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A10 Thursday, May 27, 2004 TiieWindsorStar' Tricky Dick Nixon loaded9 in crisis Watergate president again tripped up by telephone tapes as Kissinger's calls opened By Calvin Woodward the associated press college park, md. Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, then-president Richard Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of telephone calls. Henry Kissinger's assessment of the president's condition on the night of Oct. 11, 1973, is contained in more than 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger's phone calls as the president's national security adviser and secretary of state records whose privacy he had guarded for three decades. The U.S.

National Archives released them Wednesday. They show the powerful adviser trying to manage world crises even as Nixon's presidency teetered from the Watergate scandal that would consume his administration in August 1974. In October 1973, U.S.-Soviet tensions were peaking over the Arab-Israeli war, and British Prime Minister Edward Heath's office called the White House Just before 8 p.m. to ask to speak with Nixon. "Can we tell them no?" Kissinger asked his assistant, Brent Scowcroft, who had told him of the urgent request.

"When I talked to the president, he was loaded." Scowcroft replied: "We could tell him the president is not available and perhaps he can call you." Kissinger said Nixon would be available in the morning. At the time, Kissinger was both national security adviser and secretary of state, his dual titles testifying to his influence with the beleaguered president. But it's clear from the records that Nixon did not tell him everything. The next day, Kissinger knew Nixon would announce a new vice-president to replace Spiro Agnew, who had resigned. Kissinger thought New York Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller was a possibility. Instead, Nixon picked Gerald Ford. The transcripts cover Kissinger's phone calls with world leaders, politicians, celebrities and journalists from January 1969 to August 1974, when Nixon was forced out. Henry Kissinger N.B. won't act on dogs Rottweilers killed child under social work protection Ask about our 12 -Month Vehicle Return Pol icy i two reports on the death of four-year-old James Waddell at his home on the Kingston Peninsula, near Saint John.

The child, who had been under the supervision of social workers, was killed by three Rottweiler dogs owned by a man staying at the Waddell home. A fourth Rottweiler was in the home at the time of the attack, but wasn't involved in the mauling. Huntjens said there is no need for the province to take any special measures as a result of the child's death. He said social workers can be trusted to be vigilant when assessing the safety of a child's home. The minister also said it would be useless to blanket ban specific breeds, such as Rottweilers.

But Opposition Liberal Kelly Lam-rock said Huntjens is trying to duck his responsibilities. "Somebody should have bloody well turned their mind to the risk those animals posed to this little boy," he said. Waddell was left alone in the home while his father worked on an electrical panel in the cellar. The Canadian Press fredericton The New Brunswick government came under fire on Wednesday from opposition members who allege it hasn't adequately responded to the mauling death last year of a boy by a pack of dogs on his family's property Tony Huntjens, New Brunswick's minister of family and community services, was questioned by Opposition Liberals in the provincial legislature about the government's response to PONTIAC BUICK GMC mi erome Taylor XTTH YOU DOWN THK ROAD PONTIAC BUICK GMC 250-1155 1155 Provtsclal Rl it CiStsni wmr JeromaTsytorxom LlL. i British youngsters choking on own fat Report says obesity has tripled in two decades pays to have a body scan in May.

Among the evidence collected by MPs was an ac By David Derbyshire the dailytelegraph LONDON, U.K. A grossly overweight three-year-old child died from heart failure in hospital, a damning report on the scale of Britain's obesity epidemic claims. The House of Commons report to be issued today warns that obese children as young as eight are being diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes. Others suffer serious sleep disorders because they are "choking on their own fat" at night. The government and the National Health Service are severely criticised for failing to tackle the crisis, while the food industry is condemned for cynically promoting junk food to children as young as three.

A voluntary ban on junk food advertisements during children's television programs and a simple system of traffic-light health labels for food are needed, the report says. MPs want children to do a minimum of three hours' physical education a week in school and be given better cooking lessons to help reduce their preference for high-fat, high-salt convenience food. They also want children's weight to be regularly monitored at school. The long-awaited report paints a bleak picture of the country's health. Obesity has risen fourfold in 25 years, it says.

Three-quarters of adults are overweight, with 22 per cent clinically obese. Obesity has grown faster in England than anywhere else in Europe, with childhood obesity tripling in 20 years. count of life in a London obesity clinic for children. Dr. Sheila McKenzie, a consultant pediatrician at the Royal London Hospital, said that waiting lists there were 11 months long and growing.

"One child at the age of three has died of heart failure secondary to extreme obesity," she told the inquiry Four other children were being treated for ap-noea, a sleep disorder caused when airways are blocked by folds of fat. "In other words, they are being choked by their fat," she said. "Were we able to study all severely obese children, I am confident we would identify many more with obstructive sleep apnoea." Dr. Tim Barrett, of Birmingham Children's Hospital, said he had seen a super-obese child aged eight with type 2 adult-onset diabetes. The report says that obesity costs the health service more than $18 billion Cdn a year in treatment for heart disease, diabetes which can cause blindness and the loss of limbs kidney failure, brittle bone disease, tumours and psychological damage.

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