201   0903pt 05-13
 AP NEWS DIGEST
MONDAY AMs

U.S.-CHINA

    David K.E. Bruce enters China on Monday to head the first U.S.
liaison mission to the Chinese Communists since 1947.
    From Tokyo, new, will stand.

SKYLAB

    The men of Skylab 1, poised and ready for their 28-day adventure
in space living, fly to Cape Kennedy as final preparations advance
smoothly toward the launch Monday of America's first space station.
    From Cape Kennedy, Fla., should stand, Wirephotos KSC1, MSC1
upcoming.

    Once manned space shots were a spectacle watched by presidents and
kings, but the highest-ranking VIPs scheduled to attend the launch
of Skylab 1 are some former POWs and an official from the Yemen
Arab Republic.
    From Cape Kennedy, new, should stand.

WATERGATE

    The Senate's special Watergate committee, preparing to open its
formal hearings Thursday, questions prospective witnesses behind
closed doors.
    From Washington, Watergate roundup, new material.

INDOCHINA

    The Viet Cong charge again that U.S. warplanes struck in South
Vietnam and they ask for an immediate international peacekeeping
investigation.
    From Saigon, Indochina roundup, developing, Wirephotos NY2, NY3
upcoming.

    The voters in the village of Tuyen Thanh line up outside the
polling places to participate in local elections called by the
Saigon government.
    From Tuyen Thanh, new, should stand.

    Thirty-nine senators announce they are sponsoring legislation to
bar funds for any further U.S. involvement in Indochina hostilities
without specific approval of Congress.
    From Washington, ADV 6:30 p.m. EDT.

MID-EAST

    Lebanon's 10-day old confrontation with the Palestinian guerrillas
has settled into a pattern of tension near the Syrian border and
peace in the capital.
    From Beirut, new, should stand.

    U.N. Security Council members have agreed to start full-scale
debate on the Middle East problem and are talking privately about
setting up a special committee to try to defuse the issue.
    From the United Nations, new material, will stand.

TROOP REDUCTIONS

    Nineteen nations begin talks Monday aimed at cutting the number of
troops in Europe. An American concession to Russia cleared the way.
    From Vienna, new, will stand.

    The Soviet Union indicates substantial progress may be possible at
the second stage of the East-West troop reduction talks beginning
Monday in Vienna.
    From Moscow, new, will stand.

INTERNATIONAL

    Secretary of State William P. Rogers meets with President Luis
Echeverria of Mexico at Los Pinos, the Mexican White House.
    From Mexico City, developing, Wirephoto covering.

    Most bullion dealers in Europe expect the price of free gold to
soar above $100 an ounce this week and some experts predict more
trouble for the American dollar as a result.
    From London, new, will stand.

FLOODS

    ''It's too late for corn already and it's going to be too late for
cotton. We'll probably have to go to soybeans.'' That's the way
one farmer sums up the impact of Mississippi River flooding.
    From St. Louis, Mo., new, will stand. a274-277-279 May 12.

NATIONAL

    Authorities report the Sumpter Correctional Institution is tense
but quiet after riot-equipped guards quelled a racial battle between
400 black and white inmates in which 45 were injured.
    From Bushnell, Fla., should stand, Wirephoto KSC2 upcoming.

    
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201   0915pt 05-12
                       AP NEWS DIGEST
                            Sunday AMs

                             SUMMIT

    Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev will hold a summit
meeting with President Nixon in the United States from June 18 to
June 26.
    From Washington, new, may stand.

                           WATERGATE

    Senate investigators interview Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Marine
commandant and former deputy CIA director, as they prepare
for next week's Watergate hearings.
    From Washington, new material, Watergate roundup, Wirephoto
upcoming.
    With Watergate-At-A-Glance.

    Coolness in crisis has always been a Nixon watchword. It comes
after a period of ''indecision, doubt and soul-searching.''
Watergate is such a crisis.
    An AP Newsfeature Special by Saul Pett, a608-9-10, May 11.

    Things had been going well for the Nixon Administration. There
had been the China and Russian trips. The war seemed winding down.
Then came June 17: the day of the Watergate break-in.
    A comprehensive overview of Watergate developments by AP
Newsfeature Writer Richard Meyer, a599-607 May 11.

                         MIDDLE EAST

    An armed guerrilla leads the way into the sandbagged headquarters
of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, faces his visitor and
declares: ''The Lebanese army started it all.''
    From Beirut, new, by Holger Jensen, the guerrillas' side of the
story, should stand.

    Those clouds over the Middle East have a sullen threatening
look and if a new storm is to be avoided, much depends upon
the thinking in Moscow.
    An Undated AP News Special by William L. Ryan, will stand.

                           INDOCHINA

    Communist-led sappers overrun areas near Phnom Penh, posing a new
threat to the Cambodian capital's lifeline to the sea.
    From Phnom Penh, Indochina Roundup, Wirephoto SAI1 918aed.

                         INTERNATIONAL

    Secretary of State William P. Rogers flies to Mexico City for
the first stop on his eight-nation tour of Latin America, which
he calls the most important of its kind in 40 years.
    From Mexico City, developing.

                              SKYLAB

    Fit and ready for their space adventure, the Skylab 1 astronauts
fly to Cape Kennedy Sunday to await the start of their 28-day
mission aboard America's first space station.
    From Cape Kennedy, should stand.

    Astronauts flying in America's earlier spaceships were camping out.
    But in Skylab, the nation's spacemen have a home.
    From Space Center, a581-582, May 10 Wirephoto NY19 May 12.

    Kevin Steen, a 12-year-old boy who physicians say should have died
of cancer by now, has become ''a one-man ambasssador'' for the
Skylab space program, his father says.
    From Cave Creek, Ariz., will stand, Wirephoto NY18 upcoming.

                        PENTAGON PAPERS
    Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, freed of espionage, conspiracy
and theft charges, announce their plans for the future.
    From Los Angeles, new, should stand, 12:30 p.m. EDT news
conference, Wirephoto staffing.

                            THE ECONOMY

    Leading corporation executives, closing their business council
meeting, hear Cost of Living Council Director Charles Dunlop
evaluate Phase 3 economic controls.
    From Hot Springs, Va., new, developing.

                          GOP GOVERNORS

    Republican governors remain less influential within their party
than their more numerous Democratic counterparts, despite assurances
from Nixon administration and GOP officials that their voices will
be heard.
    From New York, new, an AP News Analysis.

                            MOM'S DAY

    Three years after the much publicized birth of a set of
quintuplets, the William Kienast household appears to have settled
down to a flexible organized way of life.
    From Liberty Corner, N.J., new, will stand, Wirephoto NY25 May 11.

    
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