December 11, 1971

Indian troops reptdly cross Meghna River and are poised for final drive on Dacca; spokesman for Eastern Command says Indian forces are consolidating bridgehead near Bhairab Bazar and have not yet begun drive; sr Indian repr says Pakistani garrisons are receiving orders to hold out; repts from Dacca indicate excitement is mounting among bitterly anti-Pakistani population as Indian Army approaches; foreign nationals in both parts of Pakistan have become jittery and several hundred of them, mostly Brit and Canadian, are being airlifted from Karachi

Abitibi Paper Co, Domtar Ltd, and Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd to raise newsprint price by $8 a ton

Conditions in Dacca described as mixture of calm and confusion as Indian Army repts city encircled; Narayanganj reptd normal

Key safety devices at more than score of nuclear power plants around country have never been tested, will not be tested until '74, by which time US will have about 60 commercial power plants in operation; devices were designed by methods based on math analysis and computer projections; critics of AEC fear danger of radiation accidents exist; study by Union of Concerned Scientists cited; AEC sets safety experiments at Natl Reactor Testing Station in Idaho inside a steel dome called Loss of Fluid Test Facility (LOFT); experiments will center on worst type of accident scientists think could befall a water-cooled reactor, the loss of cooling water; AEC Water Reactor Safety Program Plan discussed; LOFT illus; Schlesinger comments; AEC aides R W Swanson, C K Leeper, R K House and G O Bright comment

US arms agreement with W Ger includes acquisition by W Ger of 175 F-4s for $1.2-billion