June 9, 1975

Belmont Park held the first Sunday racing program at a major thoroughbred horse track in the state and drew 40,849 fans. Details, Page 37.

Study group apptd by Gov Carey recommends that each member of Bd of Regents be given staff asst, that they be apptd by Gov with approval of Sen and that they be given allowance of $100 a day, with maximum of $5,000 a yr; Max J Rubin dissents; group recommends study of state Educ Comr's judicial authority; calls for formation within Gov's office of cabinet for handicapped children and other with special needs and establishment of due-process procedures to protect rights of children with special needs and their parents (S)

A scattering of Sunday strollers saw a helicopter rise from Central Park West at 9:45 A.M. yesterday, dangling a large, cone‐shape object from a tether.

Atty Gen E H Levi says it is not within const authority of US Pres to order assassination of foreign heads of state, int on ABC TV program Issues and Answers; says he is not suggesting that Pres Eisenhower and Kennedy, under whose Adms the possibility of such assassination plots was reptdly considered, had violated state or Fed laws; says he has not yet recd copy of Rockefeller CIA Comm rept (M)

Rept by investigating team directed by Sen Edward Kennedy and submitted to Sen Judiciary Subcom on Refugees and Escapees charges that Ford Adm's program for resettling 131,210 lndochinese refugees is in 'shambles' because of 'failure of leadership'; accuses Interagency Task Force on Refugees of creating 'bureaucratic roadblocks' which have delayed refugee resettlement; rept was written by subcom counsel Dale Stuart de Haan, who has visited refugee restaging areas in Philippines, on Guam and at Camp Pendleton; Kennedy calls task force, headed 1st by L Dean Brown and later by Julia Vadala Taft, 'grossly negligent' in refugee registration procedures; accuses Adm of failing to plan adequately for reimbursement of state and local govts that incur costs in aiding refugees and of insufficient involvement of voluntary agencies in initial resettlement stages; recommends that task force be transferred from State Dept to HEW Dept jurisdiction; urges Adm to make more efforts to repatriate refugees to their own countries and to practice 'policy of reconciliation and normalization' with Communist Govts of Indochina and give them 'humanitarian assistance' instead of 'a natl policy of silence'; Taft declines to comment until she sees rept; defends 'extraordinary efforts' of task force staff; says 30,340 refugees have been processed and released for settlement in US, additional 3,405 have gone to other countries to live, 56,567 refugees are in 4 US relocation centers, 43,158 are in camps on Guam and Wake Island, Thailand and Philippines and 1,045 are enroute to US (M)