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Syrian forces yesterday claim-
ed they shot down an Israeli
warplane for the first time since
the October war as heavy fight-
ing raged in the Mount Hermon
area.
The Israeli'plane, said to be a
phantom, was reported to have
crashed in Southern Lebanon aft-
er being hit by a rocket.
Tank and artillery duels raged
from dawn to dusk along the
length of the 40-mile Golan
case-fire line for the 28th con-
secutive day. No casualties were
reported although Israel's mili-
tary command announced the
first capture of a Syrian soldier
since the October war.
SYRIA SAID the Israeli. F4
Phantom was brought down over
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Mt. Hermon by its air defense
system, apparently meaning a
missile. But Israel denied this,
saying the plane burst into
flames because of "a technical
hitch."
Lebanon said the plane crash-
ed in the Arkoub region near the
village of Chebba, only six miles
north of the Israeli border and
about 40 miles south of Beirut.
A Lebaneese spokesman said
the two pilots were safe and said
they were picked up about three
miles west of Chebba. He did not
say where they were being held.{
Israel admitted using war-
planes for the first time since
the October war on Saturday. It
said air strikes were ordered af-
ter the Syrians attacked an Is-
raeli position on 9,000-foot Mt.
leights
Hermon, on the northern tip of
the heights.
THE AIR ACTIVITY and fur-
ther artillery and tank gun
clashes on the Golan Heights
front came as a government
spokesperson in Damascus an-
nounced that a seven-member
military and civilian delegation
would leave today for Washing-
ton.
They will have talks there with
Secretary of State Henry Kis-
singer on efforts for the dis-
engagement of troops on the Go-
lan Heights.
Informed sources in Beirut said
the mission of the Syrian delega-
tion, led by military intelligence
chief Brig. Hikmat Al-Shihabi,
would be confined to seeking
from Kissinger the Israeli view-
point on the question of disen-
gagement.
ISRAELI Defense Minister Mo-
she Dayan conveyed the Israeli
stand to Kissinger during a re-
cent visit to Washington.
According to the same sources,
the Syrian delegation would be
empowered to make "observa-
tions and proposals" during its
Washington vist, which might
not last more than four days.
The sources said they expect
Kissinger to visit the Middle East
region again later this month to
resume his efforts to bring about
a separation of forces on the Go-
lan Heights after learning the Is-
raeli and Syrian views.
Similar efforts undertaken by
Kissinger in earlier trips to the
Middle East have failed to pro-
duce a disengagement of forces
similar to the one he arranged
between Israeli and Egyptian
troops on the Suez Canal front.
But it was agreed to follow up
the issue in Washington.
IN JERUSALEM, Premier Gol-
da Meir spent the day consult-
ing with her Labor party on whe-
ther to get rid of Defense Minis-
tertMoshe Dayan, whosecde-
parture from the cabinet could
bring down the government.
But she was unable to pull her
bickering party together, post-
poned a key meeting of the party
leadership set for last night, and
left the crisis unresolved.
The crisis focused on the re-
port of a government-appointed
commission investigating Israel's
lack of preparations for the Oc-
tober war. The commission blam-
ed the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Da-
vid Elazar, and his intelligence
director - who both resigned -
but cleared Dayan's name.
HOWEVER, MANY members
of Dayan's own Labor party, in-
cluding cabinet ministers such as
Deputy Premier Yigal Allon,
called for Dayan to share the
blame and quit. Dayan's support-
ers argued that if he accepted
responsibility, the entire cabinet
should shoulder it too.
Dayan disclosed in a newspap-
er interview Monday that he of-
fered to resign last week, but
said Meir wanted the party ex-
ecutive to decide the issue.
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UNITED NATIONS (RP) - The
planet's poorest nations, newly
dubbed the "Fourth World," get
a chance to portray their plight
at a special economic session of
the United Nations General As-
sembly which opens today.
The session, costing about
$300,000 and expected to last
three weeks, will seek guidelines
for coping with energy shortages
and price explosions that are re-
jiggering world economies. Most
drastically affected are the poor
countries in Asia, Africa and La-
tin America.
Economists have labeled this
group the Fourth World to dis-
tinguish them from Third World
countries which are developing
but which are also rich or poten-
tially rich in raw materials. The
t w o industrially developed
"worlds" are usually referred to
simply as East and West.
UNITED STATES Ambassador
John Scali, in an essembly pre-
view, told reporters the price in-
creases in oil alone had added
$12 billion annually to expenses
of developing countries.
Noting that the United States
has poured billions into foreign
economic aid, Scali said "we
would welcome all of the assist-
ance that is available for this
goal, particularly from any na-
tion which finds that it has ex-
cess funds available now."
Oil exporting countries decided
to create a special fund to help
developing countries,. but did not
agree on its size.
A BRITISH DIPLOMAT said
the Soviet bloc nations in the
past have "hidden behind the
rather flimsy argument that aid
is the responsibility of the rich
Western countries. That doesn't
hold water any longer They'll
have to get involved and they'l
have to say where they stand."
President Houari Boumedienne
of Algeria, who promoted the
special session, is among four
heads of state and dozens of for-
eign ministers - including Rus-
sia's Andrei A. Gromyko - who
will address the meeting.
AP Photo
PRESIDENT NIXON signs the new minimum wage bill which will eventually boost the minimum wage
to $2.30 an hour. Labor Secretary Peter Brennan w atches the signing ceremony.
56 MILLION WORKERS COVERED:
President Nixon signs far
reaching minimum wage bil
AP Photo
Announcing his candidacy
French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing announces that
he will be a candidate for the Presidency in the upcoming French
election. He was the third person to announce his candidacy since
the death of President Pompidou. Others who have thrown their
hats into the ring include former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas
and Edgar Faure, president of the National Assembly.
WORSE THAN WW II:
Scintit computes
murder rate odds
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (M) - A baby born this year in one of
America's 50 largest cities has almost a two per cent chance of
being murdered in his lifetime, according to a mathematically based
study released yesterday.
Dr. Arnold Barnett, an instructor in applied mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told a seminar his study
shows that a baby born in 1974 is more likely to be murdered than
an American soldier in World War II was to die in combat.
Barnett said statistics based on the current murder rate also
show that a male baby born in one of the 50 cities has a three per cent
chance of being murdered. In World War II, according to Defense De-
partment statistics, less than two per cent of the more than 16 mil-
lion Americans who served were killed in battle.
However, the murder statistics are figured over a lifetime while
a soldier's time in battle is very .limited and many soldiers never get
into combat.
BARNETT SAID traditional homicide statistics compiled by the
FBI, which showed about 20,000 murders last year, are "misleading
and unsatisfactory" in predicting the risk of murder because they
don't relate the deaths to the growing crime rate.
Barnett uses a model projecting homicide rates into the future.
Using that applied to the current homicide rates, he found that one
of 79 persons born in Boston this year could be murdered; one in 67
in New York; one in 60 in Chicago; one in 82 in Los Angeles; one in
40 in Washington; in in 35 in Detroit and one in 51 in Miami.
Barnett, who projected four different rates with the aid of Daniel
Kleitman and Richard Larson of MIT, said the model based' on cur-
rent crime rates is optimistic.
BARNETT STRESSED that his forecasts are based on the as-
sumptions the public attitude toward homicide will remain the same,
and that homicide rates will not go down.
Barnett said he also found that homicide rates have increased
about the same in allr SOcities. Such a finding conflicts with theories
that growing murder rates in a city can be explained largely by local
factors of no particular significance elsewhere.
Finally, the study found that factors such as a shifting racial
population or .decline of the core city, which often are believed to
cause a crime rate to increase, actually accounted for only about 10
per cents of the rise.
WASHINGTON (R) - President
Nixon yesterday signed a bill
that will bring the minimum
wage to $2.30 an hour for mil-
lions of American workers by
Jan. 1, 1978.
Nixon signed the bill in his oval
office, telling Labor Secretary
Peter Brennan, who was seated
alongside, that "we wouldn't
have it without you."
In a White House statement,
Nixon said, "Although I have
some reservations about portions
of this legislation, its basic pur-
pose - to increase the minimum
wage for working men and wo-
men of this country - deserves
the support of all Americans."
When fully effective, the new
law will cover 56 million workers.
NIXON VETOED a similar
minimum wage bill last year.
N i x a ,n objected to the
1973 minimum wage bill as being
inflationary and because it did
not include a youth differential
permitting a lower rate for teen-
agers.
The 1974 bill, approved by Con-
gress last month, contains only
minor changes from the one Nix-
on vetoed.
It does not contain a youth dif-
ferential , but it does liberalize
the present law slightly dn em-
ployment of students, permitting
them to work part-time - not
more than 20 hours a week -
at 85 per cent of their regular
wage floor.
THE LATEST BILL would
bring domestics under the wage
and hour law for the first time
and repeals overtime pay ex-
emptions now in effect in several
industries.
It also tightens present law on
child labor on farms and ex-
tends the scope of the law aimed
at discrimination against elderly
persons.
For 36 million workers covered
under the 1966 minimum wage
law, the schedule calls for an in-
crease to $2 by May 1, $2.10 by
Jan. 1, 1975, and $2.30 by Jan. 1,
1976.
FOR SOME 19 million workers,
mostly retail and service em-
ployes covered under the new
bill the schedule calls for $1.90
on May 1; $2 on Jan. 1, 1975;
$2.20aon Jan. 1, 1976; and $2.30
by Jan. 1, 1977.
For 750,000 farm workers, who
now have a wage floor of $1.30
an hour, the minimum wage
would go to $1.60 on May 1; $1.80
on Jan. 1, 1975; $2 on Jan. 1,
1976; $2.20 on Jan. 1, 1977 and
$2.30 on Jan. 1, 1978.
The new bill extends coverage
under the minimum wage law to
five million federal, state and
local employes; one million do-
mestics; 600,000 additional retail
store employes; 120,000 addition-
al services industry workers; and
25,000 additional farm workers.
IN A WRITTEN statement dis-
tributed by the White House, Nix-
on said the new wage schedule
fits his criteria for "reasonable
increases . . . phased in so that
the very people such increases
are intended to help do not find
themselves suddenly priced out
of the job market.
But he added, the legislation
"on the whole ... contains more
good than bad and I have con-
cluded that the best interests of
American people will be served
by signing it into law."
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