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Compiled by Tom Sawyer
Wire Editor
Siphoning? Don't swallow!
WASHINGTON If you must us your mouth to start a gasoline siphon, a
researcher warned Wednesday, above sit don't draw any of the liquid into your lungs.
And if you should swallow some, don't induce vomiting because this increases the
chsnces that the gasoline or its fumes might reach the lungs. "This can cause rapid,
severe and fatal lung damage from very small amounts even droplets of
2sc!;n3," Dr. Soreil Schwartz of Georgetown University said in a news release.
"The greatest immediate hazard is not swallowing gasoline or inhaling the
vapors, dangerous as these are, but aspirating the liquid gas into the lungs,"
Schwartz said. , ' -
S- Viets announce systematic bombing
SAIGON The South Vietnamesa government announced Wednesday its
vv-rplanes were systematically bombing Communist-held areas to discourage a new
enemy offensive.
The strikes are aimed at destroying "Communist build-ups and infiltration routes,"
Saigon command spokesman Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien said. He declined to say where
government planes were bombing or how many were engaged.
Although the Saigon government has admitted bombing Viet Cong strongholds
previously, it was the first open admission of systematic bombing across South
Vietnam.
Snowstorm paralyzes Northeast
A fast-traveling snowstorm, the worst of the winter in some cities, swept up the
Atlantic Seaboard Wednesday. Traffic was shackled in Boston and hundreds of
motorists abandoning automobiles on New York area expressways.
The National Weather Service said the front-running storm would dump up to 10
inches of snow on parts of New York state and Vermont before it lets up. Forecasters
also raised storm warnings in the Southwest across a six-state area from New
Mexico to Missouri.
Bing Crosby develops pneumonia
BURLINGAFv'E, Calif. Doctors said Wednesday that Bing Crosby is suffering
from pneumonia and has developed an abcess on the lung.
The 63-year-old entertainer was resting comfortably in satisfactory condition.
Doctors said he had a low fever and a slight cough.
Crosby went to the hospital New Year's Eve with what was believed to be pleurisy,
an inflammation of the sac surrounding the lungs.
His chief physician, Dr. Stanley M. Hanfling, said pneumonia developed and, "for
some reason which is not quite clear, it developed Into an abcess."
Bread may rise by spring
WASHINGTON A wheat shortage may boost the price of bread to $1 a loaf by late
spring unless the administration moves to curb exports temporarily, a baking
industry spokesman said Wednesday.
Bill O. Mead, chairman of the American Bakers Association, told a news
conference he advocates a mandatory export slowdown for the next six months until
the nation begins in July to reap an anticipated record 2 billion bushel wheat crop in
1S74.
He said he was appealing to consumers because the administration previously has
ignored such pleas, insisting that mandatory export limits are unnecessary.
SAN CI.KMEMK. Calif. President
Nixon Wednesday invited six major
European countries. Canada and Japan to
attend a foreign ministers meeting of oil
consuming nations in Washington Feb. 1 1 to
seek joint solutions to oil supply and price
problems.
The White House said Nixon also sent
messages to 13 oil-producing nations in the
Middle East. Africa. Latin America and
Asia inviting them to join the discussions at a
later date.
The U.S. initiative for an international
conference on the oil crisis was first
proposed by Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger in a London speech last month.
Kissinger said last week. Nixon would la We
the lead in summoning about 20 ma jor non
Communist industrial nations and oil
producing states to discuss ways to sohe the
crisis and avert a worldwide economic
depression.
Invited to the initial Feb. 1 1 meeting were
Britain. France, (iermany. Italy, the
Netherlands and Norway, plus Canada and
Japan.
France, in a move that threatened to
undermine the U.S. goal of a unified oil
Peace tour planned
With the Geneva talks dragging on with
no signs of progress, the White House
announced Wednesday Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger will visit the Middle East
this weekend to try to break the deadlock
over separation of Egyptian and Israeli
forces on the Sue, front.
The issue of troop withdrawals is the
major obstacle to the start serious
Storm studied
HOUSTON Scientists may be able to
stop talking about the weather and do
something about it. using research data
collected Wednesday by the Skylab 3 crew
on a storm front stretched across the North
Atlantic.
Space agency scientists studying the
pictures of the storm may be able to better
predict the way in which it moves, and how
to tell in advance more about what it's going
to do.
negotiations in the full-scale Middle Last
peace conference, co-sponsored by the
United States and Soviet Union, which held
its opening session in Geneva fast Dee. 21.
Senior Egyptian and Israeli officers held
their sixth meeting in Geneva Wednesday.
The 70-minute session was one of the
shortest to date and a brief announcement
said only that the next meeting would be held
on Jan. 15.
Conference sources said the recess was
decided on to permit high-level negotiations
on a political level.
A short time later, the announcement of
Kissinger's trouble-shooting mission his
third to the Middle East since the Arab
Israeli war in October came from the
Western White House in San Clemente.
Calif. A spokesman for President Nixon said
Kissinger and a party of other top level
diplomatic officials, including Ambassador-at-large
Ellsworth Bunker, would leave
Washington at midnight Thursday.
Heath takes firm stand
LONDON Prime Minister Edward
Heath said Wednesday his embattled
government will not surrender to pay claims
by Britain's 260.000 coal miners.
He said continuation of the present crisis,
which he has described as the gravest to hit
Britain since World War II, can only end in
destroying the country.
He called on labor union leaders to get
together with the government and
representatives of management in a spirit of
constructiveness. moderation and reason" to
seek a settlement.
Heath addressed a packed House of
Commons summoned back from its
Christmas recess for a two-day emergency
deb?te on the crisis.
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strategy by leading oil-consuming nations,
confirmed it had signed a threc-v ear contract
with Saudi Arabia for delivery of 27 million
tons of crude oil. For its part. France was
reported to have promised to provide the
Saudis with industrial machinery, technical
assistance and arms, including Mirage jet
fighter-bombers.
Invited to attend a later meeting wiih their
oil customers were Abu Dhabi. Algeria.
Ecuador. Gabon. Indonesia. Iran. Iraq.
Kuwait. Libya. Nigeria. Qatar. Saudi Arabia
and Venezuela.
In other developments:
Ministers of the 12-nation Organization
of Petroleum Exporting countries agreed in
Geneva to freeze the price ol crude oil at
current levels until April I. I he OIM.C
countries also discussed a 6 per cent cut in
petroleum prices reflect the recent rise in the
dollar value on world money markets.
Federal energy director William I
Simon said in a radio interview that the
Central Intelligence Agency was providing
his ii I ice with information about world
w ide oil shipments.
Dr. Clovis Maksoud. an Arab League
emissarv louring ihc I'm ted States to
counter anti-Aiab scnimvcnt. said in
Washington the oil embargo was onlv a
temporarv measure intended to underscore
"credibility about our puiMiit" in the
Middle last.
Data gatheted bv I'PI indicated that
I won Corp. stands to gain more than $f..1
million in unexpected profits because o!
Simon's order last week lor diversion ol
3 10.000 barrels ol I lorida-bou rul
Venezuelan oil to the Boston I.dison Co,,
where it will be sold tor $27.50 per ban el
rather than the Honda contract pi ice ol a
little more than S7.
Jane Bvrne. chiel ol the Chicago
department ol consumer sales, said
laboratory tests have shown that gasoline
adulterated with water, methane and diese!
fuel was being sold in Chicago, and possihlv
elsewhere in the countiv.
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