September 25, 1970
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WASHING I () The United States
relaxed its Middle l ast evacuation alert
Ihi:rvJj , encouraged lor the moment by
word d Kin; Hussein's battlefield
successes and withdrawal of the Syrian
tank torce from Jordan.
I he aircraf t carrier John I". Kennedy
with I (JO planes joined two other U.S.
oth Meet carriers in the Mediterranean,
however, and officials made clear that a
Congress
To Lose
Car Rates
WASHINGTON The lord Motor Co..
prompted by a Senate fithics Committee
admonition to legislators, announced
Thursday it is abandoning its practice of
leasing Lincoln Continentals and other
luxury model cars to favored members of
Congress at heavily discounted rates.
The practice was first disclosed by
United Tress International Aug. 3. It was
learned that 16 House members and at
least ?l senators, including some sitting
on coin nut t s dealing directly with
legislation affecting the automobiie
industry, leased cars from Ford and
C . sler at cut rates.
;'ord said that starting with the
current 1971 model year, committee
chairmen and ranking minority members
would be offered the cars at regular
commercial rates in the District of
Columbi S3.600 a year of $2,800 for a
two-year lease.
Favored legislators had been able to
rent Continentals for only $750 a year,
with maintenance and many other
expenses paid by Ford.
Following the UPI disclosure, the
Senate Fthics Committee advised senators
to turn in discount lease cars before the
1971 model year began.
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Mate of military readiness would be
maintained until the crisis is resolved.
Administration officials credited the
heavy losses inflicted by Hussein's forces
and Syrian fear of Israeli intervention for
the pullback of the invading force from
northern Jordan. The Soviet role, if any.
was discounted.
The White House and the State
Department stressed that the Jordanian
situation was sill confused and uncertain.
But the pressure obviously had eased.
The carrier Kennedy will remain in the
Mediterranean with the Independence
and the Saratoga until further notice, the
Pentagon said. The Kennedy was
accompanied by the destroyers Belknap
and Leahy.
The alert status of the 82nd Airborne
Division at Ft. Bragg. N.C., and
paratroopers in Germany was unchanged.
U.S. officials played down the
Russians' possible role in exerting
influence on the Damascus government to
pull back armored columns from Jordan.
Power Deficit Eases
The Eastern seaboard power shortage
eased Thursday, although voltage
rationing remained in effect in the Middle
Atlantic states and consumers continued
to use electricity sparingly.
Five per cent cuts in voltage were the
rule throughout the affected area which
reached from upstate New York to the
Carolinas and into western Pennsylvania.
An unseasonable heat wave which
soared into the 90s Tuesday and
Wednesday moderated slightly, jeducing,
the power drain of air conditioners, but ,
the weather bureau said the 'end bi trie
scorcher was not yet. in sight.
Temperatures of 85 to 90 were predicted
through Friday.
Power purchases from New England
and the Midwest bolstered reserves in the
needy power pools. Voluntary cutbacks
ALEXANDER'S AMBITION
The United States jnd Britain
Thursday began evacuating their rational
and other civilians trapped in Jordan
during eight days of civil war. Refugees
arriving in Beirut said their flight was
delayed by mortar and rocket fire near
the Amman airport.
The United States chartered a
Lebanese Middle East Airline jet liner for
a civilian airlift to avoid Soviet and Arab
charges of "military intervention" in the
fighting in which thousands of Arab
civilians, soldiers and guerrillas have been
reported killed and wounded and
thousands more threatened by famine
and disease.
In Cairo, the Middle East News Agency
Up 11 Percent
Grime
WASH INGTON-Attorney General
John N. Mitchell announced Thursday
that serious crime in the nation climbed
1 1 per cent in the first half of 1970 over
the first six months of last year.
"None of us in law enforcement can
take any comfort from these figures until
we can report a reduction in the total
number of crimes," he said in a brief
announcement in the six-month FBI
Uniform Crime Reports.
The Justice Department previously
had reported an encouraging drop in the
rat of increase in crime since President
Nixon took office. The latest report
by industrial commercial and home users
were reported throughout the area and
won praise from federal officials.
George A. Lincoln, director of
President Nixon's Office of Preparedness,
said the "outstanding cooperation" of the
public had prevented the worst power
crisis in four years from deteriorating into
a black out situation such as that
experienced in the Northeast in 1965.
Power was restored to several New
York - City neighborhoods which were
-j selectively blacked out Wednesday and
the five per cent voltage cut was imposed
instead of the eight per cent required on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
In Washington, D.C., endless corridors
in five congressional office buildings were
darkened, but tunnels and subway routes
between buildings were dimly lit and the
congressional train was still working.
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Ageru reported tfut the Premier o!
Jordan's military government. Brig.
Mohan me J Daoud. had resigned and was
missing from hs hotel in the Egyptian
capita!, where he had gone for an Arab
summit meeting on the Jordanian crisis.
The Egyptian agency said a copy of a
letter to King Hussein announcgin
Daoud's resignation was found in the
premier's room at the Nile-Hilton.
The chartered Convair 990 arrived in
Beirut with about 65 Americans and
other refugees. A State Department
spokesman in Washington said a Voice of
America broadcast repeatedly adivising
Americans in Amman to report to the
Hotel Inter Continental for the flight out
late Rises
showed the crime rate was 2 per cent
higher than the first half of 1969.
Earlier the department said the rate of
increase in 1969 over 1968 had jumped
only 12 per cent compared with 17 per
cent during the last year of the Johnson
administration.
Crime rose 13 per cent during the first
quarter of 1970 over the same period in
1969, but the department took comfort
in the fact the rate of increase of violent
crime had slowed by 7 per cent in the
major cities and 3 per cent in the country
as a w hole.
This time about all Mitcheel could find
encouraging was that "the number of
murders and rapes in the District of
Columbia during the first half of 1970 is
actually less than in the same period in
1969.
"This is in sharp contrast to a year
ago, when murders in the district had
increased by 42 per cent and rapes had
increased by 50 per cent over the year
before," he said, commenting on what
President Nixon called the "crime capital
of the world" in his presidential
campaign.
The six-month figures released by FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover Thursday
showed that violent crime was up 10 per
cent and property crime up 12 percent
nationwide for an over-all boost of 1 1 per
cent.
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not have heard the radio advisories.
Robert J. MacCloskey. the spokesman,
said the VOA broadcast would be
continued and another plane is standing
by in Beirut to fly to Amman, probably
on Friday. There are about 400
Americans in Jordan.
Most of the passengers aboard the
U.S. -Chartered plane were women and
children. Airline sources said they
included 12 U.S. Embassy staff and
between 15 and 20 other Americans, nine
Indians, seven Chinese, six Britons, three
Lebanese as well as other nationalities.
Richard Alt. of Fort Wayne. Ind.. an
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lana Mardi, daughter of a Jordanian
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Britain flew its evacuees to Cyprus and
one pilot reported he heard firing near
the airport when he took off.
UPI correspondent David Zenian
reported from Amman that some
shooting was heard during the day but
the capital was quieter than at any time
since the war began last Wednesday.
Fighting also was reported around Irbid
and Rantha in north Jordan and guerrilla
chieftain Yasser Arafat accused the
Jordanian Army of violating the cease-fire
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