January 7, 1975

Mayor Beame repts NYC will meet deadline for submitting application for new rounds of federally financed public service jobs; city's allocation for jobs, under recently enacted Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act, will be $46.7‐million; this would mean about 6,000 jobs at avg salary of $7,800; new law is amendment to Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of '73, which has become issue in controversy over whether jobs it provides can be filled by city employes laid off in Beame's austerity drive; Sen Jacob K Javits, who was sponsor of act, calls for Cong hearing to 'redefine legis purpose of Cong' with respect to law; asserts original law was not to be used to fill positions vacated in course of munic layoffs by re‐employing same people; Repr Herman Badillo contends munic rehirings have been permitted under law all along; terms request for hearings 'dumb' (M)

Sen Sparkman, acting chmn of Sen Foreign Relations Com, releases lr to CIA Dir Colby telling CIA to heed new legis calling for immediate stop to most foreign CIA operations not solely aimed at gathering of intelligence; legis, signed by Pres on Dec 30, permits non‐intelligence operations only if Pres finds they are important to natl security; Pres, upon making that determination, must rept to appropriate Cong coms; CIA also required to rept on its activities, giving Sen Foreign Relations Com and HR Foreign Affairs Com their 1st jurisdiction over its affairs (M)

NJ State Sen votes Jan 6 to set up joint legis com to investigate NJ's nursing home indus; Sen John J Fay, who sponsored resolution, expects Assembly to approve it Jan 13; resolution was inspired by recent investigation in NY, which revealed extent of Bernard Bergman syndicate of nursing homes in NJ; Bergman's involvement in NJ since '60 revd (M)

Portuguese Govt opens diplomatic relations with Peking Govt as only legitimate repr of Chinese people; future status of Macao, Portuguese territory on southern coast of China, is subject of negotiations (S)

Gov Carey to recommend Morris A Abram, former Brandeis Univ pres, as special prosecutor to investigate nursing home indus; to designate Moreland Act comr who will conduct long‐range study looking toward remedial legis governing Medicaid‐financed indus; Atty Gen Lefkowitz will actually appt special prosecutor but has agreed to accept Carey's recommendation; Assemblyman Stein presents to Dist Atty Robert M Morgenthau what he describes as indications 'of possible criminal nature' arising from his investigation; Carey suggests at news conf that Stein, head of Temporary State Comm on Living Costs, rept any obstruction by Assemblyman Stanley Steingut to appropriate Dist Atty; Abram illus (M)