January 13, 1972

former FBI agent R N Wall, describing inner workings of FBI, says his squad handled racial matters, described as 'absurdly and frighteningly broad' category; says 'investigations on almost anything done by or for black people could be opened by labeling it a racial matter'; illus

Caban, Desiderio: Manhattan Dist Atty Hogan discloses that NYC Ptl P McCooey, E McTigue and J Roff have been indicted by grand jury for allegedly accepting $2,000 bribe to allow reputed underworld figure A Squitieri escape from scene of murder of D Caban; case detailed

Sup Ct upholds right of FPC to regulate local utilities if they join interstate power pools; holds Florida Power Co is subject to FPC regulations because some of power it generates crosses state lines

FDA orders recall of 3.2-million cans of soft drinks mfrd by Coca-Cola Co and mktd in NYS after aluminum lids on cans are found to be contaminated; insists contamination, which occurred when solvent on lids was not baked away, does not present serious health problem; lids are mfrd by Reynolds Metals Co

US guidelines on asylum for foreign nationals stem from request by Pres Nixon in '70 after USCG refused to grant pol asylum to a Lithuanian sailor who had escaped from a Soviet fishing vessel off Martha's Vineyard

Rockefeller will propose $7.9-billion austerity budget, fiscal '72-73, same as in current fiscal yr; hopes to save $275-million by imposing freeze in NYS aid to localities; will recommend no major new cost-consuming programs

Woodlawn Gardens, Chicago, $9-million project started 6 yrs ago and pride of one of nation's best-known community groups, Woodlawn Orgn, has run into serious difficulties and is in default of mortgage payments; project has become victim of dynamics of disposal of old residential areas of core cities, namely abandonment and fires; abandonments were preceded by crime, vandalism and overcrowding in some of older bldgs; bldg owners, faced by suits from city for failure to meet bldg code requirements, often would abandon bldgs which were later mysteriously burned; Fed Govt, which subsidized project, is postponing mortgage payments rather than foreclosing in hopes project may survive; illus of abandoned bldgs; map showing project site

Mujibur Rahman changes his position from Pres to Prime Min, reshuffles Cabinet and enacts provisional Const; appts S Sayem Chief Justice of High Ct; Sayem swears in A S Choudhury as Pres; members of Dacca diplomatic corps, except Chinese and US reprs, attend ceremony; only new Cabinet member is Dr K Hossain, who had been imprisoned with Mujibur; except for T Ahmed and M M Ali Cabinet members are old-line members of Awami League; provisional Const establishes Govt along lines of Brit system; provides for Constituent Assembly to be composed of those elected in Dec '70 elections who did not collaborate with Pakistanis; assembly will draw up permanent Const; no date has been set for convening of assembly but it reptdly will convene soon

US Price Comm approves 2.25% price increases on various Revlon cosmetics

strikers march through midtown Manhattan vandalizing phone equipment along route; strikers illus; 6 persons are reptd injured in scuffles with police and 8 are arrested; union local presidents D Keenan and R Carnevale charge 1 striker was knocked to ground by policeman's nightstick; Carnevale tells strikers to continue actions 'until we gain the respect of the stupid telephone co'; negotiations continue

Ghana radio repts army officers have seized power, dismissed Prime Min Busia and placed Govt in hands of natl liberation group composed of civic groups and army reprs; charges Busia, who has been in power since '69, with malpractices and mismanagement that, it says, characterized regime of K Nkrumah, who was overthrown by mil junta in '66

CORE officer J Howard and CORE member R Boynes are charged with kidnapping 2 students from J Monroe HS, NYC, and whipping them because they allegedly assaulted A Innis, son of CORE dir R Innis; CORE spokesman says charges are lie and attempt to defame character of CORE but says student Innis asked for CORE help when he was threatened by hoodlums at school; spokesman and police cite incident in which Innis was beaten by fellow students at school; CORE spokesman charges school officials took no steps to guarantee safety of young Innis and says that 1 of Innis' attackers was son of policeman who helped arrest 2 CORE members; hs principal M Ostrover denies that no steps were taken to protect Innis; says original assault on Innis was committed by 1 other student; says he informed police of assault and warned assailant's parents that guilty youth might be suspended; says he offered to arrange for guards to escort Innis out of school