February 10, 1975

Survey of civilian police rev bds in US, which were product of urban strife of 1960's, finds most have faded from pub attention and drifted into gen ineffectiveness; once envisioned as effective means of curbing police prejudice and other abuses, they now serve only as advisory bodies with little, if any, power to discipline any of 400,000 police in nation; cities that have had rev bds since ′48 noted; make‐up and operations of bds in various cities discussed (L)

NYC taxicab driver Harry Weiss fails to dissuade Louis Capobianco Jr from leaping off Verrazano Narrows Bridge; Weiss had locked Capobianco in taxi after he had informed him that he was going to commit suicide but Capobianco escaped when cab was struck from behind by another car (M)

MOSCOW, Feb. 9—The twoman crew of the Soyuz 17 returned to earth today after spending 30 days in space, a record for Soviet astronauts.

Former NYC Robert F Wagner and former Investigation Comr Louis I Kaplan to testify next wk before Temporary State Comm on Living Costs on Kaplan's ′60 rept that accused city's nursing home indus of massive frauds and abuse of the elderly; Wagner promised to send rept to Dist Atty's office but it was never recd there; there were no prosecutions for fraud and indus was instead granted major increase in welfare payments; Kaplan investigations and findings described (L)

Former US CIA Dir Richard Helms says there is ‘no doubt’ that in ′70 Nixon Adm wanted to have Chilean Pres Salvador Allende Gossens overthrown, Jan 22 testimony to Sen Foreign Relations Com released Feb 9; testimony contradicts sworn testimony and public statements by many former US officials; Helms testified there was a ‘very secret probe’ made to find out if there was a force in Chile that would overthrow Allende; former Amb to Chile Edward M Korry, in phone int, says CIA was asked in late Sept ′70 ‘to find out if there was any real resistance to Allende’; Helms conceded he had erred in withholding information about extent of CIA's covert operations against Allende; Helms, during his confirmation hearings, denied that CIA had sought to overthrow Allende, or had passed funds to Allende's opponents; former CIA Dir William E Colby told an HR com in Apr ′74 that Nixon Adm had authorized more than $8‐million for clandestine activities in Chile between ′70‐73 in effort to make it impossible for Allende to govern; Helms defended his earlier testimony by telling Sen com that money authorized for Chile 'went into civic action groups, supporting newspapers, radios, and so forth; NY Times on Sept 19, ′74 quoted intelligences source as saying that CIA funds were secretly funneled to striking labor unions and trade groups for more than 18 mos before Allende's overthrow; illus of anti‐Amer sign in Chile during Allende regime (L)