May 18, 1969

Fortas affair seen arousing a desire among other Justices to compose code of conduct to reassure country of their objectivity and probity; Justices reptdly will resist any effort by Cong or outside authority to impose enthical standards or enforcement methods upon them, remain committed to principle that each Justice shall be free to work beyond control or censure

WASHINGTON -- Former Associate Justice Abe Fortas surveyed the wreckage of his Supreme Court career last Thursday and the scandal that had forced him from the bench and remarked that it was "as if an automobile hit me as I stepped off the curb."

police withdraw from campus; several hrs later talks resume on demands of black and Puerto Rican students; statement representing all parties issued listing conditions for talks; they are that police remain oft campus, that all parties be urged to refrain from any action which can harm talks, that convocation of students and faculty be held instead of classes for next 2 days, that alt students involved in talks receive no acad penalty; controversy over 'open admissions' issue revd; strongly prevailing opinion of students and faculty is that some means must be devised to increase opportunities for Negro and Puerto Rican hs students who seek admission; other demands by dissidents listed; Copeland role noted

Oil, the nation's largest and most powerful industry, is being buffeted by the most severe and high-powered political gale it has ever known.