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Show Wednesday, March 3, 1976 . . rrs snu. out there Page 4 INTERNATIONAL Peking Former President Richard Nixon continued his tour of China early last week by chatting, laughing and shaking hands with crowds as if he was a politician on the campaign trail. , - While Nixon appeared to be well received by the Chinese, his controversial visit continued to draw barbs from fellow Americans. On Wednesday, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater accused Nixon of breaking an American law, by discussing foreign policy as a private citizen, and suggested the former president could to the U.S. a favor by staying in Peking. Nixon returned to California on Sunday and refused to make a public statement on his controversial con-troversial eight-day trip. San Jose, Costa Rica - Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger reassured the Central American nations Tuesday that the U.S. would not permit intervention by Cuban armed forced in their countries. Kissinger's concern is reported to stem from his suspicion that the rapid success of Cuban expeditionary forces in Angola might encourage Havana to intervene somewhere in Central America. Washington - Three major drug companies have stopped marketing sequential oral contraceptives con-traceptives as a result of new evidence that they " may be harmful to women, the Food and Drug ,; Administration announced on Wednesday. The birth control pills being taken off the market are Oracon made by Mead-Johnson and ? Co., Ortho-Novum SQ by Ortho Pharmaceutical and Norguand by Syntex Laboratories. The sequential pills are used by an estimated 5 to 10 percent of the 10 million American women who take oral contraceptives. Washington - The Commerce Department i( reported on Friday the index compiled by. the : government established that the nation's economic future showed it's strongest gain in six months. 4 i' The two factors exerting the strongest upward; influence on the composite index in January were stock prices and the volume of orders for '; new factories and facilities, which are the capital goods which expand job opportunities and foster more efficient production. NATIONAL New Hampshire - Although President Ford nipped his Republican challenger Ronald Reagan in the country's first primary by obtaining ob-taining 51 percent of the vote, both candidates climaimed a significant victory in New Hampshire. Ha-mpshire. Reagan, insisting that his close finish was a victory, said, "No one has ever done this to an . incumbent." . Ford analyzed his success by saying, "If we win a couple more, and I think we will, we'll be ready for the finals and I think we'll win there too." , Washington - The Senate passed a bill , Wed-J., nesday providing, seven' months of Daylight-- Saving Time this year and next. However, as a result of inaction in the House, the nation is not expected to observe more than the current six months of DST time this year. Washington - President Ford announced his nomination of former Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and reaffirmed a policy of "standing up" against America's critics. Scranton is expected to adopt a firm but less flamboyant posture than his predecessor in the U.N., former Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan. Washington - A House subcommittee issued a contempt of Congress action Wednesday against five federal agents who refused to testify on interception of cable traffic for intelligence purposes. The five, who include three present FBI agents and a former agent, told the committee they had been ordered by Atty. Gen. Edward H. Levi not to testify. Atlanta - Influenza hit epidemic proportions in the U.S. last week, claiming a total of 875 lives . t 339 aboVe the epidemic threshold the National Center for Disease Control disclosed on Friday. ; . The heaviest outbreaks of the flu-like illness were reported in the North-east, Middle Atlantic, Pacific and Western Mountain regions. New York - The Italian Historical Society 's claimed on Friday that Antonio Meucci, not Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone. The Italian society claims that Meucci filed for a patient on the device five years before Bell but was denied because of anti-Italian feeling prevelent at the time. The group warned that perpetuating the Bell "fraud and deceit" could endanger Italo-American Italo-American relations. In an effort to avoid any undue confrontation with the Italian society, Americans are urged to pay for their telephone bills with a check made out to "Ma Meucci." ; ; Washington . World military spending continues con-tinues to skyrocket to the tune of almost $300 billion annually, according to a study sponsored by private groups concerned with arms control. An increase of almost $30 billion from studv figures gathered in 1974 was attributed to the rapid military growth of developing countries. San Francisco - The trail of Patty Hearst is expected to draw to a close sometime this week with a possibility of the case being turned over to the jury as soon as Thursday, according . to defense lawyers. Hearst's attorney, the stylish Boston barrister F. Lee Bailey, told a group of Standford University Law students on Saturday that his main line of defense was based on the belief that Miss Hearst never became the revolutionary Tania. 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