August 2, 1970

Foreign mins of so‐called confrontation countries, UAR, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Sudan, with Libya and Algeria, set meeting to achieve unanimity of views on US Middle East peace plan; Libyan Premier el‐Qaddafi confs by telephone with Nasser, Syrian Pres al‐Attassi and Iraqi Pres al‐Bakr

NY Times survey finds econ slowdown is seriously crippling some fund drives, but many candidates are financially healthy or only slightly hampered; finds uneven pattern in fund‐raising; blue‐collar workers in Mich and Washington state, both hard hit by unemployment and reduced employment, react in opposite ways, with Mich workers not giving and Washington workers increasing their donations; Dem Natl Com Treas Strauss says small contributors are giving but says people who used to give $1,000 to $5,000 have sharply reduced their contributions or are not giving at all; Repubs seen better off than Dems; Dems face unusually severe difficulties in big states where campaign expenses are particularly large; situation in some states noted

Govt announces plans for extensive rev of immigration policy amid criticism by economists and soc scientists that it is causing overcrowding in major cities and creating soc tensions; many people attack program as ‘racist’ because it stresses attracting whites and admits nonwhites only if they possess certain skills and demonstrate capacity to integrate easily with rest of population; Commercial Bank of Australia holds mass immigration may have reached point of diminishing returns; New S Wales Employers Fed contends immigration spurs nation's econ; 184,000 immigrants entered in fiscal ‘70

Christena (motor launch): Capsizes, sinks in Caribbean off St Kitts; map; San Juan Coast Guard repts at least 75 of more than 150 passengers dead; says it was notified 2 1/2‐hrs after accident occured; dozens of vessels and aircraft converge on scene; St Kitts resident says vessel might have capsized from overloading

scientists from US and Eur, concluding Study of Critical Environmental Problems, rept that blending of all recoverable fossil fuels in world would result in only .15% oxygen reduction