ISSUE DATE: February 7, 1972; Vol. LXXIX, No. 6

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COVER: HENRY KISSINGER. The Vietnam Peace Offer: Nixon's Secret Agent.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
MR. NIXON'S SECRET AGENT: In yet another of the dramatic disclosures that have become his political trademark, Richard Nixon disclosed that his chief foreign-policy adviser, Henry Kissinger, had conducted twelve secret negotiating sessions with the North Vietnamese in Paris. With files from correspondents Henry Hubbard and Henry Trewhitt and from Fay WilIey, Richard Steele assesses the peace initiatives; Richard M. Smith examines Kissinger's emergence as the Administration's superstar and Peter Kramer tells the story of the secret Paris talks. (Newsweek cover photo by Wally McNamee.).

THE GREAT HOWARD HUGHES FIASCO: Howard Hughes's self-styled autobiographer, a minor novelist named Clifford Irving, admitted a major lie last week: for all his earlier denials, it was indeed his wife, Edith, who deposited $650,000 in checks as "H.R. Hughes" and then withdrew the cash from a Zurich bank. The admission triggered fresh speculation over what was possibly a hoax and a swindle--and certainly a fiasco. General Editor Richard Boeth puts together the intriguing story, with reporting from both hemispheres, notably by Tom Mathews in New York.

COMPOUND INTEREST:
In many eyes, public television's Enemy No. 1 is Clay T. Whitehead. From Elizabeth Peer's file, Harry Waters profiles the Administration's "communications czar." Page 43.
Earache? Deafness? High blood pressure? Noise pollution could be at the bottom of the problem, according to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Page 45.
Sleepy time down South? Not in Savannah, Ga. There conservationists have launched a model urban-preservation program. G.
Bruce Porter wrote the story. Page 50.
A million Americans have taken up the sport of ski touring--which is skiing done mostly on the level. Mary Alice Kellogg reports on this newest winter craze. Page 52.
What's her line? Basketball. Her name is Karen and her appearance on male-ruled courts has set off quite a controversy. Peter Bonventre wrote the story. Page 54.
Rare gems are there at the swing of a pick, and their abundance has turned Sierra Leone into a hotbed of illegal mining, graft and smug- gling. Andrew Jaffe reports. Page 64.

CONTENTS LISTING:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Presidential thunderbolt--the peace-talk disclosures.
Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's 'secret agent" (the cover).
The great Howard Hughes fiasco.
Clifford Irving's own story.
Campaign '72: the busing issue.
Florida's carnival of candidates.
Shirley Chisholm announces.
Another Rockefeller for governor.
Liberating embassy wives.
Milk, campaign funds and Ralph Nader.
INTERNATIONAL:
Russia's blooming love affair with Japan.
The last Japanese soldier on Guam.
Crisis brewing for Egypt's Sadat.
Elizabeth II, twenty years on the throne.
The de Gaulle.Petain letters.
The remarkable tax returns of the Premier of France .
Tom Whitehead--czar of the airwaves.
Cosmopolitan goes British.
SCIENCE AND SPACE: Noise pollution; Hunting for the "lost" comets.
THE CITIES: Savannah's handsome restoration.
LIFE AND LEISURE: Skiing on the level--the growing cross-country craze.
RELIGION: Oral Roberts's "miracle university"; The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Jesus freaks.
SPORTS: The girl who plays basketball with men; Ocala Stud: end of a thoroughbred farm.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
For more jobs, massive Federal spending.
Employment and job training: a new look.
Sierra Leone's diamond smugglers.
Mr. Nixons new economic appointees.
Slowdown on GM's Vega production line.
The FTC vs. the breakfast-food giants.
THE COLUMNISTS: William P. Bundy. CIem Morgello. Milton Friedman Stewart Alsop.

THE ARTS:
MUSIC:
Scott Joplin's ragtime opera.
Dancers to the rescue of a library.
Seiji Ozawa: new baton in Boston.
Mahalia Jackson dies.
MOVIES:
"The visitors"--the Kazans' "home movie.
"The Hot Rock": fast-moving caper.
THEATER: Yevtushenko: smash hit.
BOOKS:
George V. Higgins's "Eddie Coyle".
"Poor Cousins," by Ande Manners.
Neil Sheehan's "The Arnheiter Affair".
ART:
The Smithsonian's new museum.
Whitney Annual--a look at the future?.
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