illus with Israeli Min Eban and US Amb Kenneth B Keating in Jerusalem

KISSINGER MEETS SYRIAN PRESIDENT AND NOTES GAINS

If you are more than 15 years old&#8212;and less than 24&#8212;there's $50 waiting for you in Amsterdam after June 1, but you have to answer a few questions.

Airlines and Agents Aim To Foil Youth Fare Ban

NEWS INDEX

Franklin Natl Bank chmn and chief exec Harold V Gleason discloses that since Mar 31 bank has sustained losses of $14-million and possible additional $25-million in its foreign-currency trading because of employe in bank's foreign currency exch dept operating 'beyond his authority and without the bank's knowledge' (S)

Franklin National Moves To Assure Its Liquidity

US Govt is faced with agonizing decision on whether to give away more food to nations approaching starvation at risk of starting new food price surge in US; US Agr Sec Butz believes dilemma is imminent because of enormous Amer harvest in prospect for '74; holds that larger crops will enable food aid without any important impact on domestic food prices (M)

Foreign Appeals for Food Raise Price Specter Here

Federal investigators believe someone last week drugged Assistant United States Attorney Peter R. Schlam, the chief prosecutor at the extortion &#8212; conspiracy trial of a Long Island Congressman, and the prosecutor has been placed in protective custody by United States marshals at an undisclosed location, Page 62.

Prosecutor Guarded

NYS Controller Arthur Levitt says on May 12 that he has verified need for immediate relief for Con Ed; statement, 1st ind confirmation of co's contention that it is in danger of bankruptcy, is aimed at breaking legis logjam on bill that would allow State Power Auth to purchase 2 Con Ed plants for $500-million; many legislators, especially NYC Democrats, are reluctant in an election to help co that has been squeezing voters with ever higher elec rates; bill currently before Legis would allow Levitt to conduct full audit of corp prior to public hearing by Power Auth on proposed state purchase; Con Ed chmn Charles F Luce estimates that without state aid, a 25% elec rate increase, in addition to 29% increase pending before PSC, or some other extraordinary measure would be needed; says co would seek aid from Fed Govt if NYS refuses; co sources have warned against any delay in aid, asserting that utility has already exhausted $200-million of $350-million line of short-term credit with its bankers and that bankers are unwilling to extend any more credit without guarantee of state aid (M)

LEVITT CONFIRMS CON EDISON NEEDS ‘IMMEDIATE’ HELP

Newark, NJ, mayoral contest, in contrast to racially polarized campaign 4 yrs ago, winds down in mood of low-key amity among candidates; issues in nonpartisan election are broad and general: crime rate, tax structure and, most of all, personalities of 2 major antagonists, incumbent Mayor Kenneth A Gibson and State Sen Anthony J Imperiale; other candidates are Lewis B Perkins Jr, Raymond P Stabile and James Rotonda (M)

RACE ISSUE MUTED IN NEWARK VOTE

article on US energy goals notes that US Apr 4 announcement that it would expand econ cooperation with Saudi Arabia and sell it more arms is seen as attempt to secure oil (S)

U.S. Energy Goals Are Still Far Off As Supplies Rise

Pres Nixon reptdly enjoyed being center of controversy when he spoke at univ on May 11 (S)

Nixon Seems Determined. To Resist Calls to Resign

Article on Soviet presence in Middle East discusses Soviet econ and mil aid to Iraq (M)

Russians Underlining Their Intention To Maintain Their Assets in Mideast

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

W Ger Govt repts that Soviet agents bugged W Ger coding machine that Foreign Min Walter Scheel took to Moscow during negotiations for Soviet-W Ger treaty in June '70; Gers did not use machine, which would have transmitted all their secret messages uncoded to Moscow (M)

Bonn Says It Found a Soviet Bug in 1970

Itals turn out in strength on May 12 during 1st day of 2-day referendum on divorce that will probably be decided by women, who exceed men as enfranchised voters by 1,715,000; Pope Paul VI says on May 12 that he will not break official silence on issue but exhorts crowd in St Peter's Sq to pray for well-being of family; far-reaching pol consequences expected from vote; campaign for referendum has paralyzed much of Govt activity during past 2 mos; many priests tell congregations during mass to vote against divorce; most of leading journals are defending divorce law; illus of RC nuns at polling station in Rome (M)

Italians Voting to Keep or Ban Divorce

E Ger Communist party leader Erich Honecker stresses his country's close ties and 'complete unanimity' with USSR, apparently to quash repts of falling-out between countries over resignation of W Ger Chancellor Willy Brandt; Soviet leaders are reptdly upset over departure of Brandt, with whom party leader Brezhnev had established personal relationship; Honecker, speaking in Dresden at rally in hon of E Ger-Soviet Friendship Soc, notes that postwar settlements had been concluded with W Ger by Moscow, Warsaw, Prague and E Berlin (M)

East German Leader Insists Ties With Moscow Are Unimpaired

Soviet Culture Min Yekaterina A Furtseva, politically most prominent woman in USSR, has apparently been passed over for renomination to Supreme Soviet; Western diplomats believe that if Furtseva has been dropped, it could signal impending demotion from ministerial rank; Sovetskaya Moldavia on May 9 published electoral list showing Odessa mil dist Comdr Ivan M Voloshin as nominee for Triaspol Dist, which was represented for last 4 yrs by Furtseva; Furtseva has not appeared on other electoral dist lists, prompting speculation on her future; one recurring rept is that her husband Deputy Foreign Min Nikolai P Firyubin is slated to be named UN chief delegate to replace Yakov A Malik and that Furtseva would accompany him; another theory is that party leadership may simply want new person-in charge of culture; party leadership repeatedly has expressed dissatisfaction with liberal and unorthodox tendencies, but has also complained about dull, uninteresting fare offered by bulk of orthodox writers, poets, critics, composers and artists; Furtseva was outspoken critic of dissident writer Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn, but lately she has favored increasing exchs with West (M)

Miss Furtseva Off a Soviet List; Questions Raised on Her Future

Soviet underground newsletter Chronicle of Current Events has been revived 18 mos after crackdown by secret police forced it to halt publication; recent appearance of 3 successive issues is taken as indication that some dissidents have resolved to reassert themselves in organized fashion despite expulsion of Solzhenitsyn in Feb and scattering of other prominent dissidents through emigration or prosecution by Soviet authorities; by Oct '72 issue of Chronicle, its last, pub was already target of vigorous crackdown by KGB; toward to 28th issue confirmed that publication and distribution had been stopped because of alleged threats to KGB; 28th, 29th and 30th issues of newslr, made available to Western newsmen on May 12 recapitulate what has occurred since last issue beginning with death of poet Yuri Galanskov on Nov 2, '72 and continuing up to last Dec; 1 prominent dissident confirms that new issues are genuine but there is no indication whether it will continue to appear every 2 mos

Dissident Periodical Is Revived in Soviet

Rabin is expected to complete negotiations this wk on formation of new coalition govt consisting of Labor party, 4-seat Ind Liberal party and 3-seat Civil Rights Movement that would give him narrow majority, with 61 seats in 120-seat Parliament; Information Min Shimon Peres is widely regarded as leading candidate to succeed Moshe Dayan as Defense Min; Dayan is not expected to serve in new govt; Rabin is not expected to take over from Premier Meir until Israeli-Syrian troop-separation negotiations conducted by Sec Kissinger are completed (M)

ISRAELI COALITION LIKELY THIS WEEK

Public opinion poll taken by Sofres and published in May 13 edition of Paris daily Figaro shows French pres condender Valery Giscard d'Estaing leading with 51.5% of votes against 48.5% for Francois Mitterrand; poll, first since May 11 TV debate between Giscard d'Estaing and Francois Mitterrand, was taken on May 12 among 1,200 people (S)

Poll After TV Debate Gives Lead to Giscard

ATHENS, May 12&#8212;(Reuters)&#8212;Former Vice President Agnew arrived here today for a private visit to Greece.

Agnew Visits Greece; Bars Telephone Calls

scientists and Govt reprs attending 4-day conf agree that UN should be focal point for 'bold new programs' to deal with energy crisis; seek to insure that minimum standards of consumption for world's poorer countries and reduce overconsumption in affluent societies; call for increased econ aid from indus nations, notably US and Japan, to help developing nations meet higher oil costs; emphasize need for developing alternatives to oil; OPEC sec gen Abderrahman Khene pledges at least 1% of GNP's of oil producers to help poorer non-oil-producing nations; meeting was sponsored by Aspen Inst for Humanistic Studies, Overseas Development Bouncil, Kettering Foundation and Inst of Man and Science; attracted reprs of 40 nations (M)

FOOD‐ENERGY TASK FOR U.N. IS URGED

Bombay faces econ stangulation as result of rr strike; all business activity has virtually ceased; 20 businessmen, after meeting, issue statement saying that if Govt does not settle strike soon econ will suffer 'irreparable damage'; cite shortages (M)

RAIL STRIKE CUTS BOMBAY BUSINESS

Article describing effects Apr 25 mil coup in Portugal is having on small farming village of Gloria de Ribatejo, where illiterate farmers unknowingly often voted in favor of Govt (L)

Village in Portugal Feels Coup Impact

Gen Francisco de Costa Gomes expresses optimism about Portugal's ability to keep Angola and Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau), May 12 news conf, Nampula (Mozambique) (S)

GENERAL IS GRIM ON MOZAMBIQUE

Saigon cafe, Givral, known to newsmen, politicians and under-cover policemen as a rumor mill, is reptdly closing; examples of rumors originating in Givral cited (M)

Rumor Has It Saigon Rumor Mill Is Closing

Jaime Mario Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. He was the second Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1952.

May 13, 1974

Headlines from May 13, 1974

KISSINGER MEETS SYRIAN PRESIDENT AND NOTES GAINS

Airlines and Agents Aim To Foil Youth Fare Ban

NEWS INDEX

Franklin National Moves To Assure Its Liquidity

Foreign Appeals for Food Raise Price Specter Here

Billboard 200

The Sting

Buddha And The Chocolate Box

John Denver's Greatest Hits

Maria Muldaur

Chicago VII

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 13, 1974