June 4, 1975

Sen completes 2-day debate, organized by Sens Edward Kennedy and Alan Cranston as prelude to action on Ford Adm's $25-billion mil authorization bill, voicing divergent views on paring nation's defenses; Sen Barry Goldwater espouses strong defense, noting Western Eur regards US as defender; Sen Dick Clark decries development of 'exotic, unnecessary weapons' and Bill Brock expresses frustration at lack of specific proposals; Sen Abraham Ribicoff warns of global spread of nuclear weapons capability (M)

GAO recommends that Agr Dept be prohibited from going ahead with its $398-million, 8-yr plan to develop computer information system because GAO-says it does not guard privacy of millions of farmers and dept employes whose names are contained in agency's files; Deputy Defense Sec David O Cooke tells HR Govt Operations subcom that dossiers the Army compiled on Vietnam war protesters and other dissidents were destroyed but might still exist in Fed intelligence agencies that exchanged information wth Defense Dept (S)

Gov Carey is considering proposal to drs conducting slowdown over malpractice ins that high-level comm be formed to study new malpractice law but drs continue job action for 3d day and number of hosps begin laying off workers; 53 of 58 hosps in Staten Island, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk and Rockland Counties have stopped all elective surgery; admissions are down at half of Bklyn hosps; there is little indication that health care has suffered; all emergency rooms are functioning; Kings County Med Soc pres Dr Norman S Blackman scores Carey's appeal for panel; Drug and Hosp Union Local 1199 official Moe Foner scores layoffs (M)

NYS Health Dept to fine any nursing home that does not promptly correct serious deficiencies in operations found by inspectors; new policy to affect 34 nursing homes on latest list of those with operating deficiencies; Newfane Nursing Home in Niagara County has consented to pay $10,000 fine for poor care; dept moves to fine Bernard Bergman $45,000 plus $1,000 a day for operating Park Crescent home under license of nonexistent partnership between Bergman and Samuel Klurman; Deputy Comr Frank T Cicero notified Bergman on May 21 of illegal operation; Andrew Krieger, asst dir of NYC office, testifies before Moreland Act Comm on June 2 that media have created more receptive climate for law enforcement; met area homes among 34 listed (M)

ALBANY, June 3—New York City's elected officials would have to satisfy the appointed directors of a corporation formed to take over $3‐billion of the city's short‐term debt that municipal budgets were in honest balance, according to a draft proposal that became available here today.

illus of Pres and Mrs Ford and Pope Paul VI

NYC Deputy Mayor Cavanagh says on June 3 that city's revenue shortfall has been reduced by more than $90-million because of upturn in business taxes over last few mos; says that current budget deficit will be 'minimal amt'; Budget Bur officials, including budget dir Melvin N Lechner and deputy dir John Lanigan, more cautious (M)

NY Times survey finds that laws concerning rape, major crime least reptd to police, are undergoing fundamental revision throughout nation; chief aims are to encourage more women to seek police help in arresting their attackers and to give prosecutors better chance of obtaining convictions; spot check of 25 states shows that in last yr 13 states have changed rules of evidence in rape case to limit introduction in trial of material about woman's personal sex life, except in ltd cases; state officials and women group heads comment (L)

June 4: Israeli analysts and Western diplomats in Jerusalem believe prospect of new warfare in Middle East has been sharply reduced as result of recent gestures by Egypt, Syria and Israel; Israeli officials and Western diplomats believe none of parties, despite gestures, has abandoned or even softened basic negotiating positions; analysts believe gestures by 3 countries are efforts to improve their standings in world opinion, especially with US, in expectation of future diplomatic bargaining; assume that Pres Ford's June 11 meeting with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin will be followed by declaration of US views and then renewed efforts at negotiating interim agreement on Sinai, with Sec Kissinger as mediator; whether that succeeds or fails, resumption of Geneva peace conf seems likely after that; Israelis fear that US policy declaration will contain plan for over-all Arab-Israeli peace settlement that will be similar to so-called 'Rogers plan,' which was outlined in '69 by former Sec William P Rogers; plan called for Israeli withdrawal from all but insubstantial portions of Arab territories occupied in '67 war, in exch for peace agreement and certain guarantees; illus of Israeli tanks withdrawing to new positions in Sinai (M)

HEW releases Ford Adm rules aimed at equalizing opportunities for women in US schools and colls; rules, set to take effect July 21, require schools to end discriminatory practices against women in admissions, employment, financial aid vocational and academic counseling and athletics; are less forceful than '74 1st draft and stop short of requiring full equality in school sports; HEW Sec Caspar W Weinberg says rules require educators to begin self-examination to identify and act to end any discrimination, news conf; says rules assume 'good faith' on part of schools; this assumption draws criticism of women's groups; schools that defy rules face Fed lawsuit or cutoff of Fed aid; Ford sends rules to Cong, which has 45 days to accept or reject them under terms of '72 Educational Amendments Title IX; Repr James G O'Hara sets hearings on rules beginning June 23; Weinberger holds much of bias exists unconsciously and through long-enshrined practices; rules would allow pregnant students to attend school, ban use of marital status as basis for denying admissions or employment of teachers, bar use of separate curfew times for women and men, require equal housing provisions and equal financial aid and scholarships; HEW alto releases plan to stop investigating individual sex and race bias complaints filed with Civil Rights Office; women's groups sees move as effort to bypass complaints; Civil Rights Office dir Peter Holmes says office can investigate only 1/4 of complaints it receives; new provision would let office probe individual complaints or wait until pattern develops and then rev practices in indus or school system; Holmes says office gets more complaints about sex discrimination in higher educ employment than on any other subject, while dept has found evidence of substantial discrimination in other areas; Weinberger holds sex discrimination is not as much of a problem as racial and natl origin discrimination; Women's Equity Action League scores procedural shift; Dr Bernice Sandler, dir of Amer Colls Assn project on status and educ of women, sees move pushing women and minorities into cts and leaving insts more vulnerable to lawsuits (M)

Dodge mansion has been put up for sale by executors of estate of Mrs Marcellus Hartley Dodge (Geralding Rockefeller Dodge) for $10-million; bldg covers almost entire block bounded by 5th and Madison Avs between 61st and 62d Sts; Fidelity Union Trust Co, apptd as guardian for Mrs Dodge in 1963, says it has received written inquiries from more than 60 developers; illus of mansion; map (M)

Pele agrees to sign with NY Cosmos for reptd $7-million, 3-yr contract; Cosmos vp and gen mgr Clive Toye notes estimated $2-million of amt will be to pay taxes for Pele; deal apparently will allow Cosmos owners Warner Communications to make use of Pele's name for ad and public relation purposes; Pele is congratulated by US Sec Kissinger and Brazilian Min Antonio Azeredo da Silveira; Cosmos also hire Pele's closest friend and adviser Julio Mazzei, who will continue to run clinics with Pele, in conjunction with Pepsi-Cola program, and will assist Coach Gordon Bradley in preparation of team; NASL Comr Phil Woosnam comments; Pele illus (M)