October 26, 1969

anxiety in UN Day statements by Thant and Brooks noted; recent UN debate on 'Soviet item,' or issue of 'Strengthening of Internatl Security' revd; US Amb Yost, in effect rebuking USSR for generalities in its appeal, calls on UN members to concentrate on practical objectives

WASHINGTON -- Three weeks ago Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic leader, impatiently prodded the Nixon Administration to enter into a cease-fire in Vietnam, declaring that "if the spirit is there, the details should not be too hard to overcome."

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 25 -- The big D in Dartmouth stood for defense today, not demolish, as the unbeaten Indian football team made stubborn Harvard its fifth victim of the year, 24-10.

Controller Mario A. Procaccino and State Senator John J. Marchi plan to try to win over each other's supporters in the final week of the mayoral campaign.

article on controversy over Agnew's statements on moratorium and participants; White House press sec said to spend more time answering questions about Agnew's rhetoric than about war; Repub party strategists, at recent White House meeting, discussed possible impact on natl pol of Agnew statements; controversy said to threaten to disrupt Agnew's improving relations with Capitol Hill; aides say Agnew remarks were not motivated by any secret Nixon strategy