December 2, 1972

AEC repts on Dec 1 that 'major advance' in long lab struggle to control nuclear fusion, an almost pollution-free source for elec power, has been made at Princeton Univ's Plasma Physics Lab; scientists have used Russian style Tokamak machine design; intense heat and pressure involved; temperatures reached 25-million degrees in Princeton device; AEC chmn J R Schlesinger lauds advance but says he hesitates to use term 'breakthrough'; makes comment in physics pub Physical Rev Lrs; lab dir Dr M Gottlieb comments in telephone int

Stein, Herbert: White House press sec announces that H Stein will remain in his position as chmn of Council of Econ Advisers

US wins crucial test in effort to lower its contribution to UN regular budget when Assembly Finance Com, on Dec 1, votes 67-30, with 32 abstentions, for resolution recommending that ceiling on assessment that any single member country must pay should be lowered 'as soon as practicable' to 25%; US now pays 31.5%; effort still faces major test in Assembly; Soviet bloc votes solidly against resolution; Amb Malik, after vote, reads statement from Soviet Govt charging discrimination in favor of US and suggesting USSR may take moves in regard to its own contribution to eliminate discrimination; earlier proposed that US contribution be raised to 38.4%; com rejected 2 moves to raise US share; Soviet assessment is 14.18%; chart of UN '72 budget and shares of major contributors; US Amb Bush says com action represents 'great day' for US

Carmine G. De Sapio, the former leader of Tammany Hall, returned home here yesterday after serving a twoyear sentence for bribery conspiracy at the Federal prison camp in Allenwood, Pa. Details on Page 32.

C David, alleged kingpin of 1 of world's largest heroin trafficking rings that reptdly conspired to smuggle $250-million worth of heroin into US between '68 and '71, and who was recently extradited to US by Brazil to face narcotics charges, pleads guilty on Dec 2, Fed Dist Ct, Bklyn, and receives 20-yr prison sentence and is fined $20,000; US Appeals Ct postpones trial of A J Ricord, major internatl narcotics trafficker who was extradited to US from Paraguay on similar charges