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WASHINGTON The American
Psychiatric Association (APA) announced
Monday its members had voted to remove
the stigma of mental illness from the nation's
estimated 1 1 million homosexuals.. - '
The APA, which has been locked in one of
the most bitter disputes in its 129-year
history on the question, said its members had
voted 5,854 to 3,8 10 to approve a decision by
its trustees removing homosexuality from
the official list of mental disorders.
Homosexuals, who contended that listing
of their sexual orientation as a disease denied
them jobs, housing and other rights, had
lobbied for the action during the controversy
among psychiatrists.
There was strong and vocal opposition
from some psychiatrists, led by Charles
Socarides of New York.
Dr. Judd Marmor, a Los Angeles
psychoanalyst, said during the controversy
that the label of mental disease was a moral,
not a medical judgment.
Governor asks
J or disaster aid
RALEIGH Gov. James E. Holshouser
Jr. Monday asked President Nixon to
declare six North Carolina counties major
disaster areas due to the estimated $4.3
million damage inflicted by severe storms
and tornadoes last week.
"Without federal assistance it will be most
difficult for private, property owners to
recuperate from losses and financial
expenditures resulting from this disaster,"
said Holshouser in a letter to the president.
"Much of their economy depends on the
restoration of the damaged property. Your
favorable consideration and assistance is
solicited and will be deeply appreciated."
The governor asked that Burke, Caldwell,
Cherokee, Gaston, Graham and Lincoln
counties be declared disaster areas, entitling
the residents to low-interest government
loans to help rebuild their homes.
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Hold on, gravity may be letting go
' WASHINGTON The first, indirect
evidence was reported Monday supporting
the theory that the strength of gravity on
earth and throughout the universe is very
slowly weakening.
JDr,o iTh.omasri-:iYajt:nJ;landiCCca0
astronomer atthe' JU ,S.: NavalcObser,vatpryi
measured the orbital speed of the moon with
the precision of an atomic clock to determine
that the force of gravity apparently is
decreasing at the rate of one part in 1 0 billion
per year.
Van Flandern presented his findings at
the opening of a week-long meeting of the
American Geophysical Union. He said his
work was based on a theory proposed two
years ago by Cambridge University
astronomer Fred Hoyle.
The basis for the work is the assumption
that if gravity is weakening, the orbits of
planets abut the sun, or the moon about the
earth, would slowly expand and the time for
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Crisis erupts in Israeli cabinet
TEL AVIV Prime F.'.inister Golda Meir Monday battled a cabinet crisis over
Israel's unpreparedness for the October war that might bring the ouster of Moshe
Dayan as defense minister or the downfall of her government, a Labor party source
. said.
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir labeled the situation a crisis In a radio Interview. He
said he wanted to prevent the entire government from resigning to accept blame for
Israel's failure to meet the Arab attacks Oct. 6. Out he said the whole cabinet is
responsible for it.
"Inevitably, she will have to resign," the source said of Mrs. Meir.
Ethiopian deputy chief of staff resigns
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia's deputy chief of staff resigned Sunday night after
rebellious troops seized control of a provincial city to protest alleged corruption in
the military and government, the official Ethiopian press agency said Monday.
The agency said Lt. Gen. Haile Bailedagen tendered his resignation only hours
after the soldiers seized the ancient walled city of Harrar, 250 miles southeast of here.
Also, in Addis Ababa, public transportation came to a halt Monday when bus
drivers went on strike.
Mitterrand enters presidential race
PARIS Ex-minister Francois Mitterrand, 57, entered the race for the presidency
of France Monday as the lone candidate for the Communist-Socialist bloc against an
array of conservative candidates vying with each other.
Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 43, also declared his candidacy,
becoming the fourth Gaullist in the battle.
Political sources said his move could further fragment the moderate vote and aid
the forces of the Left.
Saigon council calls
SAIGON A government advisory council in its last official act has recommended
that President Nguyen Van Thieu abolish the national assembly and other elected
institutions it described as "superficial," sources close to the group said Monday.
The sources said the recommendation, an apparent slap at Thieu's successful
efforts to purge the government of opposition, was included in a letter sent to him
Monday by the 45-member economic and social council headed by Vice President
Ivan Van Huong.
each orbit would gradually increase. The
orbital time of the moon was easiest to
measure, but it is also known that the
friction of tidal forces between the earth and
moon is slowing the moon's orbit.
Jioyl&.suggested that if the role played by
Tidal-forces f3 were removed from the
calculations the role of a decrease of gravity
could be measured. Van Flandern, using the
calculations of two other scientists,
subtracted the tidal factor and found that
what presumably is weakening of gravity is
allowing the moon to move away from the
earth about 4 centimeters a year about 1 lA
inches to increase its orbital period one
two-thousandths of a second a year.
"This is the first numerical result which
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explanation that gravity is decreasing," he
said.
Up to about 40 years ago, scientists
assumed that the force of gravity remained
onsfaht. There Is still no direct way to
measure changes in the force of gravity, but
Van Flandern said his work was the first
indirect evidence suggesting weakening of
gravity.
Weakening of gravity would have major
implications for the earth and moon. It
would mean, for example, that the earth is
expanding at the rate of less than 1
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WASHINGTON Chief course! John
Doar of the House Judiciary Committee
announced Monday that presidential
attorney James St. Clair had assured him the
White House would answer by Tuesday the
committee's demand for 41 additional White
House tapes and documents.
The committee's Democrats meanwhile
were prepared to seek a subpoena for the
White House tapes should St. Clair not be
willing to turn over all the committee insists
it must have to complete its inquiry into
possible grounds for impeaching President
Nixon.
Nixon signs wage bill
WASHINGTON President Nixon
signed legislation Monday raising the
minimum wage in three steps from the
current $ 1 .60 to $2.30 an hour and extending
its coverage to domestic servants and
governmental employes.
Kennedy delays
decision to run
BONN Sen. Edward Kennedy said
Monday he will make a final decision on
whether to run for the U.S. presidency in late
1975. At the same time, he said he and his
family would live in great fear of
assassination if he were elected.
But Kennedy said that if he worried too
much about the problem he could not do his
job well any longer.
Asked if his family wanted him to become
president, Kennedy replied: "My God, no.
After what happened to my brothers, they
are very frightened."
Asked whether he himself was frightened,
Kennedy said: "Yes, if I worried too much
about it I could not function any more. I
would be mad, however, if I completely
ignored the danger."
Libyan leader not victim of coup
CAIRO The semi-official Egyptian
press concluded Monday that whatever
prompted Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Khadafy's relinquishment of political and
administrative functions, he was not the
victim of a coup.
But the newspaper Al Gomhounya, citing
diplomatic sources, said the decision was
forced on the 32-year-old Libyan leader at a
stormy session of Libya's 12-man ruling
Revolution Command Council (RCC).
Under the terms of the Command Council
resolution announced over the weekend,
Khadafy handed over his "political,
administrative and ceremonial functions" to
Prime Minister Maj. Abdel Salam Jalloud,
30, the No. 2 man in the' Libyan regime. .
Jalloud opened the Third Arab Economic
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Doar also announced that the committee
staff has asked for Nixon's income tax
returns for !969-72.the years the 1 RS said he
owed about $470,000 in back taxes and
interest, as part of its inquiry into grounds
for impeachment.
Dear said the staff was already studying
the report of a joint House-Senate
committee that found Nixon owed 5476,000
in back taxes, and that ths committee had
agreed to hand over its information.
In the Senate. Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield. promised that if the House did
impeach Nixon and he was tried in the
It will be raised to $2 an hour May 1, to
$2.10 an hour Jan. 1, 1975, and to $2.30 an
hour Jan. 1, 1976.
Approving a bill almost identical to one he
vetoed only seven months ago, Nixon
included in minimum wage coverage for the
first time domestic service employes, with
the exception of baby sitters and paid
companions, all state and local government
workers and to retail service workers
employed by chain stores.
All told, between 7 and 8 million workers
never before covered now will be, bringing
54 million Americans under the minimum
wage law.
The law also will extend provisions
requiring payment of overtime in excess of
40 hours a week to 8 -million workers not
covered mostly in hotels, restaurants,
nursing homes, bowling alleys and similar
businesses.
It will also extend overtime provisions to
policemen and firemen, but under a different
formula.
The measure had passed the House and
Senate by large majorities and although the
administration was not entirely satisfied
with it, there appeared little chance of
congressional opponents sustaining a
presidential veto.
Development Conference in Tripoli, the
Libyan News Agency said. The conference,
which is attended by Arab ministers of
economy, will discuss Arab development
projects and inter-Arab economic
assistance, the agency said.
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members.
lf and when the issue comes to the
Senate," Mansfield said in a floor speech;
"there will be as little partisanship as possible
and as far as I am concerned, there will be
none. The Senate itself will be on trial."
The committee requested the 41 tapes on
Feb. 25 and last week set April 9 as the
deadline for an answer, committee
Chairman Peter W. Rodino. D-N.J..
threatened to subpoena the documents
unless the While House replied.
Rodino said Monday a subpoena may be
required and called a meeting of the
committee for later this week before
Congress adjourns for Easter to possibly ask
y for authority to issue a subpoena "in light of
Mr.S; Chit's reply."
I here' is' a contradiction when efforts to
determine whether the office of the President
is being faithfully executed are met with the
claim that the faithful execution of the office
precludes disclosure of the relevant facts,"
said Rodino.
- "If such be the claim, then we will have to
subpoena the material necessary to meet our
constitutional responsibilities."
Wilson denies
land deal role
LONDON Prime Minister Harold
Wilson denied Monday he was involved, in
any way in a $2.4 million land deal involving
members of his personal staff, which has
whipped up a public furor around his
month-old minority Labor government.
"1 was not myself involved in any of the
transactions in question," Wilson said in a
statement to a jammed House of Commons,
"At no time have 1 had any financial interest,
direct or indirect, in any of them." .
According to newspaper reports, Wilson's
long time political and personal secretary,
Mrs. Marcia Williams; her brother Anthony
Field, himself a former Wilson aide and
golfing partner; and her sister Peggy Field, a
former secretary of Wilson's wife Mary,
made large, although legal profits out of the
land deal.
Some newspapers described the affair as a
"British Watergate," although they have not
charged anything illegal.
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