June 17, 1972

an asst dist atty in Queens, NYC, and some top city police officials reptdly are expected to be indicted on bribery charges as result of long Fed probe of corruption in NYC; criminal justice system

Premier Sato announces June 17 that he will retire as Japan's Premier before expiration of his term in Oct; por

Fed ct, NYC, Judge J M Cannella sentences C Irving to 2 1/2 yrs imprisonment on June 16; fines him $10,000; Mrs Irving receives similar fine and 2‐yr prison sentence, which is immediately shortened to 2 mos; couple will serve sentences at different times to allow for care of their children; atty for Swiss Govt B Reverdin repts he will proceed with extradition case against Mrs Irving, who is charged with forgery, embezzlement and theft; State Sup Ct Justice A Martinis grants Irvings conditional discharge, but levies 6‐mo prison term on researcher R Suskind; McGraw‐Hill and Life magazine decline comment on proceedings; illus

June 17: Tang Ke, Communist China delegate to UN environmental conf, Stockholm, deplores, June 16, omission of any mention at the conf of the Vietnam war

Soviet Govt orders sharp reduction on June 16 in sale of vodka and expands output of soft drinks in intensified drive against heavy drinking, apparently in response to adverse impact of alcoholism on labor productivity; action was taken after Central Com decree acknowledged that alcoholism was causing ‘tremendous harm’ to entire Soviet soc

Fed Dist Ct Judge W B Bryant, June 16, orders new elections for leadership of UMW and outlines strict procedures to govern union activities in interim; order designates Labor Dept to supervise conduct of union and oversee its financial operations through Dec ‘72, when new elections will be held; order makes union internal affairs subject to direct supervision of Labor Sec, directs union employees to account for time and expenses, limits union's ability to make loans and hire new employees and enjoins union from violating election procedures; spokesman for UMW Pres W A Boyle calls order ‘dictatorial'; Labor Dept spokesman calls move ‘unprecedented'; por of Judge Bryant

SEC, on June 16, files suit in US Dist Ct for Southern Dist of NY charging ITT and co execs H J Aibel and J J Navin with violating SEC's rules against corporate insiders failing to disclose material information in connection with purchase or sale of stock; alleges that illegal dealings in ITT stock occurred during time when co knew, but public did not, that Justice Dept antitrust suit against co was about to be settled; SEC files suit against Lazard Freres & Co and Mediobanca of Milan charging them with separate set of violations of securities laws, the alleged purpose of which was to render non‐taxable exch of stock involved in acquisition of Hartford Fire Ins Co by ITT; suit asks ct to enjoin ITT, Lazard Freres and Mediobanca from similar acts in future, but makes no provision for restitution of profits made by Aibel and Navin through allegedly illegal dealings

ALPA on June 16 announces it has taken irreversible steps to carry out a 24‐hr stoppage of global airline traffic to dramatize its demands for UN action to combat hijacking; orgn pres Forsberg says, after meeting with UN Sec Gen Waldheim, that stoppage is ‘definitely on'; says that, at a minimum, pilots are asking for directive from Security Council to ICAO to resume work on proposed conv that would include measures to enforce existing treaties; maintains meeting with Waldheim was positive but that assurances given about possibility of agency's action to stamp out hijacking and sabotage were ‘inadequate'; Japanese and Amer pilots’ groups and pilots of United Air Lines say they will not participate in stoppage; ATA seeks ct injunction, Washington, DC, to prevent shutdown

US price‐wage controls program is beginning to create what Nixon Adm officials call unforseen disturbances’ in econ that could lead to widespread bankruptcies and other dislocations; so far disturbances are limited and are related to price rollback policies and to exemption of small businesses from controls program; ill effect on small businesses in Ga of rollback of prices at Piggly Wiggly Southern cited; Price Comm chmn Grayson comments; program aide Dr A H Small says comm has come to recognize that price rollback might injure competitors of cos making rollback

4 Jewish Defense League members, S C Cohen, S Siegel, S D Davis and J Smilow, are arrested June 16 in connection with fire‐bombings Jan 26 of 2 Manhattan talent booking agencies that handle Soviet artists; 3 of 4 are linked to both bombing of offices of S Hurok, in which 1 person died, and bombing of Columbia Artists Mgt; 3 are held in lieu of $35,000 bail each on Fed charges of setting off explosive device in offices ‘used in activities affecting interstate and foreign commerce'; attys for defendants and Rabbi Kahane denounce arrests as attempts by Govt to cement relations with USSR in wake of Pres Nixon's visit to USSR; Kahane, in news conf, calls defendants innocent; calls on Jewish orgns to raise bail for the arrested league members

29‐yr‐old Harvard Univ Prof G T Parker is named next pres of Bennington Coll, her husband, 30‐yr‐old T Parker, is named vp, June 16; move marks 1st time that major Amer coll has chosen wife and husband to take over adm; Parkers will replace Dr E J Bloustein; illus of couple

Owners of more than 400,000 rent‐controlled apts in NYC are authorized on June 16 to collect increases from July 1 to end of yr; city's computer rent program, which was designed to determine maximum base rents allowed for city's 1‐million controlled apts, has been plagued by delay and owners of 400,000 apts never received their increases; NYS Sup Ct Justice P Fino on May 26 ordered city to have its program completed by end of month; if city had not set maximum base rents by then, landlords were authorized to collect full yr's increase in next 6 mos; if rent rises actually determined by computer are lower than 7.5%, owners will have to make rebates; HDA officials said that it would have been relatively simple to obtain stay of ruling, but to appeal could have resulted in citywide labor difficulties; several days before Justice Fino's ruling, J D McFadden, special arbitrator apptd by State Bd of Mediation, ruled that Bronx Realty Advisory Bd had right to terminate landlords’ contract with Service Employes Internatl Union; contract had stipulated that wage increases pd to bldg workers were contingent on landlords getting rent increases; when city failed to notify many landlords about their increases, the realty men threatened to terminate their contract; union responded by threatening strike; Fino's ruling on suit brought by group of apt house owners placated landlords