August 26, 1971

Woodcock, after conf with AFL-CIO head Meany, says UAW will try to 'accommodate' itself to 90-day freeze 'as a practical matter'; stresses that trade union movement still opposes Nixon's econ program and says real problem will come after 90-day period expires

Pres Panel on Nonpub Educ considers tax credit plan that will reimburse parents of nonpub school children for their expenses by allowing them to deduct school costs from taxes; Bishop W E McManus of Chicago calls plan most promising option now open because it poses least const risks; tax credit plans being implemented or proposed in several states noted; opponents to such plans hold they involve excessive entanglement with Govt warned against by Sup Ct and are preferential and discriminatory because they pay parents who send children to private schools but not those who send them to pss

GATT members reach agreement to set up special com to examine whether US is justified in taking protectionist measures to bolster its econ following last-minute dispute between US and principal trading partners over mandate to be given special com; com to rept back no later than Sept 20; final accord is delayed by demand by underdeveloped countries that special consideration be given for exemption of their products from 10% surcharge; poor countries are assured that particular attention will be given them when com considers impact of measures on economies of US trade partners following objection by US; major US trading partners strongly denounce tax as illegal under GATT rules and unfairly damaging to their trade; Dahrendorf stresses that there have been no threats of retaliation because of US actions, news conf

Met Cornelia Supermarket: T Cornelia, owner of supermkt in Laurelton sec of Queens, chases 2 gunmen who had held him up, intercepted their car, wrested shotgun from 1 of them and in exchange of fire mortally wounded 1 of suspects; 2d suspect escapes; incident detailed; Cornelia illus

An ode to world peace by W. H. Auden, the poet, with music by Pablo Casals, has been commissioned by Secre tary General Thant for the United Nations anniversary concert here on Oct. 24.

City's use of employable welfare recipients to help clean up litter discussed; recipients comment on work; illus

US mil spokesmen do not relate US command warning of planned enemy attacks to S Vietnamese lower house elections although other officials do

The City's Department of In vestigation is now embroiled in a series of charges and countercharges on how effec tively it is exposing corruption and mismanagement in the city.

Nixon visit to China among factors having prompted campaign in USSR of criticism of Chinese policies; members of USA Inst of Soviet Acad of Sciences, in recent conf with Dem Natl Chmn O'Brien, accused US of trying to take advantage of Soviet-Chinese differences and to 'gang up' on USSR through better relations with China; later, M A Suslov, in conf with Sen Scott, did not raise issue

Lindsay, citing murders of 9 city policemen so far in '71 and numerous other homicides and violent crimes, sends lr to Atty Gen Mitchell urging him to support new Fed legis to halt traffic in handguns; details; examples of handguns used in crimes illus

Port of NY Auth Comr W H Jones indicted by Fed grand jury on charges of covering up $2.4-million bank fraud in Bergen County, NJ; P Moraites and J Tensec were convicted of accepting between them $66,000 in bribes in return for getting bank to make $2.4-million in loans during '65-69 to number of Greek shipping interests; loans were unsecured and most of bank's money was apparently never recovered; indictment charges that Jones, who organized Midland Bank & Trust in '58 and was its gen counsel as well as major stockholder, discovered alleged fraudulent loans and then conspired with Moraites to conceal loan to protect his own financial interests; says 2 men fraudulently merged Midland with Englewood Natl Bank & Trust by hiding fact from Englewood officers that Midland was in deep financial trouble; charges that to cover loss and to raise cash required to make up deficit, Jones and Moraites fraudulently conspired in issuing $2.2-million in new bank stock after '68 merger

sources dose to Knapp Comm rept that comm has obtained photo and taped-recorded evidence showing dozens of policemen dealing with Harlem heroin dealers and gamblers; comm atty Armstrong, refusing to comment on rept, says refusal is in line with comm's firm policy not to discuss findings or recommendations until they are made pub; in another development, Deputy Comr Daley says that he was in error when he said that plainclothes men assigned to Harlem would be transferred; issues memo explaining that 35 plainclothes men are being transferred, roughly 2 from each of city's 17 divs, and being replaced by more senior men as part of experiment; details