NIXON ----- P r e s id e II t N ix o 11 t o day v e I o c d l II o m ea s u re s - th e ~ .-t£;. s cit oo I and !!_ow~ i11g a(JfJ ro(Jria ti 011s _ b il zs;- J!ecau s ~ ~ he p oit1ts out,"' the total amount iti v ol,ed is one-BILLION dollars more titan he requested. The m ea Sllres - which he returned to the Hor,se - include• four-and-a-half-BILLION- dollars for the office of Edncatio,i - and eighteen-BILLION- / dollars forman}' other Federal offices incli,ding Ho11sing r ' and Urban Development, tlte Veterans Administration p and f'St,ace Agency. The President told reporters it's always tempting in an election year to say "yes" to every ~~tlt- st,ending bill •• ••~ a veto was "t,ainf"'• but necessary, to hold down the cost of living." CO UMISSION Also toda y. the Preside nt rrominat ed as uei Clzairmau of the F'edera l Trade Conunis , sion - ,Wile s : W Ki r k pa t rick - a P Iii lade l r, 1z i a l a tD ye ' r w I, o say s the Co m miss f on should be abolished! - That is if it cannot be reformed. The fugitive priest - Daniel Berrigan - who was convicted of destroying draft records as a war protest - was arrested today at a summer home on Bl_pck lsl i and - off ~ the coast of Rhode Island. The forty-nine-ye i ar-old jesui~ and poet was taken into custody by F-Jl-1 men - who hid in the bushes around a private home - pretending to be , bird watche'rs. The assista . nt U-S Attoreny i.n P'rovidence says the only thing now is to su'rre,ide'r him fo'r commitl:me•t to Federal P'rison - to begin serving a three-and-a-h , alf-ye . a'r sentence. .4.cco r d i t1 g to diplomat ic sou rce s i n London , I sr a e l i planes shot down f our M i gs , f lown b y Rus s ian pilot s i n a - iCJ~ , 74, ~ ~ do gf ight o v e r th e Sllez Canal -,,/"st be f ore the c11r r ent c ease f ire was appro v ed. The R1tssians ha v e repeatedl y 14/'elL() den i ed that an y o f their Pilots ~ f l y ing missions in the Suez area. But these London sources sa y they have · tf-J- indist,u table evidence - So v iet airmen were at the controls " ~ought the air battle about a week ago . " All f our Migs crashed in Egyptian territor y after bein . g shot down. Today, Israeli plattes carried out new raids against guerrilla bases in Lebanon.-~ continued guerrilla activit y was ret,o~led in the occupied Gaza Strip and along the 'Jo · rda,. 's West Bank. The Palestinian guerYillas ltave denounced tlte cea · se/i'rlfl - v owing to continue figltting until Palestine - in thei'r woYds - has been liberated . MEMORIAL rhe Uruguayan ambassador in Washington - Hector L11isi - says his government is t,lan,iing to establish a__ memorial in Montevid;;; ? onoring Dan Mitrione - the American police adviser from Richmo,id, Indiana, who was assassinated by leftwing terrorists. A .Jtreet in Montevideo will be named for him - with a t,laque which reads - "To Dan , Mitrione, in eternal memory of one who gave Iii• life serving democracy in his country and beyond its fro11tiers. , ,, STORM ----- More than thirteen hours o f torrential tropical rains have left at least thirty dead in Recife - the~seat,ort 4'vj AIU♦~ ~ t1¥t~...e-~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 'Jita:ti..e, A.,,. tlte Ch:tnawww.s1~j,oJ Brui ~ A city of one-MILLION residents - paralyzed - even as it was trying to recover from disastro11s floods which _ swet,t the same area 11110 weeks ago. Thousands homeless, with entire neighbor•ootls isolated by risiNg rivers tllat meander tlarougla Recife to Ila• sea • .••• GAS -- Governor Claude Kirk o f Florida is p11shing ahead with a last-minute lawsuit - hoping to block go v ernment Pl , ans for dllmping two train-loads of deadly ner v e gas into the Atlantic Oce i an off the F , l••ida coast, Kirk sa y s his fears concerning the t,otential d . anger of tlie plan, are sr,pported by affidavits from ten ocean . ograt,lt : ers. Present plans callf for storing the nerve gas rockets , aboard an old s I, i p to be to UJ e d o u t to s ea - two - , I, u n d red - e i gll t y - ~ miles off Cape Ken . nedy - ~ , scuttled in sisteen-t , llou.s,u1d o-\cr$• feet of water.rKirk fears what might hat,t,en sllould tie ,.... gas esc at,e from the cone re t-e vaults in u1h ich the army has e11casetl the rockets. RIGHTS Reverend Ralt,h Abernathy - 11ead of the S011ther11 Christian Leadership Conference - claims his telephones are being bugged . Abernathy told a news conference in Atlanta he didn't know who was monitoring the civil rights organi~atiolii phones - bllt, he says, "•he,i yo11 pick "" a phone, you kno• somebody's listening in and there are strange voices in the background . " North lh1•011gh history aboard "White Mist" - a forty- six-fool ycuu/ - sai/i,rg twenty-Ji v e hu11dred miles over a two mo,iths t>eriod. Up the historic Hudson, sailing past Fort Lee and West Point ..• on to Lake Champlain, Fort Ticonderoga .• and then east on the Saint Lawrence to ~ ~~~1o~~ 6\ ~ l Newfoundland, Saint Pierre and Miqttelon. r••· 111,,i,icr--:. ~ ~ / ) , I( ~Melville Bell Grosve,.or, - Editor-in · -Cltief of Natio,ral i r ~ ~ Georgra/)hic - and his hardy crew.- ...,., had tie lao,ror of - ~ h . - o ~ ~ ~ ~ being s1,ot at ••■ British canfton at- 'tort Ticonderoga. Jts Ille ,A "White Mis1" sailed across Lalle Cllamt>lai,a, at>t,roaclai,ag Ticonderoga, a Britisll Redcoat .,as overl,eard to say - "There's a target! Oro/) a gunwad on our frie,ad's sailboat and win a case of beer. " Tire cannon roared, a,rd tl,e v' astonished sltit,/)er Jibed tire •~Wlaite Mist'.'-all-standing a,ad ~ fled/\.._into the lake - trailing a shou,er of s/)arlts as tlte cannon's paper wads fell short.JrRe-enactiJtg history ca,r be . :-J J.,..ik ~ A ~ -L a "'~~~ f-i 9 c.tM\6'11, Jun 1 -:=-;- ~ .r-"" , j ,5--·-·•-~ DEPUTY ------- t I J f The deputy shellfish constable of Salt Pond, Massaclrusetts, is a shapely - pretty - petite blo,ade with ha~el eyes. Mary Dowgert - just out of Smith College with a master's degree - believed to be tire first aoo"'a" ever i to guard shellfish from illegal hu,aters o,s Cape Cod. 011• moment, tlaey see ,aotlaing 1'11t a pretty blo,ade strolll11g alo,ag the beacla ,,. a batlairag suit. Tire next, tltey ,ear a claHl, ,er Job? Says sl,e: "Wlaatever claarm I may liave a• a DIRECTORY ---------- Officials of the British teleplaone syste~aring some red faces these days. They now admit it was a mistalte to ..>.. issue . th-.. new telephone directories wlaicla do not li•I """'•• "' in strict a ll'ha be tica . l order. In some ca• es, ti, e #)o• i Ho• of a name in tire directory goes according to tlae first letter of tlae • treet address - NOT the first letter of Ila• ,..,.. •• Britisla 11e111st,a1'ers are leading tlle t,NbHc OMtcry, calli•6 ~~~~~~ it "l•,sacy - ,ao,.se,.se - a11d a blMJ1derA" Wl,y ••• tll• ••• of a t1110-M ILLION-dollar co"'t>" ter a,ad Ill•• sa v• • o"' • •o•• ~ - k ~ ~ ~ a,4t~.