August 2, 1974

2,000 subway riders flee from Wall St IRT Lexington Av station after elec fire breaks out in feeder cable leading to 3d rail; 28 persons are treated for smoke inhalation but no one is seriously injured; service on line is shut off between Bklyn Bridge and Nevin St stops for several hrs; some passengers and witnesses describe scene; illus of passenger being treated for smoke inhalation (L)

Mentally disturbed convicts released almost routinely by Matteawan State Hosp to other state insts which discharge many into communities for rehabilitation; other Matteawan patients charged with crimes who have not yet been tried because of mental incompetency are sent to state mental insts for custodial and psychiatric care; these insts have inadequate security facilities; new transfer policy is result of recent ct rulings and law passed by state legis last session that orders Matteawan to release to state mental insts any persons awaiting trial by end of '75; NY Times probe reveals that man who committed homicide and was sent from Matteawan to Creedmoor State Hosp escaped last mo, was picked up by police and is back at Creedmoor; program of moving patients out of insts and into communities has drastically reduced number of patients in insts on theory that rehabilitation is more feasible with neighborhood after-care programs; NYS Mental Hygiene Comr Dr Alan D Miller contends that inmates have often been held unnecessarily long in mental insts; critics of program assert that patients get little follow-up care after release; Creedmoor dir Dr William L Werner comments (M)

UN Security Council adopts resolution that enables UN peace-keeping force on Cyprus to assume expanded duties under Geneva agreements; USSR and Byelorussia abstain while China disassociates itself from vote; US delegate John A Scali praises resolution and says Council has acted to maintain and encourage momentum toward peace; Cypriote delegate Zenon Rossides and Sec Gen Waldheim hail resolution; Waldheim repts that Turkish authorities agreed on maintenance of UN force's presence in area of Cyprus under Turkish control; Soviet delegate Yakov A Malik does not mention Turkish advances but says it is urgent question of whether Cyprus is to continue to exist as ind sovereign state; denounces what he calls cynical bargaining carried on to enhance NATO position in Eastern Mediterranean; calls for withdrawal of all foreign forces from island and decries aspects of Geneva declaration, including provisions for security zones that UN force is to help set up; diplomats critical of USSR, commenting of Malik's veto of similar resolution on July 31, say he acted in part out of personal pique when his requests for postponement of vote were ignored by other Council members; diplomats sympathetic toward Malik say he apparently acted out of anxiety about independence of Cyprus; Cypriote official reptdly asked Malik not to cast another veto because of concern over continued repts of fighting on island (L)

Article on CIA role in Greece notes top Nixon Adm officials have instructed CIA not to interfere in internal affairs of Greece or to play favorites among Greek politicians; says orders reflect current thinking of US Sec Henry A Kissinger and CIA Dir William E Colby; says conversations with US and Greek officials reveal that until last few wks of Greek mil regime, US operatives remained quite close to men in power in Greece; notes CIA is said to have maintained 60 full-time operatives in Greece and that some had been there 15 yrs or longer; notes agency had close contact with George Papadopoulos and Brig Gen Dimitrios Ioannides and that Papadopoulos was among many Greek pol and mil leaders who received personal subsidies over many yrs from CIA; says CIA stopped its subsidies for Greek pol figures about 2 yrs ago; says operative closest to Ioannides was Peter Koromilas; describes former agency chief James M Potts as having been on close terms throughout his stay in Greece with Papadopoulos; lists alleged involvement of CIA officials John M Maury, Laughlin A Campbell, Stavis Milton, and Thomas H Karamessines; says CIA helped King Constantine 'buy' Center Union Deputies so that George Papandreou was toppled; charges CIA used Andreas Papandreou as agent and supported him; notes CIA used enterprises of Thomas A Pappas as cover for its operations in Greece; notes CIA spokesman, asked to comment on allegations, said that CIA agents follow orders approved at highest level in Washington (L)

Leadership of HR decides on Aug 1 to allow gavel-to-gavel TV coverage of impeachment debate of Pres Nixon through final vote at end of Aug