December 2, 1974

11 teen-aged members of Bronx gang are arrested and charged with robbing at least 60 subway change booths of about $60,000 over last 2 mos, averaging about $1,000 a day since Oct 1; 2 youths, who describe themselves as members of the Black Hoods, are charged with attempted murder 2 wks ago of 2 detectives who had staked out IRT subway booth in South Bronx; 7 of arrested boys are 15 yrs old; suspects listed; Detectives Edward Clair and John Clinton comment (M)

int with former Israeli Premier Golda Meir; 6 mos out of office, Meir remains nearly as active as she was as Premier; with several speaking engagements a wk, visits around country and meetings with visiting dignitaries, she is more in limelight than out of it; politically, she is active only within internal councils of Labor party; she has avoided criticism or discussion of policies of her successor, Yitzhak Rabin, and has shied away from rending natl debate over security issues; Meir illus (L)

Sources say high-level Iranian-US talks were held recently in Washington on offer by Shah of Iran to pay for reopening of Lockheed Aircraft Corp's C-5A production line and to buy 10 of mil cargo planes; main obstacle is study by Ford Adm of broad strategic implications of furnishing C-5As to Middle East (M)

6 persons are slightly injured when Franklin Av subway train derails at site of '18 Malbone St wreck in Bklyn, where 97 people were killed in city's worst subway disaster; Fire Dept helps to extricate passengers; Transit Auth says 'derailment com' is investigating accident; says derailment may have occurred after train went over switch about 100 yds from station; injured Transit Auth worker Harold Harrison and some other passengers comment; illus of transit workers at site of derailment; map

NY Times survey finds crime has stabilized or decreased in many of NYC's most dangerous neighborhoods in last 6 yrs, but rate of serious felonies rose in all other pcts; survey, made with statistical assistance from NYC-Rand Inst and based on police data, analyzes felony categories of murder, rape, robbery and burglary; robberies have declined in high-crime areas of Harlem, S Bronx, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville; sharp felony increases are evident in middle-class neighborhoods in all boros; citywide decrease of 14% in burglaries is reptd, with drop of 32% in Manhattan, 17% in Bklyn and 8% in Bronx; levelling-off of crime on Upper W Side is noted, but there is marked increase in crime in Washington Hgts and Inwood; steep increase in rapes is apparent; small decline in number of murders noted; NYC Police Comr Codd cites anticrime unite in civilian dress and special robbery squads as possible reasons for crime drop; police officials credit more stake-outs, private guards, anticrime unite, vertical patrols in apt bldgs and fewer heroin addicts in improvement on Upper W Side; fears deepening recession could ignite more crime in slum secs as unemployment increases; boro statistics discussed; NYC police pct map, pct by pct crime index table and boro crime index