June 12, 1972

NY Times survey on use and proposed uses of acupuncture as anesthesia in US; repts from drs throughout US reveal they are developing protocols to study small groups of patients at med schools and hosps to learn how acupuncture measures against standard pain killers such as morphine and to determine which of 30‐million chem anesthesia procedures performed yrly in US could be done with needles; discloses plan to send staff drs from Harvard and Boston Univs to Taiwan and possibly mainland China to learn acupuncture techniques; notes many hosps and univs have made available live demonstrations of acupuncture and movies of performances by Chinese drs of major heart and lung surgery on patients for whom acupuncture needle is only anesthesia; says Amer drs are creating coms to investigate scientific and legal aspects of technique's potential use involving such aspects as health ins field; while drs caution public against false hopes, many hold technique has great importance; med leaders rept that acupuncture could open new area for paramedical workers, who will not need extensive training of an anesthesiologist; theory of 2 pain‐control centers described; plans by several drs for further work and experimentation noted; illus of Dr M Toyama with needles

Article discusses block parties as latest growing trend in NYC; about 3,000 gatherings are held each yr; coordinator for NYC Commerce Dept Schulman, who is in charge of processing applications for street closings made by block groups, sees growing tide of ‘street nationalism’ as a healthy sign; activities described; illus

Libya Premier el‐Qaddafi says country is sending arms, money and volunteers to help IRA forces in Ulster, s June 11

Rapid City, SD, officials say, June 11, more than 200 bodies have been recovered following flash flood; 87 have been identified; Mayor Barnett says final count may exceed 300; says entire neighborhoods will have to be reconstructed; Gov Kneip inspects area; water, gas and elec service remains cut off but elec service is expected to resume shortly; water is being supplied by tank truck and temporary water purification facilities have been set up; Fed officials meet with city officials to plan Fed relief measures; Sen McGovern tours scene by helicopter; destruction described; illus; map

Declassification of secret wartime correspondence between Pres Roosevelt and W Churchill provides new insights into their relationship (H Raymont rept); correspondence represents almost daily record of triumph and setbacks in battle against Axis powers from 1939‐45; reveals that pol differences between 2 men were more numerous and pervasive than generally known; other conclusions gleaned from correspondence, located at Franklin D Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY, detailed; copy of telegrams from Roosevelt to Chuchill; Roosevelt and Churchill illus during Aug ‘41 secret meeting at sea; illus of Soviet Premier Stalin with Min Molotov