November 4, 1973

Controller Beame, in turnabout from Repub and Liberal party successes under Mayor Lindsay in last 2 munic elections, is heavily favored to lead old-fashioned Dem sweep of NYC election on Nov 6 that is believed likely to leave only handful of Repub survivors; mayoral campaign is judged most significant in state and one of most important in nation; Lindsay has stayed out of race completely; Beame, if elected, will be first Jewish Mayor of city that has larger Jewish population than Tel Aviv; will be, at 67, one of oldest, if not oldest, first-term Mayor in city history; widespread predictions of Beame victory are based on polls showing him winning as much as half vote--a landslide in 4-way race--and on traditional Dem voting pattern in city; Beame, in addition, has defeated two of his opponents--Assemblyman Blumenthal, Liberal party candidate, and Repr Biaggi, Conservative aspirant, once before this yr in Dem mayoral primary; NYS Sen Marchi, Repub candidate, has been handicapped by lack of support from Gov Rockefeller and his own party; apparent big Beame lead, low-key personalities of candidates, length of campaign and lack of 'bread and butter' issue have combined to make mayoral race dullest in decades; crime issue, which all candidates concurred was principal concern of voters, was negated by candidates' efforts to 'out cop' each other with their proposals for more policemen and crackdowns on cts; candidates engage in two more TV debates on Nov 3 in which they repeat familiar campaign themes; illus at WABC-TV studio

Bahamian Cabinet officer says US Govt has made little effort to extradite fugitive financier R L Vesco from Bahamas; US Amb R Spiers concedes this is so; unnamed Cabinet officer says impression US Govt has tried to create, that Bahamian and Costa Rican Govts are thwarting Amer efforts to extradite Vesco, is false; Asst US Atty J Rayhill denies his office is 'dragging its feet' on extradition matter but refuses to comment on whether negotiations are being held between his office and Vesco; negotiations between Justice Dept reprs and Vesco's atty E B Williams on matters other than extradition have reptdly been in progress for some time; Rayhill denies rumor that 1 topic of talks is possibility of granting immunity to Vesco for information he is able to supply; chronology of events in Bahamas in last few mos, pieced together by NY Times from ints and press conf held by Bahamian Atty Gen P Adderely, begins with June 9 '73 lr from then Amer Consul Gen M J Spear to then Gov Sir J W Paul requesting Vesco's arrest alleging charge of fraud; Adderly says request was based on long-established practice and precedent and was regulated by Extradition Act of 1870; Chief Magistrate W E Hercules informed Gov Paul on June 21 that US request did not give sufficient information to justicy arrest warrant; Spear was so informed, and US has taken no further action on matter; Justice Dept is reptdly hopeful that extradition machinery has been set in motion anew with unsealing of latest indictment charging Vesco with completed rather than attempted fraud, and extradition papers are reptdly 'being processed' and will be sent to both Bahamian and Costa Rican Govts; status of Vesco and his Commonwealth bank was questioned on Oct 31 by Bahamian Repr M Lightbourn, who asked Prime Min Pindling and Finance Min A Hanna to advise him of Vesco's immigration status and whether work permits had been granted to any of his employes; Lightbourn also asked whether Bahamian Govt has borrowed any funds from Commonwealth Bank; asked Hanna why no financial statement was published for bank, as is required under Bahamian bank laws; US officials say they do not recognize Vesco's efforts to renounce his Amer citizenship since he did not do so before an Amer official, as is required; Vesco illus

Persons who have been in communication with Treas Sec Shultz recently rept that he, like other sr members of Nixon Adm, is depressed by pol firestorm raging around Pres; Shultz denies he plans to resign and says right thing to do is to stay on job and work harder; illus

Majority in Cairo believe that fighting will resume soon; blackout is back in full force; Egyptians believe that Israel will not withdraw from present positions and that Egypt will be forced to fight again; Oct 22 cease-fire was bitter disappointment to most of them; Israeli thrust onto western bank of Suez has not erased Egypt's new-found pride in army; Egyptians have not been told that 3d Corps is in difficulty and that town of Suez is encircled; Egyptian Pres A Sadat may not be able to restrain army much longer; apparently hopes that US will put pressure on Israel and ease pressure on him; Govt and high command taking pains to let world know that Egyptian troops are being regrouped and redeployed to west of Israeli forces

CAIRO, Nov. 3—The United Nations Emergency Force reported successes today in easing tensions between Egyptian and Israeli troops, especially in the mixed‐up positions west of the Suez Canal.