European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 d the stars and stripes saturday november 24, 1973 pair set space walk record space Center Houston a two skylab astronauts completed a record 6y2-hour thanksgiving Day space walk in which they repaired a jammed radar an Tenna and successfully completed most of their other tasks. William r. Pogue and Edward g. Gibson spent 6 hours 34 minutes and 35 seconds outside the orbiting space station deploy ing experiments loading film in cameras and doing repair work. Their walk was 3 minutes and 25 seconds longer than the one by skylab 2 astronauts Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma on aug. 6. We had a rather successful Day out Side said flight director Neil Hutchin son after the astronauts safely returned from the walk. Nixon plans Energy talks with aides Camp David my. Up president Nixon decided Friday to interrupt a Long Holiday weekend at his Mountain Retreat for a White House conference on an Emer gency fuel saving measure he probably will announce next week. After studying recommendations of a special Cabinet level task Force in his Aspin Lodge study Friday Nixon arranged to return to Washington saturday for a mid morning meeting with Melvin r. Laird his Domestic affairs adviser and John a. Love his chief Energy assistant. Nixon was believed Likely to order a Banon sunday gasoline sales among other Steps to meet Energy shortages this win Ter. But he has indicated he is resisting gasoline rationing As a last resort. Weekend stay the president previously had been expected to remain Here throughout the weekend. He arrived thursday afternoon for a thanksgiving dinner with his wife Pat their daughter Tricia and son in Law Edward Cox and c. G. Bebe Rebozo an old Friend from key Biscayne Fla. On the Crisp sunny autumn Day Friday Nixon remained inside during the morn ing conferring by Telephone with Secre tary of state Henry a. Kissinger White House chief of staff Alexander m. Haig jr., and press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler. Mideast. Continued from Page 1 has resupplied syrian and egyptian Arsen als since the october fighting and that is Rael now faces a combined 1,020 Arab War planes and 4,400 tanks on both fronts. Dayan said he is not optimistic about the course of the troop pullback talks wit Egypt and warned his countrymen against letting the planned Middle Eastern peace conference Lead to israeli withdrawal and he said Israel will have to maintain its Power and will in order to resist Arab . Pressure for territorial concessions. Earlier As Cairo and Jerusalem completed an Exchange of 8,301 egyptian and 241 israeli pos Dayan charged Egypt with murdering some israelis. There is no doubt that some of the prisoners were healthy men when they were taken captive yet did not come Back to us. I assume they Are not in jail or alive elsewhere i Egypt he said. Therefore at some Point they were killed. They were but an israeli spokesman commenting ii the condition of returning pos said they apparently were Well cared for since they had recuperated in egyptian Hospi tals. It was announced Friday that one of three controlling gyroscopes on the skylab space station failed and flight controller said the malfunction May hamper some research of the Earth and the Christma Comet Kohoutek. If another Gyro were lost the Mission could be shortened. The astronauts were told of the problem when they awakened. Flight controllers said the loss of the Gyro would cause no problems controlling the vehicle during the Normal flight on the 84-Day skylab 3 commander Gerald p. Carr relayed instructions from inside Pogue and Gibson floated out a Hatch at 12 43 . Est and set to work. Fixing the faulty Antenna consume most of their time and they were Able to restore it to near Normal. Gibson anchored himself in a portable foot restraint and then held onto his cremate As Pogue did the actual repair work. The Antenna was jammed so that i could not swing from left to right or up and Down. The astronauts were unable to fix the up and Down action but space officials said 80 per cent of the Antenna s function was re stored. Working on the Bottom Side of the space station the two performed a complicated rewiring that bypassed a Short circuit. Pogue had to remove six screws a difficult Job in weightlessness and install anew electrical switching Box. Hey i think you be done it Gibson announced after the Job was nearly finished. That s the Way earlier the astronauts made Quick work of deploying a series of experiments on the Hull of the space station and installing filming the Telescope cameras. The astronauts suffered one setback when a camera Experiment failed. The camera which was to take pictures of contamination around the space station broke Down after taking Only five of 40 planned photographs. The astronauts paused at one Point to say words of thanks for the american technology that made their space voyage pos sible. One thing i m grateful for is that we begot a Bunch of people in this country who Are enthused enough about this to put it All together and make it work Gibson said. Italy imposes Oil Cut measures continued from Page 1 write construction of the $1.7-billion Plant to be built by a consortium of France Bel Gium Spain Italy and Sweden. Meanwhile West German Chancellor Willy Brandt said the european common Market will be Worth nothing if it fails to work out and stick to a common policy . In an interview on television Brandt also said the Oil squeeze would cause eco nomic problems in Germany and disclosed that Bonn is in secret Contact with Arab and other countries to ease the Oil Supply Copenhagen saudi arabian Oil minis Ter Ahmed Zaki Yamani met with danish officials after warning that saudi Arabia would blow up some of its Fields if the United states intervened also said his country would re Duce Oil production by 80 per cent if the United states Europe or Japan took any measures against the Arab Oil , meanwhile will not Only pay More to get less but will find it More diff Richardson quotes Haig As opposing curbs on Cox continued from Page 1 Stennis d-miss., would prepare an authenticated tape summary which would be presented to the courts Richardson said he had become increasingly aware that the White House wanted to link the Stennis proposal to a limitation on Cox s ability to go to court in Pursuit of any other presidential tapes or documents. He said he therefore tried to devise someway to handle the relationship Between the Basic Stennis proposal and the White House View that Cox would be foreclose from pursuing other documents. He thought first of writing into the proposal some reference to its status As a precedent he recalled but dismissed that As unworkable. So then i had the thought he said that the Way to do it was to try to per Suade the president to drop any mention of other situations and himself in effect to put Forward the Stennis proposal so i called Haig to urge that and after called White House lawyer j. Fred Buzhardt and talked to Haig a second time Richardson said. Haig said that he had tried but that the president would t yield on Nixon has been quoted variously by con Gressmen As having told them that Rich Ardson lied or misled the Senate in testifying about his role in the negotiations. The White House has denied the use of the word it has said however that the president referred to several ver Sions of the events leading to Cox s Dis said wednesday night that there is nothing in dispute except for the meet ing at the White House on the morning of oct. 19 among Richardson Haig and other White House aides in which the proposal to link the Stennis plan to the foreclosure plan was Haig explained it his perceptions of the meeting were different from Rich Ardson s. Richardson according to Haig believed that the White announcement would probably include some combination of the Stennis and foreclosure plans while Haig believed that it was Clear that the discussion had involved the plan to instruct Cox to refrain from further Liti gation. The Senate judiciary committee is expected to vote next week on whether to Call Haig to testify about the apparent conflict. You could hardly get Back a hello by Brent Bowers new York up a Middle age Man on a Busy Midtown Street stiffened said i Curtly and walked on. A pretty Young woman dressed insight jeans and a suede coat grinned but continued quickly on her Way. The portly Man in a Green work Sui just nodded. This was hello Day but new York ers weren t paying much attention to my the fact they were paying any attention at All May have been Amajor step Forward. Hello Day was proclaimed by the Harvard University undergraduate press. To perform the thanksgiving eve ceremony All you had to do was say hello to 10 strangers. If everyone tried it the Harvard people said the world would become a warmer and friendlier i tried it but Manhattan refused to respond an elderly woman carrying a pack age flashed an angry look. Three persons seemed not to woman in her 40s, trapped by a red ought at 42nd Street and third ave nue pursed her lips and turned toward a nearby policeman. I the 9th and 10th tries i was greeted by Friendly shouts and smiles by truck Driver and a window Washer. But by then i had abandoned the simple hello and joked with the two about their work. Perhaps Harvard was aiming too High. On Christmas eve we could Start with a smile. Cult to spend Money in the first Heaters were ordered closed by 11 ., and All bars nightclubs and restau rants must be shut by Midnight under i measures going into effect dec. 1. And to programming after 10 45 . Was banned. Shops from department chains to the Corner grocery were also asked to close at7p.m., earlier than Normal. The government also ordered gasoline stations to close sat urday afternoons and sundays. Lowered Speed limits to 100 Kilometres 62 Miles per hour on highways and to 120kilometers 75 Miles per hour on super highways. Asked cities to Cut Street lighting by 40 per cent. Instructed government personnel not to work after dusk. The Vatican also announced measures to conserve fuel placing gasoline restrictions on prelates and Lay employees. " in other developments Bonn West Germany s labor minis try prepared for economic repercussion from the Arab Oil squeeze by ordering an immediate ban on recruitment of foreign workers from All non common Market countries. Brussels belgian authorities extended the sunday motoring ban to mopeds amid further reports of an International Black Market in crude Oil and warn Ings from gasoline station owners that they would run out of gasoline within two Days. London the British government blamed International Oil companies rather than the Arab states for fuel shortages reaching danger Levels. Madrid the Spanish government recommended that private and Public con Sumers voluntarily reduce their use of Petroleum products and electricity and warned that failure to do so would bring the imposition of official Energy saving measures
