July 1, 1974

Suffocating smoke from flash fire traps and kills 24 panic-stricken young patrons and employes of Gulliver's, Port Chester, NY, singles bar and restaurant astride NY-Conn border, June 30; 19 patrons and 13 firemen are injured; Westchester County Exec Alfred Del Bello calls fire 'one of worst tragedies in history of county'; Dist Atty Carl Vergari promises full inquiry into operation of bar and cause of fire; United and Greenwich Hosps treat injured; patrons comment; parents of unidentified victims comment; fire scenes illus; map showing location of bar; schematic drawing of bar's interior (M)

NY Times survey of US econ in midyr finds business economists by and large applaud Fed Reserve's restrictive monetary policy of letting interest rates climb to records (S)

Mikhail Barishnikov, leading male dancer of Kirov Ballet, Leningrad, defects while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto; witnesses rept Barishnikov broke away from other members of Bolshoi who were about to enter bus, following reception after final performance in Toronto, and entered waiting car, apparently assisted by Canadian police; car left for undisclosed destination; friends of Barishnikov send anonymous statement explaining dancer left to 'proceed with career in West', and was accompanied by Christina Berlin, daughter of Amer exec Richard Berlin, Hearst Corp pres; Barishnikov por; earlier defections of dancers Natalya Makarova and Rudolf Nureyev noted

Nixon and Brezhnev talk for over 4 hrs June 30 at Brezhnev's villa in Oreanda on Black Sea; both sides say later little progress is made on crucial issue of limitation of offensive nuclear arms; 2 leaders take 2-hr cruise on Soviet Navy yacht; Brezhnev, on Soviet TV, says talks are 'going normally'; Ronald L Ziegler and Leonid M Zamyatin hold news briefing; Nixon to make statement to Amers when his plane refuels at Loring Air Force Base, Caribou, Me; to fly from there direct to Key Biscayne, Fla, for long July 4 weekend without stopping in Washington; illus with Brezhnev at latter's villa (L)

King, Martin Luther Sr (Mrs)