June 8, 1971

WHO is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?—Advt.

Hundreds of thousands of motorists trapped in massive traffic jams on hottest day of yr when munic workers, in job action over pensions, open 27 of city's 29 drawbridges and abandon trucks to block major hwys; workers strike in anger over failure of NYS Legis to approve pension agreement negotiated last yr with NYC; many of them reptdly stripped bridges of critical parts, making spans inaccessible to drivers throughout day and into night; motorists returning to city after wk-end find hwys choked with autos during chaotic Monday morning rush hr; walkout leaves thousands of drivers frustrated and sweltering on jammed hwys with engines that overheated in sluggish traffic and steamy air; bridges affected by strike are used by over 900,000 vehicles, carrying nearly 2-million people every weekday; illus; Mayor Lindsay informs Gov Rockefeller he is prepared to request Natl Guard aid to insure pub safety and vital services; condemns job action as 'immoral, illegal' and 'outrageous'; asks Army Engineers Corps to dispatch crews to act 'in advisory capacity only', to aid munic personnel trying to close bridges; officials are able to swing Willis Av bridge closed; 7 other spans are opened to traffic; commuters are urged to use mass transit facilities; city moves to halt walkout by obtaining restraining orders in NYS Sup Ct; State County and Munic Employes Dist Council 37 head V H Gotbaum, who negotiated crucial pension pact, scorns legal action and wins approval to enlarge strike; B Feinstein, pres of Teamsters, Local 237, which represents bridge workers, regrets inconvenience to commuters but holds union was left no alternative by 'arbitrary and capricious behavior of Gov Rockefeller and Repub leadership' in Legis; police crews move in to tow away heavy abandoned vehicles, some of them laden with sand and left with flattened tires; list of bridges affected by strike

US Sup Ct broadens const protection of press against libel suits by individuals; sets strict limits on right of individuals to collect damages for libelous news stories about them if they were involved in matters of public interest; ruling applies to private individuals Ct's finding, in '64 NY Times v Sullivan decision, that public officials must prove actual malice before collecting libel awards; present case involves $275,000 libel judgment awarded won by nudist magazine distributor G A Rosenbloom against Metromedia Inc as result of broadcasts on Phila radio station about his arrest for selling obscene literature

Allegheny Airlines: 28 killed as Convair-580 propjet with 31 aboard on Washington, DC-New Haven flight crashes while attempting to land at Tweed-New Haven Airport, illus; eyewitnesses describe crash; victims listed; Natl Transportation Safety Bd probe

AEC proposes stringent new limits on permissible radiation exposure for pub from operation of nuclear power plants; new guidelines would limit such exposure to less than 5% of what persons ordinarily get from natural sources; plants conforming to new limits would be exposing individuals to only 1%, or less, of amt of radiation deemed permissible under current Fed guidelines for power reactors; AEC aides H L Price and L Rogers hold news conf on guidelines; identify few plants not already conforming to new guidelines; they are Humboldt Bay Reactor near Eureka, Calif, and Dresden Reactor No. 1 and possibly Dresden Reactor No. 2 near Chicago

list of bridges affected by strike

press conf, City Hall

Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsayev maneuver Soyuz 11 to rendezvous and docking with Salyut space station; combined craft is 1st manned orbital space station; achievement seen significant advance in space exploration; astronauts rept they have begun program of scientific experiments and studies; Communist party leader Brezhnev, Pres Podgorny and Premier Kosygin send congratulatory messages; Tass repts Soyuz-Salyut space station is now orbiting earth with 155-mi apogee, 132-mi perigee, 88.2-min orbital time and 51.6-degree orbital angle; USSR space officials disclose some dimensions of Salyut space station, sent aloft on Apr 19; astronaut-engineer K P Feoktistov reveals Salyut weighs about 40,000 lbs, TV news conf; says combined Soyuz-Salyut assembly is 65 ft long; repts Salyut pressurized module, which includes crew qrs, has habitable volume of 3,500 cubic ft; says Salyut also has service module with propulsion system for orbital corrections; describes crew transfer; says it began after docking mechanism locked and pressure on Soyuz 11 and Salyut was equalized; astronauts show TV pictures of crew qrs; docking specialist B V Raushenbakh repts rendezvous was accomplished in 2 stages; says 1st stage was automatically controlled and brought Soyuz 11 to within a few hundred ft of Salyut; repts Dobrovolsky then took over controls and guided spacecraft into smooth docking with space station; astronauts plan to test systems and equipment aboard station; drawing shows Soyuz 11 and Salyut just before docking

Ronan says collapse of legis package to provide new subsidies for transit operations will mandate 'substantial increases' in subway fare Jan 1; his aides assert there is little chance of averting increase to 50c; pol observers rept that realization that bridge and tunnel tolls were inadequate to save 30c fare persuaded Legis to kill bridge proposals

US Sup Ct, 5-3, rules that Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, need not be divided into single-member dists to assure that inner-city Negroes can elect own reprs; warns that other groups would soon demand own dists; Justice White majority opinion quoted; rejects 'higher math' theory which asserts that large multimember dists over-represent their voters as against voters in single-member dists; decision backed by Chief Justice Burger, Justices Black, Stewart and Blackmun; Justices Douglas, Brennan and Marshall dissent; Justice Harlan files separate opinion; ruling is contrary to one recently made concerning Hinds County, Miss

NYS Legis leaders weigh $20-million overnight parking tax in NYC as partial substitute for increase in city real-estate tax rate

high Paris police official is removed from his post after police dept is attacked for not being tough enough during recent leftist riot in Latin Qr; Prefect J Lenoir confirms action against officer, who is not identified; denies police purposely stayed away from demonstration to show what could happen; Lenoir illus