September 22, 1972

Mitsubishi Companies, in what is said to be unparalleled act of Japanese corp generosity, donates $1-million to Harvard Univ to establish chair in Japanese legal studies; gift is to be used to support prof in East Asian Legal Studies Program at law school; appears in part to reflect mounting uneasiness among Japanese industrialists over recent strains in Japanese-Amer relations; conglomerate head C Fujino comments; grant is particularly unusual in that Japanese have no great tradition of private or corp philanthropy; Prof J A Cohen originally suggested to corp that Harvard would benefit from an endowed chair; univ pres D C Bok accepts grant; alludes to sometimes uneasy alliance between Japanese and Amer cultures; Prof E W Reischauer attends ceremonies; other details on grant

D Mingues, 16, is arrested on Sept 20 and charged with fatally stabbing Columbia Univ prof W G Friedmann on Sept 20; Mingues was taken into custody several hours after stabbing when detectives, mingling with crowd at scene of crime, picked up a tip from an unidentified youth; 13-state alarm is issued on Sept 21 for 2 brothers, S Robinson and D Robinson, 16; case detailed; Mingues por

US Sen, 75-1, on Sept 21 passes new anti-hijacking bill that provides for new airport security police force, screening of all airline passengers and option of imposing death penalty on air pirates; measure gives Pres authority to suspend service of US airline to foreign country or service of foreign airline to US if country aids or harbors hijackers, does not take adequate precautions to guard against hijacking and if it continues service to another nation that aided or abetted hijackers or terrorists; Sen Cannon, sponsor of legis, attributes 'part of the alarming increase in hijacking' to failure of US ct system to impose stiff penalties; under measure, screening of all passengers will take place for at least 1 yr with Fed Govt assuming expenses for electronic weapons-detection devices; Air Transportation Security Force will be established to screen freight and baggage; Sen also passes by voice vote legis making threats to hijack airplanes 'with an apparent determination and will to carry the threat into execution,' a felony punishable by $5,000 fine or 5 yrs' imprisonment or both

US and USSR agree on Sept 21 to make 30 joint environmental control studies, including study of air pollution-control using Leningrad and St Louis, Mo, as models; US Environmental Quality Council Chmn Train and Soviet Hydrometeorological Service head Y F Fydorov laud project; note findings will be made available to other nations but only US and Soviet specialists will participate; illus

truckloads of heavily-armed Uganda troops reptdly race about Kampala on Sept 21, apparently alarmed by belief that some new treachery is being planned against Pres Amin; US State Dept says that US Embassy in Kampala reptd outbreak of shooting and several arrests during day but that city is calm; says there is considerable confusion as to what is happening in Kampala; it is still not clear whether troops loyal to Pres Amin have seized all of Uganda exiles who invaded country from neighboring Tanzania; witnesses rept that armed men arrested Uganda's Chief Justice and onetime Prime Min B Kiwanuka; mil spokesman denies arrest, radio broadcast; warns that anyone found to be spreadng rumors will be arrested and that certain people are going around disguised as mil personnel 'threatening to arrest those in key positions in Govt'; some Britons reptdly took refuge at Brit High Comm as Kampala appeared to be in grip of what 1 foreigner described as 'explosion of emotion'; Amin has accused GB of complicity in invasion; there was unconfirmed rept of disturbance involving numbers of civilians and troops in city's indus area; main danger to Pres Amin now seems not to be invasion but possibility of intramural fighting among his army and particularly among members of different tribes from his home province of West Nile in northwest Uganda