Quintuplets, 3 girls and 2 boys, born to wife, NYC; all reptd doing 'well'; mother had been taking fertility drugs

Jersey Woman Has Quintuplets; All Reported Doing ‘Well’ Here

30 feared dead in series of snowslides, Reckingen, Switzerland; toll is highest recorded in Switzerland since '65; scene described; illus; map

TOLL OF 30 FEARED IN BIG SWISS SLIDE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24&#8212; Gov. Lester G. Maddox of Georgia had a fractious day on Capitol Hill today, first clashing with Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana over voting rights and then stirring up furor in the House restaurant by passing out ax handles.

Maddox's Ax Handles Create Capitol Furor

Hawaiian Sen, 15-9, approves bill to legalize abortion; Gov Burns and Sen Yano, Caths, in prior debate held abortion should be left to an individual's decision; US Sup Ct declines to rev Calif Sup Ct ruling declaring state anti-abortion law unconst

Bill to Legalize Abortions Clears Hawaii Legislature

Gov Rockefeller announces 'declaration of total war' against drug abuse by those under 16 yrs of age, news conf; illus; says he will ask Legis to provide $65-million to local govts on 50% state matching basis to operate treatment centers for young addicts; program will provide for $200-million housing bond issue to provide loans to local govts for construction or leasing of treatment space for young addicts or to contract with existing private agencies providing such services; details on other remedial actions; program lauded by Lindsay spokesman, Sens Brydges and Stewart and others; Assemblyman Steingut and other Dems call program 'far too late'

Governor Drafts Program On Teen‐Age Drug Abuses

PSC grants 10.4% Interim increase that will give NY Telephone Co additional $136.7-million a yr; basic residential service cost to increase by 8.5%, direct-dial long-distnace costs by 8.1%; other rates listed; PSC to make refunds to customers if new rates are found to be excessive

TELEPHONE RATES TO BE INCREASED BY 8% TOMORROW

Laird, at joint session of Sen Armed Services Com and Defense Appropriations Subcom, outlines Adm request to build a third Safeguard site that would defend Minuteman complex at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo, and to acquire land and do preliminary work, without any commitment to build sites, at Washington, DC, in southern New Eng, Washington State, Mich-Ohio area and Warren Air Force Base, Wyo; map; he describes proposal as 'minimum we can do and must do'; Defense Dept sources say plan would stretch out possible deployment of a full 12-site system by at least 1-2 yrs beyond original projections; new proposal calls for spending $920-million in fiscal '71; Laird says cost would be less than $100-million above amt needed for Phase I work already approved by Cong; Deputy Sec Packard, in statement read for him, testifies that full 12-site program has increased in cost by $1.6-billion to $11.9-billion; says $395-million of increase is attributed to inflation, $575-million to program stretch-out and $650-million to design changes and better cost estimates; says these factors may cause additional cost increases; holds program is 'well-managed'; Defense Dept research dir Dr Foster backs proposal in testimony and at news conf in which he discusses Chinese and USSR strategic threat; most Congressmen withhold comment on plan; Sen Kennedy says he is still opposed to Safeguard, statement to Dem Policy Council prior to release of Adm plan

EXPANSION OF ABM TO 3D MISSILE SITE IS SOUGHT BY LAIRD

Amman radio repts Arafat said that recent crisis with Jordan was 'passing cloud' and that situation is back to normal, news conf; Arafat reptdly called his visit to USSR a success and said results would be felt soon; broadcast is 1st time that Amman radio has quoted Arafat remarks at news conf; move seen sign of amicable Jordanian-guerrilla relations; illus

ARABS REVIEWING AIRLINER ATTACKS

minor protests by pro-Israeli groups mark Pompidou's 1st day in Washington; Jewish Defense League head Kahane among 8 arrested; Pompidou says France seeks peace and is not against Israel, s, Natl Press Club; notes French Mirages contribute to Israeli air superiority; says French policy seeks to bar conflict from becoming East-West conflict; says nobody has solution for crisis but that mil escalation must be halted and Big 4 must find peace formula to enable Jarring to resume mission

POMPIDOU ASSERTS FRANCE WANTS U.S. TO STAY IN EUROPE

BOAC ground crews at London airport refuse to do regular work for 8 Arab airlines and El Al, cite possible danger; reprs of over 50 airlines meet at airport to weigh security measures; Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators calls for UN action against terrorists, including expulsion from internatl civil aviation orgns of states that harbor or protect terrorists; House of Commons Leader F Peart says Brit Govt deplores Swiss blast and will support internatl arrangements to outlaw air terrorism; statement comes after number of MPs make clear their distress at Govt's failure to speak out on incident

London Ground Crews Bar Work on Mideast Airliners

At Pompidou Dinner, Leaders Trade Praise

Repr Ottinger, declaring candidacy for NYS US Dem Sen nomination, calls Nixon policy of evenhandedness actually pro-Arab; holds Nixon caters to corp oil interests that financed his election; sees area producing greatest threat of nuclear war; says he will participate in boycott by some HR members of Pompidou s because France trifles with security of world in selling Libya planes that will find their way to Arabs

Ottinger Declares Senate Candidacy

NYC experts rept progress in battle against pollution caused by sewage but some problems remain; obstacles discussed; experts acknowledge that NYC produces more sewage, 1.3-billion gals daily, than any other city in world, but say approximately 75% is now treated at 12 plants, increase of 20% over 10 yrs; city involved in $1.2-billion program that will provide for treating all sewage, removing approximately 90% of pollution strength; major goal is 2 huge treatment plants to handle 25% of city, Manhattan W Side and Red Hook sec of Bklyn, that has no treatment; despite improvement, coliform bacteria count remains relatively high; Asst Health Comr Kent says recent reading for bacteria indicates that South Beach, SI, and Coney Island, closed last summer, will remain closed this summer; rain contaminates beaches because water enters single sewer system and mixes directly with sewage; in effort to cope with problem, city is bldg $20-million experimental treatment plant in Queens capable of chlorinating and treating unestimated percentage of storm sewage in area; antipollution enforcement efforts noted

POLLUTION EBBING IN CITY'S WATERS

Sen passes expanded bill, 85-0, after approving, 41-40, Javits amendment; amendment also sets maximum charge of 20 cents for reduced-price meals; estimated cost of expanded program will be $817-million, up from current spending of $419-million; passage of bill marks 1st time natl standards have seen set for program as previous bills have allowed local authorities to determine eligibility for program; motion to reconsider amendment is rejected, 42-39; Javits says figures indicate that 9-million children will receive free lunches under natl standard instead of present 6.3-million; withdraws 2nd amendment to allow schools lacking food preparation facilities to contract with private food and service companies, after being assured by Agr Dept that new regulation will be issued allowing such contracts; Sen Stevens amendment urging that eligibility standard be raised to $5,000 in Alaska and Hawaii because cost of living is 25% higher there than other states is defeated, 45-37, because Sens fear it will lead to requests from other states where cost of living is higher than natl avg; bill now goes into conf with HR; sources say neither HR nor Nixon Adm will accept bill which fully funds program and that Sen adoption of amendment encourages larger appropriation than had been expected

SENATE BROADENS SCHOOL LUNCH AID

many of 40,000 Brit Asians in Uganda fear ouster when Ugandan Immigration Act takes effect May 1; act does not apply to Ugandans who are Asian citizens, but allows ouster of Brit Asians if their presence is prejudicial to 'inhabitants generally of Uganda'; 1,200 are on waiting list for permits to enter GB

Thousands of British Asians Fear Ouster by Uganda

Prof Dillard (US), L Ignacio-Pinto (Dahomey), F de Castro (Spain), P D Morozov (USSR) and E Jimenez de Arechaga sworn in as judges; Sir M Zafrulla Khan (Pakistan) is new pres

5 New Judges Sworn By International Court

found guilty in absentia by Saigon mil ct of damaging natl security through having had dealings with his bro; sentenced to 20 yrs at hard labor; Hoang Ho sentenced to death; is believed to have left country; Tran Ngoc Chau says he will camp in Natl Assembly until Govt forces him out

Oppositionist Deputy in South Vietnam Sentenced to 20 Years

AP asst gen mgr D De Luce dispatch on tour he was given of northern side of buffer zone

American Newsman Visits Northern Side of DMZ

Tito and Nasser End Taiks

Arrested and later released by Laotian Army after making unauthorized visit to Govt base at Long Cheng; is part-time NY Times newsman

B‐52's Seek to Block Heavy Traffic Along Ho Chi Minh Trail

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212;The Defense Department to day listed the names of the following Army men from the New York area as having been killed in Vietnam:

Vietnam Casualties

Feb. 25, 1970 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Commission on Human Rights&#8212; A.M. and 3 P.M.

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Lower Saxony coalition govt of Soc Dems and Christian Dems breaks up over admission of Natl Dem to parliamentary ranks of Christian Dems; Soc Dem Min-Pres Diederichs asks parliament to approve his dismissal of 4 Christian Dem Cabinet members and new elections

Coalition Regime Collapses In State of Lower Saxony

Gromyko in East Berlin

marriage set; elaborate preparations for 9 days of festivities in Nepal's capital, Katmandu, described; reprs of over 50 nations expected to attend

Nepalese Prepare for a Royal Wedding

Mark Rothko was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.

February 25, 1970

Headlines from February 25, 1970

Jersey Woman Has Quintuplets; All Reported Doing ‘Well’ Here

TOLL OF 30 FEARED IN BIG SWISS SLIDE

Maddox's Ax Handles Create Capitol Furor

Bill to Legalize Abortions Clears Hawaii Legislature

Governor Drafts Program On Teen‐Age Drug Abuses

Billboard 200

Led Zeppelin II

Abbey Road

Willy And The Poor Boys

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for February 25, 1970