April 23, 1971

NYS Narcotic Addiction Control Comm announces that admission of addicts into its treatment centers will be suspended indefinitely Apr 30 because of state budget cutbacks; comm Chmn Luger, in lr to State Appeals Ct Chief Judge Fuld and to presiding justices of 4 appellate divs of State Sup Ct, says suspension will permit agency to phase out 4 of its resident treatment centers, including Cross Bay in Queens and Sheridan in Greenwich Village; says comm is planning to transfer about 1/2 of resident addicts to out-patient status and expresses hope that suspension will not last longer than 2 mos; about 24 Dem Sens and Assemblymen, headed by Sen Stewart, call for restoration of $222-million in budget cuts, including $40-million that had been cut from $65-million state aid program for community narcotics treatment centers

Duvalier dies, 64, at Pres palace, Port-au-Prince; Govt communique places death at 8 PM, does not specify ailment but he reptdly has long been ill with diabetes and heart disease; all members of family present at deathbed; his por

Ivy League Colls (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penna U, Princeton, Yale) and Big 7 women's colls (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley) accept 20,874, reject 45,263; table compares applications with admissions

3-man Soyuz 10 spacecraft launched into earth orbit to carry out 'joint experiments' with orbiting research workshop Salyut; is expected to dock with Salyut; aboard Soyuz 10 are Col V A Shatalov, comdr, A S Yeliseyev and N Rukavishnikov; Shatalov and Yeliseyev are veterans of Soyuz 4-Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 8 flights; Yeliseyev and Rukavishnikov expected to board Salyut while Shatalov acts as pilot of Soyuz 10; announced mission of flight, in addition to 'joint experiments,' is to test improved systems aboard Soyuz, test automatic and manual controls and perform research on effect of space flight on human organism

Sen, 44-34, approves Sen Stennis' amendment to Adm desegregation bill requiring desegregation in Northern school dists with de facto segregation as well as in Southern dists with de jure segregation; opponents of Stennis proposal, led by Sen Mondale, say provision will prevent enforcement of civil rights laws anywhere in country; Nixon Adm does not comment on amendment but Sec Richardson says proposal undermines purposes of bill; NAACP exec dir R Wilkins, in wire to Ribicoff, urges Ribicoff to apologize publicly for charge against Mitchell