March 12, 1975

Sen Foreign Relations Subcom approves, 4-3, compromise measure backed by Ford Adm to provide $125-million in additional mil aid to Cambodia; HR Foreign Affairs Subcom split 3-3 on proposal to provide $45-million per mo in emergency mil aid to Cambodia; approval of HR measure would provide that each monthly installment would be dependent upon Presidential certification that good-faith efforts are being made to achieve negotiated settlement in country; original Ford Adm request had been for $222-million; Dem and Repub party leaders express strong doubts that measures will pass in Sen and HR; Sen subcom action came after chmn Sen Hubert H Humphrey had gone into closed-door session confident that even compromise would be defeated; subcom members say Sen Jacob K Javits swung vote; Javits reptdly had been wavering; said he believed further aid was 'more likely course to bring about an orderly transition of Govt'; compromise wili permit Pentagon to transfer ammunition and mil supplies to Cambodia from existing stockpiles; has advantage of not requiring Cong to vote directly on matter; Sens Clifford P Case, Gale McGee and Hugh Scott voted with Javits in favor ot measure; Sens Humphrey, Frank Church and George McGovern voted against measure; Dem party leaders reptdly will meet in special caucus Mar 12 to consider resolution by Repr Bob Carr opposing further mil assistance to Cambodia or S Vietnam; freshman Dems expect that Repr Thomas P O'Neill will oppose further mil aid but will move to send resolution to HR Dem Policy and Steering Com for consideration; Reprs Lee H Hamilton, Larry Winn and L H Fountain voted in favor of HR version of measure, while Reprs Don Bonker, Pierre S du Pont and Michael J Harrington voted against; Repr Gus Yatron did not vote on measure; has backed further mil aid in past but is believed by his colleagues to be open to persuasion by Repr Thomas E Morgan, who is HR Foreign Affairs Com chmn; Sen John G Tower says he feels situation in Cambodia is 'not salvageable'; makes comments after briefing of Sen Repub Policy Com by Defense Sec James R Schlesinger; Schlesinger, appearing in White House press room after briefing with Pres Ford, declares that fall of Phnom Penh is not imminent and situation, while grim, is not hopeless if aid is provided (M)

NYS Dems on Mar 11 name Jorge L Batista, Mary Alice Kendall and Louis E Yavner to fill vacant seats on NYS Regents Bd at tumultuous legis session boycotted by Repub Sens and denounced as 'rump' meeting by Assembly Repubs; Repub Assembly leader Perry B Duryea scores meeting; squabble precipitated by leader of Repub-controlled Sen Warren M Anderson who, some Dems charge, demanded 1 concession after another, but balked when Dems refused his request for 1-day postponement of session; Anderson contends his motivation had been to set precedents for future joint sessions and accuses Assembly Dems of trying to dominate meeting; Lt Gov Mary Ann Krupsak, during roll-call, repeatedly overrules Repub's objections that they could not abstain and orders Repubs listed in negative; orders sergeant-at-arms to remove Repub Assemblyman Benjamin P Roosa Jr for disrupting meeting; fracas detailed; Speaker Stanley Steingut, Assemblyman Albert H Blumenthal, Sens Albert B Lewis and H Carl McCall comment; Repubs abandon backing of Francis Keppel who, during his appearance before legis committees, indicated support of busing for racial integration and his opposition to free tuition in CUNY; Repubs support slate consisting of psychologist' Dr Rhoda L Lorand, Janet W Richardson and St John's Univ Prof Gaetano L Vincitoria; illus of Blumenthal and Duryea and others at Legis meeting (L)

Archeologist Douglas A Lawson, graduate student from Calif Univ (Berkeley), repts finding bones of extinct winged reptile with estimated wingspan of 51 feet, Big Bend Natl Park, Tex; claims pterosaur is estimated to have lived 60-million yrs ago and had twice wingspan of biggest previously known pterodactyl and nearly 6 times wingspan of condor, largest flying bird now alive; announcement of discovery, to be published in Mar 14 issue of Science, is expected to rekindle debate among paleontologists over whether flying reptiles flapped featherless, leathery wings or climbed onto high perches and leaped into air currents; scientist familiar with Big Bend discovery says new finding might make it seem improbable that pterosaur was able to rise under wing power alone; but notes that because no one has any reliable estimate of reptiles' weight, it is virtually impossible to calculate aerodynamic properties; Texas Univ's Vertebrate Paleontology Lab dir Dr Wann Langston Jr comments; Lawson suggests that site of newly found pterosaur indicates animal may have been carrion-eater, feeding on dead dinosaurs; map; drawing (M)

A projected deal for the three metropolitan gas utilities to invest in a hunt for new gas supplies in the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly withdrawn yesterday. Page 43.

Cambodian Pres Lon Nol, in move apparently linked with growing opposition to his Govt, announces removal of mil forces comdr Gen Sosthene Fernandez, Mar 11 radio broadcast; asks Premier Long Boret to form new Cabinet; discloses that he and Boret will remain in power; moves seen as producing little change in Govt and mil situation; Lt Gen Saksut Sakhan named chief of staff; Fernandez's position reptdly has been eliminated; exact role of US Embassy in Phnom Penh in shaping new Cabinet is not known; US Sens Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott call for outster of Lon Nol and entire Cabinet as prelude to possible talks with insurgents; Lon Nol expresses confidence in victory during speech; Brit mil transport plane reptdly evacuated 30 foreigners from Phnom Penh to Singapore; rocket attacks on Pochentong Airport continue; Amer supply airlift reptdly continuing despite attacks; fighting near Tuol Leap continues; Long Boret and Fernandez pors (M)

Former Gulf Oil vp Claude C Wild Jr, who pleaded guilty in '73 to making $100,000 in illegal corp contributions to re-election campaign of ex-Pres Nixon, is accused by SEC of helping channel $10-million in illegal corp funds to pol candidates from '60-74 (M)

S Vietnamese mil source says new N Vietnamese thrust aimed at Ban Me Thuot in central highlands appears to be developing from northeast, with some N Vietnamese tanks and troops clashing with Govt defenders on outskirts of town; N Vietnamese troops reptdly twice penetrated heart of Ban Me Thuot, Mar 10, supported by tanks; Saigon command spokesman Lt Col Le Trung Hien charges that Communists have launched 'nationwide general offensive'; several Western analysts are reluctant to call Communist attacks an 'offensive'; some caution that attacks so far could represent feints, diversions or attempts to draw troops away from other Govt strong points; command acknowledges that 6 helicopters and 1 light observation plane had been destroyed during attacks; says that air strikes and ground troops have destroyed 24 tansk in and around city; Amer Embassy spokesman says that Paul A Struharik, repr of US consulate gen in Nha Trang, has indicated that N Vietnamese have not committed bulk of troops that are believed to be around city; other mil developments in Quang Tri, Thua Thien, Quang Tin and Quang Duc provs and around air bases at Da Nang, Pleiku and Bien Hoa described; rept of casualties at air bases noted; S Vietnamese Govt repts loss of dist capital of Duc Lap and 3 satellite base camps; mil analysts predict N Vietnamese will attempt attack at Tam Ky; illus of Da Nang air base; map (L)

2 Air Force training planes attack Portuguese Govt artillery barracks, Mar 11, in what officials say was attempted coup against Portugual's left-wing mil Govt; loyal officers say reactionary elements were behind uprising and that Govt was in complete control of situation; Brig Gen Otelo de Carvalho, security forces chief, says US was involved in attack; warns that US Amb Frank C Carlucci 'had better leave'; says he cannot guarantee Carlucci's safety; Carlucci issues statement saying he has full confidence that Gen Carvalho and Portuguese Govt are capable and have intention of insuring his safety; Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes appeals for calm in radio and TV speech; says that Gen Antonio de Spinola's name heads list of 28 officers who are to be 'arrested, tried and punished'; Portuguese guards close frontier with Spain; in downtown Lisbon, mobs ransack hq of conservative Center Dem party and attack photographers; housewives rush to stores to stock up on food and autos form lines at gasoline stations; Limes of London repts that Spinola has arrived in Spain with wife and 18 officers who fled with him; Spanish Foreign Min denies any involvment in events; Reuters news agency repts that I soldier has been killed and many wounded, some seriously; West Ger Embassy officials say some sr Portuguese officers have taken refuge there; illus (L)

Heads of govt of EEC nations, meeting in Dublin on Mar 11, agree to set up com to concert views on discussions later this yr between oil producers and consumers (S)

Mar 12: Egyptian officials indicate on Mar 11 that Egypt has suggested that new disengagement agreement with Israel in Sinai contain some of language used in first such agreement, in Jan '74; in that agreement, Egypt and Israel formally pledged observance of their cease-fire and promised to refrain from all mil and paramil action from moment of signing of document; they stated that document was not final peace agreement but first step toward durable peace in keeping with UN Security Council resolutions and within framework of Geneva peace conf; officials say Egypt has also suggested that new disengagement agreement include naval units in Mediterranean and Red Sea so as to give both sides protection against being out-flanked at sea; these points are believed to be at core of proposals or ideas submitted to Sec Kissinger by Egyptian Pres Sadat in Aswan on Mar 8; Egyptians believe that absence of time limit combined with suggestion for progress toward peace should enable negotiators to get around block that has appeared as result of public statements on both sides; Egyptian sources, commenting on recent Israeli rept that Egyptian destroyer passed through Suez Canal going from Port Said to Suez in violation of cease-fire agreement, say warship did pass through canal but in opposite direction and that Israeli charges of Egyptian naval build-up in Red Sea are therefore wrong; say passage of ship did not constitute violation (M)

current pol mood discussed; Park and his increasingly vigorous opponents among Christians, students, intellectuals and Opposition parties are on collision course; critics of Park are determined to achieve curbs on his unltd power and reforms to guarantee freedom of speech and pol activity and some critics want Park to resign; Park, on other hand, is equally determined that he will be obeyed, that his means and ends will be accepted without question and that attention will be concentrated on nation's econ development and what he sees as threat from North Korea; history of Park's regime; his illus (M)

article on pol situation in Portugal and tracing recent incidents leading to Sept '74 resignation of former Pres Antonio de Spinola notes some of accomplishments of new regime included granting of independence to Mozambique, Angola and Repub of Guinea-Bissau (M)