January 25, 1972

Consumer advocate R Nader accuses Nixon Adm in suit of 'improperly and unlawfully' raising Fed price support level for milk in return for contributions from dairy indus to various Repub campaign coms; suit says most of coms were created covertly, with obscure or misleading names, to bank milk money for Nixon's re-election; White House, Agr Dept bar comment; suit charges that price rise--reversal that followed by 2 wks Agr Dept decision not to raise milk subsidy--was granted illegally in Mar '71 for 'extraneous' pol reasons and under 'improper and unlawful influences'; says crucial 'influence' which preceded contributions was White House meeting on Mar 23 at which Nixon and Agr ex-Sec Hardin met with 16 dairy indus leaders; says that until price rise, contributions went chiefly to influential Dems, including Sens Humphrey and Muskie; asserts Humphrey and Muskie, together with 11 other Sens (all but 1 of them Dems) and 47 Reprs (all but 14 of them Dems) who recd contributions rushed last Mar to sponsor legis at dairymen's request; bills would have raised milk subsidy; brunt of charges in suit falls on Nixon Adm; suit holds that as result of Adm's decision, cost of milk to consumers was raised 4 to 5%; says 3 dairy indus 'pol educ trusts' have $2.4-million to disburse; nominal defendants in suit are Agr Sec Butz and Commodity Credit Corp; real defendants, named or implied, are Nixon, Hardin, various Cong members, chiefly Dems, and nation's 3 largest dairy mktg cooperatives--Assoc Milk Producers, Dairymen Inc and Mid-Amer Dairies; suit also attacks system of campaign financing; W A Dobrovir, public-interest atty who prepared suit, says it is 1st civil action ever brought to correct failures of Fed Corrupt Practices Act; suit holds many of receiving coms are dummies or fronts; dairy indus contributions are alleged to have come from recently organized 'pol educ' arms of 3 cooperatives; they are identified as: Trust for Agr Pol Educ (TAPE) of Assoc Milk Products; Special Pol Agr Community Educ (SPACE) of Dairymen; Agr and Dairy Educ Pol Trust (ADEPT) of Mid-Amer Dairies; chronology of Nader's case detailed; other Cong beneficiaries of contributions include Sen Proxmire and HR Agr Com Chmn Poage

Manhattan Boro Pres Sutton charges L'Aurore's travel article depicting perils of visiting NYC is 'very exaggerated'; offers to guide French youths around city to prove that city is safe; Assn for a Better NY sends cable to L'Aurore calling article 'paranoid, negative picture' of NYC; several businessmen of Eur descent living in NYC dispute accuracy of article

USSR recognizes Bangladesh; USSR Dacca Consul Gen V Popov drives 60 mis to Tangail to bring Mujibur advance word of recognition; Chinese mission in Dacca leaves for Burma, becoming 1st nation to withdraw since Bangladesh Govt was set up; Chinese were permitted to leave despite fact that China is holding members of Pakistani mission to China who profess allegiance to Bangladesh; Min Samad hopes Bangladesh gesture will be reciprocated by China and that 15 Bengalis will be permitted to leave; restates his Govt's desire for friendly relations with all nations; K Siddiqi guerrilla group turns over half of expected 5,000 guns to Mujibur in ceremony in Tangail; illus; Mujibur extends turnover deadline 4 days to Jan 31 because of Moslem holy day

US Sup Ct unanimously strikes down 'emergency' law passed by NYS Legis in '71 to bar state welfare aid to persons who had not lived in state for 1 yr; NYS had sought to avoid '69 Sup Ct ruling against such residency restrictions by calling them necessary to avert financial catastrophe resulting from mushrooming welfare costs; special 3-judge Fed Ct struck down law, terming it transparent effort to circumvent Sup Ct's decision; in today's action, Sup Ct affirms summarily lower ct's ruling; Gov Rockefeller declares that decision emphasizes urgency of Cong action on full Fed take-over of responsibility and financing of welfare, with adequate natl standards that will reflect regional differences in cost of living; decries fact that needy family can be 'starved' out of 1 state to become disproportionate responsibility of another state

NJ Gov Cahill signs nation's 1st statewide comprehensive noise-control legis, giving NJ Environmental Protection Dept power to regulate all noises it considers harmful to physical health and mental serenity; provisions of bill detailed; indus has 13-man council to rev any regulations adopted by state; council will have 9 public and 4 state members; bill was originally conceived by former legislator R N Wilentz and sponsored by former Assemblyman Wilson; Cahill illus