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Terrorists explode 3 bombs in Iran on May 31, 1 of them near tomb of Shah of Iran's father, Riza Shah, 1 hr before Pres Nixon is scheduled to lay wreath there; bombings seen as tactic to frighten Nixon; Nixon proceeds with wreath-laying ceremony after security forces check area; Nixon illus

Bomb Rocks Site in Iran Just Before Visit by Nixon

June 1: US Army sources say, May 31, that Gen Abrams will be nominated as Army's new C/S 'within a few days' of Nixon's return from Eur; one source says 'Laird feels obligated to Abrams because Abrams has gone along with Vietnamization even when the Joint Cs/S objected; Abrams por

ABRAMS IS CHOICE AS CHIEF OF STAFF

Berlinger, reptg that sampling indicates 37% of Jan's new relief cases in one NYC welfare center were ineligible, calls on May 31 for revision of the acceptance process, news conf; ineligibility, involving 26 out of 70 cases at Waverly center, was highest Berlinger has reptd finding in 3 centers whose admissions he has checked; finding leads Berlinger to raise his estimate of citywide relief ineligibility to 20% to 30%, with possible annual losses of $240- to $400-million in grants; charges that city's expanding relief rolls have resulted from 'deliberate city adm policy'; Asst HRA Admr R F Carroll calls Berlinger's accusations 'irresponsible'; asserts city has instituted nation's most 'sophisticated systems' to counter welfare fraud and ineligibility; notes Lindsay based part of his fiscal '73 expense budget reductions on HRA's capacity to eliminate waste

RELIEF FRAUDS UP, BERLINGER FINDS

Gov Rockefeller notes recent bill attempting to provide aid to parochial schools in NYS may be declared unconst

Rockefeller Warmtoldea Of a Fusion Mayor Here

Union Theological Seminary bd of dirs votes on May 31 to require that blacks and other minority group members make up 1/3 and that women comprise 1/2 of all students, faculty and admrs; officials say new reforms are designed to rectify discriminatory practices of past but are also regarded as sound educ policy; reforms include cutback in size of faculty by 25% to 40% and comparable cuts in student body; seminary's School of Sacred Music will be closed when commitments to present students ends; decisions on acad policy will shift from traditional acad depts to faculty as whole; new policies were proposed by 14-member planning group of faculty, students, admrs and outside consultants; group was created last yr to look at seminary priorities in light of mounting financial problems and dissatisfaction with traditional methods of theological educ; officials acknowledge that attracting large number of additional women and minority-group students will be difficult; have approved hiring of new faculty member to specialize in field of black ministry and to aid in recruitment; seminary pres Rev J B Mosley says implementation of new policies will begin immediately and that their effects should be evident by '76

Union Theological Votes a Rise In Blacks and Women in School

Pres and Mrs Nixon illus being greeted by Polish citizens, Warsaw

NIXON IN WARSAW, GREETS THE PUBLIC AND MEETS GIEREK

Repr Mills introduces on May 31 legis that would gradually repeal 54 special provisions of tax law; bill would accomplish repeal over 3-yr period beginning in '74, and would force Cong to reconsider justification of each special provision; list of 54 provisions includes familiar targets of tax reformers as oil depletion allowance, deductablity of charitable contributions, double exemptions of elderly and blind, and number of other tax preferences that benefit avg individuals; Mills list omits provisions that render non-taxable, until they are returned to US, profits of foreign subsidiaries of Amer corps, provision of '69 tax act that sets maximum tax rate of 50% on income from salaries, fees and commissions and special tax deductions that are given self-employed persons who set aside money for their own retirement; list of provisions includes deductibility of state and local taxes

MILLS GIVES PLAN TO FORCE REVIEW OF TAX BENEFITS

EPA Admr Ruckelshaus, approving plans of several states to meet Fed air quality standards, gives NYS 2-yr extension to meet standards on May 31 because it contains areas with heavy automobile congestion, and tech to meet standards is considered presently unavailable

U.S. Backs 11 State Plans To Reduce Pollution of Air

Israeli leaders call on May 31 for boycott of Beirut by internatl airlines, charging that terrorist attacks on air travelers such as shootings at Lod (Lydda) Internatl Airport on May 30 are planned by Arab guerrillas on Lebanese soil; Lebanon-based guerrilla group, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claims full responsibility of shootings in which 25 persons were killed and 76 wounded by 3 Japanese gunmen; dead included 14 Puerto Ricans on Christian pilgrimage to Holy Land; Premier Meir condemns Arabs for 'rejoicing' over airport attack; denounces guerrillas for recruiting gunmen, who arrived at airport on Air France flight from Rome; accuses airline and foreign govts of having failed to put into effect security precautions that have long been advocated; Air France repr in Israel confirms that officials at Rome airport made no inspection of checked suitcases from which gunmen drew submachine guns and hand grenades; says inspection was responsibility of Rome airport and not airline; members of Israel's Parliament stand in solemn respect for victims; Israeli Govt lists 8 Israelis among dead including Dr A Katzir-Katchalsky, leading biophysicist; Meir absolves Japanese Govt and people of any guilt in shootings; Egyptian commentator, speaking over Cairo radio, calls gunmen 'heroes'; Israeli Min Peres will plan additional security measures; Deputy Premier Allon assails foreign govts for failure to inspect luggage; Meir draws sharp contrast between precautions taken by Israel's carrier, El Al, and foreign airlines; Min Eban comments; illus of Meir, Peres, Min Dayan, Min Burg and Min Shapiro bowing in silence for victims at Parliament, of Meir at hospital and of victim being taken to hospital

ISRAELIS SUGGEST BOYCOTT OF BEIRUT BY WORD AIRLINES

US Defense Dept repts on May 31 names of Amers killed in action in Indochina

Jersey Man Killed in War

analysis of N Korean internatl relations suggests nation could improve US relations more readily than those with Japan, remembered as brutal conqueror and occupying power from 1910-45; Japanese themselves dislike Koreans for conduct of many of Korean residents in Japan when Japanese lost World War II and also resent Korean claims to older civilization; Japanese Govt has made some gestures toward N Korea in recent mos, with sharp S Korean protests; Premier Kim seen playing on Korean fears with calls for united Korea as protection against Japanese econ domination

News Analysis

Soviet Jewish dancer V Panov is sentenced to 10 days in a Leningrad prison by police magistrate on charge of petty hooliganism; his friends say charge was brought against him because he asked for papers to emigrate to Israel; rept he was tried May 29 at police station where he had been held since his arrest May 26; his wife, dancer G Ragozhina, was not allowed to attend the trial and was barred from visiting her husband; she reptdly pleaded unsuccessfully with prosecutor for sentence to be reduced to a fine

TOP SOVIET DANCER SERVING JAIL TERM

US State Dept finds N Korea not seriously interested in dialogue on improving ties with US, May 31 comment on Premier Kim demands that US withdraw all forces before relaxation of tensions with S Korea; also cites N Korean anti-Amer propaganda campaign

U.S. Dismisses Kim's Terms For Easing Korean Relations

PLEIKU, South Vietnam, May 31 (Reuters)&#8212;John Paul Vann, the senior United States ad viser to Military Region II, told newsmen here that a group of 100 North Vietnamese made contact by radio today with Government positions in Kon turn and said they wanted to defect.

Foe Said to Offer to Defect

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Pres Nguyen Van Thieu spends May 31 in Hue, S Vietnam, to bolster morale of defending troops; illus

Thieu Spends Day at Hue

S Vietnamese troops on May 31, with heavy air support, reptdly retake abandoned field hosp at N end of Kontum; rept 194 N Vietnamese killed in clashes near city; little fighting is reptd elsewhere in South Vietnam; US Navy bombers from 3 ships in Tonkin Gulf strike bridges around Vinh, N Vietnam, in reptd drive to isolate city, major transshipment point for war supplies; 5 ships, led by Newport News, shell targets around city and near Dongho; Govt positions in Hue area reptdly are shelled throughout day; S Vietnamese troops reptdly continue to inch forward to Anloc; map

Saigon Reports Slight Gain at Kontum

article on siege of Anloc, S Vietnam, by N Vietnamese forces; S Vietnamese and Amer officers do not expect relief column, stalled in Laikhe, 35 mi S of Anloc, to get through soon; thousands of wounded S Vietnamese soldiers are trapped in city; other soldiers in city reptdly refuse to leave their bunkers out of fear that if they are wounded they will die for lack of med aid or from infection; city has been almost destroyed by weeks of N Vietnamese shelling and US and S Vietnamese bombing; 2 US advisers newly airlifted out of city describe situation; US advisers reptdly are displeased by Brig Gen Ho Trung Hau failure to move his 21st Div relief column quickly to Anloc

Anloc Pins Its Hopes on Relief Column

IRA provisional wing continues its bombing campaign in Ulster, which is aimed at putting as many businesses as possible out of action, in complete disregard of cease-fire announced by official wing

Ulster Bombing Goes On

June 1-10: Irish Repub intensifies campaign against IRA with arrest, May 31, of provisional wing leaders J Cahill and R O'Bradaigh; actions are part of Prime Min Lynch's efforts against IRA; Brit officials, who see Repub as sanctuary for terrorists, have long urged crackdown on IRA; provisional chief S MacStiofain is reptd missing from his home amid repts that police are searching for him; 9 IRA prisoners in Repub, whose cases were scheduled for trial before juries, are to be transferred to new special criminal ct; 40 people picket police station in Dublin to protest arrest of Cahill and O'Bradaigh

Dublin Holds 2 Leaders of I.R.A. Militant Wing

last-min problem concerning differences between W Ger and USSR over final ratification of treaty develops on May 31

Berlin Accords Facing a Possible Delay

Vatican announces on May 31 that Pope Paul has eased annulment of unconsummated marriages between Caths, effective July 1; under new rules, couple seeking annulment on ground that marriage has not been physically consummated may apply to appropriate authorities in diocese where they live, bishops may act on such applications without authorization by Vatican, and diocesan officials may waive med examinations; procedure will take only 3 to 5 mos, half the time such annulments have taken in past

EASED ANNULMENT APPROVED BY POPE

Presidium of Supreme Soviet on May 31 unanimously ratifies W Ger-USSR nonaggression treaty

Soviet Ratifies Treaty

NATO Mins Council conf, Bonn, ends on May 31; communique

June 1, 1972

Headlines from June 1, 1972

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Bomb Rocks Site in Iran Just Before Visit by Nixon

ABRAMS IS CHOICE AS CHIEF OF STAFF

RELIEF FRAUDS UP, BERLINGER FINDS

Rockefeller Warmtoldea Of a Fusion Mayor Here

Billboard 200

Thick As A Brick

First Take

Harvest

Graham Nash/David Crosby

Manassas

Historical Context for June 1, 1972