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MOSCOW A Soviet-American
statement on Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger's visit here acknowledged .
Thursday there was no breakthrough on new
strategic arms limitations, and cast doubt on ;
President Nixon's chances of breaking the
deadlock when he visits Moscow in June.
The 6C0-word statement made no mention .
of progress on any of the issues dividing the
two nations, including the Middle East and
bilateral trade.
age boost
WASHINGTON Congress approved
legislation Thursday boosting the nation's
minknum wage in three steps to $2.30 per
hour and extending it to about 10 million
more workers.
President Nixon said earlier Thursday
that he would not veto the measure he did
last year because he thought it was
inflationary so the minimum wage will
increase from $1.60 to $2 on May 1, to $2. 10
next Jan. 1, and to $2.30 on Jan. 1, 1976.
The House voted 345 to 50 and the Senate
71 to 19 to accept a conference committee
bill that was a compromise between
separate, slightly different versions.
The law extends coverage for the first time
to domestic employes, all government
workers and retail chain employes. In all, 5.4
million workers will be covered by ,the
minimum wage law, about 10 million more
than before.
"This legislation is three years late," said
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y.,one of its chief,
sponsors.
Opponents argued the measure will hurt
the people it is supposed to help the poor
because it will spur inflation and
unemployment.
The measure applies to all workers
regardless of age. Congress rejected a strong
suggestion by President Nixon to make the
minimum 15 per cent less for workers under
18.
Passage means almost immediate pay
hikes for some 4 million workers now paid
less than $2 per hour and adds another 10
million to minimum wage protection.
The newly covered workers include local,
state and federal government employes,
domestic and household workers and some
retail and service workers. About 6 million
workers are still exempt, most of them '
employes of small retail and service
establishments.
Veterans protest at monument top
WASHINGTON - Seven Vietnam
veterans, including four in wheelchairs with
American flags in heir laps, staged a brief
protest in the Washington Monument
Thursday over conditions in VA hospitals.
The demonstration ended in a scrap with
police.
Police, who said a slight scuffle occurred,
denied the claims of a veteran who said he
was punched and that another was pulled
from his wheelchair.
One vet was taken away in an ambulance,
more shaken than hurt. No charges were
filed.
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In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary
James A. Schlesinger said Thursday the
failure of Kissinger and Brezhnev to break
their deadlock just about dooms any
possibility for a breakthrough during
President Nixon's summit trip to Moscow in
June. He said that unless a basic agreement
on strategic arms limitations comes in
advance, such agreement cannot take place
during the summit.
The joint U.S.-Soviet communique was
released simultaneously here and in
passes
The immediate cost was estimated by
economists at $1.5 billion.
The bill also requires overtime be paid to
policemen and firemen after a 60-hour week
beginning next January. The hourly
requirement goes to 58 hours in 1976 and54
hours in 1977. -
Farm workers also will be getting raises,
but not as quickly as most others. The
minimum wage for agricultural employes,
now $ 1 . 30, goes to $ 1 . 60 May 1 , to $ 1 . 80 next
Jan. $ to $2 on Jan. 1, 1976, to $2.20 on Jan.
1, 1977, and to $2.30 on Jan. 1, 1978.
The Senate version of the bill was more
liberal than the House version, and most of
the changes reflected the House bill.
Speed up impeachment inquiry,
Asst. GOP leader Griffin says
WASHINGTON Assistant GOP
Leader Robert P. Griffin, conceding the
prospect of President Nixon's impeachment
is much greater today than a month or two
ago, Thursday urged the House Judiciary;
Committee to speed its inquiry in the interest
of fairness.
"It seems to me that it is in the national
interest and in the interest of fairness to get
to the truth, to get to the facts as quickly as
possible," Griffin said in a floor speech.
He called on the committee, which is
investigating whether grounds exist to
impeach Nixon, to permit the President's
lawyers to be present at its meetings and to
cross-examine witnesses. The committee has
reached no decision on a White House
request to let Nixon's lawyers participate in
the inquiry.
Later,' to reporters, the Michigan
Republican said that by permitting White
House Watergate lawyer James D. St. Clair
; The seven veterans told about 1 8 surprised
visitors at the top of the monument that
they were members of the American
Veterans Movement.' All were from the VA
hospital at Long Beach, Calif. They
demanded a meeting with President Nixon.
They met with Veterans administration
administrator Donald Johnson on Monday
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Washington about nine hours after
Kissinger's plane departed for London.
The statement said both sides are
determined to find solutions to the impasse
in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(SALT) in Geneva. But it did not say what
progress, if any, had been made toward that
goal, indicating the breakthrough Kissinger,
sought had eluded him. In London,
Kissinger told reporters:
"It is difficult to define a breakthrough. At
the same time, it is too early to say whether
one was achieved. The degree of progress
will be determined by the followup."
Kissinger added, "Even if perfect
understanding were achieved, it would still
take some time to mature. Out relations with
Russia are a combination of cooperation
and competition, and ambiguities are likely
to arise at any point. The arsenals of mass
destruction must seriously affect
coexistence."
U.S. officials in his party said Kissinger
did not consider that he had managed to
break the stalemate over nuclear weapons
limitations.
They said the Russians had made a
proposal on nuclear limitations which
Kissinger considered unacceptable as it
stands, but which he will discuss with U.S.
diplomatic and military officials when he
gets to Washington.
to cross-examine witnesses at Judiciary
Committee meetings, it might "significantly
shorten the process by making it unnecessary
to have a trial in the Senate."
If the House votes to impeach a public
official the equivalent of an indictment
the Senate must conduct a trial on the
charges.
"Then you obviously feel we are headed
for a trial in the Senate?" Griffin was asked.
"Well, I would have to concede the
likelihood seems much greater today than it
did a month or two ago," he replied,
declining to give his reasons.
Griffin said he had not talked with anyone
at the White House about his speech, but had
mentioned it to the ranking Republican on
the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.
Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, at the
regular weekly breakfast of the Michigan
congressional delegation this morning.
to complain about conditions in the hospital
and alleged mistreatment.
A spokesman for the VA said Johnson
had two meetings in recent weeks with Ron
Kovic, 27, of Los Angeles, a leader of the
Thursday protest, but the official said the
VA was completely confused by the
complaints.
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Moiiican Army Iiunlo for diplomat
HERMOSILLA, Mexico Behind a curtain of rigid cffxi&l silence, the Mexican
Army scoured northern Maxico's bsrren mountains Thursdcy for missing U.S.
diplomat John Pstterson and the guerrilla terrorists who kidnaped h!m tlx days jo.
His family, in an abrupt mpve which indicated they were In contact with the
kidnapers, canceled a cryptically worded newspaper advertisement without
explanation.
Officials In this northern Mexico city 153 miles south of the U.S. border confirmed
that Fstisrson, 31 year-old vice consul in HcrmosiHo, was belngheld by the "Sept. 23
23 Communist League," which has tean involved in most msjor abductions In this
country over the past year.
Hilton Head bridge closed after crash
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. Wealthy vicaticners wsre forced to use a fleet of
small boats or airplanes to get back and forth from this plush island resort Thursday
after a barge slammed into a bridge and knocked out tho only land link to the
mainland.
One islander said there was a "minor panic" among the Island's 7.EC0 year-round
residents. "They're all Jamming the grocery stores, laughing and saying they're not
hoarding, but still pushing loaded grocery carts.".
The barge struck the bridge about 10:33 p.m. Wednesday, pushing a 30-foot
stretch of roadbed three feet out of line.
SEC official says Stans admitted perjury
NEW YORK A former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) testified Thursday that Maurice H. Stans, a chief Nixon re-election fund raiser,
admitted to him that he had perjured himself before a New York Federal grand Jury In
1973 In testifying about the Robert L. Vesco case.
Under examination by federal prosecutor John R. Wing, Bradford Cook said
Stans, former Nixon Secretary of Commerce, told him that he did ndt discuss the
Vesco case with Cook until after charges against the financier were filed by the SEC
late In 1972.
Bill to stop smoldng on planes introduced
WASHINGTON Legislation was Introduced in the House Thursday to ban
smoking on commercial airline flights In the United States.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Peter N. Kyros, D-Msine, and four others, requires that
"on ail commercial domestic airline flights, smoking no longer be permitted in any
form."
Kyros, who occasionally smokes a pipe, said he Introduced the legislation
because of recent reports indicating cigarette smoke may be as dangerous to
nonsmokers as to smokers.
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RALEIGH The Joint Appropriations
Subcommittee Thursday juggled
supplemental budget requests by adding
$10.3 million and deleting$10.6 million from
the existing budget and then approved the
package.
The subcommittee left over $300,000 in
surplus funds in the budget, but had until the
end of the day to try to balance the highway
fund, now S450.000 in the red.
The supplemental budget figure of $82.6
million pushed the total state budget to a
record $3,072 billion.
The House Thursday approved and sent
to the Senate a bill to tighten the state's
drunken driving rules, while the Senate
approved and enacted a bill to waive drivers
license examinations for safe drivers for a
test period.
Under the House measure, which needs
only Senate concurrence on a change in the
effective date to Jan. 1, 1975 to become law,
driving with a blood alcohol level of .10 or
more will be considered proof of drunken
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Exposed fake Ph.D.
decides to leave U.S.
DENVER Gerald P. Wood, who
worked for three years as Colorado's chief
air pollution control officer with a high
school education and a mail-order Ph.D.,
said Thursday he would leave the United
States rather than be deported for lying
about his academic credentials.
"I'm finished," the 52-year-old British
Canadian said. "I think I have been dragged
out into the open and publicly executed in an
abominable way."
Wood resigned from his $24,000-a-year
job with the Colorado State Health
Department Monday because superiors
learned he had no formal education beyond
high school and that he bought his fake
doctorate.
"Normally, I would be left somewhere to
retreat to but not with all the publicity about
this," Wood said. "1 do have competence. 1
do have standings among my peers. I don't
want to talk about it anymore."
Walter Edwards, district director of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service,
said Wood, who got his state job in 1970
with the bogus credentials, agreed to move to
Canada by May 15.
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