meeting; Econ Advisers Council chmn Stein speaks; Prof W W Heller installed as pres

NIXON AIDE HINTS NEED FOR AGENCY TO PLAN ECONOMY

MONTREAL, Dec. 29&#8212;The Montreal Canadiens gave the New York Rangers a schoolboy lesson in basic hockey tonight&#8212;simple things like skating, checking, defense and penalty&#8208;killing &#8212; and overwhelmed them, 7&#8208;1, at The Forum.

Canadiens Turn Back Rangers, 7‐1

'73 NYRA season ends on Dec 29 at Aqueduct; R Turcotte wins jockey champ; P Martin wins trainers champ; attendance for season was 6,483,112 and total handle was $723,107,380

Big A's Farewell Is a Blast.

comment on effects of oil shortage in US; US officials say gas will be cut 20% in 2 wks; chart showing what a US refinery does with a barrel of crude oil

U.S. Officials Say Gas Will Be Cut 20% in 2 Weeks

NJ Lottery Comm plans to introduce new form of lottery patterned after numbers racket to spur lagging sales and cut into profits in illegal gambling; plan would be based on 3-digit number, with bettors choosing their own combinations; comm dir R F Batch and chmn T F Maggio comment

JERSEY PLANNING 3‐DIGIT LOTTERY

Pres Nixon on Dec 29 signs health bill that experts in his Adm expect to have major impact on med care; Adm's top officials say new law should help shift emphasis of Amer med care to prevention of illness, focus considered more desirable, efficient and economical than present emphasis on treatment of illness; Nixon statement calls law response to challenge of finding new ways and better ways to improve health care; new law is called Health Maintenance Orgn Act of '73; authorizes spending of $375-million during next 5 yrs to help estab and evaluate such orgns in communities throughout US; concept is arrangement in which subscribers pay predetermined flat fee monthly or yrly and, in return, are entitled to basic health care services as they need them; HEW Dept Sec Weinberger says new law will enable Adm to test and demonstrate concept of HMO under widely various circumstances in all parts of US; grants, contracts and loan guarantees will be made available to plan, help estab and maintain orgns in their early periods of operation; Weinberger estimates that Fed spending under law will total about $30-million in fiscal '74 and probably $55- to $60-million in '75; HEW Asst Sec C C Edwards says there are presently 115 health maintenance orgns in US, 80 of them aided under other Fed programs; new law is compromise between Sen bill sponsored primarily by Sen Kennedy and HR bill drafted by Repr Rogers; final version is substantially closer to HR version; major concession to Sen bill is provision that makes Fed law override some state laws that have hampered, or even made impossible, estab of HMO's; law sets forth basic criteria for local orgns and minimum package of benefits and types of care they must provide to warrant getting Fed aid; also requires that any employer of more than 25 persons must offer Fed coverage as 1 alternative in any health ins package offered to employes; other provisions are designed to insure that concept will be adequately tested in rural and central city settings where many potential subscribers will be medically underprivileged; some $50-million of total authorization is to be devoted to research and evaluation programs to gauge how well orgns work; Weinberger illus

PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL FOR REFORM IN MEDICAL CARE

Gen F Franco on Dec 29 names 65-yr-old Interior Min C Arias Navarro as Premier to replace L Carrero Blanco, who was assassinated 9 days ago; Arias Navarro's loyalty to Franco, pol links with Franco regime and past govt experience noted; shortly before Arias Navarro's apptmt, Tribunal of Public Order extended prison terms for convicted labor organizers and priests involved in anti-Govt pol; organizers were charged with leading underground 'workers' commissions' that ct claimed were sponsored and directed by Communist party, which is outlawed in Spain; ct also charged that commissions sought 'change by force'; M Camacho Abad, who has already spent 5 yrs in jail for labor activities, and E Saborido Gafan were sentenced to 20 yrs in jail; other labor activists receiving long sentences named, including RC Priest Rev F Garcia Salve, who spent time in Zamora prison and participated in hunger strike there; 10 sentenced have become known as 'Carabanchel 10'; case sparked little demonstration because of fear caused by Carrero Blanco's assassination; Carrero Blanco's assassination has been attributed to Basque nationalists known as ETA; group has claimed responsibility for killing in statements and news confs held in France and has denied that 6 Basques arrested by Spanish police were involved; brief biog and career sketch of Arias Navarro notes that he was born on Dec 11, 1908; new Govt is expected to continue heavy pressure on French Govt to halt any use of French territory as 'springboard' for Basque territory; Arias Navarro por

Franco Names Premier With Police Background

R E Tomasson article on confusion and dismay causes by office bldgs that have 'Plaza' in addresses, rather than st on which they are located; PO officials comment; illus

The ‘Plaza’ in Addresses Is Causing Dismay

Mayor-elect A D Beame on Dec 29 announces apptmt of J R Erazo, 38-yr-old lawyer, to fill post that was to have gone to S Terry, who withdrew under pressure on Dec 27; Erazo, who is First Deputy City Admr under Deputy Mayor E A Morrison in Mayor Lindsay adm, will have title of special asst to Mayor and dir of special programs; his salary will be $39,500 a yr; Erazo, who is active in Puerto Rican community and Dem party, will work with neighborhood orgns and other special-interest groups; career sketch; por

Beame Names Erazo to Fill Terry Post

Brodsky, Joseph: Book Selected Poems, by J Brodsky, revd by A A Cohen; Brodsky illus

Selected Poems

Sun Bowl: Missouri defeats Auburn, 34-17, in Sun Bowl on Dec 29 in El Paso, Tex

3 Fumbles By Auburn Aid 34‐17 Victory

Gator Bowl: Texas Tech defeats Tennessee, 28-19, in Gator Bowl on Dec 29 in Jacksonville, Fla

Tennessee Bows, 28‐19, In Gator Bowl Battle

article discusses disinclination of business and indus to make legal or illegal pol contributions because of threat of exposure from new disclosure laws and consciousness of Watergate

Political Gifts By Business On the Wane

The Knicks were sharp and the Philadelphia 76ers, the last&#8208;place team in the over all National Basketball Association standings, looked like a team that had played its last five games on the road. The result yesterday at Madison Square Garden was hardly surprising. Before a capacity crowd of 19,694, the Knicks chose to win by only 20 points, 112&#8208;92.

Knicks Rout 76 ers At Garden, 112‐92

Short tempers, anger and even acts of violence flared yesterday as harried motorists in the metropolitan area drove about in search of hard&#8208;to&#8208;find gasoline.

Harried Drivers Lose Tempers

article on wealth of several Middle East states from oil and on progress it has brought; chart showing '73 GNP per capita of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Algeria, Libya and United Arab Emirates, all compared with US per capita GNP; drawing

Oil Has Carried the Sheiks Far Into the 20th Century

Manhattan defeats St John's, 74-65, to win Holiday Festival basketball tourn at Madison Sq Garden on Dec 29

Manhattan Downs St. John's For Festival Crown, 74‐65

article details possible impact on Western Eur of Persian Gulf producers' price increase and Arabs 10% production increase; discusses problems that oil-consuming nations face in attempting to pay for increase without feeding inflation liming consumer price rises; illus

Impact of Arabs' Oil Tactics

V Armat travel article on village of Annecy-le-Vieux, in Haute-Savoie of France, home of Paccard Foundry, which since 1796 has made over 80,000 bells and sent them all over globe; illus; drawing of 18th-century foundry

A French Village Rings In the New Year All Around The World

comment on increase in price of oil from 6 Persian Gulf states, which will be 470% when latest rise takes effect Jan 1, and difficulty industrialized nations will have in paying for it; map

Arab Oil

Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl: Houston defeats Tulane, 47-7, to win Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl on Dec 29 in Houston

Tulane Eleven Is Routed By Cougars, 47‐7

Authors League of Amer counsel I Karp says on Dec 29 that news of possible copyright action by USSR against A I Solzhenitsyn's book makes it imperative that US Cong act on Sen J L McClellan's bill to close what is very likely loophole in US law, permitting foreign govts to use US copyrights to suppress work of their dissident authors in US; McClellan, at league's request, introduced bill in Mar that would protect foreign dissident authors and US publishers from legal action by USSR or any other foreign govt in cases where dissident works are published in US; asked that bill be incorporated into omnibus bill revising US copyright laws; Sen Judiciary Com is expected to rept on bill early in '74

Soviet Is Silent on Action On Solzhenitsyn's Work

play Candide, adaptation of Voltaire's work, presented by Chelsea Theater Center, revd by W Kerr

Is This the Best Of All Possible Candides'?

US immigration aide S Marks repts immigration investigators in NYC have been put in charge of new countrywide effort to resolve long-dormant cases of suspected Nazi war criminals in US and are focusing on 38 persons; effort involves tentative steps toward official contacts with USSR in drive to collect evidence against some suspects; almost all cases concern postwar refugees from what was Nazi-occupied Soviet territory; one of persons under probe is Bishop V D Trifa of Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of Amer in Grass Lake, Mich; NY Times reptd Dec 26 that immigration authorities were reviewing his naturalization in '57 following new charges he falsely denied role in atrocities as an Iron Guard student leader in Fascist Rumania over 30 yrs ago; Trifa later issued statement repeating earlier denials of charges he had played role in violence against Jews and others; traced charges to Communist attempts to discredit him and said he was going to 'fight back'; Mark's statement, in an int, about stepped-up invvestigations came Dec 19, before publication of article about Trifa; Marks and 2 of his investigators dispute recent complaints by 2 former immigration employes who had prosecuted Govt's case against Mrs H B Ryan, wartime Nazi concentration camp guard; former employes said they had been hampered by superiors in their probe; investigator S Zutty says stepped up effort to resolve cases of suspected Nazi criminals began with 3 lists of 65 suspects compiled by Jewish orgns; one list, containing 59 names, was same one given to late US Atty R Morse in Aug during Ryan case; Zutty says probers found that 9 of 65 suspects had died, 17 could not be traced and 1 left country; some persons already identified in press as targets of probe are B Maikovskis and K Linas; also under probe are brothers S and M Kowalczuk; deceased persons on list include Roman Cath priest L Jankauskas (later Jankus); wife of another man on list, Antonas Ludvikus Impulevicus (later Anatas L Impolenas) says he died 3 yrs ago; C Antonovici, who gave an eyewitness account of Trifa as a student leader haranguing a crowd in Bucharest just before '41 uprising, says he had not himself been a member of Iron Guard, as was reptd; one of difficulties in prosecuting such cases is that US does not recognize sentences imposed in absentia, nor is there a treaty of extradition between US and USSR; Marks says new channels are opening up between US and USSR and that US has asked USSR for sworn depositons; neither he, Zutty nor H Wagner, dist chief of investigation, could recall previous instances of such cooperation; officials stress difficulty of legal action against people under probe; deny any suggestion that prosecution of suspected war criminals in US had been slowed by pol pressures from Washington; such complaints were made recently by V A Schiano and A J DeVito, former immigration aides

U.S. Opens New Drive on Former Nazis

It is not for me to tell the reader but for the reader to tell me just what there was to the notorious &#8220;riddle of the Moscow trials of the thirties.&#8221;

‘The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956’ Solzhenitsyn on Purge Trials of the 30's

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Ato Jabari Boldon is a Trinidadian former track and field athlete, politician, and four-time Olympic medal winner. He holds the Trinidad and Tobago national record in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64, 6.49 and 19.77 seconds respectively, and also the Commonwealth Games record in the 100 m. He also held the 100 m national record at 9.86 s, having run it four times until Richard Thompson ran 9.85 s on 13 August 2011.

December 30, 1973

Headlines from December 30, 1973

NIXON AIDE HINTS NEED FOR AGENCY TO PLAN ECONOMY

Canadiens Turn Back Rangers, 7‐1

Big A's Farewell Is a Blast.

U.S. Officials Say Gas Will Be Cut 20% in 2 Weeks

JERSEY PLANNING 3‐DIGIT LOTTERY

Billboard 200

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The Singles 1969-1973

The Joker

Jonathan Livingston Seagull/soundtrack

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 30, 1973