August 11, 1971

Soc Services Dept repts welfare rolls showed decline of 28 parsons during 2d qr '71, 1st qrly decrease in yrs; puts welfare roll rise at 1,884, June, raising total number of recipients to 1,195,575; slight June increase follows 2 consecutive mos of decline; Acting Comr Waldgeir observes that 'flattening out' of long-term rise had occurred in past, only to be followed by new upsurge; table shows monthly increases or decreases in number of recipients, Jan '68-June '71

survey of SE Asian opium trade situation reveals formidable obstacles confrontonting US in its effort to halt heroin flow to its troops in Vietnam; illus; map

article on expansion of Harlem Hosp in recent yrs to better enable it to meet community's needs; illus

violence continues in Belfast and other parts of Ulster in aftermath of killings of at least 16, including 2 women, 15-yr-old boy and priest administering last rites; 1 soldier is killed, 5 are wounded by snipers in Belfast and Londonderry; death toll is now 17 for 2 days of violence; repts from Dublin say nearly 1,000 refugees have crossed border from Northern Ireland and are being cared for in camps set up by Irish Army; IRA leaders say most important figures in Ulster have escaped arrest; charred remains of buses and trucks block traffic in Ardoyne and Ballymurphy areas of Belfast; Prot families in Ardoyne's Velhada Park sec continue to abandon homes, setting them on fire to keep Caths from moving in; sporadic running battles flare through day in Belfast with Brit Army units firing tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing mobs; many mobs filled with children, 11 and 12 yrs old; Faulkner meets with Cabinet to discuss problems following devastation and evacuation of Belfast; also meets with Paisley, who urges Ulster Parliament be recalled to discuss stiffer measures against rioters; demands are made in Belfast as well as London for recall of Brit Parliament; Prime Min Lynch says Irish Repub's Foreign Min Hillery will fly to London to confer with Maudling; Brit Airline Pilots Assn declares Belfast 'hostile area', pledges to support any pilot who refuses to fly into Ulster; illus of Brit troops patrolling Belfast streets

illus of Scott on slope of Hadley Delta; other photos of astronauts on lunar surface and of other aspects of mission