January 19, 1973

NYC Council, 28-7, overrides on Jan 18 Mayor Lindsay's veto of reapportionment bill designed to increase black and Puerto Rican representation on Council; Lindsay contended that there had been insufficient notice, awareness and debate by public on measure; new law will add 6 Councilmanic dists, 5 of which are expected to go to blacks or Puerto Ricans; Councilman E L Sadowsky, Queens Dem, describes Lindsay veto as 'cynical pol gesture'; new dists listed

jury of 10 men and 2 women on Jan 18 convicts J V Corona of murdering 25 itinerant farm workers near Yuba City in 71; jury deliberated for nearly 1 wk before returning guilty verdict; Corona's atty R E Hawk immediately moves for retrial; Judge R E Patton sets Jan 29 as date for motions on matter; case and trial revd; illus

2 adults and 5 children are slain on Jan 18 in Washington, DC, house once owned by pro basketball player K Abdul-Jabbar, and presently used as hq by Hanafi sect of orthodox Moslems, sect he belongs to; 2 adult women, identified as B Khaalis and A Khaalis, are in critical condition after being shot in head; Abdul-Jabbar, who sold house to Muslims 2 yrs ago, calls slayings work of lunatics; illus

White House press sec Ziegler announces at news briefing, Fla White House, Jan 18, that Kissinger will resume talks with Le Duc Tho and Min Xuan Thuy on Jan 23 to complete text of a peace agreement; no indication given of what is meant by completing the text; this is first time that US acknowledges existence of a draft agreement; announcement is issued simultaneously by Hanoi delegation in Paris following phone talks between Nixon, Kissinger and Haig, who has been meeting in Saigon with Pres Thieu; Ziegler says Haig, who visited leaders in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, will confer again with Thieu on Jan 20

Lt Gen W G DePuy testifies on Jan 18 that 1 of documents released through publication of Pentagon papers, '68 Joint Chiefs of Staff study, could have helped N Vietnamese and Vietcong plan last yr's Tet offensive; concedes, under cross-examination, that parts of document in question had been made public without injuring US mil position in Vietnam; reads sections of rept that he feels would damage natl security; says that section of study entitled 'enemy capabilities' could indicate to N Vietnamese if Amer and S Vietnamese intelligence is competent