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Show WEATHER T LAKEOGDEN — 118 low Sts. low tonight near 4. and 8 Wednesday PROVO, UTAH, TUESDAY,0 y,OCTOBER29,"1974 «US. India Pm Plunges On Amity, Exchange Nixon Surgery ls Successful LONG WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Department said Tuesday the index of leading economic indicaters suffered its worst plunge in 23 years last month. “The index seems to be delivering a message, a signal that bad times are ahead,” a department economist said ‘The index, which measures the progress of eight s BEACH, Calif. (UPI) — Former President Richard M Nixon underweni successful surgery todayto block the spread of blood clots which had threatened hislife. ees doctors said the was “uneventful” and theoayear-old former President's condition was ‘stable’ following the operation which lasted a little more than one hour, Nixon's personal physician, Dr. John C. Lungren, ordered the surgery late Mondaynight when new tests disclosed a large clot in Miaon’s left hip, above those en discovered in the left The new clot was closer to an a which leads directly to the Lungren, who characierized the operation as a “success,” said the five-man surgical team inserted a permanent plastic clip across the iliac vein in the left groin area. The operation took about one hour and was “an uneventful procedure. nyoe* head of the team, Dr. Hickman. “Mr. Nixon is doing well. He is in stable condition in his room now. undergoing normal post operative care and is somewhat sleepy,” Hickman said “We placed whatis known as a mildclip to partially occlude but not completely occlude the vessel ‘We could readily palpate (feel) the clot. We anticipate the usual post operative recov- ery problems. Hickman said they would include special diets, intravenous administration of medicine and anticoagulants, Hickmansaid doctors “do not anticipate any more surgery.”” In addition to Hickman and Langren, two assistant surgeons and one anaesthesiologist took partin the Lungren said Nixon would haveto weara plastic support on the lower portion ofhis left leg and would remainin the hospital for about one week and then be under postoperative care at his San Clemente home for another four to six weeks The operation was performed onthefirst floor of the hospital and then Nixon wasreturned to his room in the new jatensive Economic Index American economy ran from unemployment to stock market prices, dropped 2.5 per vent from August to September. It was the sharpest monthly plunge since 2.9 per centin June, 1861 ‘The September index showed that unemployment increased manufacturers’ orders for appliances andother durable goods declined. stock prices and building permits fell and -the prices for industriai materials were lower In addition. manufactuers placed orders for new equip: ment which could not be delivered andtheratio of prices to laborcosts increased. For the past 18 months, the indicators have not been reliable because of inflation distortion But the depth of the September decline more than offset any distortion from inflation. a department economist said Assistant Commerce Secretary James L. Pate said the index “presents a mixed picture FORMER PRESIDENT Richard M. Nixon, shown in a 1974 of moderatinginflationary forces photo, underwent suecesstul surgery today to prevent and sluggish economic 4 spresd of blood clots that threatened his Life. Hesaid the Sep deciine UPI Telephoto was largely due to the falling care unit on the seventh floor. in Nixon's veins and monitoring steck market in September but Lungren made a sudden it with a Geiger counterto detect the market recovered in October But a department economist decision Monday night to operate any new clotting. Before the operation, Lungren said the “general decline in alter tests showed “a fresh and said there was “somewhat more indicators suggests that there is activeclot’in the left leg risk than normai” because an overwhelming indication that Hickman said the clots in the Nixon's blood had been thinned further declines in economthigh will either dissolve for more than one month to ieactivity are ahead.” eventually or Nixon will deveThe September decline of 25 preventclotting. lop alternative SCHR rouBut. following the surgery. per cent followed an August drop tes. Lungren said there was no of 1.6 per cent In any event. he indicated, the problemwith the bleeding. clip should permanentiy” solve The “urgent surgery” was the threat of clots breaking loose needed, Lungren told newsmen and reaching the heart and at a news conference early lungs. today, because if the blood clots A hospital spokesman said broke loose and floated into additional tests will be per- Nixon's heart it would block formed on Nixon's leg later this cireulationand kill him A small clot loynd its way to week. The tests, similar to the substances and then replacingit Nixon'sright lung in August. but MOSCOW (UPI) — West ones which discovered the new blocked off only a dimesized area clot. involve removing blood. of lung tissue and responded to German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt held new talks with mixing it with radioactive drug treatinent Soviet leaders today in an attempt to break the Kremlin's hardline stand on the delicate issue of West Berlin The morning meeting took place at the Kremlin. On, Monday, Schmidt began a threeday round of taiks with At the news conference. his oceans and international Communist party General fourth since becoming president environmental matters. (See Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev, and the first not to be televised, separate story elsewhereon this Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and Foreign Minister drei A page.) Ford also: Announced the resignation of —Said he believes Nelson A. Gromyko. The trip was Schmidt's first JohnC. Sawhill asfederal energy Rockefeller will be cenfirmed as administrator and a shake- vice president and added that “I visit to the Soviet capital as the up ofthe high-level energy team strongly support him” for: theNo. West German head of governincluding the appointment of 2 position in the nation “as I did ment. He was accompanied by Atomic Energy Commission in August.” Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich chairman Dixy, Lee Ray to be —Said he believed that he had Genseher. assistant secretary of state for stimulated somevoterinterest in West German officials said the Nov. 5 congressionalelection Schmidt hoped to negotiate a new by his campaigning through 14 cooperation agreement with the states so far. But he expressed Soviets providing for German Tegret at the ‘voter apathy” money and know-how to build (Continued on Page 5) which he recognizes throughout Germans recession. President Ford said he will be “ jons” for more stringent lation and energy saving Ps luding a ceiling if his own untelevised e, the President expressed continu his nomination of Nelson A Rockefeller a! president and hinted he may sign a bill increasing G1 benefits which he previously described as inflationary. Ford, planning {9 campaignin his former Michigan congressional district later in the day. continued to hammer at the is the “spenders” in eli a saver,” he added he was reviewing more (han100 options that could prune between $5.4 billion and $7.5 hillion from the 2le budget in the current 1 Ford said a if Congress approves many oi the provisions m his 31-point program to prevent a further economic slump. “I am confident it will work, “But if it doesn't,” he added. | will be open to suggestions.” Heindicated that included a ceiling on oil imports if necessary.” Although at least three of his top economic advisers have described the current situation as a recession, ord hedged on his owndefinition the country Price Alone go te Japan next month despite growing antinuclear RABAT (UPL) — A high Saudi Arabian diplomat said today his country hopes the oil producing countries will agree on a decrease of oii prices but that Saudi Arabia will not make such acutbackunilaterally. The diplomat denied news reports Saudi Arabia planned to issue 2 special statement at the end of the Arab surnmit meeting today announcing a moderate price reduction plus a price freeze for a year. “It is not true that we have decided to lower oil price unilaterally.” the Saudidiplomat said. “This question is to be decided by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), “We hope that OPEC will reduce the prices,” he said. “If this happensit is likelyto be less than 19 per cent. We are hoping that this will be done." —Announced he stithintends to demonstrations in that country. THE President described his economic program as “finely tuned” to handle both inflation and economic decline. Hesaid if Congress approves it, “I am confident thatit will work." “Butif it doesn't, 1 will be open to suggestions’ for stiffer measures, he added. Oneof Ford’s aimsis to cut the flow of oil imports by 1 million barrels a dayfrom the current 6 million barrel a day rate. The asis to date nas been on voluntary censervation measures. Asked if he mieht clamp a ceiling on oi] imports, either by volume or dollar value, if the voluntary approach does not work, the President reptied “We will move to what is necessary including the possibility of mandator: limite. Kissinger'’s departure for Ban: gladesh, also announced that heavily on deteriorating world- wide economic conditions which both sides called a “serious situation.” Both India and the United States expressed the hope that the World Food Conference in Rome, affected developing nations on more favorable terms. Kissinger conferred through out the day with India’s ministers of defense, agricul ture and finance and abruptly cancelled a sightseeing visit and a meeting with Foreign Minister Y. B. Chavan to work on his Rome speech. ‘The joint communique also Final Registration Information Offered For the benefit of voters who will be casting their ballots in next Tuesday's general election there are five pages of special election informationin today's paper. On Page 9 there is a composite ballot listing the namesof all candidates who will be on the ballots in Utah County Pages10 to 13 carry a complete listing of all voting places in the county. along with mapsofall the cities, showing the boundaries of the voting districts. Utah County's voting district boundaries were changed this year, to the development of nuclear weapons India “The Secretary also discussed U.S. concern over the implications for regional and global stability of nuclear proliferation.” the communique said. The communique repealed te standard Indian position that India’s policy was against developing nuclear weapons and was for using nuclear technology forreo purposes only, ian side appeared to Complete Election so many voters will be voting in different places than they have in previous years. Todayis the final registration day prior to general election. Persons who are not registered may co so by goingto the registration stations in their own voting districts. Registration stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Information concerning the location of registration stations can be obtained from the Utah County Clerk’s office up to 5 p.m. Campaign headquarters of the various political parties can give the information after that time. iat accepted Kissinger's insistance that adequate international safeguards must attached to the export of nuclear technology “There was mutual recognition of the need of pulling nuclear technology to constructive use. patticularly for developing countries, and of insuring that nuclear energy does not contribute to any proliferation of nuclear weapons.” Both the United States and India acknowledged that there was considerable scope for further improvement in U.S. Indian relations. But they expressed their mutual satisfaction that past misunderstandings and frictions inselations have been removed. Beth nations applauded Monday's signing ‘of an accord establishing an Indo-U.S. Joint Commission whichwill provide a forum for annual consultations between the American Secretary of Siate and the Indian Foreign Minister. The Commission will also expedite private U.S. capital the territory in the 1967 Mideast trying to create an independent investment in India and arstate on the West Bank, a move Tange scientific and cultural ar The Palestinians announced Israel rejected in advance. exchanges they would set up a government Former Prime Minister Golda wi e Meir has said creation of @ n state on the West | cabinet —as the first step i Bank would be “a knife at Israel's heart. Recognition of Palistinians Endangers Peace, Say Israelis By United Press International Israeli newspapers said today the emergence of the Palestini: an guerrillas as the dominant force in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Jordan had struck a heavy blow at Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s The triumph of Palestinian jeader Yasser Arafat cameat an Arab summit conference in Rabat, Morocco, when Arab kings, presidents and sheikhs recognized the Palestinians’ claim to the West Bank in a major diplomatic defeat for Jordan's King Hussein who lost Sawhill Aifention Resigns Candidates From FEA aside their bitter rivalry to join in the Surprise agreement rare showof unity. Ai i said King Faisalof SaudiArabia The Daily Herald display —whose oi! moneyhas financed WASHINGTON (UPI) — John advertising department will much of the Arabs’ anti-fsrael C. Sawhiil, who was at odds with remain open Wednesday actions —- was instrumental in the White House over a proposed night until 8:30 p.m.to assist winning the agreement gasoline tax surcharge. has candidates with their Israeli government sources resigned as federal energy political advertising for said there would be no administrator, President Ford Sunday, Monday and Tuesday immediate official comment on announced today. issues of the newspaper. the Rabat decision to recognize Ford told reporters at the the Palestinian Liberation Or- White House that Sawhill woulu panization as sole representa be succeeded by Andrew E tive of the Palestinians, but that Gibson. a former assistant Deputy Prime Minister Yigal secretaryof commerce. Allon ‘might deliver the Sawhill. 38, took over as head government's view when he addressed parliament later in of the Federal Energy Administration in June. replacing the day. In rejecting the PLO as a William E. Simon, who became secretary of the Treasury Ben-Veniste had asked him to negotiating partner over the In his letter of resignation commit perjury at the trial of future of the West Bank, Israeli Mitchell and four other former leaders have said the only place dated today, Sawhil} said he had accomplished what he set out to they would meet the guerrilla associates of Richard M. Nixon (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 5) Hunt, acknowledged master: mind of the 1971 Ellsberg and 1972 Watergate break-ins, testified late Monday that he decided to tell the truth about Watergate after a reading of the transcripts of the White House tapes convinced him “these men were not worth my continuedloyalty “Besides protecting these people, you were also black mang them 2” Hundleyasked “At no time.” Hunt. who withhis wife had received more Hunt Admits 12 Lies, Denies Any Blackmail WASHINGTON (UP — E. Howard Hunt denied under hitter cross-examination today that he had blackmailed or extorted the White House in his demands for money during the Watergate cover-up. William 0. Hundley. attorney for former Attorney General John N, Mitchell, pressed Hunt repeatedly and ed him whether it was true that assistant Watergate prosecutor Richard Jaworski Says Charges Unfounded on Talk Show HOUSTON (UPI) — Former as special prosecutor. Wilson Special Prosecutor sald such action violated a court Leon Jaworski said teday order for attorneys to remain charges that he hasdiscussed the silent on the case Watergate coverup case on Jaworskisaid he had appeared television panel shows are on several paneldiscussions but that he had not discussed. the without foundation Defense attorneys in the imerits of the Watergate case. He coverup trial said in Washing- also pointed out that the jury in ton Monday they wanted the trial was sequestered and Jaworski “to keep his mouth had no access to the news media. “The marshals are very shut" aboutthe case. “| have not discussed the carefully instructed to prevent case,” Jaworski said after anything about the case i returning to his tlouston home reaching the jurors," Jawors: from Washington. “It is clear said. “I don’t know what Wilson that these charges are without had reference to but nothing I said had anyreference to men foundation, Jabn J. Wilson, attorney for who are now on trial. “There were two or re former Nixon aide H. -R Haldeman. claimed Jaworski questions that were asked (nat [ has been “going the circuit of plainly responded to by saying I pane! shows” since he resigned could not answer Watergate where Kissinger is to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi make a major speech Nov. 6, will Russ Talks Saudi Arabs Won't Cut from being diverted into new nuclear weapons. U.S.-Indian A joint don the e of Secretary of State Henry A. Middle East peace efforts and virtually torpedoed the Geneva peace conference. On inflation; Denies Recession WASHINGTON (UPI) ~— Refusing to use the word and to prevent nuclear energy Continue Ford ‘Open to Suggestions’ find “a way of conser world refiected Kissinget's concern foed stocks and making them that India’s May 18 nuclear available to the most seriously explosion might eventually leac Opi NEW DELHI (UPI; — The has accepted an United States ‘and India agreed an official visit to the United today to work together “to Sates and that President Ford prevent further deterioration of will visit Indiain 1975. The communique focused the world economic structure” than $100,000 in cash during the cover-up period. said ‘At notime?” Hundleysaid “No. sir.” Hint said. You don’t consider your comments to things you ha disclose ‘seamy for the White House, you don’t consider that blackmail e “What do you consider it — investment planning?” Hundley asked. “TL considerit in the nature of a bill collector.” Huntsaid. “You don't consider selling your silence" “No,sir,” Hunt said. “That isa different matter.” Hunt provided the four-week old trial with its most dramatic moments Monday whenhe said he fied 1 othe Watergate grand jury, but nowhas decided (Continued on Page5) that po ‘tion today. He will be replaced Gibson, according to news sources. by Andrew FE UPI Telephoto mene ie > é |