'1y further sayi,eg: "We A must not overlook the good behavior of these men - r:::.:~ during tlae two o-r three years eac"t< .Au,eder brutal prison • conditions in South Viet11am ,,., before they we re moved to the North,)- the lack of food a,sd medical care,- Ille sub primitive living conditio,es - . / and the pl,ysical torture. "They had a very hard time" he continued - "a,ad they behaved admirably durh1g th i s p e ri o d . " PENTAGON - 2 Today's action - also following the -op~•••ri sa:uirle. af 11 r:ei3tl~ •a• ea ri•1wut:r Sergeant Abel a. Kavanallgh ,.,, ,of D e n ~ ' T h e Sergeartl 's widow ••••~ 1h JccusatiOns against her husbartd - a£Jk, ••• ~ "fictious": but av;i;e,tielw . as::::s• had pushed #aim over the edge. IWillld;;. Mrs. Kavanaugh •s ~~ of t•~ •• llo■ll-1 play~ an importa11t role ,,. ~ A ~-~ ~4~~id of her llusba11d: "He wer,t to Vtel11am - and the North Vietnamese kept laim alive for five yea rs. - Tiie n he ca.me back to A me rt ca - a,ad his 0111n people i1it killed 11 - im." WASHINGTON Tile chairman of the Pr ident's oil policy committee- was attempting today to reassure American 111 otoris ts. w;z I ia n, Sim on saying: "We are 1101 c o,ss ;ey-, ga oline rationing at the present time•- a,sd a,sy Teports I that the go eT,iment has printed rationing stamps OT cards is not tr¥,e." Director Duke LigDn of the DepaTtment of ~ /,stertor office of oil and gas - ~litd discussi,ag tlae same subject) ,"aytng that vaTious plans aTe uradeT consideTatton - i,acludi,sg possible mandatoTy sll a allocations of gasoli,ae to independent dealeTs. But II~ stTessed that "these plans - do not include Tationirag at the co,asumeT level." lo - UNITED NATJON another statistical year book; including tile latest figures on long " it and population around the globe. :Eloi o I J ~ study noting-;.:for IIIDMjll•i that men live lnr• r 11 longest in Sweden - wllere m ~ l i f e e x p e c ta n c y is .1':o-•·•·•s n ea r l y s e v e n t y - t w o ye a rs ; while women live longest in Norway - ••••• fw•al.., U/e wap1rtuNc y h •r ■s e.,_ seventy-seven years. Here i,s tlte US by contrast - seve'lty-o,se point-o,ee years for both men and women. <..) The U N guide also lists PortMguese Macao off the Chi,se se coast - as the most "'•-Ellflt't lteavily populated place on earth. More than eighty..one tltousa,ad persons - per square mile. 111 fl r At the reverse end of the acale - Botswana, Libya, Mauritania a,sd Mo11golta except for a Jew cities - said to have a • populatio,e de,ssity of "nearly zero" per square mile." Ro, •II p ~ ~ f f « ! t --s a no-man's land. A ROME FOLLOW WASHINGTON A nationwide gasoline shortage - was also topic A today in Italy. The Rome based federation of gasoline station operators - accusing major oil companies of deliberating with-holding deliveries. This - it was said - in M hopes that . the Italian government will soon authorize a new price increase. Italy [- _!. buck-len a gallon/ of which taxes alo1te ittk FOURTH to c e leb ra le the nation's one - hundredth-and _ _,,i,.ety_ seventh birthday; a,ad more than that the first /,,Mrtlt of July at peace - i11 more tha11 a decade; r I••• a11 occasio11 calli11g for •'111 fire.,orks, parades, patriotic speeches, festivals, co,icerts, regattas - the wltole slteba,ig. '' '• ..... ~ • ,.,.,,., • , time for family a11d frie11ds to get together. Jlat ii■ MP I ; Comedia,a ...c..-. Bob Rope,,._flyt11g some fifty of ltis Clevela,ad relatives - out to Caltfor,aia.,, for a real old-faslato,aed fo•rtli. Here'B laopt11g yours ts tlae same.~A- .f-.. w-t"-1to1..