November 9, 1972

white Canarsie parents keep thousands of children out of schools in Bklyn Dist 18 on Nov 8, rejecting appeals of parents assn leaders and local school officials to end dispute over busing of black children from low‐income Tilden housing project in Brownsville to Wilson JHS in Canarsie; Dist 18 Acting Supt H Garner says 1,853 of Canarsie's 9,700 pupils attended school on 1st day after boycott ended; 480 pupils, half of them white, attended Wilson; Garner predicts attendance at Wilson and 7 other Canarsie schools will be normal within few days, now that Combined Parent‐Teacher Assns of Canarsie is no longer sponsoring boycott; 2 dozen white adults demonstrate outside Bildersee JHS urging parents to continue boycott; parents assn called off boycott after central Educ Bd removed its trustee D Schreiber from dist and restored full authority of dist's local bd; 600 Canarsie parents form orgn called Concerned Parents of Canarsie that seeks to hold local school bd accountable to community; group agrees to accept pupils from Tilden on condition that there be no further transfers; 52 civic, religious and community orgns in Canarsie form permanent group United Canarsie Council, led by N Marcone and G Meissner; group pledges full support to Dist 18 bd's efforts to rezone dist; illus of Wilson JHS

Ruskin to resign as NYC Investigation Comr effective Dec 1; illus at news conf with Mayor Lindsay

Hanoi Communist party newspaper says, Nov 8, that draft truce agreement provided for release of all mil and civilian pol prisoners in S Vietnamese jails; US officials deny existence of this provision; Kissinger, in Oct 26 news conf, said provision provided that release of S Vietnamese civilians in Saigon's prisons 'should be determined through negotiations among the S Vietnamese parties, so that the return of our prisoners is not conditional on the disposition of Vietnamese prisoners in Vietnamese jails on both sides of the conflict'; Hanoi paper charges that there is Saigon Govt campaign on to 'secretly dispose of patriots illegally kept in over 1,000 jails in S Vietnam'; charges assassinations of prisoners are taking place; investigation by the NY Times_over the past few wks has uncovered no evidence of deliberate killings in prisons; most of the best‐known pol prisoners are reptd to be alive and well; 40,000 to 60,000 pol prisoners are estimated to be in jail; there are at least 36,000 POWs in S Vietnam

Sen McGovern's defeat for Presidency opens way on Nov 8 for fierce struggle for control of Dem party, its structure and its rules; loose coalition, including some labor officials, Govs, Congressmen and other party functionaries, is discussing series of possible moves to 'recapture' party from supporters of Sen McGovern; coalition is likely to focus on objectives including removal of Dem Natl chmn Westwood, and changing or reinterpreting new party rules for selecting delegates to natl conv; McGovern will apparently play no major role in struggle; at Dem Natl Com meeting on Dec 9, com must approve selection of 25 additional at‐large members and ratify membership of comm to draft new party charter; labor officials are urging rollback of reform procedures that brought more blacks, youth and women into party affairs; possible replacements for Westwood noted

NYS Dem Chmn J F Crangle is reptd to be quietly seeking support for Dem Natl Com chairmanship; will be opposed by fellow New Yorkers B A Paterson, com Vice Chmn and J F English, who has been named gen counsel to com; will not acknowledge his bid for natl chairmanship but concedes there is 'feeling something should be done' about present leadership of Natl Com