November 28, 1970

Capitol Internatl Airways: 46 of 229 aboard, most of whom were mil personnel bound for Vietnam, killed as chartered DC-8 on flight from Tacoma, Washington, crashes on take-off from Anchorage Internatl Airport; illus; survivors and witnesses describe crash; crash is 3d of chartered craft in recent wks

FDA issues comprehensive list of 369 drug products it considers either ineffective or unduly hazardous; list is circulated among Fed agencies and consists of those products FDA has sought to remove from mkt during past 2 1/2 yrs; many drugs on list have been withdrawn while many are still in use; inclusion of some that have been among 200 most-prescribed drugs in recent yrs noted; list consists of over 12% of some 3,000 products introduced between '38 and '62; all were evaluated by Natl Acad of Sciences-Natl Research Council study group acting at FDA's request; products on list were revd and found wanting and, in each case, FDA acted to get product withdrawn from mkt; large number of products involved and complicated nature of legal proceedings have made task of determining which drugs are still on mkt difficult; Pharmaceutical Mfrs Assn repr Dr J G Adams scores list because it includes some drugs that have been voluntarily removed from mkt and others on which appeals are still pending or on which new evidence has been submitted by mfrs; says it is unfair to lump all drugs together with no indication of present status of any individual product; says assn has been trying to compile information on form that could be used by computer to bring status of each product up to date; list includes prescription drugs as well as 'over-the-counter' products; prescription category includes drugs designed to be used against infection, to lower blood pressure, remove excess fluid from body or achieve combination of effects such as relaxing muscles and relieving inflammation; over-the-counter products include some mouthwashes, nasal sprays, nose drops, lozenges and several brands of toothpaste; significance of inclusion of product on list discussed; inclusion of fixed-combination drugs, judged ineffective even though active ingredients individually are effective, noted; case of antibiotic Panalba recalled

Velazquez's por of his mulatto asst Juan de Pareja sold to Wildenstein Gallery of NY for $5,544,000, world record auction price; was bought in dramatic 2-min auction at Christie's, London; gallery vp A Wildenstein says painting is one that his great-grandfather Nathan wanted 80 yrs ago; says purchase is not gamble, that gallery has paid more in private sales; Natl Gallery (London) dir M Davies to oppose granting of export license; holds por is major masterpiece and it would be 'disaster' if it left GB; Labor MP A Faulds agrees; gallery pres L Goldenberg says 'we bought it for ourselves and it will go in inventory'; por 1st appeared in GB in 1801, when it was sold for about $200; was acquired by Earl of Radnor in 1811 and has been in family since then; present Earl sold it to pay off duties on estate of his father, who died in '68; picture is said to have been exercise before Velazquez undertook his famous painting of Pope Innocent X; was probably finished in autumn of 1649; described; illus; Christie's says key reason for interest in work is rarity of Velazquez's paintings in art mkt

FBI Dir Hoover says militant antiwar group, East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives, led by Revs P F and D Berrigan, plots to kidnap White House aide or other pub official with end of demanding end to all US bombing operations in SE Asia and release of all pol prisoners as ransom; W M Kunstler and Rev W C Cunningham deride charge

Moynihan decides not to take UN post; will return to Harvard; decision said to have been Moynihan's, not Nixon's; Moynihan accepts responsibility for press leak; portions of Moynihan lr to Nixon noted