Wednesda },, Af>ril 24, 1974 WHITE HOUSE Today Congress received a new five-point one billion dollar f o r eign aid program from President Nixon . This incl11di11g an appropriation of two hundred and fifty million - for Egypt ; as the President put it - to help strengthen tlle "forces of moderation " in the Middle East. The President adding: "The hope for a lastheg solution to ,,,e Arab Israeli dispute - is stronger today than at any time in the previo11s quarter century." WATERGATE The latest on Watergate from the House Judiciary Committee, where staff lawyers are said to recommend tlae dropping of more than half the preliminary imt,eachment charges - filed against President Nixon. These including allegations dealing with the President's personal finances, illegal contributions, refusal to st,end appropriated funds, and the sending of U . S. troops into Cambodia. ltJNYL From the En u i - ronment Protection Age,icy a rare e mergency O ' rder: an order banning the sale of thousands of ca11s of Pesticide sprays - containing v inyl chloride. EPA administrator Train saying: "The public health im(>licatio,rs of exposure to vinyl chloride are undetermined" Adding, however, "the link between the gas and" a rare form of liver cancer - is suspected strongly enough to male it prudent to ban Pllblic use." SENATE Treasury Secretary Designate ~'illiam Simon - a witness today before the Senate Finance Committee; th ere saying he opposes a tax cut - on the grou ,sds it would only make inflation worse; addi,ag that he pla,as to give top priority - to "getting the inflatio,s drago11 back ,,. the cage. " FED Oh _ves, and the Federal Reserve Board todal' increased its inte · rest rate to member banks, 11P from se en-and-a-1,alf to eight percent. Another attempt to stem i,iflation. SAN MARCOS FOLLOW LENINGRAD Here at home - a trio of Soviet citizens aoere meeting with students and faculty at Southwest Texas Stale University. One Mikhail Bogdanov a Lenf.ngra . d Univers Uy s tu den t s aid t he Berlin Wall was a p ,· o du c t of the cold - war - and now should be destroyed." Discussing the fate of exiled Russian autllor Solzhenitsyn. Leonid Aslan"o~, a professor at Moscow Un i v e rs i t y • s a id : "Sol z II e nits y n is for t II e re tu r II o J I Fascism - theSoviet Union lost twenty million people I fighting fascism. We do not intend to allow it to relu.rn:. F B .I The F B .1 today anno1tnced the discovery of troo cars " s e d 1 a s I ,, eek in th e San Fran c is c o b a n k la o l d -up for ro la i c It p . atricia Hearst is being , sought as a material 10ih1ess. The cars fou'11d abandoned i11 a J,u bl ic garage - ,rear downtown San Francisco. T"e F B 1 sayi,rg tltey were rented by a woman si11ce identified as a member of Ille self-styled Symbionese Liberation Army. EVERGLADES Another raging fire in the Everglades National Park in the ,,as t two wee ks has consumed thousands of acres of drought stricken swam,, land ; and now tllreatens tlle tf'ibal headquaf'ters of the Miccosukee Indians - on Ille Tamiami Tf'ail. A spokesman /of' tlle National Paf'k Sef'vice saying: "Unless we get heavy rains the situation will be worse. .LONDON A cor,ple of years ago, tire new Prime Minister of Malta , Do . n M i nto//, was all for ousting the British. That same Do . n Minloff - in London today was meetheg with British officials, urgi,rg tlaem to lleer, their troops 011 Malta - for another fi 1J e years - at least . Tlee reason? Mo,eey . TIie lreserece of Britisl, troot,• pt1ts some se v e11ty two dollars a year i,eto tl,e Maltese• e co,eomy, a s11m Malla needs. ENCINO One of America's most famous comedians of yesler )' ears has r,assed away, at Encino, Califorr,ia. Bud Abbott of Abbott and Costello - a victim of car,cer . Age seve•ty fi v e . At their r,eak Abbott ar,d Co•tello earrtetl ,,.,1110•• - when millions were millior,s. After ll1ey •fllil Lou Co•l•llo did a "sh1gle" till lie died. Abbott was all but wlt,etl o•I a by 1 ta . ~ ruli11g, In rece,at years - livir,g mai11l) 1 011 social security. FORT LA UDBRDALE America's 11e111 kissi11g cl, . ampio11s - yoga a11d heal th Jo od buffs Louise Bea ti, a11d Vi1111 le Toro; ti, e 111i,eners o f a so-called "kiss-atl,011" laeld toda1 at Fort Lauderdale, Florida ; still goir,g stror,g aol,er, all otl,ers had parted . After 111,aety-six l,oa,rs a11d tlalrty taoo , .- - mlr,a,tes of r,o,a-slot, smoocl,lrag. First 1>rlae ,,.,- , ••• ,. a t rip IO TO ro ,rt O; tfJ I, B re ~~if--r .. JJJIJIIIISIIINSIIF==IID~« :l:As:e ZI =«~•1tt•ll•1t111•~--=~'~•:a1=,,~•su atle,ad a co,acert - by a gro•t> call•tl appro/Jrlately "'"• kiss." JOHANNESBURG South Africa's wll ite v oters went to tlie r,olls today - to elect a new government a,rd witll Prime Minister Vorster attemr,ting to gain a mandate - for a conti,ruatio,r of llis r,resenl ar,artlreid policyV He's exr,ected to.,,,. lla11dily, 11si11g as ltis campaig,r sloga,a: "You t1101e1 wltal you've got - yo,i ,ae v er kn o"' wlta t y ON m iglat get. " . , _ .,.1 ... uu,ttlx ALBANY In the New York State Legislature - a lobbying effort by a grout> calling itself the "Hat>t>haess of Womanhood;" otherwise known - as HOW. HOW members attempting to preverat tl,e passage of legislatiora - aimed at (>ro · v idi,ag equal rigl,ts for wome,a. Ba11di11g out fresla- baked apple (>ies - alorag witla tlaeir literature. HOW spokesma,a Clair Middleto,a sayi,ag: "We do,a't wa,at to be treated tlae saffle as "'e,.. ,, ~ ma,. is t la e la ea d of t la e fa m ii y - bid "' e w o"' .,. , . t la• la•" r I.