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r U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Wednesday, January 2, 1974 JORDAN WILL PLAY BIG ROLE IN GENEVA TALKS AMMAN, Jordan (AP)--Jordan's key role in a Middle East peace settlement was overshadowed in the fury of the October war and subsequent emphasis on the Suez Canal and Golan Heights positions. But it will become increasingly clear in 1974 as the Geneva talks progress. Jordan now has the best chance it has ever had of regaining the major Arab territory lost in the 1967 war--the rich and populous West Bank of the Jordan River. It is also struggling to avert the possibility of losing it again to a Palestinian state established in an overall peace settlement. Coincidence of interests makes Israel its unwanted ally in Jordan's struggle against the rest of the Arab world to see that this Palestinian state does not come into being. In this, the two nations may have the support of influential western nations, whose officials here see a Palestinian state as internally unstable, a focus of powerful outside interests and the potential trigger of new Mideast dramas. Jordanian and Israeli military experts will sit down in Geneva in January to start negotiations on dis- engagement of forces. Essentially, this means an Israeli pull-back in the West Bank, along the Jordan River. Authorities here say that as the Israelis withdraw, Jordanian civil administrators, and presumably police, will return to their duties, though in the presence of United Nations observers. But the first steps of Jordanian officials back into KING HUSSEIN the West Bank are sure to raise new protests from .,,wants West Bank (See JORDAN, Page 2) UNRESOLVED ISSUES AWAIT CONGRESS AFTER RECESS that could be used if the WASHINGTON (AP)--A mass of unre- rather than start all over again as rationing is passed. However, the solved issues awaits the U.S. Con- at the beginning of a new Congress. legislation administration has said it hopes gress in the new year, topped by One immediate task will be to try this will not be necessary. possible impeachment proceedings to complete action on an emergency Other left-over issues range from against President Nixon. energy bill that produced a deadlock reform to foreign trade. Normally, Jan. 3 would be the between the Senate and House in the election The Senate has passed a bill to opening date for the new session. final hours before adjournment. limit campaign expenditures and to But the legislators adjourned just The measure would provide authority set up new enforcement machinery before Christmas and will not for gasoline rationing and other outside of the Justice Department. return until Jan. 21 unless called fuel-saving actions, but it bogged New efforts to get House action on back by Nixon of their own leaders. down in a dispute over windfall it are expected early in the year. Members of the Senate and House profits for oil companies and other And in the Senate, the Rules of Representatives will be able to provisions. Committee is committed to action resume where they left off in the The administration, meanwhile, has within a month after Congress first session of the 93rd Congress announced a standby plan for gasoline (See CONGRESS, Page 2) 7 Page 2--LATE NFWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Wednesday, January 2, 1974 GAZETTEER JORDAN-- .a digest of late news (Continued from Page 1) Palestinian hard-liners and add to their historic enmity against and distrust of the Hashemite regime and King Hussein. Hussein's grandfather, King Abdullah, was gunned down in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in 1951 by a TURIN, Italy (UPI)--A twin-engine passenger jet Palestinian embittered by the king's annexation of the attempting a landing in thick fog at Turin Airport West Bank, extending his trans-Jordan state into crashed and burned near a dairy farm yesterday, killing "Palestine." 40 of the 42 passengers and crew on board, police said. Since then, there has been unremitting Palestinian A police spokesman said only two persons, a mother and criticism of Hussein's policies and unceasing attempts child, were pulled alive from the burning wreckage of to overthrow him. They culminated in the 1970-71 the Fokker-28 about one and a half miles from the civil war in which Hussein's army finally expelled or airport. The plane carried 39 passengers and a crew killed the leading guerillas. of three. All the victims were Italian, police said. The King's 1972 attempt to propose a new status for a Airport officials said the plane, on a flight from liberated West Bank brought new scorn and broken Catania and Bologna and bound for Geneva, circled the relations with other Arab states. He proposed a "United airport once but just as it began its descent, the Arab Kingdom" in which the West Bank's 600,000 control tower lost all radar and radio contact. Palestinians would have internal self-government in a federation with the East Bank. Amman would control PRINCETON, N.J. (AP)--U.S. Secretary of State Henry international and defense matters. Kissinger has displaced President Nixon as the man Now, Hussein is pledged to accept-the result of an Americans most admire, the Gallop Poll reports. Nixon internationally-controlled, free plebiscite he is urging was third in the annual "most admired man" survey. He for the West Bank. In the three-choice vote he suggests had led the list for the past four years, and the West Bank residents could opt for complete independence, Gallop organization noted this year's poll represented federation with Jordan or a full reintegration with the only the sixth time since the annual surveys were Amman government. begun in 1946 that the president did not hold the top spot.The Rev. Billy Graham was second on this year's list.Sen. Edward Kennedy was fourth in this year's (Continued from Page 1) poll, and Vice President Gerald Ford was fifth. returns on another bill to provide federal financing for LOS ANGELES (AP)--John Lennon, altering his long- presidential and congressional campaigns. held opposition to a reunion of the Beatles, says he Also awaiting action in the Senate is a House-passed is now open to the possibility of getting together bill to give the President broad new trade negotiating with Paul, George and Ringo for one album. "Well, it's authority. possible," Lennon said in an interview published A major issue involved is whether the Soviet Union Sunday. "If you had asked me last year, I would have is to be treated like other nations in U.S. trade con- said, 'No. No way. I'm not going back one step.'-- cessions unless Soviet-restrictions on emigration of But I just think anything is possible now." Lennon Jews and others are lifted. was interviewed by Robert Hilburn, rock music critic of the Los Angeles Times. Lennon, 33, made clear he is not pushing the reunion idea and said there are at present no plans for such a gathering. Water status Local Forc t Ganta.an. Gazette Water figures for yesterday: Partly cloudy with winds'be- war AM. 0.1ph M. 10o0ley cent. Michael 0. 100kin coming SE 10-12 knots with gusts to 21 knots during the Otff- afternoon. Max. temp 84. Lt. Cd1- ae Late. Public Affair WATER PRODUCED: 870,000 Joc adur._Edto Adv. Min. temp 68. Visibility'un- WATER CONSUMED: 1,105,000 restricted. Bay conditions J3 shn.t.-yth- . 2-3 feet in the afternoon. JOSH Pa "Spaey" -ay. .0 10e WATER LOST: 235,000 High tide 0409. Low tide 0958'. 1os.sand 0 r . **.* **. **. *.*. or for ship ad0 s0a0im awepers0 as .ould i lNAOa P-30 ad .ar Oh. WATER IN STORAGE: 19,126,000 diretion of the Nav1 Base pi. affairs officer. IL. ipdted 0fo rfletified th ve ro uauseorthe De-r- of the Wednesday, January 2, 1974 Guantanamo Gazette NATIONAL, WORLD NEWS--Page 3 ENERGY CRISIS BENEFITS GAS STATION ATTENDANTS, COAL MINERS By the Associated Press the firm had an ample supply of oil, in 20 different scents. He said the increased demand was attributable The Trolley Square Pub in Salt Lake City will be open to the energy crisis. and fireplaces are doing equally an extra hour for late night tipplers this month thanks Makers of wood stoves for the producer and re- to the energy crisis. well, although what is good to the consumer. In Pennsylvania's coal country, James Durkin Jr., is tailer is not necessarily beneficial in the market for miners because the family coal busi- Tex., said she stopped ness is picking up. Mrs. Grady Hill of San Angelo, wood stoves which sold And in Burbank, Calif., John Dryden says: "Thank you, by a store recently and found year for $60 were selling for $120. energy crisis, thank you, thank you." His firm manu- last was up in the Dallas area from $35 to factures electric motorcycles. A cord of wood $68.75. the energy producers. To some the energy crisis is not a catastrophe; it's a And then there are blessing. Some Some of those reaping benefits from the energy crunch Northeastern Pennsylvania is hard coal country. and miners are are gasoline station operators. Even though many of mine owners say a boomlet is beginning them are running short of gasoline, some may be benefi- the help wanted. Jr., who with his father holds anmulti- ciaries of a new image. James Durkin million dollar investment in coal, said in the past small operations and "The typical gas station guy usually felt unappreci- month they have reopened three in full swing in 1974.