CABINET President Nixon today named Healtlt-Wel/are Secretary Elliot Riclaardson of Massacltusetts as Defe,ue Secretary in the new cabinet - and at tire same time - tlte Pres iden I announced that Budget Director Cast,ar Wei,ebff,.,- of Caltfornia will succeed Ricltardso,r in tlee Healtlt-Welfare r,ost. Roy L. Asl, - t,reside,it of Litto,e J,rdustries - is tl,e 11ew BNdge t Di rec tor. Com me,i _ ti,.~, Pres ide,it Nixo,i sad "Tl,e ,iext four years will be very exciti•g times for tl,ls nation - botll domestically artd i,iter,catio,aally" - atldirtg tllat ii was toitll. confide11ce a,r.d f)leasure tlaat tl,ese tllree t,eot,le would be ,oorki11g witlt llim. F•rtlaer cabi,aet at,t,oi,atmertt• are due tomorrow. - VIETNAM A radio Ha11oi broadcast quotes Chinese Premier Cho11 En-Lai as "severely condemning'' th u "t d e n, e States for failing so far to agree to the In.do-China ceasefire ag,,.eement drafted last month by Henry Kissin.ger and tl,e Nortlt Vietnamese. At Ille same time, tlte broadcast said Ba,aoi ;, 8 no., P1ego tiat iflg for ex te11ded m ili tar y a.id from bo ti, Pell iflg aNd Moscow - a rel> ort verified from tit e Moscow e,ad by a Tass statement. In ,,.e war, America11 bombers - wltile .,,,. : ig ••t,t,ort for So• tit Vie hea ,n es e gro,oad troot,s - ,,,,1 oaded Ji ve-lt•,adred- poured bombs by mis ta lie o,e a to"'"' s or, ti, of Da Na,ag - llil li,ag at least ,ei11etee11 civilia,as a11d .,o,.,r.dh1g aboNt tltirty otlu,rs. Jr, Was It ingto,a, o• t-goireg Defer,s e Secretary Mel vi,a Laird said tlaat NO men 1110,,ld be drafted ireto tlae armed forces d•riJtg Ja,.uary a,ad o,aly' abo•t ten-tltor,sa,ad will be called ut, before tlte curre,at Selective Service Act ext,ires on June Tltirtieth. Laird also ex1>ressetl confidence the armed forces would attract enough volr,r,leertp.affwt lte dn/:f - VIE1'NAM - 2 ,.., ea1>4: 11 u Ho we ver, lie adds , Congress may Ii ave to use a draft la,., to fill quotas in the Notional Guard a11d Reserve• u,eless it at,1>roves a bonus bill aimed at attrac H,ag mor ,· volMrtteers. ULSTER The 1-R -A launched a Ju ll -scale gu eril la-lyt,e offensive in Northern Ireland today - bringing dcatll a,ul destruclio,a lo several commrinities. Bombs and Soviet-made a,cli-tank rockets were used agai,r,sl ten police slatio11s """ Army t,osts - killing a soldier, a t,olicema11 a.11tl t.,o yo,,,ag 1-R-A activists. TIie rockets are similar to tlrose tire Russians issued to the Viel Cong in Viet11am. CRAS , j A Japan Ait · Lines Plane burst into flames today shortly after taking off from the Moscow •irt,ort and crashed in a snowstorm - killing at least sixty-tl1ree of the passengers and crew . Thirteen miraculously ,,.rvived. TIie plane was beginning a trans-Siberiare flight to Tollyo ••en a fire apparently broke out 011 board. TRAIN Federal safety ext,erts say the fatal yea . r near Effingham, Illinois , tohich killed eleven and i,ejured one-hundred-sisty-tliree others, was ca.used by a locked locomotive wheel which slid for almost forty milta before Jumt,ing the track at ninety miles an laout'. TIie Safety Board says a wheel warning indicatot' wllicll co•ld laove r,reventetl tlle crash, was inofJerative at Ille time. TIie reason given was inadequate repair a,ad testi,ag t,rocetl•r•• - artd violation of Federal safety rules. LOTTERY More a nd more states are resorting to official lotteries as a 11 afJfJarently "Painless" way to raise money witl,011 . t raisi,-ig taxes• Many state officials too are trying 7 to stave off taxfJayer revolts against higher sales, property and income taxes. Only recently, the voters i,a Maryland a/)f>roved a lottery there, bringing to eight the ,aumber of stat es wlr i ch have cl imbJ!board the- latte ry band,pago,a. '" NeNJ Hamt,sltire - first state in modern times to at,t>rove a lottery - half the take goes to the NJfnners - tire ot1,er Ital/ to Ille public school system. Since tlse,a, other lottery •t•I•• i,aclude New York, New Jersey, Pe,.,,.sylva,aia, Massacltuaelta, Co,a,aectlcut, Micltigan a,ad 110,0 Maryla,ad. A•d •t least a d02e11 otlter states are coasideri11g it. ~ " ' Yorlt State ,._ bi,ago ltas raked in a 1>rofil of aboNI o,ee-llu,rdred-seventy- MILLION in its first five yeaYs. DRUGS The Consr,mers Union sa y s marijuana is llere to stay and sho , · d be legalized without ~ further ado _ sayheg "it's m11.ch to °' late to debate the issue . " In a le11gtlly repo,,.t issued in Washington, the Union says also - "NO cortceivable la"1 enforcement program can curb the availability of ~ ~ : - .,, ,, marijuana . 1 However, we do NOT re comm ertd legali~atiort because we believe marijuana is ~le or harmless - but I rather because it would •nd tlte psycltic damage dorte to yo1u11 j people by their arrest, conviction artd imprisortme,at for marijuana off ens es. " 0 In San Fra,a cis co, tra i,aed dot,e -s ,aiffing iogs led Po•nds of llasllislt agents to three-ltundred-fift..,.,. 1 0 ■■1#1 J A6ei,ag s m•ggled in to tit e a ;rport. Tle ca11ine "os es dis covered tl,e slrit,me11t ltidden inside twertty~five boxes of Jewelry •IIPilil• - •*••· fr om New De 111 i. And 0 ,. the Left Bank ;,. Paris, the ge11darmes moved in to break ut, a11 inter11ational drug ri1tg - seiz ;,,g ... bout DRUGS - 2 011e-h11ndred-lhirty-two t,ounds of pr,re heroin whicl, _ if sold on the streets here ;,. tlte u s A - NJould lra,,e broe,gllt the /)us,,ers a cool twe•ty-six-MILLION dollars. Under af"rest are Jive Fre,rclrme,a - a Urr,guya,a - and 11110 Mexicar1• - o,se of wltom is fifty-ni11e-year-old Gefleral Humberto Maril es Cortes - a,s iflter,aationally-llJ10111n eques triaJt 1111,o .,o,. a go . Id medal at the Ni'11eteef1-Forty-Eigllt Olympic Garn•• ;,, Lo•do11. Agents say tlaose arrested formed a" imt,ort1111t ll•II ;,. a s mugglhtg ,aet111ork exte,adiJtg from Marseillr to tl,e U S by way of Latin America. NtotD, does t1tis rnea,a tllat t•e Frencli Co,a,aectio11 IJas bee11 disco,anected? We GUILLOTINE (folo drugs) Also in Paris , t w o convicted murderers were ~ execr,t e d toda y under France's Eiglrteentlt Century guillotl11e 1 ;;( - tire first Ilse of capital punislrment in Fra · ,ace i,a more tlu1,a ll,ree y ears . The two men •ent to tlreir deallt• •Hlloul out•ard signs of fear - both refusl,ag tlie cu•tomary firud glass of rum and a cigarette before mou,ati,ag tlae guillotl,ae'• 11 platform. ~ a r l ago w'liile i,a f'riso,a, tlaey seiietl t•o laos tages - o,ae a prison nurse - a,ad tilled bot• i,a '"• riot tlta t foll o"1ed . SEYER In Los Angeles , the German-born engineer who :made b a ll p o in t Pens work is dead a t l h e a g e o f e i g I, l y - t,,, o • will i a ,,. F . Seyer - a f ormer U-C-L-A professor - accomplialied th i s f eat after man y users of ballpoint pe,es despaired of ever being able to write witla them duri,eg the Nh1eteen-ForUes .,hen tlae pens were first h1trbduced . Trouble was tlaey contai,eed a wax y type o f int tllat Just ,oould,e'I .,.,.lie . Doctor Seyer came lo llie ,esc11~evelot,i11g a qtticle ,( ballpoint ink tlaat ,vorked - and is sUU bei,ag used . B•I dry lag MONUMENT Eighteen-year-old Je,cs Kl.nl,L_,. , 1 • .. .. . . , R v - an eXC,r,tJ,t,ge stude11t ft-om Denmark - had P l eaty of time to take in tl,e view wltile he was stranded alone for more t1,a,a t•o hours o,e top of the Washh1gto11 Mo11umeJ1t - ofter mi••••g tl,e l aat elevator tlow,a to Ille grou,ad level. Ur,.oble lo atlract fifty-five-foot tall mo,11,me11t, .Je11s diacaveretl a tele#)lao•• cabi,set and t,ried it open witll ,a t,oc,,et ludfe. Tll•• lie bega,a diali,ag n1un6ef's 011 a list .. but aobt1.uly a,. • .,,,,.,,,1 uratil, finally, lae dialed tl,e lasl J1Nm6er ••ti• voice said - · "May I laelp yo11?" It ••• #)robably t1,e biggest urtderstate....., itt 11,e monument's liistory. Witlai• ter1 mt••les, #)olice GTTived oad 6To■gU J••• do••-•PM • · /)./ .A.-.R -