May 23, 1975

Leaders of NYC's financial community lay down conditions for lending city $280-million to ease its current financial crisis, lr to Controller Harrison J Goldin; Goldin considers lr 'tantamount to rejection' of city's request for loan; lr, prepared by Financial Community Liaison Group and signed by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co chmn Ellmore C Patterson, says city's financing requirements are beyond ability of NYC financial community to provide; says city will have to get advances from NYS and Fed Govt to meet balance of its cash needs through rest of fiscal '75; Goldin spokesman says required balance on projected loan would be $720-million; Mayor Beame scores various pressure groups that seek to impose their views on city in its present plight, speech at ceremonies marking US Bicentennial, City Hall (L)

Portuguese Socialist party leader Mario Soares threatens that party will quit coalition Cabinet unless Armed Forces Movement stops 'discriminating in favor' of Communist party, press conf; calls for end to Communist take-overs in communications field and holding of local and secret union elections; 50,000 marchers support party's challenge, Lisbon; Reuters repts that Armed Forces Movment, after 10-hr meeting on May 16, ruled out pol dictatorship and called for natl unity (M)

'74 financial repts of NYS nursing homes disclose costs far lower than estimates on which their Medicaid reimbursements were based, resulting in $70-million windfall for homes, little of which appears recoverable immediately; NYS Health Dept in '74 granted nursing homes average Medicaid rate increases of 19%, while costs at sample 10 NYC homes rose only 8.7%; health dept econ chief William F McCann attributes shortfalls in cost in part to new caution on part of operators who face intensive audits and threat of criminal prosecution for padding of Medicaid bills; NY Met Nursing Home Assn counsel Stanley H Lowell comments on shortfalls; decline in costs at Eugene Hollander's Congress Nursing Home noted (M)

Conn Gen Assembly on May 22 approves bill requiring time be set aside each day for meditation in pss; Gov Ella T Grasso will sign bill, making Conn only state with such a requirement; Conn ACLU exec dir William Olds says his orgn will challenge bill's const; Reprs Nicholas M Motto, Aloysius J Ahearn and Conn Catholic Conf dir William Wholean comment (M)

Gov Carey bans outside employment for members of his adm who earn $30,000 a yr or more or who hold 'policymaking positions'; orders same employes to make detailed annual disclosures of their net worth and sources of income; 7-page financial questionnaires are being mailed to about 500 employes under terms of exec order Carey signs on May 22 and discusses at news conf; Carey describes order as 'without doubt the most comprehensive, detailed set of standards' in NYS history; order also prohibits employes in categories from holding positions in party orgns, such as dist or county leader, and from serving as dirs or officers in any profit-making corp, even if position is unsalaried; also establishes Bd of Public Disclosure, which will administer new disclosure procedures and rule individually on applications to keep confidential some of required information, such as alimony or med-related payments; 7-member panel will consist of State Sec, Gov's sec, Gov's counsel and 4 unpaid members apptd by Gov; Carey names Charles Desmond, who will serve as chmn, Daniel Gutman, Ruth Robbins and Peter M Fishbein; makes public his own financial disclosure statement showing net worth of $94,885; owns no stocks or bonds; illus (M)