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HR Armed Services Com, 32-6, approves $26.3-billion fiscal '76 mil authorization bill for weapons procurement and research, 7% below Ford Adm request; fiscal '75 spending for program totals $21-billion; Repr Samuel S Stratton comments; Repr Bob Carr acknowledges cuts may be 'ambitious,' but are intended to spark HR debate on nation's global mil role in post-Vietnam era, int; Repr Les Aspin, who favors gen reassessment of future mil budgets, holds some com cuts are 'phony,' contending $1-billion pared from USN shipbldg program is simply deferred to future yrs (M)

HOUSE UNIT VOTES ARMS FUND SLASH

NY-NJ roundup of 17 reputed organized-crime figures said to break back of multi-million-dollar loan-sharking operation (M)

2‐State Roundup Nets 17 Linked to Loan‐Sharking

Ford, in May 6 news conf, says atmosphere is good for SALT agreement with USSR though negotiations will be 'hard' (S)

Standing by Commitments, Ford Assures U.S. Allies

Controller Goldin spokesman notes that city will need to borrow $750-million on short-term revenue anticipation notes in May and $750-million more in June (S)

BEAME AND CAREY AND BANKERS SEE SIMON AND BURK

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., May 6&#8212;In a dusty field in Cali. fornia, far from the palaces of power and gardens of Saigon, Nguyen Cao Ky settled today in the refugee camp that has become his temporary home.

Ky Settles Into Tent Camp With Ordinary Refugees

Commerce Com sends to Sen floor bill to scale back Fed regulation of natural gas prices, 1st such bill to be reptd since '56; bill would virtually end price ceilings for new natural supplies from on-shore wells and would allow maximum price for new gas produced offshore to rise 50% or more; price increases allowed 23 largest cos will be less than half those that ind producers are allowed; proponents says intention of bill is to force large cos out of on-shore natural gas business and increase competition; says bill would also limit FPC authority to allow increases in price of natural gas that is committed to interstate mkt before '75; Sens Russell B Long and John V Tunney strongly opposed to bill; Sens Howard W Cannon, sponsor of compromise, and Ernest F Hollings defend it; Cannon and Sen Daniel K Inouye cast key votes (M)

Debate Set on Cut In Gas‐Price Curbs

Right Rev John M Allin, Presiding Bishop of Episc Ch, defends his failure to appear as witness at ecclesiastical trial and challenges contempt-of-ct citation; his legal adviser Hugh R Jones comments (M)

Episcopal Church's Top Bishop Challenges Contempt Charges

Internatl airlines announce tentative plans to abandon US and Brit currencies as bases for calculating passenger fares and cargo rates; announcement, made at IATA meeting, Nice, says shift, which will be effected by Apr '77, will base rates on IMF's Special Drawing Rights, created to ease world from dollar standard and help finance balance-of-payments deficit (M)

AIRLINES SEEK END TO BASING RATES ABROAD ON DOLLAR

NYS Sup Ct Justice Joseph S Mattina rules that there is no evidence of governmental interference with Attica legal defense team; in effect, says he did not believe testimony of Mary Jo Cook who claimed she infiltrated Attica defense camp and reptd back to FBI (M)

Judge Rules F.B.I. Did Not Interfere In Attica Defense

AFL-CIO issues statement backing Ford Adm's Vietnamese refugee assistance programs and scores Cong leaders' opposition to plan; pres George Meany says US has 9% unemployment rate, but there is no reason why it cannot resettle and find jobs for another 30,000 to 40,000 people, news conf (S)

FORD ASKS NATION TO OPEN ITS DOORS TO THE REFUGEES

Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, RC Primate of Hungary who was regarded as symbol of anti-Communism after his imprisonment following mock treason trial in Budapest in '49, dies in exile in Vienna at age of 83; his por

Cardinal Mindszenty Dies As an Exile in Vienna at 83

Civil Service Comm repts made public by Repr J E Moss charges comm with irregular practices in filling its employment needs (M)

Job Favoritism Is Found In Study of U.S. Agencies

Iran is now assuming GB's former role as guardian of Persian Gulf states; Shah of Iran has recently stated his opposition to foreign interference in gulf; although Shah has not specified which outside powers' interference he has in mind, foreign diplomats say he means not only USSR but also US, which maintains naval facility on Bahrain; some hints that US should abandon Bahrain facility have come from highly placed Iranians, and Shah has embarked on series of consultations with leaders of gulf states; before Shah's departure on current Western Hemisphere tour, he conferred with leaders of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan and received United Arab Emirates Foreign Min Sheik Ahmed Khalifa al-Suweidi; map (M)

Iran Assuming Britain's Former Role As Guardian of Persian Gulf States

Portugal's Socialist and Communist 3-hr meeting between Socialist leader Mario Soares, Communist leader Alvaro Cunhal and Pres Gen Francisco da Costa Gomes; party sources say reconciliation is tactical agreement reached under pressure from mil; agreement appears to settle open conflict that has occurred between 2 parties since May Day rally, where Socialists say they were forcibly prevented by Communists from attending; was prompted, to large extent, by common fear that mil might ease both parties completely out of governmental process; Soares refuses to comment on agreement; Portuguese Justice Min Francisco Salgado Zenha says agreement is 'important step toward cooperation' (S)

Tentative Accord Set in Lisbon By Socialists and Communists

Israeli Amb Simcha Dinitz on May 6 expresses Israeli concern with US decision to give Jordan Hawk AA missiles, when Israel has been barred from receiving new commitments (S)

U.S. Foresees Arab Drive To Sway Stand on Israel

Article on Arab leaders' efforts to resolve disputes dividing their govts notes Saudi Min Yamani is trying to resolve dispute between Syria and Iraq over Iraq's assertions that Syria is holding water on Eurphrates River; basic problem, however, seems to be belief of rival Baath Socialist regimes in Syria and Iraq that each is trying to subvert and overthrow other (S)

Arabs Strive for Unity

USSR's intensified efforts toward Middle East settlement ends with call for Arab unity; Soviet appeal, stressed in Pravda commentary, indicates that little if any progress toward solution of Middle East problems has been made in recent meetings in Moscow between Soviet leaders and leaders from Iraq, Egypt, Syria and PLO; USSR has not reptd success in achieving movement either toward over-all settlement or toward resumption of Geneva peace conf; Arafat reptdly disagreed with Soviet official Boris N Ponomarev on question of Palestinian representation at Geneva; USSR now seems to be in position of waiting for results of further discussions among Arabs and of planned meeting in June between Pres Ford and Egyptian Pres Sadat; Ford-Sadat meeting has not been noted officially in Moscow (M)

Moscow, After Talks, Stresses a Need for Arab Unity

US Sen George McGovern calls for end to US trade boycott against Cuba, comments, Havana; says he has no powers to lift embargo but that open trade is in interest of both countries; illus (S)

McGovern, in Cuba, Opposes Embargo

Sen Charles H Percy says US should end econ embargo against Cuba regardless of whether OAS lifts hemispheric sanctions, speech (S)

Percy Wants Embargo Ended

Saudi Arabia has banned contraceptives on basis of ruling by World Moslem League that 'birth control was invented by the enemies of Islam'; officials say degree, issued Apr 28, makes smuggling of pills or contraceptive devices into country punishable by 6 mos imprisonment; it is not clear how ruling will affect foreigners living in country; Saudi Arabia is suffering labor shortage (S)

Saudi Arabia Imposes Ban on Contraceptives

Sen Hubert H Humphrey proposes revision of US food-aid legis which would shift top priority in program to humanitarian uses instead of for furtherance of foreign policy objectives; seeks revision of laws governing Food for Peace program, which provides aid in form of long-term credits for food purchases on special concessionary terms as well as grants for feeding programs; seeks provision for minimum of 1-million tons of commodities annually for disaster relief, long-term assurances of supplies for feeding programs and new emphasis on agr development and assistance; Sen Herman E Talmadge expresses interest in Humphrey's proposals; Pres Ford's request, that Cong remove restriction that ties food aid to normal trade and adequate reserve supply, noted (M)

CHANGES OFFERED IN LAW ON FOOD AID

Partisans in Byelorussia, preparing to mark 30th anniv of Nazi surrender in World War II, recall wartime activities (M)

Guerrillas In the Soviet Reminisce

Brit Govt, prodded by Labor party left wing, to begin closing down private wings in public hosps; move will eventually keep patients who want to pay for their rooms as well as drs out of more than 700 Natl Health Service hosps, where 1% of beds are maintained for those who can afford private care and do not want to wait for free treatment under natl health system; issue has led to disruption in hosps, slowdown by drs opposed to banning private wings and ideological dispute between Labor party and conservatives, who argue that patients should have right to chose between free public and expensive private care; hosp unions also favor abolition of private wings; of State for Soc Services Barbara Castle comments (M)

May 7, 1975

Headlines from May 7, 1975

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HOUSE UNIT VOTES ARMS FUND SLASH

2‐State Roundup Nets 17 Linked to Loan‐Sharking

Standing by Commitments, Ford Assures U.S. Allies

BEAME AND CAREY AND BANKERS SEE SIMON AND BURK

Billboard 200

Chicago VIII

That's The Way Of The World (Soundtrack)

Physical Graffiti

Have You Never Been Mellow

Crash Landing

Historical Context for May 7, 1975