October 17, 1970

US service academies becoming increasingly concerned over potential threat to military discipline and effectiveness posed by ready availability of marijuana and LSD to future officers; Air Force, Navy, Army and Coast Guard Academies are finding that policy of almost automatic expulsion for even puff on marijuana cigarette has failed to extinguish cadet interest in experimentation with drugs; problem related to dramatic increase in drug use in civilian life, particularly in nation's high schools; Academy supts and commandants comment

Rockefeller proposes program to improve state's ct system through judicial and exec action including establishment of special narcotics ct to speed and deal more effectively with criminal cases involving narcotics

Prime Min Trudeau invokes emergency wartime powers to quell 'insurrection,' in move effectively outlawing French Canadian separatist and authorizing arrests without warrant, effective for 6 mos; expresses 'deep regret' at 1st peacetime enforcement of War Measures Act

4 students are stabbed, several are beaten and 2 policemen are injured as youths rampage through G Washington HS, forcing early closing; no arrests are made; assaults are 1st repetition this yr of last spring's disruptions during racially-oriented dispute over grievance table, which closed school for several days; students and teachers say violence was prompted by arrest of black student C Franceschi, who was accused of robbing another student; some students were angry because police entered school to make arrest and because they feel charge is frame-up; claim Franceschi was arrested because he helped force narcotics pusher off school grounds; students and parents from grievance table collect bail money for ranceschi; some observers say assaults on students were effort to extort bail money from students; outburst at school is related to earlier incident, in which gangs of youths said to be from school rampaged IRT subway assaulting passengers; Simon says he will reopen school, but some teachers urge that it remain closed until students causing trouble are expelled

Dem rules (O'Hara) com adopts reform recommendations to open up and democratize nominating convs; rules would apply to '72 conv; com revamps conv com system so that big states would have larger voice in decisions on platform and seating challenged delegations; takes selection of key com chmn out of Natl Chmn's hands and gives it to conv com members; votes to make all meetings of major coms open to press and pub; com also adopts new rules to involve various Pres candidates in preconv activity; each candidate would be authorized to have nonvoting repr on subcom that drafts platform; candidates would also be invited to submit written statements to Platform Com; other proposals noted