News stories from Saturday March 30, 1974

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

Vice President Ford, in a speech in Chicago to cheering Republican leaders, sharply attacked the Committee for the Re-election of the President as "an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents." He warned the Republicans that they could never again allow their presidential candidate to bypass the regular party organization and set up a campaign group that would make its own rules and "dictate the terms of a national election." The party leaders were from the Middle West. [New York Times] The Democratic party's spokesmen on education charged that President Nixon's position on the education bill has "fanned the flames of the busing issue," provoked discord, and brought "confusion and chaos to thousands of school districts all over America." The remarks were made by Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and Representative John Brademas of Indiana in response to the President's earlier radio address on education. They are, respectively, the Democratic chairmen of the Senate and House education subcommittees. [New York Times] American colleges, faced with financial pressures they have not known since the Depression, are resorting more and more to the hard sell in search of students. The competition for enrollment and the money it produces is generally polite but fierce. The stakes are millions of dollars nationally and, for some schools, survival. Some will not make it. [New York Times] The nation needs to start deciding what its energy policies for the long-term future will be and needs to decide not only where the supplies of energy are coming from, but also how much more demand for energy should be permitted to develop. This need for "balancing the nation's energy budget" by looking at the future demand as well as the future supply was the central theme of the first preliminary report of the Energy Policy project, titled "Exploring Energy Choices," which was made public today. The project has been financed by the Ford Foundation. [New York Times] Secretary of State Kissinger ended two days of talks in Washington with the Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, and expressed confidence that he would bring about a troop separation agreement between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights. He told reporters that the formal Israeli proposal for the disengagement of forces, submitted by Mr. Dayan on Friday, provided "a useful basis" for the negotiations he will conduct between Syria and Israel. [New York Times] Mr. Kissinger married Nancy Maginnes in in Arlington, Va., and the couple immediately left for Acapulco for their honeymoon. The wedding was disclosed by former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who interrupted a speech he was giving in Chicago to say: "I have some news for you -- Kissinger is marrying Nancy Maginnes today." Miss Maginnes had been an aide to Mr. Rockefeller, specializing in foreign policy matters. Mr. Kissinger was a part-time consultant to Mr. Rockefeller before he joined the Nixon administration. The bride's mother, Mrs. Albert Maginnes, formally announced her daughter's marriage. [New York Times] A barren, half-forgotten little island in the Persian Gulf has become a new kind of world power center. It is now a place of financial pilgrimage for chiefs of government, bankers and industrialists who arrive by approved application only to find out how the Shah of Iran plans to spend his new oil billions, and to help him do so if at all possible. The Shah is in his winter palace on Kish Island, formerly a pirates' hangout. His palace looks like a 20th-century version of the old Persian caravansaries. He is attended by a lighthearted, tanned court, pleasantly relaxed, but pleasantly aware of what the island, Iran and the Shah have come to mean. [New York Times] Recent American and South Vietnamese intelligence reports indicate that Hanoi has begun sending thousands of young civilian men and women from North Vietnam into the south as part of a program aimed at establishing farms and populating areas under Viet Cong control. The reports are based almost entirely on interrogations of prisoners and defectors, who say that about 6,000 North Vietnamese have moved southward. If the migration continues, some officials believe it could bolster the Viet Cong's contention that they constitute a legitimate government -- a claim that has been vulnerable to charges by Saigon and Washington that only a small part of South Vietnam's population lives in Communist-controlled areas. [New York Times]