February 16, 1971

Israeli Housing Ministry, disregarding local and internatl critics, says that it will move ahead with plans for 4 sprawling housing projects in suburbs of Jerusalem; plans envision construction of up to 35,000 units capable of accommodating 122,000 new Israeli residents in territories that were seized from Jordan in '67; Housing Min Z Sharef details plans; opposition noted; Jerusalem Mayor Kollek comments; map

Premier Jaroszewicz announces food price increases, which spurred anti-Govt riots in Dec, will be revoked on Mar 1, TV s; says move is made possible because of aid from USSR

Experimental private schools Urban League Street Acad and Harlem Prep, which work to retrieve hs dropouts and send them to coll, lose major corp and foundation financing and face uncertain futures; ints with corp execs, admrs and others associated with program show crisis is linked to nation's econ recession, lack of long-term commitment by corps, poor program adm resulting in mismanagement and charges of fiscal malfeasance and internal friction, including major exodus of influential bd members and teachers from Harlem Prep; programs, which are described by League's educ dir E S Callender as effort to set up competitive school system to expose deficiencies in pss by equipping dropouts for coll, detailed; some execs and school officials comment; illus

mil officials say S Vietnamese sweep into Laos against Ho Chi Minh Trail is already successful in cutting off flow of enemy supplies and troops into northernmost provs of S Vietnam; say advance has denied to enemy all but 2 of most important southbound secs of trail; Hoang Xuan Lam comments on operation; mil sources in Saigon say S Vietnamese are about 12 mi E of Tchepone; intensive bombing operations in Laos by B-52s and other planes continue; US mil command announces US fighter-bomber fires missile at AA site in N Vietnam; announces loss of 3 US helicopters, 1 of them in Laos; says 12 Amers were killed in crashes; S Vietnamese troops find abandoned enemy training center in Laos; have destroyed about 30 enemy tanks in operation; other details on operation; US command repts Amer forces kill 8 enemy near Khesanh; S Vietnamese comdrs at Khesanh say they are concerned about ability to keep their forces supplied in Laotian operation; wk of bad weather is forecast; map; illus

S Vietnamese incursion into Laos has met with official silence in Thailand; Thai officials, in private, express their full approval of incursion; find it good occasion for applying policy of de-emphasizing mil cooperation with US; Foreign Min official questions wisdom of Brit declaration defending incursion