December 23, 1969

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Pressing toward a pre-Christmas adjournment tomorrow, Congress cleared its last major hurdle tonight by supporting President Nixon on one of the few civil rights issues of the 1969 session.

she gets 6-mo jail term for role in Aug 13 Cath-Prot riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland; illus

Accord on S African gold will preserve important US goal--refusal of govts and central banks to buy gold on free mkt or directly from S Africa; S Africa will benefit to extent that it will be able to sell some gold under carefully specified conditions to IMF and thus will not be forced to lower price; practical effect will be to establish rough floor price at about $35 an oz as result of provisions allowing S Africa to dispose of gold to IMF at $35 an oz but reserving bulk of newly mined gold for free mkt, thus tending to prevent any noticeable rise in price above $35; S Africa reptdly would be barred from deliberately withholding gold from free mkt; accord analyzed

Correction Officer Cirrone arrested on charge of beating prisoners, 8 prisoners arrested on charges of having made sexual attack on 16-yr-old prisoner, Rikers Is; arrests stem from McGrath's and Dist Atty Robert's continuing probe of alleged beatings, sexual abuse and suicides; Roberts appeals to Gov Rockefeller to transfer up to 6,000 prisoners from NYC to NYS prisons to relieve overcrowding, wire; discusses other abuses revealed in probe on Rikers Is

JERUSALEM, Dec. 22 -- Premier Golda Meir said tonight that Washington's support of Israel had eroded to the point where it represented dangerous appeasement of the Arab states.