November 22, 1972

NYS Study Comm for NYC, known as Scott Comm, publishes rept on Nov 21 which calls city's maximum base rent program 'disaster'; HDA Admr Kerr says he is reviewing program; S Berger, exec dir of Scott Comm, says tenants are not protected and formula used to compute rent is based on inadequate data; graph showing amts in thousands of dollars spent by city for consultants to HDA for help in implementation of maximum base rent program

Nov 22: Kissinger secret cease-fire talks with Le Duc Tho continue, Nov 21; no indication given on progress of talks; there will be break in talks Nov 22 so Kissinger can fly to Brussels to see Indonesian Pres Suharto and Min A Malik; Indonesia is one nations asked to form internatl control comm to supervise a cease-fire; each country is being asked to contribute 250 officers and 1,000 enlisted men; Kissinger, for 1st time since secret talks began, gives daily briefing to S Vietnamese Amb Pham Dang Lam; Hanoi consults with Vietcong delegation chief Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh before and after each secret session; Hanoi issues communique giving 'still incomplete' statistics on US bombing of N Vietnamese southern provs from Nov 1 to Nov 19; communique denounces 'savage attacks'; illus and map of villa where talks are held

S Koreans, voting in closely supervised referendum on Nov 22, ratify Pres Park Chung Hee's moves to exercise almost complete power for an unlimited time; vote, on series of const revisions, was foregone conclusion since martial law Govt had mounted widespread campaign and had forbidden debate or opposition; size of ballot is only unknown factor; major provisions of const amendments include establishment of Natl Conf for Unification, authority to Pres to appt 1/3 of Natl Assembly with Confs approval, and permission to Park to serve unlimited number of 6-yr terms

Fed Judge W A Garrity on Nov 21 orders Prof S L Popkin to begin serving sentence for contempt of Fed grand jury, Garrity says there is no immunity for either scholars or newsmen in testifying before grand jury; Harvard Univ pres D Bok receives permission from ct to argue motions on behalf of Popkin; US Atty J N Gabriel says Bok's statement is technically correct but if Popkin agrees to testify grand jury will be called back in to receive testimony; Popkin's wife S Shirk reads husband's statement before TV cameras in which he says that he has no knowledge of distribution and pub of papers; Popkin says questions which he refuses to answer are those he believes have 'no bearing on the stated purpose of the grand jury' and that to answer questions would 'betray my personal and scholarly ethics' and would create dangerous precedent by allowing scholars to be questioned without restriction about their sources; US Atty R Bachman says that only by agreeing to answer questions without any qualifications will Govt drop its insistence that Popkin be sent to jail; illus of Popkin, handcuffed, being taken to jail from Boston Fed Ct

article examines implications of recent rash of racial distubances within Navy, noting many officers attribute disciplinary crisis to new wave of permissiveness and to racial-equality edicts issued by Adm E R Zumwalt Jr; many who were interviewed criticize Zumwalt for attempting to lead tradition-oriented officers corps into new relationships between comdr and commanded too quickly, producing breaks in chain of command; others note blacks entering Navy lack sufficient educ to qualify for more prestigious jobs; article adds problem was spawned by fact that Navy's unskilled manpower requirements have traditionally been lower than those of other service branches, lessening opportunities for blacks to acquire skills in service and accounting for present dearth of black officers; notes that in other service branches militant blacks can approach sr officers with problems; recommends young blacks seek educ opportunities offered by Navy to increase their numbers among sr officers