July 18, 1973

NYS Transportation Comr Schuler on July 18 announces that dept will install computer-operated system to 'guide' and inform motorists along 30-mi congested corridor including LI Expressway and parallel hwys; says system will cost $11-million and take 3 yrs to have electronic sensors and flasing message boards in place; says main feature of complex system is that 6 rds adjacent and roughly parallel to LI Expressway will be monitored at same time; discloses that Fed Govt has approved LI stretch for 1st installation of new system; transportation officials contend that system will save motorists $4-million a yr in time saved and accidents prevented; Fed Hwy Adm has approved $800,000 to $1-million allocation for design costs and has agreed to share costs with state on installing equipment; master computer will be in new state office bldg in Hauppauge, Suffolk County; map

Westport, Conn, Planning and Zoning Bd holds special meeting July 18 called to overturn zoning regulation that town's Planning and Zoning Comm had approved last mo; regulation would have allowed builders to put up total of 340 luxury units on scattered sites throughout town if they would also build total of 60 middle income units; 40-member Town Meeting votes unanimously to overturn regulation; illus of Westport; pors of comm member J Wassung, D Levy, member of town legis, and Mrs J Belaga

ch and mil of France seen clashing over protests of high RC prelates against France's imminent nuclear tests in S Pacific; in recent yrs some high-ranking clergymen have become more vocal against mil and, for 1st time, mil men are lashing back; Pres Pompidou's Govt is keeping its own counsel despite attacks at home and mounting outrage abroad over scheduled nuclear explosions in atmosphere; it seems determined to proceed with tests; Most Rev G Riobe, Bishop of Orleans, beginning ecclesiastical offensive recently, has declared that no pol or econ interests of any people justify testing or use of such weapons; navy chief of staff, Adm M de Joybert, tells clergy not to meddle in affairs of natl defense; mil response to clergy outlined; widening chasm between clergy and mil cited

Cost of Living Council Dir J T Dunlop, noting that Nixon Adm plans to take indus-by-indus approach to ending price and wage controls, says on July 17 that whole sectors of econ--agr, for example--will be given temporary exemptions, subject to revocation, if they achieve non-inflationary price and wage records and if basic econ outlook is favorable; Adm will announce on July 18 new Phase 4 econ policy, which is expected to bring to immediate end June 13 price freeze on agr products

Sen, 77-20, on July 17 approves bill mandating immediate construction of trans-Alaska pipeline after passing, 50-49, bill immunizing legis from ct review, with Vice Pres Agnew casting tie-breaking vote; approval removes bar on this or other pipelines and Sen Gravel amendment removes environmental bars for failure to satisfy strictures of '69 Natl Environmental Policy Act; Sen W F Mondale charges State Dept misrepresented position of Canadian Govt on MacKenzie River alternative; Sen Jackson deplores State Dept action, but asserts vote on Mondale-Bayh amendment to delay licensing for 8 mos to study alternatives would not have changed; Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund hold they will challenge law; Sierra Club repr challenges validity of a law forbidding cts to rev laws; Sen T Steven amendment to require further ct action be brought before 3-judge panel in Alaska and authorize direct Sup Ct appeal is defeated; map