April 13, 1973

US HEW Dept sources rept on Apr 12 that dept is prepared to make concessions to critics of proposed new rules controlling Fed funding of such soc services as aid to elderly

Boro Pres Abrams calls on Apr 12 for 700 more NYCTA ptl to combat what he calls 'reign of terror' on city's buses; Abrams and Transit Ptl's Benevolent Assn pres J Maye cite bus hijackings, stripping of women riders and 'Jesse James' holdups in which hoodlums rob every passenger on bus, news conf; call for immediate formation of saturation task force of plainclothes detectives and undercover decoy teams to ride buses; say most bus crimes are committed between 2 and 7 PM by bands of youths, many of them in hs; Maye says he has figures showing that crime during 2-7 PM period increased 39% in '72 over '71 total; NYCTA spokesman L Collins say auth has no figures on bus crime because protection of buses is responsibility of city police, not transit police; NYC police say they have instituted special patrols on buses in 48th Precinct in Bronx, where many complaints of rowdyism have been recd

Gen Haig, back from special mission to SE Asia, repts to Pres Nixon, Apr 12, on the mil situation in S Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; Adm officials say that while Adm is concerned and angered by what it regards as stepped-up Communist mil activity in violation of the cease-fire agreement, it is premature to describe the situation as so critical as to require prompt and dramatic mil responses; say, however, that contingency planning goes on in US and in Saigon for possible mil moves in case the situation sharply worsens

NYS Liberal party leaders on Apr 12 vote overwhelmingly to endorse Dem State Sen Goldin for Controller

Sixteen men were killed yesterday when a space agency flying laboratory and a Navy antisubmarine patrol plane collided in midair in California. Page 78.