GUERILLAS The Arab guerillas who last week massacred thirty.- persons in an airline attack at Rome and Athens, had originally planned to assassinate Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Beirut a day earlier -- this according to military and diplomatic sources in Brussels. These reports say ~ibya or~ered the attempt against Kissinger's life 1 but Lebanese authorities leamed of it in time and diverted Kissinger's plane to another airport forty-five miles from Beinit. In Paris, French officials claimalll to have broken up a Palestinian guerilla group with the arrest of thirteen persona inc1 1 j ding two women -- and the seizure of a large cachet of weapons and explosives. ~ clai ess g e - n d l ~ Energy Advisor Simon is being swamped with about fifteen hundred letters a day from Americans who want to help him cope with the crisis. One Oklahoman -- who lclaims to be an inventor -- offered an energy saving devise called the "Electroplasma Gravity Hydrogen Fusing Reactor." We weren't told wbetlar Simon will look that one over. Another inventor wrote a long letter detailing a device to put "ocean waves" to work. To dispell any doubts, the letter bad this postscript "rememher--they ~ 0\\..17 ~ i/,...1< \)""'8t:t° ~ : - ________J' • / t • ... ~ ...... Orville, it won't fly. 11 QUILTING The age of the quilting bee is with us again -- an old-time past-time emerging anew -- to join other homecraft revivals ·~vy such as needlepoint, knitting, crochet and embroidery. Perhaps it's because shortages are causing more people to stay at home -- making their own when they need it -- with quality desired more than quantity. Two art dealers in New York are presenting an exhibit -- called the "Great American Quilt Festival" -- featuring homemade quilts of the past century. , One is colorfully stitched with a portrait of George washington -- surrounded by eight large American flags -- which are, in tum, surrO\Dlded by numerous small flags of many foreign countries. _.t • I t -- 4t,:1nJ:t:::Geoqr:::lllsb114tcn1 in bt • &~~~= ~b:!'.i4;"' 6t t.E:e:S1■1 •• t 18l [%ti l" at- ~ ~~ J - ~ ~ to~ - . ~ WF.A'fflER The Tennessee Valley is braced for a JD&jor flood control effort tonight -- .t:ctl torrential rains causing . . . . rivers to rise ~ - at at iiWL a foot-an-hour. )6ny families <al& Js have left their homes in Mississippi -- with flash flood warnings posted from Louisiana to West Virginia. ti••• •a LIM &iiiiillii, tornadoes and high winds are bowling over homes in parts of Alabama and Mississippi. BUS A Continental Trailways bus -- with about twenty passengers aboard was speeding along a north Texas highway -- enroute to Los Angeles when one of the passengers -- a husky young man -- went forward and started arguing with the driver. The argument continued as the vehicle sped on at sixty-miles-an hour-- the driver insisting that the passenger had boarded the wrong bus • . ,,,_,,..ln a fit of rage, the passenger pulled a l p knif~£• • b!t 111 ,a -- and aupaac11&, stabbed the driver -- forty-one-year-old Bill Young of Texarkana, Texas. Young managed to steer the lus off the highway -- then he stepped out and collapsed.a• •h• : it, He was dead on arrival at a hospital. His assailant -- who fled on foot -- ~ I, ~ ~~ ~ - was captured late today with the aid of blood ounds and helicopters., 'A lh®t six mtles · rrco ,,.. Mf ♦Bl1F ASIA C011111Unist forces in South Vietnam today launced simultaneous attacks against six government militia posts in the coastal province of Quang Ngai. They also succeeded in blowing up a bridge -- cutting off all traffic to the provincial capitol. In Cambodia, four women were killed and forty - five shopper■ wounded when a hand grenade exploded in a market place near Pnom Penh -- while fighting between govermnent and rebel force■ continued near the city. MAO No public celebrations are scheduled in China today -- even though it,ts the eightieth birthday of Mao Tse-tung who -- on New Year's - Day nineteen-twenty-one -- declared -- "My revolutionary aim is to transform "hina and the world." There seems little -- or no -- doubt that, Mao, after half a century t■ ta1, Mao has transformed the weak and divided China of his youth into a ~ ~ f i e d /, nation -- one of the world's five major powers. But he has not transformed the world -- even though there are abase who claim he--.,. 10 -- as he continues to rule the world's most populous nation. c6 sev&aueto--hJe d rp I'! 1 EU: au; ~ d e Red China, the struggle goes on -- a struggle now centered around the question of Mao's eventual successor. Mao's number two man -- Chou En Lai·· is seventy-four himself, and the question is -- who or what group ~~~~ will point the way for China when .._, pass from the scene. f;l at " ~.~~~/ aczul;; :0. i•Lm w oC" China' a future l e a d e r s h i p ~ {?~,~ - ~~~ 8t ~ - = the de~t.'fiay · of the world. c:, ?\ 7 FUNDS The Agriculture Department says the White House Office of Budget Management has decided to impound about forty percent of the one-hundred-seventy-five-million dollars which congress voted for next year's farm conservation subsidies. The decision would permit the spending of no more than one-hundred-million of the alloted amount. Congress has strenuoualy protested earlier White House decisions to impound funds for other purposes -- notably those for the Health and Welfare Department which were recently released. The White House baa insisted the impoundments are necessary to hold down inflation. ENERGY President Nixon -- responding to a press photographer who wiabed him a "Merry Christmas" 1 t i t b kn -- e e own that major efforts are being made to avoid gasoline rationing in the current crisis. The President made the statement as he posed for picture• with White House Energy Advisor William Simon who -- t0110rrow -- ia expected to announce an official decision on the no rationing approach. Through a spokeaman, the President also welcomed as "a aign of progress" the Arab decision to lift oil embargoes against Japan and some &tropean nations. At the same time, federal officials announced plans to investigate M number of service station dealers who groaaly overcharged holiday drivers unfortunate enough to run out of 1••· Such reports have come frcn •DY aectiona -- one tellir.g of a Nev York City dealer who sold regular gas at ninety-nine - and-nine-tenths cents a gallon. If the gas shortage baa another aide, then it comes frm the National Safety council which aay• a record low of five-hundred- d the four day Christmas Weekend. eighteen deaths were reporte over STUCK Buoyed by the Arab Move to ease oil restrictions in Dsrope and Japan, the New York Stock Market staged a strong rally today -- sending most stocks higher. The Dow Jones average clilll>ed -,re than twenty-two points.-- ulsstQ 1Ji •t1ht t l:• 1 ti I I> N w