March 30, 1970

NY Times survey of Brit legal-heroin system; 1-mo study shows that long-standing practice of giving free and legal heroin to addicts is being sharply reduced and may be abandoned in present form as unworkable; no formal notice of policy change made but estimate is that half the number of drs licensed to prescribe heroin in Govt clinics have either cut back on doses or have stopped prescribing entirely; of 3,000 known addicts in Eng, perhaps 2,500 take heroin; inability of Brit experts to solve drug problem seen seriously affecting US thinking on problem; details on Brit youth involvement; Brit addictions expert Dr P Chapple says Brit system is in 'total disarray'; NYS and NYS proposals for legal dispensing of heroin noted; rise of methadone and barbiturate addiction in GB because of reduced heroin prescription noted; conditions among addicts described; table on rise in addiction, '60-68; table on findings in drug deaths, illus

papers expected to make wage offer; Kheel doubts negotiations will be completed by Mar 31 deadline, hopes negotiations will continue; publishers and printers seek to settle non-econ issues before bargaining on money; Powers says ITU may use some form of 'attrition against papers; Levy praises Kheel's efforts

rain, snow and sleet force cancellation of parade, other traditional observances, NYC; observances elsewhere in US noted; illus

over 600 killed, several hundred injured out of 8,000 population; Prov Gov fears toll may reach 1,000; fire destroys half of homes; illus; Premier Demirel and Mins at scene; tremor is 11th serious quake in Turkey since '39; measured 7 on Richter scale; relief supplies and drs sent to area; map

mil ct convicts Duffy of premeditated murder and then moves to reconsider decision when told that conviction carries mandatory sentence of life imprisonment; lawyers say they can recall no other instance of a ct's seeking to change its verdict after being informed of sentence; ct pres Col R W Selton comments; Rothblatt's defense noted; he raises anew allegation that cts-martial are not fair trials because they are subject to influence by higher ranking Army authority