Ousted as armed forces comdr-in-chief; will be named amb; illus

MILITARY CHIEF OUSTED IN BEIRUT

ROCKEFELLER OFFERS PLAN TO REVAMP STATE AGENCIES TO MEET PROBLEMS OF 70'S

Sec Laird says US may consider bid g B-1 advanced strategic bomber if USSR continues accelerated strategic arms build-up, news conf; says current defense budget includes funds for craft

LAIRD SAYS SOVIET SPEEDS UP THREAT

Teamsters union asks for 75% basic wage increase and other benefits in 3-yr pact, formally opening negotiations for new contract to replace one that expires Mar 31; asks for $1-an-hr increases each yr of pact for 300,000 NYC drivers, who now earn avg of $4 an hr; also demands unlimited cost-of-living adjustments of 1c an hr and 1/2 mill a mi for every 0.3% rise in consumer price index; other demands noted; trucking indus chief negotiator R F Beagle calls union's proposals highly inflationary, puts cost at $8.9-million; union acting pres Fitzsimmons defends proposals

TEAMSTERS SEEK 75% PAY INCREASE

W J vanden Heuvel scores 'waste' of S Mall project, statement announcing candidacy for Dem gubernatorial nomination

Vanden Heuvel Joins Contest for Governor

only 100 white students out of 1,500 fail to attend integrated pss, Yazoo City; illus; change in white's attitudes from resistance to consent linked to drive by white business and civic leaders to persuade parents to keep their children in pss instead of transferring them to private schools; Yazoo experience seen having important effect on other school dists where outnumbered whites are under strong pressure to abandon pss; State Sen H Decell is among officials backing pub educ; School Supt H C Kelly urges teachers to stay on job; says none have resigned; Wilkinson County pss still have only 2 white children attending and Negroes in Canton weigh boycott against white merchants who allegedly donated 80% of equipment for all-white schools there

Parental Acquiescence

Dutch Council Asks End of Priestly Celibacy Rule

French repr, confirming plan to sell arms to Libya, says French arms policy in Mideast varies according to offensive or nonoffensive quality of arms, geographic position of purchasers and their roles in conflict; expresses some annoyance about publicity given to French arms deals; notes Iraqi ship that picked up munitions in Cherbourg had previously called at Hamburg, W Ger, and Southampton, Eng, to take on mil cargo; French seen seeking to favor Arab world to restore French positions there, Israeli Min Eban scores what he calls 1-sided French policy, int on French radio; says disquiet in Israel over arms embargo has been reinforced by French arms talks with Libya; US officials have been concerned that Libyan arms deal could alter strategic balance in Mideast against Israel, but US State Dept expresses confidence that deal will not become point of contention when Pres Pompidou visits Pres Nixon next mo

FRANCE CONFIRMS SHE IS ARRANGING LIBYA ARMS SALE

nearly 300 white parents, most of whom are members of Citizens for Local Control of Educ, and children stage sit-in at grade school, Petal, to protest integration plan that assigned children to classrooms 13 miles away; illus; parents say they are not anti-integration but are opposed to busing children to schools far away from home; incident is only one reptd at any of 8 Forrest County pss that began their 2d semester under Fed ct desegregation order; Educ Supt M Evans repts only slight absences in schools; 4,000 whites and 1,000 Negroes attend other schools in 4-to-1 ratio

A Protest by Parents

Repub Legis leaders reptd near accord on redistricting to comply with ct order to equalize dists; reptdly will cross many county and town lines, alter existing dists considerably; may create Manhattan-Bronx-Queens dist with many Puerto Ricans, which could endanger seats of several incumbents and elect 1st Puerto Rican to Cong, moves Repubs hope will increase Gov Rockefeller re-election popularity; reptdly will create Westchester-N Bronx dist despite earlier objections by Westchester leaders; are expected to avoid odd-shaped dists that could raise gerrymander questions; speculation on other changes affecting Dem Reprs McCarthy, Stratton and Wolff

Republican Accord Is Near On Redistricting for State

Wilentz denies he protected criminal gambling operations; Sinatra says he never had any business transactions with DeCarlo or H Konigsberg, convicted extortionist; W Van Riper, ex-NYS Atty Gen mentioned in tapes as having been paid off by DeCarlo to run crap game in Plainfield, denies any such ties

JERSEY LEADERS DENY MAFIA TIES IMPLIED ON TAPES

Strike at LKAB, state-owned mining co at Kiruna, tarnishes Sweden's reputation for virtually strike-free labor-mgt relations; strike, in its 30th day, has idled 4,700; illus

Swedes' Labor Stability Shaken As Miners in Arctic Stay Out

Bank of Portugal: H da Palma Inacio, Portuguese revolutionary leader, goes on trial in absentia for '67 $1-million theft; 23 others have been incriminated; Palma Inacio has escaped from Portugal, lives abroad

LISBON TRIAL OPENS IN NEWS BLACKOUT

Natl Front, popular front orgn sponsored by Communist party, charges 'right-wing and antisoc forces' have caused serious situation in artists union; warns artists they must conform with party line as condition for continued front membership

Three Supporters of Dubcek Face Party Charges in Prague

GB agrees to sell some $2.4-million worth of ground-to-air missiles, designed mainly for defense of airfields, to sheikdom; says it is responsible for sheikdom's defense until treaty obligations run out at end of '71

Britain Agrees to Provide Defensive Missiles for Qatar

8,000 Asturias miners and 25,000 other workers whose jobs depend on miners are idled as result of miners strike that began after Xmas as protest against size of Xmas bonuses; Hunosa, Govt-owned co employing 80% of miners in Asturias region, orders 5-day suspension of miners who fail to return to work; Govt threatens to shut down number of less-profitable pits if strike continues; walkout is largest since '62 strikes which paralyzed mining indus in northern area and brought much of metal indus in north to halt

Asturias Mine Strike Challenges Franco Regime

Nigerian newspaper ridicules Thant appeal as sheer wishful thinking

Nigerian Paper Belittles Thant's Appeal to Ojukwu

Patriarch Alexius leads Orthodox observances, Moscow; attendance of large number of younger persons at rites noted; illus

Young Join Moscow Christmas Mass

Pres of Soviet Sup Ct criminal sec Justice G Z Anashkin urges action to guarantee that those accused of crimes receive strongest possible defense in ct, 1st article in Literaturnaya Gazeta series on problems of Soviet legal profession; repts many defense attys who vigorously defend clients suffer abuse and rebukes from judges for disagreeing with guilty verdicts

Soviet Defense Lawyers' Rights Backed

F R Guhre, member of E Ger trade mission, Amsterdam, defects to W Ger

East German Defects to Westl

State Dept says N Vietnamese infiltration into S Vietnam in '69 was less than 1/2 of '68 flow; dept spokesman repts infiltration in '69 estimated at 100,000 to 110,000, compared with 250,000 in '68; dept agrees with Saigon repts on number of enemy in S Vietnam

U.S. GIVES ESTIMATE ON INFILTRATIONS

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

New fighting reptd near Danang and Cambodian border; field repts say enemy tries to maneuver into position for attacks on allied bases in new phase of winter-spring offensive; 39 enemy killed near Tamky; 5 Amers killed, 16 wounded in same battle; 2 more US helicopters downed; 32 enemy killed near Cambodian border; map

New Battles Erupt Near Danang and Cambodia

Army charges Lawrence with disrespect to superior and failure to obey orders, but asserts charges have nothing to do with his censorship charge; says charges stem from incident before controversial broadcast; Lawrence now faces ct-martial

G.I. Who Accused Military Of Censorship Is Charged

Saigon Govt announces firecrackers, banned since '68 Tet (Lunar New Yr) offensive, will again be banned on new yr

January 8, 1970

Headlines from January 8, 1970

MILITARY CHIEF OUSTED IN BEIRUT

ROCKEFELLER OFFERS PLAN TO REVAMP STATE AGENCIES TO MEET PROBLEMS OF 70'S

LAIRD SAYS SOVIET SPEEDS UP THREAT

TEAMSTERS SEEK 75% PAY INCREASE

Vanden Heuvel Joins Contest for Governor

Billboard 200

Abbey Road

Led Zeppelin II

Willy And The Poor Boys

Let It Bleed

Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas

Historical Context for January 8, 1970