January 18, 1972

Prime Min Mujibur Rahman orders former guerrillas to surrender their weapons, inviting those who wish to join natl militia; says camps have been set up across country for training and accommodating natl militia enlistees; expresses nation's gratitude to fighters, but says time has come to channel their energies into building new society; says students will be provided with opportunities to continue their studies, while those who have finished school will have ample opportunity to serve as teachers, economists, drs, technicians; order marks decisive move to deal with serious problem of irregular armed bands of former guerrillas, members of which are increasingly engaging in lawlessness and exercising extensive administrative powers in some rural areas; observers believe great majority of guerrillas will heed Mujibur's word

GB and EEC complete negotiations for Brit membership in EEC, meeting between Sir C O'Neill and J Dodelinger; remaining details for Ireland and Norway to be ironed out later in day, while Denmark has so few problems remaining that no reprs attended final sessions

Strike by 1,450 air traffic controllers throughout Canada closes nation's 116 airports to all but emergency flights and forces rerouting of hundreds of internatl flights that normally use Canadian airspace; follows failure of Canadian Air Traffic Control Assn and Govt negotiators to reach agreement on new contract; Canadian air traffic controllers earn maximum of $14,600 per yr, with supervisors making up to $18,000; difficulty stems from demand by controllers' union for 50% wage increase in 2-yr contract, request which was rejected by Govt, which also turned down recommended 15.5% increase; negotiations between union and Govt are proceeding amid speculation that Canadian Parliament will be recalled to pass legis to put end to strike, move union pres J R D Campbell says would force reluctant return to work by controllers; controllers' responsibilities discussed; effect of strike on domestic and internatl flights outlined

ILWU resumes strike against Pacific Maritime Assn; H Bridges and officials of Pacific Maritime Assn say that talks will resume but no time is announced; Bridges says union was willing to 'stop the clock and continue' but notes assn was unwilling to make terms retroactive; holds ILWU wants settlement terms retroactive to Nov 14 while assn wants contract to take effect on ratification by union membership; notes differences developed on assn's insistence that royalty revenue of $1 a ton that will be paid on cargo containers be used to finance work guarantee; illus; assn pres Flynn confirms that disagreement on royalty on container cargo is only issue outstanding; Counts says he is returning to Washington to rept to Nixon and to recommend that legis be enacted to settle strike; illus of striking dockers

US Fed Reserve Bd repts indus production increased 0.7%, Dec, after Nov rise of 0.6% attributes rise partly to resumption of work in coal mines; repts indus output rose only 3%, '71, unusually low figure for 1st yr of recovery from recession; notes production was 3.7% below peak reached during econ boom in late summer '69; puts production index, Dec, at 107.8, repts index for mfg alone, excluding mining and utilities, rose from 105.7 to 106.5; repts nation's mfg industries were operating at 74% of capacity, 4th qr '71; graph shows fluctuation in seasonally adjusted total indus production, Jan '68-Dec '71