trial of 9 Soviet Jews accused of organizing anti-Soviet activities opens in Leningrad and is adjourned, reptdly because 1 of defendants is ill; Western correspondents suggest that trial was postponed indefinitely or permanently halted by Soviet authorities in effort to avoid outcry similar to response to trial of 11 Leningrad defendants; defendants listed

New Trial of Jews Adjourns in Soviet; Reopening in Doubt

ALBANY, Jan. 6&#8212;Earl W. Brydges, the Senate majority leader, called today for the legalization of gambling casinos under strict state supervision. He told a crowded news con&#8208;

BRYDGES FAVORS CASINOS

New Gov Meskill favors abandoning Conn system of party convs with challenge primary and direct-primary law, inauguration s, Gen Assembly joint session

CONNECTICUT TOLD TAXES MUST GO UP

Lockheed Aircraft Corp chmn Haughton, in lr to Deputy Defense Sec Packard, rejects Defense Dept proposal that co accept fixed loss of $200-million on 81 C-5As it is building for USAF as 'extensive and unwarranted penalty for Lockheed'; says co will file suit against Govt, if necessary, to resolve contract differences

Lockheed Asks U.S. Help Until Cost Fight Is Settled

Sec Laird cites Nixon Adm record of lowering US troop ceiling from 549,500 men to 284,000 as of next May 1, news conf, Paris

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Gov Rockefeller proposes measures to ease congestion in Criminal Ct, State of the State Message

ROCKEFELLER SAYS STATE ‘MUST TIGHTEN ITS BELT’;

M Frankel, commenting on Nixon indications that he is turning from preoccupation with foreign problems to devote more time to domestic problems, says Nixon and his aides are encouraged about chance of further reducing Amer involvement in war without injurious side-effects on other parts of world; discusses war situation

Nixon Now Expected to Transfer His Emphasis to Domestic Issues

US HR Select Com on Crime, repting to Cong after 18-mo study, calls for consideration of preventive detention law to permit imprisonment of narcotics peddler suspects pending trial; group, headed by Repr Pepper, also urges Cong to explore ways to modify decisions by US Sup Ct that exclude evidence obtained by police through unconst means; says Ct's exclusionary rule sometimes infringes on rights of soc more then on police by ruling out evidence when police's lapses are unintentional and that alternatives to Ct's rules should be given deep consideration; rept, which attributes much of nation's crime to drug abuse, makes several recommendations for legal changes in connection with its conclusion that machinery of justice is failing to cope with drug problem; Pepper and Repr Wiggins comment on study, news conf, Washington, DC; other panel members include Reprs Griffiths, Nix, Waldie, Steiger and Winn

HOUSE UNIT BACKS PRETRIAL JAILING OP DRUG PUSHERS Select Panel on Crime Also Asks Congress to Modify Supreme Court Rulings

Pioneering Fed census of city and county jails throughout US made by Census Bureau for Law Enforcement Assistance Adm shows that 52% of inmates have not been convicted of crime and that many inmates, whether convicted or not, are enduring less than human conditions; $140,000 study finds that 4 jails still in daily use were built before 1789 and that 1/4 of 97,500 local jail cells in nation are more than 50 yrs old; other findings noted; Law Enforcement Assistance Associate Admr R W Velde comments; says that in many cases, children, mental incompetents and hardened felons are all lumped together in inhuman conditions of filth and overcrowding; says that census will provide basis for enlarged assistance from law agency for correction programs; says that total state and local spending on correctional facilities around nation is estimated at $1.5-billion per yr

JAIL CENSUS FINDS 52%NOT CONVICTED First National Study of City and County Facilities Is Critical of Conditions

Jarring reptdly accepts urgent request by Israel to fly to Jerusalem to consult with Premier Meir despite opposition of UAR and Jordan who reptdly advised him that they view invitation as delaying tactic; Jarring reptdly is convinced trip will not jeopardize talks; Arabs reiterate suspicion that insistence on visit by Israel is delaying tactic but contend it will put greater pressure on Israel; hold if Jarring returns 'with empty hands,' it will be clear that Israel does not intend to negotiate in good faith; Israeli Min Eban, in Dec 28 lr announcing Israel's decision to return to talks, initially suggested that Jarring begin new talks by consulting with Israeli Govt; UAR and Jordan reptdly have not asked Jarring to make visit after his talks in Jerusalem; Zayyat says he has full authorization to conduct talks in NY, reply to query; says if Israeli invitation is stalling tactic, he will advise Jarring against accepting it; Farra to conf with Jarring; Big 4 UN reprs meet, NYC; USSR repr Malik reptdly scores US position calling on Big 4 to take back seat during present talks and give countries directly involved opportunity to negotiate; USSR contends Jarring talks are bound to fail unless US is willing to exert pressure on Israel to accept early withdrawal from occupied Arab territories; views Rogers' call for quiet diplomacy as indication that US is not willing to exert such pressure; Malik reptdly reiterates Arab fears that Israel's insistence on visit may be stalling tactic; Israel's desire for meeting reptdly is based partly on Jarring's Dec meeting with UAR Min Riad in Moscow and belief that high-level meeting is essential before further talks

JARRING EXPECTED TO FLY TO ISRAEL TODAY FOR PARLEY

Human Growth Hormone Produced in Laboratory

Msgr A Ndongmo, RC Bishop of N'Kongsamba, and 5 others sentenced to death by Cameroon mil tribunal for allegedly plotting; violent overthrow of Govt; illus; Vatican urges clemency

Vatican Urges Clemency

Pres Pompidou, in major concession to Communist led Gen Confed of Labor, incorporates link between wages and cost of living in pact covering 300,000 workers of state-owned rr

Pompidou Yields, Links Rail Wages to Cost of Living

Brittany, France, residents upset by RC teacher who defies area's moral code by refusing to marry the father of the child she will soon have; she is dismissed from post

Brittany Upset by 2 Teachers Who Defy Area's Moral Beliefs

Amer humorist S J Perelman, now 'self-exiled' in London, plans to recreate P Fogg's 80-day global trip as set down in Verne's novel Around the World in 80 Days, will pub book in '72, marking 100th anniv of Verne novel; illus of scene from film based on book

Perelman Plans Trip, Verne‐Style, Around World in 80 Days

Bishop Among Six Doomed as Plotters By Cameroon Court

Mil ct convicts H P Rullmann, correspondent for W Ger pub Der Spiegel, of espionage for unnamed govt, sentences him to 6 yrs in jail

Belgrade Jails West German

10 Soviet intellectuals, including composers D Shostakovich and A Khachaturian and ballerina M Plisetskaya, write to Nixon asking clemency for Davis; score FBI role; remind Nixon of a recent s in which he quoted statement 'Amers act not for themselves alone but for entire human race'; Tass issues long commentary on case; describes Davis as 'courageous fighter for freedom' and insists charges against her are groundless; claims there have been many meetings in USSR protesting Davis's trial and demanding her release; Marin County, Calif, Counsel Maloney says it is unlikely that countroom scheduled for Davis trial can accommodate 14 scientists invited to attend, lr to State Dept; atty Moore says he will try to have trial moved to San Francisco or Los Angeles where, he claims, Davis will have better chance to be tried by a 'jury of her peers'; White House has not made pub response to message from intellectuals

More Russians Send Plea To Nixon on Angela Davis

Ital Communist party newspaper L'Unita repts party has consulted with USSR officials on issue

ITALIAN REDS REPORT TALK ON SOVIET JEWS

about 20 Soviet youths stage brief demonstration outside US Embassy, Moscow

Brief Demonstration Held

6 Soviet workers, representing 2 Moscow factories, visit US Embassy, Moscow, to protest against harassment of Soviet reprs by militant Amer Jewish orgns

6 VISIT U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW PROTEST

USSR indicates to its Communist party workers that although there has been some easing in state relations with Communist China in past yr, crucial differences remain at party level; view expounded through Pravda reprint of article originally published in Hungarian party pub Nepszabadsag; notes some specific areas of improvement but stresses 'basic course of Chinese leadership has not changed'

Soviet Stresses Party Rift With Chinese

providing security for Soviet installations in NYC seen complex problem for NYC police; police official notes that Jewish Defense League is difficult group to handle

Protecting Russians Here a Hard Job

Chilean Govt takes over co partly owned by Natl Brass Co (US)

CHILE IS TAKING OVER 2 MORE U.S. CONCERNS

Launching of new Intelsat 4 satellite, set for Jan 13, indefinitely postponed

Satellite Launching Off

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January 7, 1971

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New Trial of Jews Adjourns in Soviet; Reopening in Doubt

BRYDGES FAVORS CASINOS

CONNECTICUT TOLD TAXES MUST GO UP

Lockheed Asks U.S. Help Until Cost Fight Is Settled

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