March 13, 1968

W Sullivan repts fossil fragment of large amphibian that lived in subtropical forests near South Pole more than 200-million yrs ago found in Antarctica by Ohio Univ team led by P J Barrett; says fossil is 1st indication that land vertebrates once inhabited region; says discovery supports theory that continent was once linked to other land masses; Amer Museum of Natural History curator Dr E H Colbert comments on discovery; describes specimen; illus

presentation; illus

Gov Rockefeller signs Medicaid cutback bills, reptdly with regret; says he has no alternative, news conf

Govt ousts 3 officials, fathers of students identified in press as ringleaders of protests; dismissal seen as 1st in series of purges foreshadowed by Warsaw party sec Kepa at meeting of party activists; Kepa threatened students, profs, party officials and parents of activists with exemplary punishment; newspaper Kurier Polski lists W Topolski, son of 1 ousted official, as member of Jewish Cultural Soc Babel Club, which paper singled out for responsibility for riots; article also charged some prominent intellectuals with being 'enemies of people's Poland'; names listed; attacks seen heightening anxiety of Jewish community; Kepa denies charges of anti-Semitism by party, but holds many of organizers of protests are Jews; Warsaw calm except for minor disturbances involving teen-agers; sources rept Cracow and Poznan univ students demonstrated in sympathy with Warsaw students

Sen com hearing on bill; possibility of linking income tax surcharge proposal to bill discussed