June 24, 1974

 

4 armed youths invade Mead Hall, Bridgeport, Conn, juvenile detention center, on June 23 and flee with 3 boys and 2 girls after shooting matron and locking 2 guards in cells; Nelson Milieu, 18, and Felix Garcia, 18, are later caught and charged with attempted murder, escape and car theft; similar breakout at inst last yr involving Millett recalled (M)

VIENNA, June 23—Rudolf Kirchschläger, a lawyer and diplomat who has been his country's Foreign Minister since 1970, was elected President of Austria today to succeed Franz Jonas, who died. April 24.

NASA will undertake concerted series of rocket shots on June 24, 3d in ALADDIN (Atmospheric Layer and Density Distribution of Ions and Neutrals) series of launchings designed to explore 'no-man's region' of atmosphere that is too high for study with balloons and too low to be monitored with earth satellites; launchings, which will last for 24 hrs, will involve firing of 54 rockets from Wallops Is, Va, which cause brilliant trails in sky, visible from Boston to Fla and as far inland as Middle West; scientists hope launchings will provide information on little understood atmospheric phenomena within region of atmosphere where 'super-rotation' of atmosphere occurs and where gaseous outer envelope of earth blows eastward faster than earth's own rotation; rockets will probe region in which horizontal sheet current of electricity flows with considerable intensity, concentrated within layer about 3 miles thick approximately 70 mi from surface of earth; research will be conducted in area in which ozone filters out most lethal ultraviolet wave lengths of sunlight, making earth habitable for creatures that live on land without protection of water (L)

article on profiteering in food in Cambodia brought about by mil siege of her major cities; merchants reptdly make profits of $10,000 a day by flying scarce staples from agr areas, over insurgent-held territory and into Phnom Penh, where many families spend their entire incomes to feed themselves; 16 private airlines engaged in food transport jam Phnom Penh airport, turning tarmac into busy truck terminal and marketplace; US and Taiwanese pilots flock into Cambodia; situation produces ingenious systems of cheating and corruption, including overloading planes by tampering with scales or by paying off pilots to carry extra few hundred pounds; food merchants are almost all ethnic Chinese; their use of shortages to drive up prices stirs latent anti-Chinese bigotry; food airlift made possible by US, which buys all aviation fuel with dollars, sells it to private distributors for riels and turns riels over to Cambodian Govt; plane loaded with food illus (L)