August 30, 1971

Japanese Govt is reptd to have instructed its embassy in Washington to ask US to exempt Japan from 10% surcharge

Opening of school yr in Columbia, under desegregation plan requiring extensive busing, described; plan seen remarkable because it was drawn by 7-member School Bd and was not ordered by Fed cts or supervised by HEW Dept; Schools Supt Dr C E Kitchens says Nixon's anti-busing statement aroused emotions against plan and made implementation more difficult but did not dilute final plan, which was adopted unaminously by bd; school bd seen representative of community as whole as 2 members are black, 4 are white and 1 is long-time civil rights advocate M H Mizell; compromises made by both factions of bd during planning sessions described; illus

survey shows anti-drug drive initiated early in '71 fails to halt availability of drugs; unchanged heroin retail price despite curbs indicates a dim long-term outlook for progress in control; no reduction seen in entry into S Vietnam of opium and its derivatives; chief reasons for lack of success in curbing drug flow are doubts about S Vietnamese adm's determination to stop traffic and difficulty of preventing illicit entry of so concentrated a substance as heroin; various officials int on situation; ints show no substantiation of Repr Steele's charge that Maj Gen Ngo Dzu is 'one of chief traffickers of heroin in SE Asia'; illus

panelists on TV roundtable discussion, noting 30% of Japan's trade is with US, urges Japan not to be caught again with 'all her eggs in 1 basket'

Natl Weather Service, prompted by indications that ways of life in city may be making significant changes in city's climate, to begin major study in Sept of long-term meteorological trends in city; some questions study is expected to produce outlined; last such study of city's climate was made in '58; new study will be made in cooperation with NYU dept of meteorology; Weather Service climatologist N Canfield, in revg city's climate, recalls '58 study showed climate was 'stimulating to persons of good health without unduly taxing their physical resources'; Prof J Spar of NYU and Weather Service's NY office dir J A Mayer express their opinions on causes of climate changes