HAVANA From the government of Cllba - by way of Rad i o Ha v ana - an offer today to ,iego hate a "broad agreement" wi th the U.S. - to halt air liijac · kings. The Cuban statement noting that such an agreeme,it - wo1.lld be "in the mutual interest of both c oun tries. " Adding that th e whole question could be settled quickly - if th : e U . . s. would only agree to reciprocal terms. STA TE FOLL OW HAVANA Here al home - a quick response . The U . S. State Department - obser v ing that similar negotiations in the past have come to naught . A spokesman addin . g, however : "We do have the impression - that there may now be a basis for reopening discussions." A . nd - he continued - "we intend to explore this impression." CAMP DAVID On tile Peace front - a temporary lull today; pending tile convening of another and possibly fillal round - of secret negotiations . Reports from both Washington and Paris saying the talks could begin - perhaps as early as this weekend. In the meantime - President Nixon remains at Camp David~rom there ,- -Ct/~~eM - we are told -._~'conferring by (>hone \. today with Dr . Kissinger. The President also met with ~~ . ~~- ~ Agnew - for tire first time since the election; I discussing ways and ,neans of stre.,mlining the Federal bureaucracy r during Iris second term in office. The Vice -('< l. ;1 1 ~ President, n:=,o• "lcl)_,t;,. chief W1iite House contact - witlt }. state and local governments. CAPE KENNEDY Cap,: Kennedy - the three Apollo-Seventeen astronauts were placed in medical quarantine today pen . ding b l ast-off December Sixth . Except for continuing b r u s h - ups - th is al s o ma r k in g the end of t Ire as tr on au ts ' official training (>rogram. And - about time . Miss ion Commander Gene Cernan saying : ''As far as I'm concerned - we're read y to fly now . " WASHINGTON W a s h i n g t o n a g a i 11 - t h e s ta ,. t of C on gr e s s i o,, a l hearings on the fnture of 1ta g e and price co11trols. Lead-off 11itness - Chai, • man C. Jackson G1 • a_vson of the Preside,zt's Price Commission , : slating /hat curre,zt 1tage and price controls - ha v e had a "significant impact'' in curbing inflation; b,,t H hether lhe_v should be extended beyond next April - said he - that's fo1 · the President to decide. Grayson also conceded that food prices present a special problem - .since manv items are still free to fl1tct11ate. Nevertheless, he rejected again the idea of blanket controls - on all food /J ' roducts. "We backed away from that" said he - "because we know what happens when you start down that road; you get sho1·tages pretty soon and a black market" - "and then"- he went o,z - "ratio,iing is riglrt around the corner." SPOKANE A t SP o k a n e , W a s h i n g I o n - a 11 o t h e 1· c a s e of In di an backlash . The t1·ibal councils o f the Spokane, Coeur D'Alene and Kalispell Indians - st::nding a joint resolution to the U.S. Department of th e Interior ; dema,idi11g the p1·osecution of all those whn took (>art - in that lakeo er last ueek at the Bureau of Indian Affairs . ''If the Indians in v ol v ed had come to one of OKr - . '- . - re · ser ations" - said three tribes - "the y would have bee,a subject to due process from our own courts." The resolution also demanding a fllll accounting - of all record• that were seized during the takeo er . TALKS FOLLOW SPOKANE Meanwhile, in Washington, a breakdown in the talks ,. between Indian dissidents and a special White House task "' force. The latter refusing to continue - pending the return of all stolen documents. A spokesman for the task force f11rther noting that the FBI - is still con . tintting its investigation of the takeover, Adding tliat the talks cannot resr,me - U:IIHUif'l~l&S: :.:J - ~ . "u,atil - J: ._ . ;le.. °,-,J - criminal questions involving the /all•••-,r are resolved." NEW DELHI Yesterda y - at India's Delhi Uni v ersit y - a demonslratim b y dissident engineering students . Police were called to break it up - rit,4 this leading to a second demonstration today o v er charges of police brutality . Some th · ,-ee hundred students - attempting to occupy a Vice Chancellor's office. When that failed - seizing a city bus and smashing it into a horse-d ' rawn wag'i,n . The eras h killing two women - and seriously injuring three other persons. B U RLE} . • -t f o I> I h e b i g g e s t h o t e I i 11 Bu 1· I e ) ' , J d a h o - a b i g , thirty-foot marquee. A n d t h e m e s s a g c it b c a r s t o d a ., · : "Ea t m o 1· c I a m b - I ll ' o h u n d r e d I h o II s a n d c o ) ' o t e s ca n ' t b e w r on g • " Explanation - inside . That 's ·w here the Id ah" Wool Gro w e · rs Association - is holding its eightieth annual convention. Association President R.J . Rich c ha1·ging that Federal officials ha v e · passed la w s and issued orders - based on "a lack of knou 1 ledge of the facts and a great tide of emotionalism." These laws · - said he - pro v iding for tire protection of predators - "instead of the protection of I am b s , cal t' es and game an i ma Is . '' Tire President of the National Wool Growers Association - also there . · l'ern Vi v ion telling his Jellot11 sheepmen : "The predator problem - is putting us out of busi,iess." And tlris - said Ire - at a time wit.en tire whole uorld is on the v erge of a wool shortage. OTT.4 WA F1 · om 11/) North at Otta w a - a status report on the neu R o )' a l C a n a d i a n M o u n t e d Po I i c e . Th e M o u II ti e s ,, o w n11mbering about ten thousand men - as c ompared w ith an orig i nal complement of onl y a hundred and fift y. The new breed - ser ing as a modern nationwide police force . TIiey e v en look different. Their brilliant red tunics, for example - now reserved strictly for full-dress occasions . Traditional boots and britches have also been replaced - b) ' blue trousers and black shoes . And no more spurs. Tirey kept catching on tlsings - such as gas pedals a,cd the like : causing at least one accident - before they NJere fi11ally banned . crv ~ Anywa . y , the Mounties,_ e-1 nrq •; 1, ':s, Th ]I 're mo u n te ~ :!!:z. , ~ ::.• .. r '1:f t!:, c::; ~ amphibious airplanes, patrol · boats and helicopters. A nd did - e v en their legendary dog-sled patrols - ha v e been taken ove, A. by snowmobiles . OTTA WA- 2 Some things never change though. And the Mounties tell us they still - always get their man. VATICAN From Pope Paul - at Iris general weekly audience a warnhag today that the Devil exists . "He is tlae enemy number Ofle" - said tile Pope ; "Ire is tl,e tempter par excellence - tlae hidden enemy who sows errors and miafor,,,,,. in human history - a dark and enemy ageflt;" in s11ort - tlae PofJe coJ11iJ1ued - "a live, spiritual, perverted a,atl perverting tl,ing . ,, The Pontiff also caution _ etl - that Ills words shordd not le treated as "",areal or sut,eratitious . " Otae of tll• c ltu re I,' s g,- · eates t needs - said he - Is a "defe,as e agaf,aat TORRE PACHECO This next - from Torrepacheco, Spain; a story about the oldest woman in Spai• 's Murcia Province - Senora Gregoria Martinez . ; wlro - at age a hu,adred-and-ten - has just been paid her first vis it by a doc tor. Be treated lier for a cold. Senora Marli•ea later ol'1serving, a bit sadly: "I must be getting old." °'4.J . .AJ. _ ,f _