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* Egypt and U.S. resume full diplomatic relations CAIRO (AP)--President Anwar Sadat, proclaiming "a new era," last night restored full diplomatic relations with Washington and invited President Richard Nixon to visit Egypt. With Secretary of State Henry A. Kiss- inger at his side, Sadat told newsmen his main concern now was a dis- engagement of Israeli and Syrian forces, adding, "As long as Dr. Kiss- inger is handling the whole thing, everything is okay." Last month Kissinger engineered the disengagement of Egyptian and Israeli forces, which saw the last Israelis leave the west bank of the canal last week. Israelis will be off both banks of the canal for the first time since June 1967 by next Tuesday under the terms of the agreement. Kissinger met with Sadat for 3 1/2 hours at Sadat's rest home near the Great Pyramid at Giza. They looked over maps of the Golan Heights brought into the meeting by Egyptian military officials. Afterwards, asked what advice he would give President Hafez Assad of Syria, Sadat said: ".to give Dr. Kissinger the opportunity to work out and achieve what he has achieved on the Egyptian front." Kissinger surprised observers by discussing Israel's latest proposals for a Syrian front disengagement with Sadat before he had discussed them with Syrian President Assad. It was generally assumed he would discuss them first with Assad, whom he is to see in Damascus tonight. Sadat told newsmen they would deal with the problem of a second Israeli HENRY KISSINGER withdrawal in Siylai "when the time is appropriate," adding that his main .praised by Sadat (See SADAT, Page 12) White House lawyer St. Clair says only I U.S. LNAVAMBASE crisminail acts grounds for lenspeatlement JGUANTANAMO BA, CUB WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon's The analysis clashes with a study lawyer said yesterday that only by the staff of the House of Rep- criminal offenses of a very serious resentatives Judiciary Committee nature can be grounds for impeach- which holds that the President can ment of a U.S. president. be impeached for noncriminal actions. In a 61-page analysis of the con- stitutional standards for impeach- The Judiciary Committee is pres- ment, James D. St. Clair and five ently weighing whether Nixon should legal associates wrote: be impeached in the Watergate scan- dal. If impeached by the House of "The use of a predetermined Representatives, Nixon would then criminal standard for the impeach- be tried by the Senate. ment of a president is. supported The President himself said Monday by history, logiclegal precedent night that only criminal actions and a sound and sensible public could bring impeachment and said he policy which demands stability in would not be impeached. Friday, March 1, 1974 our form of government." (See ANALYSIS, Page 2) Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Friday,* March 1, 1974 SADAT- GAZETTEER (Continued from Page 1) E$) .a digest of late news concern at the moment was a disengagement of forces on the Syrian front. Turning to U.S. relations, Sadat said, "We have agreed on the resumption of the relations between our two coun- tries and an official statement will be issued later this day, but relations have already been restored." GENEVA (AP)--The International Red Cross Committee said yesterday it has received no request to visit Asked whether Kissinger's progress in the last few Israeli war prisoners in Syria. The White House an- days toward the Syrian-Israeli pact meant the Arab oil nounced Wednesday that Secretary of State Henry A. embargo against Kis- the United States could be lifted, singer had won permission from the Syrians for Sadat replied: Red Cross visits to the Israeli prisoners. Kissinger traveled "The oil ministers will be meeting in March and they to Israel from Damascus with a list bearing 65 names will make the decision. It is not my decision. It is of Israeli POWs captured by Syria during the October the decision of all Arabs." Middle East war. A spokesman for the all-Swiss com- mittee said its Geneva headquarters is in constant Deputy White House:Press radio Secretary Gerald L. Warren, contact with all Red Cross Middle East representatives, asked for President Nixon's reaction to the announce- including a delegation in Damascus, but had received ment, replied that the President views it as "a natural no confirmation of the agreement for visits. step. .resulting from the progressive improvement of relations with Egypt over the past several months." HOUSTON (AP)--Former astronaut James A. Lovell, com- mander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 space flight, says a TV movie based on the 1970 mission is "fictitious and in poor taste." Lovell aired his complaints about the (Continued ANALYSIS- from Page 1) ABC-TV movie, "Houston, We've Got a Problem," in a letter to Dr. James C. Fletcher, chief of the National The St. Clair document says the Constitution's refer- Aeronautics and Space Administration. "NASA ence to "other high crimes did a dis- and misdemeanors" as im- service to the flight crew and ground peachable offenses personnel con- means only "great crimes against nected with Apollo 13 by cooperating the state." fully with this film," Lovell said. "I resent the mixing of fact and That constitutional phrase has been subject to widely fiction. If NASA wanted exposure of this nature, the differing interpretations. The White House document story should have been based on a fictitious space flight." said the only previous presidential impeachment in his- tory, against Andrew Johnson more than 100 years ago, WILMINGTON (AP)--Police are blaming customer apathy teaches the lesson that "impeachment of a president for the death of a 35-year-old man who fell should be resorted to the floor to only for cases of the greatest at a topless go-go bar and was kind." left unattended for five hours. Dr. Ali Z. Hameli, state medical examiner, said John E. Bradley of Wilmington died Tuesday night of The paper drew a distinction between impeachment of a acute alcohol ingestion. Police said there was a pos- president and impeachment of lesser government officials sibility Bradley might still beralive if he had been such as judges, some of whom have been impeached for hospitalized in time. But not one of more than 20 cus- less than indictable offenses. tomers called an ambulance. "I don't think they gave a "A president may only be impeached for indictable damn. This is the worst case of this I've crimes," the paper seen," said said. police Lt. John Doherty. Water status Local Forecast Guantanamo. Gazette Water figures for yesterday: i.i. At. Partly cloudy with isolated tiph 0. mfliitl.y tiE. HiI,.ii 7. 5th. iic.i At.Ai. WATER PRODUCED: 1,348,000 showers. Visibility 10 miles. S.idhii dii., Winds N 6-10 knots becoming E it F . bi. W1. i, Out.w WATER CONSUMED: 1,604,000 by noon to 10-14 knots wi-th i .i .diii AiS. afternoon gusts to 21 knots. .3 .I b,.W. WATER LOSS: 256,000 High 80. Low 67. Bay condi- . tions 1-3 feet. High tide ' ~ S,. a-4, ,.",. 0313. Low tide 0927. -a, WATER IN STORAGE: 18,913,000 fl.O.i,,., i.,. , iiha c~flt i.n. A~~~ Friday,.March 1, 1974 Cuantanamo Gazette LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS--Page 3 Villamar pool Cher sues Sonny, attorney reopens, rules SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)--Cher Bono, of the Sonny and Cher variety team and television show, has filed suit against her estranged husband and his attorney in superior court, contending they fooled her into signing a con- tract damaging to her career and interests. Cher, recently separated from Sonny Bono, charged in her suit that Sonny and attorney Irwin 0. Spiegel conspired to defraud her and "unlawfully for use outlined dominate and control. .her business interests and career." She said she had been Captain Michael F. Durkin, Naval damaged in an amount as yet undetermined, adding that she would amend the Station commanding officer, officially suit once the dollar value of the alleged reopened the Villamar swimming pool dam- with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at ages became known. the pool yesterday. Bono, 39, filed suit for legal sep- aration from Cher, 27, Feb. The pool will be open from 1 to 6 19 in Los Angeles p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to court. It was still undeter- mined how 6 p.m. on weekends and holidays. It it will affect the future is for use by dependents. of "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" on CBS. Certain rules must be followed for those wishing to use the pool. Cher charged in her suit that her husband and Spiegel Swimmers must shower before and after had taken advan- entering the pool (a lifeguard will tage of her lacl of business know- ensure this is done) and unaccom- ledge to trick her into signing a panied children must be 12 or older contract which constituted imposition of "involuntary servitude" or hold a beginner's swimming card in viola- tion of from Special Services or the Red the 13th amendment of the Cross. Constitution. The singer contended that Bono had SONNY AND CHER In addition, a qualified lifeguard gradually given increased must be at the pool during a party control in the or other special event. If the couple's management company, Cher Enterprises people involved can't provide their Inc., to Spiegel. The contract bound her to perform own lifeguard, one can be obtained exclusively for CEI and provided no payment if she were unable to perform and included through Special Services at a cost.