April 21, 1971

NYC Police Comr Murphy, in statement read to SIC, announces major changes in police methods to prevent use and sale of heroin in city; changes appear to be aimed at eliminating shortcomings and problems that have been highlighted by comm's hearings on narcotic law enforcement; changes include: number of superior officers in Narcotics Div being greatly increased; 10% of men assigned to dept's 7 narcotic field units ordered to shift their attention from st pusher to heroin traffickers and wholesalers; formation of Com on Preventive Research and Rehabilitation within dept to determine what police can do to help prevent addiction; creation of new Criminal Justice Div to monitor quality of arrests and dispositions of particular kinds of cases by prosecutors and judges; present procedures under which investigative teams usually decide which cases to pursue to be abandoned and, instead, commanding officers will be required to decide who is going to be arrested and when arrests are to be made; Murphy illus

civil rights lawyers feel integration will increase in South, particularly in cities, as result of ruling and say exec branch of Fed Govt will take stronger desegregation stance in future; Pres press sec Ziegler issues statement from Nixon calling on citizens to obey ruling; Greenberg says immediate effect of ruling will be step-up of litigation on pending integration cases and says it will eventually affect Northern dists as well, int;with Ct's position that every school need not reflect racial composition of dist; lawyer S J Pollack warns ruling does not examine closely deeper aspects of integration; NAACP dir Wilkins hails ruling as needed guidance for both states and cities; some Southerners denounce ruling

WASHINGTON, April 20— The State Department said to day that Israel's new proposals on reopening the Suez Canal had cleared the way for further negotiations on an interim peace settlement in the Middle East.

speculation on what disclosure of Agnew's remarks to newsmen will mean to his pol future

Sen Ribicoff charges Sen Javits and other Northern Sens with hypocrisy for being unwilling to accept his proposal to force integration in Northern met areas as well as in South, Sen debate on his amendment to Adm's desegretation bill; Javits says he is opposed to Ribicoff amendment to Nixon's emergency bill because he says it will destroy compromise now worked out between Nixon Adm and liberal Dems and will therefore cause defeat of bill; Sen, 43-35, rejects motion to table or kill Ribicoff amendment