March 6, 1975

article on career and death of Bio-Med Sciences founder and pres Berel Weinstein, who invented disposable thermometer; thermometer, despite enormous interests and investments, never worked satisfactorily (L)

Treasury Secretary Simon criticized the House‐passed tax cut bill, arguing that it should give more relief to persons earning over $10,000 a year. Page 27.

article on career and death of Bio-Med Sciences founder and pres Berel Weinstein, who invented disposable thermometer; thermometer, despite enormous interests and investments, never worked satisfactorily (L)

The Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, which lends primarily to blue‐chip corporations, yesterday reduced its prime rate on loans onehalf percentage point to 7¾ per cent, the lowest level since July, 1973. Page 55.

US Defense Sec James R Schlesinger says US will have to reassess current emergency airlift of mil supplies into Cambodia if Cambodian Govt is unable to provide adequate protection for Phnom Penh airport; comments were made shortly after Defense Dept-chartered DC-8 transport carrying rice was hit by shrapnel from gunfire directed by Communist-led insurgents at Pochentong Airport; flights were halted for few remaining hrs of daylight after incident; privately, dept officials are expressing dismay and discouragement at unwillingness or inability of Cambodian Govt troops to push insurgents out of artillery and rocket range of airport; Schlesinger publicly continues to describe Cambodian situation as 'grim but not hopeless'; pessimism reptdly is growing over whether Govt forces will be able to hold Phnom Penh against encircling insurgent troops; US helicopter carrier Okinawa with about 800 marines aboard reptdly is stationed in Gulf of Thailand in event evacuation of 400 Amer civilians still in Cambodia is deemed necessary; carrier's presence has aroused suspicions among some US Cong members, including Sen Mike Mansfield, that Adm is looking for pretext, such as wounding of Amer citizen, to send in marine detachment as symbolic support for Lon Nol Govt; dept officials say marines will be used only as last resort and preferred evacuation method will be civilian airplane; dept officials confirm that marine unit on Okinawa has been alerted for possible evacuation duty; spokesman is unable to explain why marines on Okinawa will be needed in addition to battalion aboard helicopter carrier; Adm officials reptdly are discussing possible compromise with Cong subcoms on additional mil aid to Cambodia that will not require Cong to vote directly for extra funds; US Sec of State Kissinger reptdly is willing to accept Cong action lifting present $200-million ceiling on mil aid to country and permitting Defense Dept to shift $50- to $75-million in existing funds to Cambodia; Sen Hubert H Humphrey, Sen Foreign Aid Subcom chmn, says there is 'slim possibility' that Cong may accept compromise measure; Pres Ford and Kissinger reptdly met with Cong delegation that visited S Vietnam and Cambodia recently; delegation member Repr Paul N McCloskey quoted Kissinger as saying that there is 'little hope for negotiated Cambodian settlement because 'US must negotiate from strength and there is no strength' (M)

Mar 6: Arab terrorists in 2 small fishing boats storm ashore in Tel Aviv before midnight Mar 5, fire on cars and Israeli patrol near beach and then seize seedy Savoy Hotel and hostages; Israeli forces retake hotel at 5:30 in morning after rejecting terrorist demands; both Israelis and terrorists set blasts, blowing away top 2 floors of hotel; 6 terrorists reptdly are killed, with possibility that more bodies will be found in rubble; 1 of hostages is killed, 6 wounded; Israelis say some of hostages were killed by terrorist blasts; Defense Min Shimon Peres and C/ S Lt Gen Mordechai Gur direct operations on scene; all available ambulances are called to site before Israelis open attack; terrorists are assumed to have come from Lebanon; map; illus (M)

Sen votes, 73-12, to limit debate on motion to bring up anti-filibuster rules change; Sen J B Allen's filibuster to prevent rules change revd; Sens Allen, W F Mondale, S Thurmond, J C Stennis comment (M)

NY Daily News on Mar 5 reaches tentative agreement with leaders of striking deliverers union and resumes publication; cancels staff furloughs after settlement is announced; 1st 2 editions of Mar 6 paper are not published because presses started late; impartial arbitrator Herbert L Haber says agreement will provide News with economies it seeks; union pres Carl Levy repts that News, in attempting to institute new work schedules, had predicted that no deliverer would lose more than 3 1/2 hrs of overtime, but men feared they would lose more; News labor relations dir H J Kracke comments; Levy says that News will go back to ct and attempt to have fine set aside in view of deliverers return to work; News had already obtained another show-cause order citing union for contempt for its failure to comply with preliminary injunction signed by Justice Korn; order, signed by Justice Nathaniel T Helman, is returnable on March 6; officials of other unions angered by deliverers' action (M)

Cambodian insurgent rebels heavily shell Pochentong Airport in Phnom Penh and use artillery as well as less accurate rockets for 1st time since offensive started on Jan 1; actions reptdly disrupt airport operations; Amer airlift of rice and mil cargoes continues despite shelling; 1 Amer DC-8 reptdly was slightly damaged by rocket fire; in another incident, pilot returned to Thailand with cargo without landing after shell exploded nearby; 1 person reptd killed in airport incidents; insurgent use of captured Amer-made 105-mm guns emplaced northwest of airport raises concern at US Embassy and Cambodian commands; flights are disrupted in domestic part of airport; internatl flights are being maintained by Air Cambodge; Mar 5 flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penh and Singapore was cancelled because of shelling but plane took off from Bangkok and landed in Phnom Penh amid shelling apparently because crew was not notified of cancellation; 1,000 rockets have fallen on Phnom Penh and in airport area since start of offensive and more than 150 persons have been killed, with nearly 600 wounded; Neak Luong, besieged Mekong River town 38 miles from capital, has come under increased pressure as Govt troops lost several posts they had been clinging to on west bank of river opposite town (M)

NYS Gov Carey says that he is studying plan that would enable employes who, because of agreement between mgt and labor, work fewer days or hrs at reduced wages so that more workers can stay on job, to be eligible for partial unemployment ins benefits, speech, NYS AFL-CIO annual legis conf (S)

WASHINGTON, March 5 —President Ford, taking another step to alleviate high unemployment, called today for the expenditure of more than $2‐billion above his budget for public service jobs.

NY Times survey of health and safety violations in NYC's private hosps; says NYS Health Dept, which took over job of regulating private, profit-making hosps from NYC in '73, has found thousands of sanitary and safety violations but says it is easier to find such infractions than to force their correction; says agency's ability to oversee conditions has been further weakened by diversion of its manpower to assist in investigations of nursing home indus; Dr Richard Nauen, Health Dept Assoc Comr in charge of NYC affairs, says there are not enough lawyers to begin 2-5 yr ct battle it takes to close a hosp; Raymond Tobia, dept's Assoc Dir of hosp div, says cts are sympathetic to operators of private hosps; David Ross, city's Adm Judge of Sup Ct, says judges are reluctant to allow closing of hosp if they are unsure that less drastic remedies have been fully exhausted; Andrew Krieger, dept's asst dir for NYC affairs, says deadlines to correct violations are not stringent