U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Friday, January 18, 1974 Egypt, Israel agree mO to troop separation WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon State Henry A. Kissinger, who has ier reports indicated Moscow would yesterday announced an Israeli- shuttled between Israel and Egypt also announce the agreement, but that Egyptian agreement to separate their for the past seven days. did not occur. forces along the Suez Canal as the The issue of separating the Nixon told reporters and a nation- first step toward a permanent Middle forces of the two armies has held al radio-television audience; East peace. up negotiations at Geneva on the "This I would say, is the first In a brief statement, the President political aspects of an over-all significant step toward a perman- said he was not underestimating the settlement. ent peace in the Middle East." difficulties that lie ahead, but the Today's signing is expected to agreement "is a very significant open the way for a quick resumption of Me added that "I personally shall step reached directly as a result of of the Geneva talks, which also see that all negotiations, any efforts negotiations between the two parties. involve Jordan. that will lead to a permanent peace .will have the full and complete Kissinger is expected to visit support of the government of the No details were disclosed, but the Jordan to explain the agreement and United States." accord will be signed today at Kilo- perhaps make a stop in Damascus to According to Nixon, the American meter 101 along the Suez-Cairo Road attempt to convince Syria to join people can be proud of the U.S. role by the chiefs of staff of the Is- the Geneva talks. in arranging the agreement, which raeli and Egyptian armies. Yesterday's announcement was made he indicated has importance ranging The agreement came after intensive simultaneously in .Cairo and Jeru- beyond the Arab-Israeli conflict. negotiations involving Secretary of salem as well as Washington. Earl- (See MIDEAST Page 2) Vice President Ford warns agalast jumping to conclusions GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP)--Testimony that one of the Watergate tapes was erased and rerecorded is not sufficient grounds to impeach President Nixon, Vice President Gerald R. Ford said yesterday. "I don't think what has happened so far is a justifiable action under the definition of impeachment under the constitution," Ford told a news confer- ence in his home town. "It's too serious a charge to go from that testimony to an automatic vote for impeachment," Ford added. "I think it's premature to jump in on the testimony of six witnesses, who may or may not be upheldand call for impeachment," Ford said. The President's personal lawyer in the tapes controversy will present rebuttal testimony in a hearing today in an effort to show the erasures were not deliberate. Ford said that despite the latest tapes controversy, he would not change the wording of his Atlantic City speech Monday in which he charged certain groups, including the AFL-CIO, with leading the drive to impeach Nixon. In that speech Ford said the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and the AFL-CIO have launched "a well-financed and skillfully planned program to impeach the President. in a massive way without the facts." "The point I was making in Atlantic City I would make again today," Ford said. "My whole effort at the speech in Atlantic City was to alert people that the effort was under way." VIC"too ss Rg (See."too serious a charge" Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Friday, January 18, 1974 MIDEAST- GAZETTEER (Continued from Page 1) .a digest of late news The Middle East is the area of the world where "the great powers can be brought into confrontation. as recent events have shown," he said. This was a reference to the alert of all American military forces after it was decided the Russians might WASHINGTON (AP)--Consumer advocate Ralph Nader yester- send troops into the Middle East. day told Congress that government agencies have a uni- Nixon opened his announcement by congratulating form desire not to know the facts about the country's Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minis- oil and gas reserves. He described the reserve figures ter Golda Meir for their "very cooperative spirit." published by the American Petroleum Institute as "an utterly phony statistic." Nader said that while API Nixonappearing in the White House briefing room.at estimates list proved oil and gas reserves at 38 billion 3 p.m., said,"I am pleased to announce that at this mo- barrels, other figures show reserves of 285 billion ment representatives of both governments are making an barrels. It is nothing less than a national scandal announcement" of the agreement reached in accord with that the government does not know the extent of energy the Geneva conference. reserves on federally and privately owned lands, Nader Kissinger has been in the Middle East shuttling be- said. tween Egypt and Israel since Jan. 11 in an effort to work out a disengagement agreement. TOKYO (AP)--Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka returned yes- The White House said the commander of the United Na- terday from a Southeast Asian goodwill tour marked by tions emergency force, Lt. Gen. Enzio Siilasvuo, had violent showings of ill will toward Japan, but said his been asked by the two parties to witness the signing. summit meetings had helped deepen mutual understanding. Meanwhile, his last stop, Jakarta, remained tense as the government announced a crackdown against leaders of two days of mob violence directed first against symbols FORD- (Continued from Page 1) of Japan, but turned also against Indonesian officials and local Chinese merchants. The prime minister had He described his speech as "nothing but a presenta- gone to carry the message that Japan did not seek econ- tion of the facts so that the American people could be omic domination of Southeast Asian economies and to seek alerted to what some people are trying to do." stable supplies of raw materials for Japan's industry. He acknowledged that a White House speech writer wrote the speech, but the idea and the topic were his. HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP)--The biggest ham in a local dog He said he requested the writer to handle the speech obedience class is Porky, a 12-week-old pig who in three 0 because he has no speech writer of his own yet. lessons has learned to bow, walk on a leash and beg for a cookie. Porky is the pet of Kenny Reynolds and his "Two of my aides and I went over that speech word for sister, Jeanne, who enrolled the little red porker in a word and if my recollection is accurate, we changed 10-week dog obedience course sponsored by the Young Flor- about a third of it," Ford said. idians Canine Guild. Asked if pigs are as bright as dogs, The vice president described the Americans for Demo- instructor Jean Cole said, "That's what started it. cratic Action as "on the extreme left of the political "They took the pig to a veterinarian for a cold and he spectrum" and said he was disturbed by reading what he said pigs were smarter than dogs," she said. "The kids called "propaganda" seeking the President's impeach- told me about it and I thought, 'In that case, why don't ment in ADA and labor union publications. we train him?'" She says Porky "ignores the dogs in the class and they ignore him." Water status Local Forecast Gantanamo Gazette WATER PRODUCED: 1,665,000 0e0r AU. 0lph H. Chouoloy can. Michael F. 00rk0 Partly cloudy with winds SE 10-12 knots with gusts to 22 WATER CONSUMED: 1,297,000 Lt. C- J. e . ub . Af .-i Offt m knots during the afternoon. JOc Brd D e.E i r l d WATER GAIN: 368,000 Visibility unrestricted., Max. J1sA c. - scho.so . *. tor temp today 84. Min. temp to- Jo3 eth sch-t. .e r r WATER IN STORAGE: 17,298,000 night 70. Bay conditions 1 30SN P "Spac- " Tr cy. o foot except 2-3 feet in the Jos0 a-dy warran. .*- -. **.*. p rte afternoon. High tide 0656. fo.hip and .-station nas0pers as outline in.NAxO. 35 .unde .e direction of the Naval 0ase public affair. off1cer. 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(Official U.S. Navy Photo by PH2 Fritz Schwaner) - ~ Skylab astronauts get go-ahead fo r another week SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)--Sky- last month of tho 84-day mission. control official said an earth re- lab 3's record-setting astronauts Doctors said the astronauts' health sources photo pass was also canceled got a go-ahead to continue their remains excellent. to avoid adding more heat. marathon mission for at least anoth- The astronauts rearranged their er week yesterday after experts re- schedule and canceled some work Skylab will start cooling off today, viewed the health of the crew and yesterday because temperatures are officials said.