Tues . Jan. 4, l972 PORTLAND Portland , Maine - Senator Muskie makes ti official; formall· y declaring for the Democratic Presidential nomh,alioll. This in a taped • .;tatement - scheduled for ,rationwide broadcast later ton.ight . In it Senator M11sltie sa,• it wo11ld be foolish to blame all tlte ,aatio,r's flrobleffl• 011 t•• flrese,ct Niso,c admhristratio,c . Tlae,c, tlte,c Ire adds tlaal "A11 admi,cistratio,c tlaat llas failed us ,,. tl,e past - ca11,col talte .... to Ille fut11re . " "I am seelli,cg tlae preslde,ccy" - lae tells "', "1101 merely to claa,cge Preside11ts b11t to clta,age tire co11,atry; to malte America wltat it was to Abrallam Li,ecol,a - 'tlee la•t best laot,e of mankirt.d'." Tlaat - from Mai,c's Muskie as he tlarows lais laat ,,. t•• ri,eg . SAN DIEGO ,,_ President Nlxo11 ~ O : . U aa =•r• e■rlJ ll■y••r at the Western While H o u ~ k i e f .....,. f u : s - i o ~ -fs?er .. San Diego(lfJhere lie a,enounced the alfJardi•g I- of a new fifly-fotir million dollar ship building coNtracl - lo San Diego's National Steel and Slaip-b,dltlittg CoJNt,afly. -Kr? . Tltis Ille first step - said,<•• re 011,r ■ I i• a progra,. Io rev" a II z e , he U S s Ii Ip build i tt g i "ti"• try ; to rest or• tlae U S - to a "J>osi lio• of b ehtg t lte leadlflg ••11:la maritime nation." FD A By order of ll1e U S Food and Drttg Adminislrat -- a sweeping review of all non prescription drugs - some ti mes called patent medicine. F D A Commlssio•er .. Cltarles Edwards charging that many of tltese ~ 4:f:~ot2•::1w11:11+:il:au:it:el-::11~-=- do n o ~ • '1; t<~ cl a i mi I , ~"• c: I - - It a v e .,.. , , / , ✓J. inadeq11ate instruclioHs for effective use - or are t,ro,,.oted ,,. decet,Hve afld indefe,,sible lf1ays. ~ _ ; . . ~~~ .... c¼:- ,.,. ls sJllslf - 1 "a cause for concern." PARIS After fo,,r weeks of poslf)onemenls - Viet,ram peace talks in Paris will resume 011ce agai11 day after tomorrow. Th . is by v irtlle of a Communist proposJI for re11ewed talks which - today was accepted by the U S a,ad South Viet,aam. Tl,is may be progress, of sorts - e%cet,I that Ille parley .., ill soo11 be e11te-rl,eg Its fifth year •Illa results so far practically 11il . VIETNAM FOLLOU PARIS Meanwhile, c ,iemy for c es in /ndo China - were again laking ad v a,,tage o f Ille dry seaso• • .,#ettheg / an a m bu s h for an 1 \ m e ri can pa I r o l ,, • a 6 olJt forty - miles northeast of Saigon; and t:t:rw downi,ag four (1\,\J"l>?\.eM. U S helicopters - sen/ lo help~--. U S officials call"- tltis the heavies/ e•gageme•I by a,a America• combat '"'" ,r,, si,ace last . . , May 1 ht Ille A-Sleax Valley. E,aemy troops were also sweepi•g across the Plai,a of Jars -- hr nearby Laos. A•d leere - we are told - for the first thne - e•emy Mig Jets ~ sxpplyi,ag tactical air support. MONR01 1 1A Jfll< An Arm y bas e al Monro v ia, Liberia,;ittoday's main slop for U S First Lady Pol Nixon; cssa 7iiere..,,,. a lo,, g wit h L i b c r I a ' s n e w l y i n a u g i, r a I e d Pr e s id e n I , William Tolbert .J 1r~ site . , . attended a ninety minute display of tfuole "ma.!:..!_hing jazz and s~l." This - courtesy of the v isiting Grambli,rg College Marclthtg Band from Res to,r, Louisianq. Mrs. Nixor, b0Nnch1g a Tolbert gYandson on her knee - in time to lite torrid beat. Jt 111. ~ member ~ of tlte/,Preside,at 's f,e · rsor,al g•ar~1H leeard to remark: "I wislt .,e co•ld mare#, ( like tlcat." Also,present -- and having a good time - President Houf,houet -Biogr,y of the Ivory Coast. A WI, it e Rous e aide obs er vi"' g: "The Firs I Lady and President Houf,ltot1el-Blogny ar ~ gell Ing along famously - although, of course, they can't undet"sland a word - , a.TJa, the allier is saying." PARIS - CHEVALIER Paris again - fi,ral arrangements for tire fu,eeral of France's most famous entertainer of this ce,etury. Offlc•,. disclosi,eg that Maurice Chevalier will go his fh1al restl,ag ,,lace - dressed as Iris millio,as of fa,es all over tl1e globe remember him; black tuxedo a,ed a blaclt bolf1 tie - "'"" a rosette of Fra,ace's Legio,a of Horaor i,a llis butto,a-1,ole; all tot,ped, of course - by llis traditlo,aal stralf1 boater. 'I'll• actor si,ager's relatives sayir,g - that's tile lf1ay Ile •••t•tl It. HONG KONG F1•01n Ho,rg Kong - a report today /Ital four late model Germa,z-made limoHsines obtained last week in /he British Crown Colo,iy - are no,o enroule lo Peking. These - ,oe are /old - /he personal cars of four wealthy Hong Kong Comm11nists; ,ol,o agreed,- 7't,.,, ~ - io ..id- under pr;~711re~ ,.___,,, J•••:,\ llaen, be used next mo,alla ~,-tkr>1;~ to .. •• Bed ~A welcome ~ President Nixo,e. Next q11esllon: Why don't tlte Claheese a,se tlielr o,on cars? And lhe ans,oer lo tltat -- a questlo• of face. Clalaa ,oatclaers observf,eg tltat t"e beat a,id latest Clal,iese cars · - are merely ,iea, co/lie• l'r of old Russia,i seda,is; aad ,oorse -- ltfl•~are al•ays breaklag do111a." SINGAPORE ~ 11,e places l1ardesl hi/ by lh.r so-called "populatio,a e x p I o s i on • " Sing a p or e : s I I I • I p op" la Ii on l'1 h1 c re a s i ,a g (j.__ from --.r million lo more 11,an lwo million during Ille ~ ~ fifties and sixlies. _....., T,,en'J;"* ll■ il DI a ,ra/ionaolde family planNiNg cantpaign - which is still beari,ag fr•it, ~ 2 f e ' ' ~ ~ . or vice-ver ' saA At a,ay rate, Singapore's blrlll rate - 110,0 slloaoing lllree straiglll years of steady decU11e. 111 the year Just JI g e11ded - «ccn• •U•w •• J!lf■ riW" •z•----·· .. ~·~·-'"•~s~-==••••F1Cjqll,"-=:a• .. c;;r~ f Or I 'Y - per Ce rt I dr O /> (ft- 0 m taoe11ty-seven births per tlaousarrd poJ,ulatlo,e -- lo a J,resent fig.,re of o,aly taoelve. In teeming Sl1tgaJ,ore - really something to si,ag abo11t. ALTA At Alta, Utah - a newl_v incorporated "ski town" the ina11gr,ratiot1 of that communit y 's f irst Board of Tr11stees. Board President William Levitt f,romf,tly challe,egh1g Ille officials of an y other town in lite state - to a gia,at slalom race . Bill, 0111,aer of Alta Lodge, observing : "We are probably tl,e only Board of Trustees ,olao are also a stl I•••· Tl,i,ags seem to be booml11g i,a Little Cotto,.,oood Ca,ayo,a ,oliere Alf Enge,a llas lo,ag bee,a Ille unofficial M•yorl SAPPORO Let's take a pre iew look at Sapporo, Japan . where the Winter Olympics are to be held in a few weeks . Observers notin . g that Sapporo, a modern city, is laid out - in square city blocks, American style: with a center, down town boasting an American-style belfr-:,, clock, and the surrounding countrJ•side - replete with slant roofed bt.U"NB and towering feed silos; m11clr as in Michigan, Wiscotrsi,e, or Minnesota. All this explained by the fact that Sapporo - Is the c hie/ city on Japan's nortlr.ern island of Hokkaido - a,a isla,ed developed largely witlr America,e know-lrow at Jar,a,e'• request nearly a century ago . But another feature of Sapporo distinctly Japanese Warren - the abundance of t,ublic a la natural co-ed batlta. NULLABOR PLAIN F1•om the Nu/labor Plain in the land Down Under comes a reporl of the sighting of a second Nullabor nymph. The first was the topless blonde who was seen bouncing along last week with a galaxy of kangaroos - tall blonde: tall kangaroos six feet tall. Axd now - a repeat performa11ce - same description except the second nymph only five two or so, also bounding along I suppose . This - according to Graeme Campbell, one of A us tral ia 's top bush experts, one of a llundred or more adveft . turers drawn to N1,Zlabor by the lure of ,,.e nymf>la. Campbell further speculating ,,.at maybe out there ht tl,e Out Back tllere may be a colony of nymphs: that is, some lail>l>Y- types wllo have turned nature girls in tl,e Never Never or maybe hardly ever Landi