August 13, 1968

Chmn Ronan warns that unless city acts quickly on MTA program to improve subways and commuter rrs, inflation would 'eat away' at available funds, Estimate Bd hearing; holds time for studies and interminable debates is past; stresses auth plans to move quickly with program, with construction starting in '69; pledges new subway routes would be built to highest standards of efficiency and design; Bklyn Deputy Boro Pres Hayes charges plan gives inadequate attention to parts of Bklyn and provides too much for carrying suburbanites into and out of Manhattan; NYSE pres Haack holds exch 'vitally concerned' with extending proposed 2d Av subway to Whitehall St; Councilman Low urges subway be built under 1st Av rather than 2d for greater convenience of E Side residents; Downtown-Lower Manhattan Assn pres Wagner backs program, but opposes delaying extension of 2d Av subway until 2d phase

Resigns from Rhodesian High Ct, refusing to break loyalty oath to Queen Elizabeth; por

Detroit mfrs, in move to combat invasion of foreign imports, plan new class of car, smaller and cheaper than any built in US now but still bigger than tiny imports; hope to make $2,000 US car a reality again; Ford will introduce 1st new small car, Delta, in Apr '69; Amer Motors, Chrysler and GM work on similar models; Delta described; sketches

Pope urges both sides give priority to lives of starving, message sent through Haile Selassie; Nigerian Amb Garba explains to Pope reasons for hostile demonstrations set off in Nigeria by July 21 papal s; delivers lr from Gowon reiterating Govt efforts for peace and willingness to permit aid to East through Fed-held areas

N Vietnamese spokesman scores Nixon and Repub platform; accuses Nixon of 'impudence' toward Vietnam and charges platform is not realistic; scores Nixon for pledge not to 'sell out' S Vietnam; cites repts that Nixon said he would 'be ready to use atomic arms to bring Hanoi to its knees'; Nixon press sec says Nixon has not mentioned use of atomic weapons; N Vietnamese spokesman scores Johnson policy and takes issue with Humphrey statement that peace is closer than ever before