News stories from Saturday January 13, 1973

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

At least four of the five men arrested last June in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington are still being paid by persons as yet unnamed, according to sources close to the case. Frank Sturgis, one of the defendants, said that his funds had been sharply reduced in the last few months. Another source said that the payments to the four now range upward from $400 monthly. Mr. Sturgis's statement was confirmed by a source close to the defense. [New York Times] The Environmental Protection Agency, under court orders, will prescribe drastic measures on Monday for alleviating smog in Los Angeles by 1977. It is expected that the federal agency may order gasoline rationing and put other restrictions on automobile use and make mandatory the conversion of some commercial vehicles to non-gasoline fuel. The measures, technically part of a federally imposed "implementation plan" under which California, at least in theory, could comply with the Clean Air Act of 1970, may presage similar federal mandates for other metropolitan areas that have excessive pollution from cars or other sources. [New York Times] A work composed for the official inaugural concert to be played by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Jan. 19 has been deleted from the program by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The composer, Vincent Persichetti, said he had been told the action was taken because the text of the work might embarrass President Nixon. The text is Lincoln's second inaugural address, and Mr. Persichetti said the committee had asked him to use it. [New York Times] Henry Kissinger left Paris tonight to report to President Nixon after six days of what he described as "useful" negotiations with Le Duc Tho, Hanoi's envoy. The North Vietnamese delegation issued a brief statement, saying that the private talks "have made progress." It was the first time that they characterized the results of the negotiations since the talks were broken off in October. [New York Times] Paris riot policemen ripped into scattered groups of demonstrators protesting the presence of Premier Golda Meir of Israel. Mrs. Meir was in Paris to confer with other leaders of the Socialist International, at the invitation of Francois Mitterand, the French Socialist chief. The demonstrators violated a ban on demonstrations during the conference, and marched along the Boulevard Saint-Germain shouting "Get out Golda!" and "Palestine will win!" [New York Times]