July 9, 1969

NYC and City Council, after hearing, reject code proposed by real estate Indus for landlords' self-regulation under new rent stabilization law; Lindsay calls code unacceptable and says indus must submit new code; Councilman Manes says if indus does not rewrite rules then Council will; Manes scores Rent Guidelines Bd for allowing 10% increases on 1-yr leases; Real Estate Stabilization Assn pres Tompkins defends code; some at hearing urge approval of Weiss-Katzman bill calling for extension of rent control law to include 400,000 uncontrolled apts

final extension seen unlikely until autumn as Sen R B Long sets open hearings on reforms to be tied to bill; Long favors further extensions of present withholding rates to avoid adm chaos; says he expects Sen to vote 'less revenue' than is provided in HR-passed bill, TV int; Kennedy appeals to Sen com to pass surcharge now, reforms later; warns that if surcharge is not extended and anti-inflationary efforts fail, Govt would have to consider wage and price controls and controls allocating credit; calls consequences of failure to extend tax 'unthinkable'; holds delay spurs inflation; urges com to make less liberal bill provision providing for rapid depreciation of pollution abatement equipment; Sen Mansfield says he will not call bill to Sen floor before reform pkg is ready for action; Repr Ford, after meeting with Nixon, says Nixon feels that those responsible for delay will be responsible for any ill effects on econ

CAIRO, July 8 -- A further intensification of the conflict along the Suez Canal by the United Arab Republic was underlined today in a communique reporting that a large-scale assault on a concentration of Israeli troops north of Lake Timsah was carried out last night by regular infantry.

China charges USSR gunboats, troops and aircraft have intruded across Amur River frontier into Pacha Island and provoked an armed conflict, protest note to Soviet Embassy; claims Pacha Island, which USSR refers to as Goldinsky, belongs to China; details alleged attack on Chinese residents and militiamen; USSR charges provocation by Chinese forces on Goldinsky Island; says they Killed 1 Russian worker, injured 3 others; charges China planned attack to sabotage Chinese-Soviet talks on river navigation currently underway at nearby Soviet city of Khabarovsk; maps