NY Times survey finds that thousands of young Amers who are presently in business of selling drugs, particularly marijuana, began by using drugs; examples cited; Fed authorities comment; illus

The Young Marijuana Sellers: Thousands Got Start as Users

Univ receives grants of $500,000 each from Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corp for univ's proposed off-campus undergrad coll in Albany area offering external degree program; program is inspired by GB's London Univ external degree program and its Open Univ; Chancellor Boyer details univ program, news conf; says at least 500 students will be enrolled in '71-72 acad yr; Foundation vp Howe and Corp pres Pifer hail program as 1 of largest off-campus degree programs yet tried in US

$1.8‐Million to Aid Off‐Campus Studies

Jan rise in natl indus production seen reflecting recovery after GM strike

INDUSTRY OUTPUT ROSE IN JANUARY

Kehrli sentenced to 3 yrs in prison and fined $15,000; found guilty of 7 marijuana offenses; Lt P C Jackson testifies Kehrli once told him marijuana was a 'good thing' because it helped him close generation gap with his men; ct does not dismiss Kehrli from service and leaves him eligible to draw his pension on retirement; case will be automatically revd; Kehrli did not testify; NYS law enforcement officials comment on conviction; Kehrli illus

A Colonel Is Given 3‐Year Drag Term

The New York Telephone Company, conceding the ex istence of &#8220;service problems in some areas,&#8221; asked the Public Service Commission yesterday to approve a two&#8208;stage rate increase that would increase the customers' basic rate by 29.1 per cent and bring in $391&#8208;million in additional rev enue annually.

Phone Company Seeking 29% Rise in State Rates

Gov Rockefeller sends bill to NYS Legis expanding state Human Rights Law banning discrimination in employment to include all employers, including those who hire domestic workers

GOVERNOR OFFERS HOUSING BIAS BILL

Gov Meskill proposes $1.5-billion budget, fiscal '72, to be financed by sales, other tax increases, message to Legis; illus; stresses austerity, recommending lengthening state workers work wk from 35 to 40 hrs and offering no increases for educ or hwys; finds legislators displeased; concedes Conn people will be 'very unhappy'; budget is state's 1st on annual rather than biennial basis, following institution of annual Legis sessions; speculation that he has offered unpalatable proposal to force Legis to enact politically unpopular income tax for which Dems would be blamed

MESKILL PROPOSES A SALES TAX OF 7% FOR CONNECTICUT

US State Dept takes sharp issue with Israel's plans to construct large housing projects; dept spokesman R J McCloskey says plans are unacceptable because they could affect final status of Jerusalem, whose future is major point of contention between Jordan and Israel; opposition by Amer officials noted; Jerusalem Mayor Kollek comments

U. S. OPPOSES PLAN BY ISRAEL TO BUILD NEAR JERUSALEM

Complex of major hosps, med schools and research insts on Manhattan's E Side prepare preliminary plan for $300-million expansion above E River Drive, from 62d to 72d Sts; insts, including NY Hosp-Cornell Med Center and Rockefeller Univ, will seek city and state approval for use of hwy's air rights; cost of bldg platforms above hwy put at $50 a sq ft; illus; map

Medical Complex Aims to Build Over Drive

Jewish sources, Moscow, rept 2 Moscow Jewish families that recd Govt permission to emigrate have been ordered to delay their departure until after World Conf of Jewish Communities on Soviet Jewry, Brussels; speculate action reflects Govt's desire to prevent emigrants from attending conf

Moscow Assails a Conference Set for Belgium on Soviet Jews

Chase Manhattan Bank Chmn D Rockefeller proposes that corp be created to raise $10-billion in private investment to begin development of 110 new Amer cities, s, Regional Plan Assn dinner, NYC; Rockefeller, linking his ideas with Natl Com on Urban Growth recommendations in '69 that proposed that Fed Govt build 100 new cities, each with population of 100,000, and 10 more cities, each with population of 1 million, says that private or quasi-pub corp would work with new Fed agency or corp empowered to acquire huge tracts of rural land for development of new cities before yr 2000; stresses that he believes private interests can be induced to provide $50-million or more needed for predevelopment charges in each city and estimates that private interests could also provide loans for $10-billion over next 30 yrs, which would provide money for developers of proposed cities; illus

$10‐BILLION ASKED FOR 110 NEW CITIES

Laird and Rogers rept to Nixon and Cabinet members on progress of Laotian operation; Laird warns of 'tough days ahead'

LAIRD EXPECTING ‘SOME TOUGH DAYS’ IN LAOS CAMPAIGN

Rept by Natl Acad of Sciences and Natl Acad of Engineering urges Transportation Dept to pick environmentally suitable sites for regional airports when local authorities fail to do so; recommends 'modification, or if necessary, closing and replacement of environmentally hazardous airports'

Kennedy Expansion Into Bay Assailed In Federal Report

BACHHRAWAN, India, Feb. 5&#8212;&#8220;We have many great hur dles to cross this time,&#8221; said V. P. Mishra, a bloc leader for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's New Congress party in this rural north Indian town. &#8220;'We must get the new symbol print ed and take it to all the vil lages so that the people will become familiar with it.&#8221;

Indian Party Stumps for New Symbol

Debray, in Chile since Dec 22, leaves for Cuba with study of Pres Allende's regime

Debray Leaves Chile for Cuba With Study of Allende Regime

BRUSSELS, Feb. 16 (Reuters) &#8212;Two world labor organiza tions charged today that the Spanish Government had en gaged in &#8220;a vast repression&#8221; of workers in the Basque prov inces since the court&#8208;martial of 16 Basque nationalists in December.

Basque Repression Seen

Cortes, 451-11, enacts new law regulating status of labor orgns; law preserves principle under which labor and mgt are joined in common syndicates representing various branches of indus and trade; provides worker representation in syndicates through elective assn in each union; Govt retains power to dissolve worker assns, annul their decisions and remove elected officials; 46 Cortes members, including 3 bishops, abstain from vote; bishops' abstention seen reflecting ch's criticism that law fails to guarantee workers' rights adequately; law's proponents argue it establishes beginnings of representative labor structure

Madrid Liberalizes Law on Labor Syndicates, but Only Slightly

US officials see immediate unfavorable change of $250-million in balance of payments as result of approval of new internatl oil-price pact between 23 Western oil cos and 5 Persian Gulf oil states

U.S. Approves Oil Accord In Hope of Price Stability

Venezuela reptdly to raise its oil prices next mo by about 25%; prices will reptdly still be less than domestic US oil prices

Venezuela to Increase Price

demonstrators in Reggio attack police with guns, stones and fire bombs in outburst over losing fight to make city regional capital; police use tear gas, but do not return gunfire; illus; many people in city express resignation over vote; steel factory providing 12,000 jobs assigned to Reggio Prov

Defeat as Capital Brings New Reggio Calabria Riots

BERLIN, Feb. 16 &#8212; Political advisers from Britain, France and the United States met here today with their Soviet coun terparts for the third time since the West submitted its new position paper on Berlin on Feb. 5.

BIG 4 AIDES CONFER ON BERLIN QUESTION

PO rejects union's request for mediator in negotiations

BRITISH POST OFFICE BARS MEDIATION BID

Shah of Iran, through his active and successful role in Teheran oil talks, bolsters his position as dominant Persian Gulf pol figure; current state of good relations between Iran, Iraq and Libya discussed; Iran has already indicated its desire to be regarded as Persian Gulf power to fill vacuum after withdrawal of GB in late '71; seen in position to assume role

Shah Seen Strengthened

Czech Communist party leader G Husak says lawyers have been ordered to stop sending refugees in West demands for money to pay defense costs at their trials in absentia for fleeing country after USSR invasion of Czech in '68; payments requested ranged from $70 to $100 and were said to represent source of badly needed foreign exch for Govt

Husak Instructs Czech Lawyers To Halt Dunning of 1968 Exiles

Kollek says that Israel's right to build housing developments cannot be shaken; rejects US suggestion that projects be halted; says effort is aimed at bldg good city for all citizens of Jerusalem regardless of future boundaries and that introduction of pol draws alien element into question; Sharef reptdly can count on Meir's backing in his attempt to provide more housing for Jewish immigrants but Sharefs presentation of case reptdly was less than admirable in tact and diplomacy; Eban reptdly feels that Sharef's presentation thrust issue into internatl arena unnecessarily

Kollek Bars U.S. Suggestion

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February 17, 1971

Headlines from February 17, 1971

The Young Marijuana Sellers: Thousands Got Start as Users

$1.8‐Million to Aid Off‐Campus Studies

INDUSTRY OUTPUT ROSE IN JANUARY

A Colonel Is Given 3‐Year Drag Term

Phone Company Seeking 29% Rise in State Rates

Billboard 200

Jesus Christ Superstar

Chicago III

All Things Must Pass

Abraxas

Tumbleweed Connection

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 17, 1971