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LONDON The Conservative party
Monday withdrew its opposition to the
legislative program of Prime Minister
Harold Wilson's minority Labor
government and said it would not demand a
showdown parliamentary vote on it.
The decision headed off the threat of
defeat for Wilson's beleaguered government
after just two weeks in office and averted a
new major crisis for Britain. It came at a two
hour meeting of former Conservative Prime
Minister Edward Heath's "shadow cabinet"
shortly before the vote was scheduled.
A Conservative party spokesman said the
Tories would not press a vote on- an
amendment they had submitted that
condemns the Labor government's promise
of legal curbs on prices but not on pay too.
The peace gesture was announced after
Employment Secretary Michael Foot had
told the House of Commons the new
government will maintain legal restrictions
on pay as well as prices for awhile. This
apparently satisfied the Conservatives at
least for the present.
Foot said the Pay Board set up by the
former Conservative party government will
continue to function until a voluntary
agreement to limit pay hikes is negotiated
U.S. to clear canal
WASHINGTON The State
Department announced Monday the United
States will provide mine-sweeping assistance
to help speed reopening of the Suez Canal,
closed since the six-day Arab-Israeli war in
1967.
The announcement said the United States,
"at the request of the Egyptian government,"
had agreed "to provide advice and training
to .Egyptian personnel responsible for
clearing unexploded ammunition ; in the
canal and on its banks."
The State Department disclosed the U.S.
Egyptian cooperation after diplomatic
sources in Cairo said Egypt had reached
agreement with the United States and
Britain on a joint operation to clear
thousands of bombs and mines from the
waterway connecting the Red Sea with the
Mediterranean.
A team of Army and Navy demolition
experts surveyed the area last month at the
request of the Suez Canal Authority. Actual
clearing operations are expected to begin
early next month by the Egyptian navy,
technicians from the canal authority, aided
by U.S., and British specialists.
Egyptian authorities believe there are
thousands of mines and unexploded bombs
in and around the canal as a result of more
than six years of intermittent ground and air
fighting.
Egyptian officials believe the canal can be
reopened by October and will be able to
handle ships with up to 70,000 tons
displacement, as it did before it was closed in
June, 1967.
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NEW YORK Rose Mary Woods,
President Nixon's personal secretary,
testified for the prosecution in the Mitchell
Stans conspiracy trial Monday the name of
financier Robert L. Vesco was on a White
House list of top Nixon re-election campaign
donors at the time he was under
investigation by the federal government.
Woods, poised in her 30-minute
appearance at the trial of the former Nixon
Cabinet officers she described as "very fine
men, testified the list was sent to her in
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with the labor unions.
Even before the party leadership said it
would not vote against the Wilson program,
at least a half dozen rank and file
Conservative party lawmakers had
threatened to abstain rather than provoke a
new crisis so soon after the Feb. 28 general
election that left both major parties without
a true working majority.
Political informants said this might well
have been a factor in the Conservatives'
decision to avoid a showdown.
The Conservative spokesman said . As
Mr. Foot's statement this afternoon
substantially meets the requirements of the
Parliament, this will not now be pressed to a
division vote."
The Labor government controls 301
Commons votes. The Conservatives and
Liberals together command 310.
U.S. business leaders
hail lifting of oil embargo
U.S. business and industrial leaders ,
Monday hailed the lifting of the Arab oil
embargo but cautioned it will not lead either
to an immediate end of the energy crisis or
lower gasoline prices.
"The degree to which Arab oil will help
alleviate this country's short term supply
situation will depend on whether Arab
production is restored to pre-embargo
levels," a spokesman for the industry group
American Petroleum Institute (API) said in
Washington.
"Once this oil becomes available, it will
probably take from 60 to 90 days for these
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CARACAS Venezuela's opposition
parties began congressional debate Monday
on the immediate nationalization of the
South American republic's giant foreign
owned oil industry.
The debate in the government-controlled
248-man parliament is expected to last
several days, but observers predicted that no
concrete action would be taken immediately
to carry out early nationalization of the
industry.
Venezuela, the world's third largest oil
exporter, is one of the largest supplier of
U.S. oil imports, shipping more than half of .
its three million barrels per day exports to
the U.S. east coast.
Three political parties have drafted bills
calling for nationalization of the industry,
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November, 1972, by Maurice H. Stans.
On the list, which was of donors who
might be invited to White House dinners,
was Vesco s name. It had been circled and a
question mark appeared beside it, she said.
She said she did not know why.
A second list sent by Stans in June, 1973,
did not contain the name of the fugitive
financier, she testified.
Woods identified both lists before they
were placed in evidence.
Mitchell and Stans are accused of
attempting to influence a Securities and
Exchange Commission investigation of
Vesco's finances in return for a $200,000
campaign contribution.
According to earlier testimony, Vesco
contributed the $200,000 in cash to Nixon's
re-election campaign in April, 1972 but his
name was not reported to the Office of
Federal Elections as required by a law which
came into effect April 7, 1972.
The first witness of the day, Hugh W.
Sloan, Jr., the Nixon campaign finance
committee treasurer, said that Vesco's was
the largest cash donation, but larger
contributions were made by check. He listed
one of $2 million.
Another witness, Robert L. Higgins,
counsel to the federal elections office, told
the jury he received a report from Sloan on
campaign fundraising and disbursement
from April 7 through May 31, 1972, which
did not list any contributions from Vesco.
Sloan said that he had never been asked by
Mitchell or Stans to lie about the Vesco
contribution. Under cross-examination by
defense attorneys he said that at Stans'
instruction the Vesco contribution was
entered on the books Mitchell's name, listing
it as M.M."
supplies to make an appreciable impact on
consumers in the United States."
The API spokesman said the price of
foreign oil had increased 400 per cent in
recent months.
In Detroit, the lifting of the embargo was
the best news in weeks for the auto industry
and its badly slumping sales, which have
piled up an inventory of unsold cars of nearly
1.75 million nationwide.
"It's the positive news we've been waiting
for. It shoud help reassure consumer
confidence," said Richard C. Gerstenberg,
chairman of General Motors Corp.
oil debate
now in the hands of major U.S. and foreign
oil companies. Under present laws the
foreign companies must give up 5.5 million
acres of oilfields and $4.7 million n
installations, without compensation,
between 1983 and 1996 when current leases
expire.
Early nationalization of the industry, as is
being proposed, would mean the companies
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Simon may bo new i reasury secretary
WASHINGTON The Washington Star-News said fJonday tha Whlta Houto net
decided to nominate energy chief William Simon as the new Treasury sscretiry.
Citing "administration sources," the newspaper said Simon would be named to
replace George Shultz, who la st wesk announce d he would resign about May 1 . Th 3
paper said the White House already Is seeking approval from key members cf
Congress."
The Star-News said the leading candidate to replace Simon as energy chief is John
Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council.
U.S., Israel split on Syrian pact
The United States and Israel have split over Israeli Insistence on keeping all of the
occupied Golan Heights In any disengagement pact with Syria, Israeli newspapers
reported Monday.
Israeli and Syrian guns pounded at each other on the Golan Heights front for the
seventh consecutive day. An Israall military spokesman said artillery on both slies
fired for more than three hours, with the Syrians hitting hardest at the northern
perimeter of the Israeli advance into Syria In last October's war.
Airline fares to be raised for short trips
WASHINGTON The Civil Aeronautics Board Monday Issued new guidelines for
setting passenger air fares that mean higher costs for traveling! short distances and
for flying first class.
The CAB said its studies showed that the airlines' longtime practice of
overcharging for longer flights to make up for revenue lost on shorter, loss expensive
routes was not justified.
Rattle, rattle,
BROWNWOOD, Tex. Cotton Dillard sacked 10 rattlesnakes In 31.7 seconds
Sunday to win first place In the annual Drownwood Rattlesnake Roundup.
Diliard accepted his first prize trophy and then reported to a local hospital where
he Is reported in fair condition today following treatment for two snake bites.
Laird changes secret Vietnam testimony
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Former Dsfensa Secretary Melvin R. Laird, In a secret letter
to Congress, has changed his previous testimony cn use of weather warfare by the
U.S. over North Vietnam, the Journal-Bulletin reported Sunday.
"The change is said to Imply strongly that the United States at one time used
weather warfare techniques against North Vietnam contrary to what Laird end the
Pentagon have said in the past," the paper said.
It quoted reliable sources as saying Laird wanted to correct the record before he
left the administration.
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unamortized part of the their investments
here, which the government estimates should
not exceed $1.3 billion.
The ruling "Accion Democratica" (AD)
party, which holds a majority in both houses,
is expected to meet with President Carlos
Andres Perez this week to decide on the
party's position in the debate.
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"With regard to Saudi Arabia and the
other countries thai signed the agreement
our interpretation is that the embargo is
lifted," Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed
Zaki Yamani told a news conference
following the announcement.
"The Algerian interpretation is that if
there is nothing to justify for Algeria the
renewal of this decision then they might go
back to the embargo.
"The embargo against the Netherlands
will continue."
Yamani said his country and the six co
signers would increase production to "fulfill
the requirements" of the agreement.
"The United States will gt all the oil it
needs," he said, includingat least one million
barrels a day from his own country.
Algerian Oil Minister Abdesselam said
that nation believed "that there are certain
signs of a new U.S. policy and that we should
encourage this.
"However, since Israel would never have
succeeded to occupy Arab territories
without U.S. help we think the lifting of the
embargo should be provisional."
The official announcement did not discuss
the 15 per cent production cutback
imposed on other Western nations at the
same time the embargo was placed against
the U.S. and the Netherlands.
But it said West Germany and Italy would
henceforth be considered "friendly
countries" and their petroleum needs met.
The announcement, read to newsmen by
Algerian Oil Minister Belaid Abdesselam in
the red-carpeted foyer of the Imperial hotel,
said:
"The Arab oil ministers decided to lift the
embargo on oil supplies to the United States.
. "The Arab Republic of Syria and Libya
did not agree with the decision to lift the
embargo . .' . Algeria agreed to lift the
embargo only as a provisionary measure
until June I."
The decision will be reviewed by the oil
ministers at a meeting in Cairo June 1. the
announcement said.
The action followed weeks of intensive
negotiations among the Arab states in a
search for a unified stand on whether the
embargo should be lifted unconditionally,
conditionally, or maintained.
The oil ministers earlier had debated the
possibility of lifting the embargo and
reviewing it at a later date to satisfy
themselves the U.S. was exerting sufficient
pressure on Israel for withdrawals from
captured Arab territory.
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