February 1, 1972

New breed of mgrs at NYC Soc Services Dept are approaching problems of dept from perspective of modern, highly trained businessman; some of their concerns are with productivity, time studies, utilization rates and cost-benefit ratios; dept exec dir Spiegel, 32-yr-old Harvard Business School grad, sees welfare as 'a fantastic area, a fantastic opportunity'; has hired 70 mgrs, data-processing specialists and indus engineers since Oct '71, mostly from private indus at salaries competitive with what they earned there; notes he and his staff have been charged with turning around a $3-billion govt agency in next 2 yrs; his staff, as part of initial effort to streamline welfare, is ranking city's 41 welfare centers according to their performance and productivity, calculated on computer; Spiegel illus

Feb 1: N Vietnamese delegation at Paris peace talks makes public 9-pt peace program it secretly made public last June and charges US had not seriously considered it; accompanies its own program with version of 8-pt US peace plan it says it received in Oct; Nguyen Thanh Le says' differences between Hanoi's and US plans are 'fundamental'; disclosure removes last vestiges of secrecy from meetings Dr Kissinger held with N Vietnamese in '71 and is evidently an effort to counteract any propaganda gains US may have made by its revelations; 2 peace plans leave intact 2 essential differences between positions of both on troops withdrawal and date and on pres election in S Vietnam; US official sources silent on authenticity of Hanoi's version of US plan, but do not cast doubt on accuracy of text; at news conf N Vietnamese also make public exch of messages concerning cancellation of secret meeting Kissinger was to have had Nov 20 with N Vietnamese Communist party official Le Due Tho which was to have taken up the US plan; Hanoi plan differs in 2 aspects from 7-pt plan advanced by Vietcong on July 1; Le Due Tho reiterates demand that US not only remove its troops, arms and equipment but dismantle its bases and halt Vietnamization; statement accompanying documents says that Hanoi favored publishing the substance of the secret talks but had refrained at US request; notes that US made talks public unilaterally; charges that in doing so Nixon Adm seeks to shift onto Hanoi responsibility for deadlock in peace talks

Senior White House official repts Adm has sent to Advisory Comm on Intergovernmental Relations tentative proposal for $16-billion value-added tax that would help pay for local school operations and enable localities to ease burden on homeowners and renters by repeal of some realty taxes or new system of income tax credits, int; says plan calls for rebates to taxpayers at or below certain income level, says combination of property tax relief and rebates would cut their total taxes; says plan provides 'pass-through' provisions requiring landlords to pass on benefit of lower property taxes to tenants; says Vice Pres Agnew urged plan be sent to advisory comm for advice on way to ease property taxes; says Nixon does not expect final Cong action on plan this yr, but hopes to offer it to voters before next fall's Pres election; plan was devised by Domestic Council subcom headed by L Engman

Brit Govt orders ind inquiry into Londonderry shootings; Home Sec Maudling defends performance of Brit troops, s, House of Commons; B Devlin, Cath radical MP from Ulster, rushes at Maudling and attacks him; she is dragged from room but returns 5 minutes later; Devlin's fury was triggered by her failure to be called by Speaker, S Lloyd; she was only MP to be present at Londonderry events and felt she should be allowed to address Maudling; Irish Repub Prime Min Lynch's criticism of Brit army's role in incident seen significant in light of his recent statements pledging harder line against IRA in Irish Repub; Londonderry incident is seen sure to swing sentiment in Ireland toward IRA and against Lynch's gradualist policy for reunification; Maudling calls Lynch's response inaccurate and unfortunate; questions by MPs during Maudling's appearance reveal emotional divisions between pol parties, with Labor members highly critical of army and Conservatives supporting it; illus of Devlin

US Atty W N Seymour Jr and NYS Dist Atty F S Hogan agree to conduct Fed-state investigation into possibility of fraud arising from purported autobiography of H Hughes; at least 100 subpoenas have already been prepared or sent out; Seymour says Fed end of inquiry will be handled by Asst US Attys R G Morvillo and J J Tigue; Irving appears at US Atty's office accompanied by his atty M H Nessen; source close to investigation indicates that one point delaying proceedings are attempts to persuade Irving to sign waiver of immunity before testifying before NY grand jury; if Irving does not waive immunity and refuses to answer questions posed to him by jury, Dist Atty could offer him immunity to obtain information; if offer is made and Irving accepts, he cannot be prosecuted for information he discloses; however if he still refuses to testify, he can be found in contempt of ct; sources say Fed Govt is looking into question of possibility of mail fraud by Irving, while state is probing possibility of fraud and perjury; perjury investigation might arise from affidavit filed by Irving, which said he personally gave controversial checks to Hughes