May 25, 1965

over 2,200 S Vietnamese begin offensive to disrupt Vietcong build-up in Kontum, vulnerable central Vietnam area; S Vietnam, apprehensive over approaching monsoon season, sends out search patrols; Vietcong tries to avoid contact with S Vietnamese until rains ground covering Amer aircraft

Govt and miners agree to cease-fire after heavy fighting; virtual civil war reptd; illus; map; 48 reptd killed; Barrientos demands unconditional surrender of miners; Govt seizes Milluni, ending threat to La Paz utilities; claims victory at 2 mines

Treas, after conf with White House, says it will yield to Cong criticism and will not mint 45 million silver dollars; minting plan reptdly was fulfillment of pledge to Sen Mansfield

3-judge Fed ct rejects attempt by Zaretzki and Travia to forestall Nov election under Plan A; affirms earlier order; scores Dems 'ineptitude and inaction'; ct stresses Plan A applies only to Nov election; Dems, despite ruling, pass bills to set up nonpartisan comm, freeze present lines through '66 and provide for weighted voting

Lindsay plans orgns in each AD, duplicating entire Repub orgn in city; plans storefront clubhouses; Price says each dist will have own leaders and budgets; aim is to soften Lindsay's identification as Repub and to build strong orgns in traditionally weak Repub areas; some Repub regulars fear their orgns will be downgraded; Bronx leader Fino, Bklyn leader Crews comment; some volunteers complain of 'Ivy League' nature of Lindsay hq; Lindsay says J H Whitney declines to be his finance chmn; opposes deficit spending, radio int; backs rent controls

US Sup Ct unanimously rules Fed law requiring recipients of Communist pol propaganda to request delivery from PO unconst abridgement of rights under 1st Amendment, cases of C Lamont (Basic Pamphlets) and L Heilberg; PO ends enforcement; decision hailed by Postmaster Gen Gronouski, Lamont and Emergency Civil Liberties Com

Greenberg warns of 'wholesale dismissals' of Negro teachers in South as Negro youths are shifted to formerly all-white pss, s, NYC; urges HEW Dept act under Title VI of '64 Civil Rights Act, wire to Comr Keppel; dept spokesman says Govt cannot act because Fed funds are not used to hire teachers; evidence of marked trend toward dismissals lacking in Southern states other than NC

1st trans-Atlantic televised art auction held; illus; Early Bird TV satellite links Sotheby's in London to Parke-Bernet, NYC; highlight of sale is Churchill's painting of Lake Como, bought by J E Newman; details on other sales

Assembly, 110-36, approves stronger ethics code; defeats companion bill to set up advisory ethics comm; bill that passed bars legislators and employes from practicing law for fee before Claims Ct and most state agencies; requires legislators and employes to file more comprehensive statements of financial interests in businesses regulated by state; Kelly hails passage; defeated amendments described; Assemblymen Rodriguez and Turshen accuse press of trying to frighten legislators into voting for bills; defeat of ethics comm seen not affecting implementation of code

Brit Lords approves bill to end criminal penalties for homosexual conduct by consenting adults in private; Marquess of Queensberry and Earl of Arran spoke for bill

cease-fire continues; Bundy confs with Guzman, Bennett with Imbert, Mayobre with Caamano; no progress reptd; 21,000 US troops put under Penasco command; illus; commerce and indus activities being normalized

policewoman Cirile wounds 1 of 2 suspected drug peddlers who attacked her while under arrest, NYC