December 4, 1970

US Justice Dept asks Fed Dist Ct, Birmingham, Ala, to strike down provisions of Alabama's Const and laws that make it a crime for whites and Negroes to marry; action is 1st such taken by Govt; suit asks ct to order state to permit marriage of white soldier L Voyer to P Bett

Nixon, in statement read at NATO Mins Council conf by Sec Rogers, says that US will not reduce forces in Eur 'unless there is reciprocal action by our adversaries'; Rogers, in s, opposes further discussions of Eur security conf because of insufficient progress in Big 4 talks on Berlin and discussions between E Ger and W Ger; suggests that USSR bloc be urged to agree to exploratory talks on 'mutal and balanced cut in forces; Min Scheel repeats W Ger opposition to conf now; Sec Home says NATO should not commit itself to exploratory talks on mutual cuts as long as USSR shows negative attitude toward Berlin talks; Min Schumann says Eur security conf would be best starting point toward renewed and improved ties with USSR bloc; says accord on W Berlin should be only condition for such a conf; Min Luns sees USSR stand on Berlin as key to meaningful negotiations on Eur security

Correction Bd rept to Lindsay asserts that Moore hanged himself but urges criminal probe of events surrounding his solitary confinement; requests Comr McGrath probe 'alleged assault' by prison guards on prisoner 2 days before his death, saying that findings of prison investigators are unacceptable; rept and its accompanying recommendations are highly critical of ct system which it says tolerates delay and permits error; criticizes lack of Tombs med personnel and procedures and faulty methods of punishing prisoners; rept also paints grim picture of life within Tombs and casts doubts on story by guards that prisoner had assaulted guard from inside his cell before being subdued; says findings and evidence will be submitted to Dist Atty Hogan for further investigation; attached to rept are autopsy repts from Acting Deputy Chief Med Examiner Dr M M Baden and private physician Dr D M Spain; rept's findings outlined; Bd Chmn vanden Heuvel comments

Carnegie Higher Educ Comm study under Dr E F Cheit warns financial 'depression' has struck Amer insts and that crisis can be overcome only by contribution of several hundred million dollars more annually from Fed and state govts; also urges realistic cut-backs and tuition increases by insts; comm chmn Dr C Kerr warns higher educ is facing greatest crisis ever with 2/3 of nation's schools in financial difficulty or headed that way; study finds key problems are that costs are rising at steady or slowly growing rate while income is growing at declining rate; Cheit says 41 pub and private insts surveyed were placed in 3 categories regarding their fiscal condition; those in financial trouble, heading for financial trouble and financially safe; finds insts in 1st category face deficits, stand-still budgets, faculty and adm cut-backs and freezes, increasing student-faculty ratios and reduced acad programs and research budgets; describes conditions of insts in other categories; cites 10 factors which apply favorably to financially safe insts but unfavorably to others; study was financed by Ford Foundation; will be pub by McGraw-Hill as book The New Depression in Higher Educ; charts on avg annual increase in per-student costs and income at major private univs, changes in share of income by major sources of support at pub and private insts and breakdown of schools into 3 categories

Gets Young Amer Medal for heroism, White House ceremony; is 17