October 18, 1972

about 150 white parents block steps of J Wilson JHS in Canarsie on Oct 17, preventing 34 black children from low-income Tilden project in Brownsville from entering school; children, who were bused from Brownsville, spend day inside bus, which remained outside school; I Bildersee JHS in Canarsie reopens for classes after being closed for 1 day; Educ Bd officials meet with reprs of Wilson JHS parents and their community school bd; some black parents of children attending Wilson attend demonstration to emphasize that critical issue is not integration but overcrowding; Brownsville leader Rev W T Miller says controversy concerns race, not overcrowding; Deputy Chancellor I Anker says that efforts are being made to open schools without using police; illus of protest outside school

ROME, Oct. 17—A Libyan Embassy employe, a Jordanian who is believed to have been a member of Al Fatah, the Palestinian guerrilla organization, was shot dead last night outside his suburban apartment.

Bklyn Dist Atty Gold obtains subpoenas for 2 Long Island public officials, J McCarthy, asst indus comr of Islip, and A Pace, asst atty for Suffolk County, as part of his investigation of several hundred Mafia figures in NYC; in addition to 100 NYC policemen who may be subpoenaed, a number of NYS Motor Vehicle Bur officials will also be summoned to testify; 1 of subpoenaed ptl is said to have served as a bodyguard and chauffeur while off-duty to P Vario, counselor to C Tramunti, who is head of T Lucchese Mafia family; Bklyn junkyard trailer, revealed on Oct 16 to be meeting place of major NYC Mafia figures, is reptd to have served primarily as hq for Vario; Vario's position in Lucchese family noted; among Mafiosi who visited trailer are S Ferrucia, capt in N Evola family; S Graffagnini, soldier in Lucchese family; A Leone, Evola family soldier, and A Ruggiano, soldier in family of late V Genovese; Vario illus

Oct 18: Kissinger, after another meeting in Paris, leaves, Oct 17, for a meeting in S Vietnam; indications are strong that talks have reached critical stage; Washington is silent about substance of talks; Pres Thieu holds 2d daylong conf with key aides and Cabinet officers; atmosphere in Hanoi is reptdly optimistic but continuing emphasis is put on problems that remain, including disagreements between N Vietnamese and Vietcong; White House seeks to dampen speculation on talks; Under Sec U A Johnson reptdly summoned to conf with Nixon and to supervise mil and pol planning in Washington for a possible cease-fire and change in the pol structure of S Vietnam; Defense Dept officials suggest Gen Abrams was sent to Saigon as Nixon's personal repr for consultations now under way; Adm N A M Gayler, new Pacific comdr in chief, is also in Saigon; French Min M Schumann meets with Hanoi's chief diplomatic repr in Paris, Vo Van Sung, Oct 17; French silent on repts that Kissinger asked France to be one of several guarantors of a cease-fire

Sen rejects, 39-17, on Oct 17 compromise version of $250-billion spending ceiling sought by Nixon; defeats, 50-6, another compromise proposed by Sen Cranston; adopts proposal by Sen Long which effectively nullifies entire spending ceiling idea; action is said to most likely kill whole idea of spending ceiling; Nixon reacts by vetoing '72 Water Pollution Control Act; Sen then votes to override veto; victors in debate are those who argued that spending ceiling amounted to unconst grant to Pres of Cong power to control Govt spending, with losers being those Sens who believed that Govt spending has reached such dangerously high levels that drastic remedies are necessary, plus other Sens who feared pol advantage that defeat of ceiling would give to Nixon; outlook for bill extending and increasing debt limit seen uncertain in light of Oct 17 threat by Repr Mills that he would not propose debt limit extension that did not also include spending limit; stipulations written into Sen bill and into Cranston bill revd