April 15, 1970

Sen, 50-35, passes amendment to limit radio and TV spending by Pres, Vice-Pres and Cong candidates to 7 cents for every vote cast for office in previous election; amendment is incorporated in legis repealing equal time rule; legis lets networks provide free broadcast time for '72 Pres and Vice-Pres candidates without giving comparable time to every minor candidate; bars stations from charging candidates more than lowest rate given large commercial advertisers; action seen cutting cost of pol ad by 35-50%; Repubs, with well-filled campaign chests, oppose spending curbs; hold curbs will favor incumbents; White House, looking forward to '72 Pres election, reptdly is working behind scenes against legis

USCG arrests USSR tanker's master on charges of spilling mi-long oil slick near Kodiak Island off Alaska coast while refueling USSR fishing vessels; map; Comdr Byrd details complaint; if guilty, captain faces maximum $2,500 fine, 1 yr imprisonment or both

Nixon briefed on flight's problems by NASA officials Dr J F Clark, Dr W C Schneider and H Thompson, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md; White House press sec Ziegler says Nixon is getting frequent repts from NASA

WASHINGTON, April 14 — President Nixon today named Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, to succeed Gen. Earle G. Wheeler as chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's highest ranking military officer.

Blackmun apptd to US Sup Ct; por