March 31, 1972

NYS and Civil Service Employes Assn reach tentative accord that would give most state workers 4% rise in salary rate but not actual cash raises for next 12 mos; also agree to joint productivity study that could lead to bonus of 1.5% of annual salary payable in Apr '73; accords reached as union strike deadline nears; assn represents about 140,000 state workers; accord is subject to final approval by union's negotiating coms and mail-ballot ratification by union members; it also requires US Pay Bd approval; accord seen having averted strike, while simultaneously avoiding cash increases that would further complicate state's fiscal problems; on paper, increase would cost state $60-million a yr and bonus $22-million, but figures are called illusory; state and union resorted to device called 'lag payroll system'; system means that amount of 4% raise would be totally offset in workers' paychecks by paying them equivalent of 25 times a yr, rather than 26; lost 2 wks pay would be recd when worker quit or retired; areas of productivity study outlined

D D Beard's former sec Mrs S Lichtman says ITT regularly did favors for Cong members and that she personally handled request from Sen Hartke in June '71 for use of ITT jet plane, int, in light of Sen Judiciary Com investigation of Beard memo published by J Anderson linking Justice Dept settlement of ITT case to ITT contribution to Repub Natl conv; says she was shocked that Cong members would contact ITT dept, Cong Liaison, and sometimes Beard for 'favors on a big scale'; repts ITT refused to cooperate with Beard's attys and tried to keep Beard's daughter Lane from reaching Lichtman in Toronto; says Beard's atty H E White called her and said ITT refused to give him copy of memo; repts she called ITT to ask about matter and was referred to R J Lavoie, who said he would check; says White called her back to say ITT had given him copy of affidavit apparently because of her call; repts Lane got in contact with Lichtman through her own efforts after asking Beard's present sec B Sincavage for Lichtman's number and being told Lichtman's whereabouts were unknown; claims Sincavage had her phone number; says she is unhappy about Beard's dr V L Liszka's description of Beard as heavy drinker and sometimes irrational person; says she has never seen Beard drunk or irrational; repts she views pol system as corrupt and found nothing unusual about ITT contribution; Lichtman illus

Agr Dept repts decline in farm price index after 5 mos of steady increases

Equal Employment Opportunity Comm strengthens its regulations on job discrimination against women and broadens its rules to include for 1st time employer policies on pregnancy and childbirth; chmn Brown asserts 'our whole standards have changed and I think it's about time'; declares 'we've changed to meet the needs of the people'; comm, in its most sweeping revision of its guidelines on discrimination because of sex since they were first adopted in '66, now rules that to deny a woman job because she is pregnant is violation of '64 Civil Rights Act; holds that disabilities related to pregnancy, including recovery from childbirth, miscarriage and abortion, should be treated by employers the same as any other disability in terms of leave time, seniority, reinstatement and ins payments; new guidelines detailed

police storm house in mt village of Kizildere and kill 10 leftist terrorists after terrorists murdered NATO radar technicians J Law, G Banner and C Turner; first Govt repts from scene say that all died in explosion, but Govt spokesman says confusion arose because terrorists had thrown grenades at police, who rushed house wearing bullet-proof vests; Govt announcement says that hostages were found shot in head with their hands tied behind their backs; notes 3 had been killed before terrorists opened fire as police closed in on house; officials say that M Cayan, Turkey's most wanted fugitive, was among dead terrorists, as were C Alptekin and O Yana, who escaped from mil prison with Cayan in Nov; Premier Erim sends messages of condolence to Prime Min Heath and to Prime Min Trudeau; cites shock and grief 'inasmuch as these faithful servants of our common defense were honored guests' in Turkey; describes terrorists as 'relentless desperadoes whose roots we are trying to eradicate'; Brit Sec Sir A Douglas-Home issues statement holding 'this senseless violence against innocent people is a terrible feature of the times in which we live'