overwhelmingly rejected a proposed amendment to the federal constitution to allow the government to control prices and wages. The plan was rejected in all six states, with no votes on price regulation ranging from 51% in New South Wales to 68% in Western Australia. The no vote on income regulation was even higher, from 60% in New South Wales to 75% in Western Australia. Celeste Dandeker, a 21-year-old English dancer, sustained a broken neck while performing at the Manchester Opera House and suffered quadriplegia. After being profiled in a TV documentary on BBC, and encouraged by an admirer to create dances for persons with disabilities, she and Adam Benjamin would create Candoco Dance Company in 1991. Died: Yuri Nikolayevich Raevsky, 21, Soviet Russian serial killer who murdered six women in 1971, was executed by a firing squad. December 9, 1973 (Sunday) The Sunningdale Agreement was signed between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with an agreement that the Irish government and the Northern Irish government would both prosecute persons accused of violent crimes, regardless of which part of Ireland where the crime was perpetrated. The agreement also created the 14-member Council of Ireland with seven members from mostly-Catholic Ireland and mostly-Protestant Northern Ireland. The pact was signed in Sunningdale, Berkshire by Prime Minister Edward Heath, Irish premier Liam Cosgrave, and representatives of the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. The new Council was sworn in on December 31. Voters in Venezuela cast ballots for the new president, as well as all 200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 47 of the 50 seats in the Venezuelan Senate. The Acción Democrática (AD) party gained 36 seats for majority control (102 to 98) over the opposition in the Chamber and nine more seats for control (28 to 19) in the Senate. Carlos Andrés Pérez of the AD was elected president of Venezuela with 48.71% of the vote, over Lorenzo Fernández of COPEI (36.7%) and 10 other candidates. Born: Li Quan, Chinese martial artist; in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China Died: Leonid Pervomayskiy, 65, Jewish Ukrainian Soviet poet and Stalin Prize winner December 10, 1973 (Monday) The government of Austria closed the Schönau Castle transit camp for Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union, fulfilling a promise made by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky for