May 27, 1970

numerous tenants and their organizers threaten rent strikes if City Council approves Lindsay's plan, hearing; about 200 persons, including candidates for pol office, charging that landlords will just put rent increases into their pockets, not into their bldgs, criticize Lindsay for inconsistency in advocating rent increases while calling several days ago for Fed wage and price controls; others urge complete Govt takeover of city's housing; tenant leaders' Rev Gigante, J Benedict, J Gray and pol leaders, including H Badillo comment; illus

Sen com approves reform bill; provisions include 8% pay rise for postal workers but omits rate rises sought by Adm

S Vietnamese-Cambodian agreement that S Vietnamese would leave Cambodia 'as soon as their mission is completed' announced in joint communique issued at end of Yem Sambaur-Tran Van Lam talks; agreement to restore ties also announced; communique does not indicate when S Vietnamese will end their operations in Cambodia or whether they will continue to operate after scheduled withdrawal of US troops by June 30; agreement also reached on respecting for the present boundaries of 2 countries; question of status of 1/2 million Cambodians living in S Vietnam put off; talks reptdly reached impasse at Cambodian insistence that S Vietnam publicly recognize Cambodian ownership of 2 offshore islands of Koh Thmey and Koh Ses; map; Cambodia also reptdly demanded that ethnic Cambodians in Mekong Delta in S Vietnam be granted right to Cambodian citizenship and to enjoy legal status of ethnic minority

OECD rept, based on survey of econ, urges Govt to install formal wageprice guidelines; suggests Govt establish permanent coms to analyze mkt situations in specific industries to determine whether wage and price increases are justified; predicts '70 union wage demands will be heavily influenced by efforts to catch up with past inflation and expectations of future inflation

Laird reptdly has asked Amer mil comdrs in Vietnam if US can increase troop withdrawals from Vietnam in light of recent operations in Cambodia; Pentagon sources link request to capture and destruction of vast amts of weapons and food supplies in Cambodia, to S Vietnamese troops demonstration of combat effectiveness and to desire to cool dissent in Cong and on coll campuses; White House press sec describes as inaccurate NY Times rept that Adm plans completion of withdrawal of Amer troops from Cambodia ahead of June 30 deadline; says operation will be completed by June 30