August 6, 1973

NYS Gov Rockefeller on Aug 5 urges NYC consumer and industries to adjust oil burners to maximize fuel use, thereby easing impact of possible fuel shortage; says Interdepartmental Fuel and Energy Com has warned of possible shortage; recommends use of Number 2 fuel oil and early filling of storage tanks for that and other fuels; says purchase of existing supplies will insure maximum oil flow into state in coming mos; com says proper burner adjustment will result in savings of 136-million gals of oil, sufficient to offset demand increase; Conn Atty Gen R K Killian says he expect 30 states to join Conn's antitrust suit against 20 major oil cos

Sup Ct Justice H A Blackmun says on Aug 5 that 'The pall of the Watergate, with all its revelations of misplaced loyalties, of strange measures of the unethical, of unusual doings in high places, and by lawyer after lawyer after lawyer, is upon us. It is something that necessarily touches us all, irrespective of pol inclination,' speech, Amer Bar Assn; says there is seemingly an 'environment of diffuse but broad taint and corruption in our public life'; does not blame law profession for Watergate; cites, instead, gen decline in traditional Amer values; Sen Talmadge contends on Aug 5 that there is no evidence that would now justify impeaching Pres Nixon and that public would not support such a move, int, CBS TV program Face the Nation; says good deal of suspicion will be lifted from White House only when Nixon releases tape recordings of relevant Pres conversations and makes himself available for examination; ex-Atty Gen Kleindienst is said by UPI to be prepared to testify this wk before Sen Watergate com that he gave Nixon all facts in Watergate case last Apr 15 and that he was convinced that Nixon did not know until then about cover-up; illus of Blackmun and Talmadge

India, with population steadily increasing by 13-million persons a yr, is reducing birth-control programs across nation; Govt decision, part of stringent econ campaign, means that plans to build family-planning and maternal-care centers in rural areas have been set aside; Govt at same time is sharply reducing mass vasectomy efforts as well as birth-control publicity; India's soaring birth rate has been unchecked by family-planning drives in recent yrs; there are 57,000 Indian babies born daily, or 21-million a yr; about 8-million Indians die each yr; India's population, about 570-million, is expected to reach 1-billion by end of century; Govt's target was to reduce birth rate from 41 per thousand population in '68 to 25 per thousand by '76; has now extended target date until '80; birth rate is now about 37 per thousand; budget slash was made known when provisions for '73-74 were approved recently; Health and Planning Min had asked for $81.1-million, considerably lower than previous yr's budget of $104-million; Govt cut allocation to $75.1-million; more discouraging to family-planning workers are repts that Govt is about to cut back birth-control programs further; Health Min sr officials are reluctant to discuss slash in family-planning budget, partly because decision was made at top levels of Govt; Govt officials have stated publicly that stringent econ measures are necessary in 'welfare' ministries dealing with 'nonessentials' such as health and family planning; key reasons for cutback are unplanned expenditures for drought relief, wage increase among Govt employes and inflation; A C Sekhar, one of India's highest family-planning officials, denies that budget cuts will seriously curtail birth-control programs; indicates that cuts will 'drastically limit additional monetary incentives' for vasectomy operations; 13-million Indians have been sterilized since '66; effort to control birth rate has lagged because of illiteracy among most of 80% of India's population that live in rural areas, traditions whereby large families are feared and respected in villages, and psychological inhibitions about accepting family-planning measures; Hindus are being told by their militant colleagues that since Moslems and Catholics are not restricting their families, majority of Hindus should also shun birth control or they will lose their numerical strength; authorities say that over 13% of 100-million couples of reproductive age, where wife is between 15 and 44, are using birth-control devices; most devices have met some form of hostility; about 4.5-million women have been fitted with interuterine device; smaller number of men and women use contraceptives such as condom, which has been resisted because it is linked with prostitutes and extra marital relations; birth-contol pills are not popular in India

NY Times survey of effect of Watergate affair on US businessmen finds scandal has caused Pres Nixon to incur major loss of allegiance among leading businessmen; indicates that Pres would receive substantially less financial suport if election were to be held today; 67% of 760 individuals who responded to questionnaire indicate they would still vote for Nixon but this figure contrasts with 90% who said they actually voted for him last Nov; 61% say Watergate has had negative impact on their confidence in Govt; other data; illus of questionaire

US State Sec Rogers discloses that Cambodian troops plan to give up exposed positions and retreat to more secure areas when US bombing halts on Aug 15, affidavit filed, Aug 5, with US Sup Ct, as part of Govt's successful effort to overturn a ruling by Justice Douglas calling for an immediate halt to all bombing in Cambodia; other plans by Cambodian Govt to deal with expected mil repercussions resulting from bombing halt detailed in affidavit