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The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted yesterday to end on May 1 most special half-fare programs on New York City's subways and buses and on the Conrail and Long Island Rail Road systems.

Allard K. Lowenstein, who led the 1968 movement to block the re-election of President Lyndon B. Johnson, was shot yesterday at his Rockefeller Center law office and died seven hours later.

WARSAW, March 14 Eighty-seven people, among them 22 boxers and officials of a United States amateur team, were killed today in the crash of a Polish jetliner crippled by engine trouble minutes before attempting a landing at Warsaw.

WASHINGTON, March 14--President Carter said tonight that the United States still intended to comply with the terms of the strategic arms treaty with the Soviet Union, but he left open the possibility that it might renounce the treaty on its own, even though it has pledged to abide by the treaty's terms so long as the Russians do.

WASHINGTON, March 14 Even the Carter Administration acknowledges that its new economic program is unlikely to have much visible effect on inflation in 1980.

WASHINGTON, March 14 Congressional leaders were optimistic but cau tious today concerning the fate of President Carter's budget-cutting plan, but warned that any true Congressional commitment to a balanced budget would not become manifest until this summer.

WASHINGTON, March 14 President Carter's anti-inflationary budget-cutting proposals would mean a loss of many millions of dollars to governments in the New York area, especially for welfare, state officials said today.

WASHINGTON, March 14 President Carter, declaring that the nation's soaring inflation rate required a program of "pain" and "discipline," announced today that he would cut Federal spending by $13 billion to achieve a balanced ...

WASHINGTON, March 14 With the package of economic measures he announced today, Jimmy Carter is attempting not only to rescue the nation from runaway inflation but also to rob his political ...

TOKYO, March 14 In the 1970's, the hierarchy of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party never changed as the Prime Minister's office, ministerial posts and top party positions revolved among a small group of leaders.

KHAR, Pakistan, March 14 (Reuters) Refugees from Kunar Province in Afghanistan said today that their villages were being systematically razed by Soviet troops to prevent them from returning home. They said the destruction was part of a drive to stamp out Moslem opposition to the pro-Moscow Government of President Babrak Karmal.