July 18, 1972

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NYC police, disclosing that they still had no firm leads as to who might have killed alleged Mafia leader T Eboli, question J Sternfeld, chauffeur who was with Eboli when he was murdered; Sternfeld told police that shots from passing truck had killed Eboli as he was about to re-enter car after making midnight visit to Crown Hts sec of Bklyn; says that he had not seen killer or killers because he had ducked under car's dashboard when shooting began; Sternfeld reptdly volunteered information to police; Sternfeld's remarks detailed

Violence continues on July 17 in Ulster, accentuated by fears among many officials that increased violence has destroyed the few remaining mixed Cath and Prot neighborhoods in Ulster cities; Whitelaw informs residents of Belfast area that Brit Army's 800-man unit will leave area if IRA halts its attacks there; move is clearly meant to spur community pressure on IRA to end violence; Brit officials say that end to sniper attacks in area would be significant step toward restoring cease-fire; there are repts that IRA has agreed to end terrorist operations in area as result of urgings by community groups

Fed Reserve Bd repts July 17 that growth of money supply slowed in 2d qr to annual rate of 5.3%, well below 1st qr rate of 9.3%; figures indicate that bd succeeded in its monetary policy objective of slowing growth of monetary aggregates in 2d

QUANGTRT, South Vietnam, July 17 — This city of rubble and ashes trembled to the incessant roar of gunfire today as South Vietnamese paratroops battled their way inch by inch toward its center.