March 13, 1975

Sen passage of strip mine bill seen as compounding difficulties facing Ford Adm in winning approval of Cong for related coal-environmental amendments to Fed air quality laws; Adm, to permit combustion of high-sulphur coal, has proposed series of extensions and postponements in air quality standards that will otherwise foreclose use of high-and-medium sulphur coal, much of it strip-mined (S)

Former Commerce Sec Maurice H Stans pleads guilty in Fed ct, Washington, DC, to 5 misdemeanor charges of violating campaign laws while he was finance dir of '72 Nixon re-election campaign; he is 3d member of former Pres Nixon's Cabinet, after former Attys Gen J N Mitchell and Richard G Kleindienst, to be convicted either through plea or jury verdict of criminal activity (L)

UN Security Council approves resolution calling on Greek and Turkish Cypriotes to resume negotiations for pol settlement on Cyprus under 'personal auspices' of Sec Gen Waldheim; both Greek and Turkish Cypriote reprs assure Council that they are prepared to cooperate with Waldheim, although they emphasize that they are not entirely satisfied with compromise that had been reached; Glafkos Clerides, repr of Pres Makarios' Govt, tells Council that, in desire to offend no one, Council might have 'compromised' existence of Cyprus; adds that 'we hope we are proved wrong'; Turkish Cypriote repr Vedate A Celik says Turkish Cypriotes are ready and willing to continue negotiations with Greek Cypriotes; resolution could have some influence to extent that it induces parties to return to conf table, but diplomats are not optimistic about chances of settlement of basic differences between Cypriote communities; Security Council action falls far short of Makarios Govt's wishes that it set deadline for withdrawal of Turkish troops that landed on islands last July and return of 180,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriote refugees to their homes in Turkish-controlled areas; resolution 'regrets' Feb 13 action by Turkish Cypriotes to form separate pol entity and calls for implementation of UN resolutions urging pol settlement, return of refugees to their homes and withdrawal of Turkish troops; also affirms sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and pol nonalignment of Cyprus and calls on all concerned not to attempt to partition or unite it with any other country; text makes specific reference to Cyprus Govt, which insisted on such action; Celik says he cannot accept such a reference on ground that Makarios does not represent Turkish Cypriotes; adds that basic principles of resolution are 'acceptable' and that Turkish Cypriotes are ready to negotiate on 'new constitutional basis' for island (L)

CAB's Enforcement Bur charges Braniff Airways and Amer Airlines with diverting up to $1.2-million into secret pol funds and urges bd to consider revocation of Braniff license; accuses Amer and 8 of its present and former execs of falsifying repts to agency to conceal cash pol campaign fund totaling 'at least $275,000' that was illegally distributed to scores of Fed and state candidates; execs identified as George A Spater, Donald Lloyd-Jones, R M Bressler, Cyrus S Collins, J P Bass, W G Woodward, Thomas P Smith, Douglas Stockdale (M)