8 TRADE GROUPS ARE LEAVING CITY

message angers Arabs; Cairo radio sees total endorsement of Israeli position; UAR leaders seen having long rejected peace steps urged by Nixon; UAR reprs reject contention that Arab struggle against Israel must lead them to total alignment with Communist bloc; Cairo observers see Nixon failure to mention Security Council Nov '67 resolution, which calls for Israeli withdrawal among other peace steps, as deliberate and significant

Cairo Decries Stand

pitcher D McLain suspended indefinitely because of "67 bookmaking activities and his assns at that time'; action taken following meeting with Comr Kuhn, his lawyer and baseball's security chief H Fitzgibbon; Kuhn statement; baseball incidents involving McLain since '67, including toe injury that sidelined him for several wks, and his off-field business activities, revd

Baseball Suspends McLain for Ties to Gambling

JERUSALEM, Feb. 19&#8212;Presi dent Nixon's report to Con gress on foreign policy has been read with deep satisfac tion in Israel.

Assurance Discerned

Sen passes unanimously $35-billion authorization measure, including $22.4-billion for special programs for educ of disadvantaged children

2d Nixon Veto Threatens $19‐Billion Fund Measure

Comr Leary submits to questioning by Sens Goodman, Stewart, Meyerson and Garcia on his efforts to fight narcotics traffic in NYC; illus; says he cannot say there is no corruption in Police Dept; pledges to reassess his manpower priorities to see if he can increase 500-man narcotics squad; asks for any data that Sens may have on corruption; Sens agree to fight in Legis for funds to add 2,000 men to antinarcotics force and to set up $1-million fund to be used by undercover men to make large purchases from major drug dealers; Leary and Sens announce plans to give urgent attention to tips on bribery and corruption in dept, to meet jointly with Educ Bd members to urge admission of more undercover agents in schools and to hold monthly meetings themselves to discuss progress in wiping out drug trade; Sens give Leary and aides information they have on drug site locations; hold news conf; Stewart says he is 'not happy' over his meeting with Leary

Leary and 4 Senators Plan New Steps to Fight Drugs

HR approves, 315-81, $19.4-billion appropriations bill, including 3 Southern freedom-of-choice and antibusing amendments; Sen unanimously approves $35-billion educ authorization bill, including provision sponsored by Sen Ervin designed to prohibit busing of children as part of Fed approved desegregation plans; Sen also approves, 61-26, resolution sponsored by Sens Mondale and Javits for formation of new com in equal educ opportunity which would investigate Southern charges that de facto segregation in North is as immoral as de jure segregation in South and should be treated equally; com is given $200,000 for study

BUSING CURBS ARE PASSED IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE; 2 SCHOOL AID BILLS VOTED

Nassau County Exec Nickerson calls Gov Rockefeller 'a chief lobbyist for multibillion-dollar antiballistic missile system', news conf at which he announces candidacy for NYS Dem gubernatorial nomination

NICKERSON SEEKS THE GOVERNORSHIP

BLS repts prices rose in NYC area, Jan, were 8.5% above Jan '68 level

CONSUMER PRICES UP BY 0,170 HERE; EASING PREDICTED

Natl Guard hq notifies all state Adjutants Gen of new policy aimed at attracting greater number of experienced soldiers and cutting back acceptance of untrained volunteers; Guard spokesmen link policy to effort to upgrade readiness; policy seen having wide impact on young men seeking to join Guard and possibly avoid draft

Guard Wants Fewer Untrained; Draft‐Age Men to Feel Impact

City Council's Housing Com chmn Manes discloses that city's rent control law will probably be temporarily extended to give adm and Council time to study 2 pending repts before taking final action; disclosure follows 2-hr closed-door com meeting attended by Admr Walsh and Comr Altman; Manes says that both officials were invited to meeting to rept on status of Rand Corp and Rutgers Univ (Prof Sternlieb) studies; HDA aide says that computer problems have delayed completion of Rutgers study and that original contract for Rand study did not call for formal rept, but rept based on study is now being prepared as result of data leak; City Hall observers believe that new control law will probably provide for some relaxation of controls to give landlords more money to maintain apts; Manes calls meeting disappointing; says it is Rutgers rept, with its far greater concentration on rent-control issue, that Council needs before deciding what form law should take; says com feels that if Rand rept is not fruitful, then present law will have to be extended as is, pending Rutgers study; Walsh says that he will send adm's 'interim recommendations' on rent controls to Council by March 1; Altman says that if city is to continue controls, it is required to declare that housing crisis exists; Councilman Burden offers bill that would extend rent control law for 1 more yr

CITY'S RENT LAW FACING EXTENSION PENDING REPORTS

Pres Nixon urges Sen ratify '49 UN pact outlawing ganocide, message; says he regrets efforts by critics of US to exploit failure to ratify pact, which was submitted to Sen in '50; Sen com sources see close vote on pact unless Nixon applies pressure for passage; Nixon acts on advice of Sec Rogers, who in Feb 5 lr to Pres urged ratification; State Dept says it is unable to recall any legal proceedings initiated under agreement since it went into force in '51; some observers regard genocide pact as legally meaningless

Nixon Urges Senate to Ratify Genocide Pact, Stalled Since '50

Engineers Corps rebuffs Cahill's plea to require immediately that all sewage sludge and indus waste from NJ be dumped at least 100-mi out in Atlantic Ocean, saying it will not make any decision now; cites cost and logistical difficulties; some state officials speculate on whether Nixon Adm, which made pollution one of its central issues, will intervene in Cahill's behalf; NJ antipollution official R J Sullivan comments on Corps decision; Corps officials, while sympathizing with Cahill's concern, have attempted to minimize reptd threat of pollution and make much of difficulty of dumping waste 88-mi farther to sea; Corps pub affairs deputy chief Mouton gibes at Ottinger contention that yrs of dumping have created veritable cesspool; Corps official M Gurnee says any pollution is confined to ocean bottom of dump site; Ottinger comments; HR subcom on rivers and harbors will hold 1-day hearing at Sandy Hook, NJ, to investigate dumping near Ambrose Light; hearing scheduled after Repr Howard introduced legis to require barges carry waste at least 25 mi to sea before dumping

CAHILL REBUFFED ON SLUDGE TOWING

Canadian Govt, confident it has full backing of 10 provs, plans to ban phosphates in detergents within 2-yrs; Min Greene says phosphate pollution will be made criminal offense under control legis now before Parliament; illus; under bill, Fed Govt will offer aid and incentives to provs undertaking antipollution projects and will seek accords with provs to establish specific areas of joint control where penalties under Criminal Code would be applied to violators; Greene says he will propose amending bill to have phosphates progressively eliminated, with 1st cutbacks to begin Aug 1st; concern over widespread use of detergents spurred by recent survey by Pollution Probe, study group at Univ of Toronto, showing that some leading detergents contained over 40% phosphate; details

Canada to Ban All Phosphates In Detergents Over 2‐Year Span

Amer mil authorities, S Vietnam, drop Bangkok as vacation center for US troops after Thai Govt decides not to renew needed airline landing rights

U.S. DROPS BANGKOK AS G.I. LEAVE CENTER

US B-52s continue attacks against suspected N Vietnamese supply depots

U.S. B‐52'S CONTINUE RAIDS IN EAST LAOS

Stoessel says that in upcoming conf with Lei Yang he will pursue Nixon goal of 'improved practical relations,' recorded TV int

Souvanna Phouma stresses peril in current N Vietnamese offensive, news conf; believes object is to regain for Pathet Lao territory it lost in '64 and '65; diplomats and top Laotian Govt officials voice surprise and disbelief over repts on US use of B-52s; decision to use bombers reptdly was taken to avert evacuation of nearly 2,000 Laotian troops cut off at Plaine des Jarres airfield; Govt position on plain continues to deteriorate; Souvanna Phouma expresses hope that US will send Laos more arms

Laotian Premier Stresses Peril Of Offensive by Hanoi in Plain

Missionaries Reach Rome

US Sec of State Rogers arrives, Lagos, on 10-nation African tour; seeks to assure Govt that US will respect its wishes in relief operations; praises Govt policies toward Biafrans; confs with Gowon set

Rogers Seeks to Assure Lagos U.S. Respects Its Relief Plans

internatl relief teams rept they are being deluged by over 3-million hungry refugees as they advance into former Biafran areas

Relief Teams Deluged

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19&#8212;Sen ator Eugene J. McCarthy, who was a leading critic of the John son Administration's policy on Vietnam, turned his attention to the Nixon Administration today, accusing it of misleading the nation &#8220;over the issues at stake&#8221; in the war.

McCarthy Charges Administration Misleads the Nation on Vietnam

OECD Development Assistance Com chmn Martin holds lack of jobs is developing nations' greatest problem, rept on OECD's '69 activities; says cos investing in such nations should take advantage of cheap labor

O.E.C.D. Aide Urges Wide Use Of Labor in Developing Lands

New approach by US to talks fails; Habib arrives at session without prepared text and tries to engage Communist delegations in informal discussion; Communists refuse to move from their stand that US must unconditionally withdraw its forces and abandon Saigon Govt; N Vietnamese delegate scores Nixon call for N Vietnam to negotiate; US spokesman, after session, says US took 'extraordinary steps'; details on session

A New Approach by U.S. Fails at Paris Peace Talks

Syracuse U students occupy Adm Bldg for 4 hrs, forcing Chancellor Corbally to agree to advisory referendum on future of corps on campus; incident follows Corbally rejection of com recommendation that program no longer be accorded acad status

February 20, 1970

Headlines from February 20, 1970

8 TRADE GROUPS ARE LEAVING CITY

Cairo Decries Stand

Baseball Suspends McLain for Ties to Gambling

Assurance Discerned

2d Nixon Veto Threatens $19‐Billion Fund Measure

Billboard 200

Led Zeppelin II

Abbey Road

Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas

Willy And The Poor Boys

Engelbert Humperdinck

Historical Context for February 20, 1970