July 9, 1970

city obtains injunction barring landlords, in effect, from further organized resistance to proposed new pact; Sup Ct Justice Mangan signs order calling upon landlords to show cause why they should not be restrained from concerted action depriving tenants of essential services; Altman announces that 200 landlords have been served notices; injunction obtained as result of orders issued by Lindsay to City's Corp Counsel in effort to bring relief to tenants affected by strike; landlords continue to maintain that they cannot sign pact; Manes rejects landlords' plea for reconsideration of rent control revision bill; Altman rejects another plea by landlords calling for Lindsay and Council to create 5-member housing bd of experts to settle rent control dispute; Sulzberger announces that landlords have filed unfair labor practices against Local 32B for failure and refusal to bargain collectively; union aide Sweeney comments; Altman comments on conditions caused by strike; landlord orgns and leaders named in injunction order listed

WASHINGTON, July 8—The House of Representatives approved today legislation immunizing from attack under the antitrust laws all existing joint operations of separately owned newspapers and most future arrange ments of the same kind.

Sen, 40-35, approves Sen R T Smith amendment to agr appropriations bill to set yrly $20,000 limit on amt of money Govt can pay to individual farmer under Fed crop control programs; Smith holds limitation would cut costs of subsidies by $350- to $400-million a yr; Agr Dept official puts savings at $30- to $60-million; estimates limitation would affect 12,000 farmers; Nixon Adm favors $45,000 to $55,000 limitation

USAF selects Boeing to carry out 1st phase of $2-billion program to develop fleet of 42 aircraft equipped with computers and radar to serve as Airborne Warning and Control System against attack by low-flying enemy aircraft; obligates $16.5-million for modification of one 707 to accommodate 30-ft-wide radome; drawing; Boeing to remain prime contractor throughout program, 1st phase of which will cost $170-million; Hughes Aircraft Co and Westinghouse to compete for contract for 'down-looking' radar; McDonnell Douglas was rejected as prime contractor

Pres Nixon denounces 'centuries of injustice' to Amer Indians and proposes comprehensive program to give them dignity and control over their destiny, message to Cong; to offer legis to permit tribal groups to take over control of many present aid programs; scores 17-yr-old policy under which Govt sought to terminate Indian dependency on natl adm; endorses pending HR resolution to return 48,000 acres of sacred NM land to Taos Pueblo tribe; deplores history of white 'aggression, broken agreements, intermittent remorse and prolonged failure' in treatment of tribes; urges creation of tribal bds of educ to replace federally administered school systems; announces plans to add $10-million to $113-million health programs appropriation and to set up or expand urban centers to aid tribes in Denver, Phoenix, Omaha, Minneapolis and Fairbanks; program also calls for creation of new post of Asst Sec for Indian and Territorial Affairs in Interior Dept; concedes it amts to 'an inherent conflict of interest' for Interior Dept and Justice Dept to serve at same time as counsel to Govt and to Indians pressing claims against it; he proposes ind agency to be called Indian Trust Counsel Auth, to represent Indians in future legal disputes; bill to return land to Taos Pueblos has twice been approved by HR, but blocked by Sen Clinton, member of Sen Interior Subcom; map; Nixon illus at White House with Sec Hickel and leaders of Taos Pueblo tribe