December 12, 1970

article on Japan's slow development of basis of modern armaments indus

US-USSR pact on fishing rights off Middle Atlantic Coast of the US signed; US fishing interests and Sen Spong and Jordan protest that pact does not restrict USSR fishing as far as US interests had hoped; pact details

Educ Office declines to challenge legality of hundreds of dismissals and demotions of black teachers by Southern school bds who claim that blacks are poorly trained; offers instead $3.2-million program to retrain estimated 1,500 displaced teachers in other short-staffed educ fields; offer appears to imply that job loss for blacks is natural product of desegregation and consolidation of formerly segregated schools; coincides with office's release of study by Race Relations Information Center, Nashville, Tenn, which indicates that discrimination, not inadequate training, is primary problem facing black teachers in South; rept finds teachers hired to replace dismissed black teachers include fewer blacks; says retraining program implies to blacks that Adm endorses discrimination advanced by Southern school bds; NEA Nashville local pres H Bain says program avoids real issue of dismissals, racial prejudice; civil rights lawyer R Martin and NAACP Legal Defense and Educ Fund lawyer J Greenberg also score program as Adm endorsement of Southern position

Dayan reptdly urges Nixon Adm to put future arms supplies to Israel on long-term contract basis similar to manner in which Soviet supplies are given to UAR rather than negotiating each arms deal piecemeal when crises occur; reptdly made request during confs with Laird but reptdly did not disucss specific arms aid during confs with Nixon; Nixon, after confs, reptdly expresses hope that talks will resume shortly but remains silent on whether he is more optimistic than prior to confs; Dayan's confs with Nixon, Laird and Rogers reptdly dealt with Israel's gen terms for settlement, ways of coping with increased Soviet participation in UAR's defenses and future of US arms supplies for Israel; position on settlement as presented by Dayan represents no change; Dayan reptdly did not disclose his personal plan for partial Israeli withdrawal from canal as way of obtaining indefinite cease-fire extension despite earlier repts that he would present plan; seen operating under close restrictions stipulated by Israeli Cabinet

high Adm officials link expanding US threats to resume bombing with growing conviction that Hanoi got better of understanding it struck with Pres Johnson in '68; Nixon has not yet renounced understanding but his and Laird's warnings of more bombing suggest effort to redefine understanding so as to impose new conditions