June 10, 1975

Pres Ford announces that he is forwarding Rockefeller CIA Comm rept, which includes information on alleged assassination plots against foreign leaders, to Justice Dept for possible prosecution, nationally televised news conf from White House Rose Garden; says he will release comm rept June 10 but will withhold from public information on assassination question because it is 'incomplete and extremely sensitive'; says he will send assassination data to 2 Cong coms and to Justice Dept; says he does not want to pass judgment on activities of his predecessors regarding alleged assassination plots; cautions Cong to 'reserve judgment' and use 'utmost prudence' in evaluating such information; says he is totally opposed to pol assassination; says material he saw relating to assassination allegations involved events dating back to late '59 and running up to '67 or '68; says he will order or submit recommendations to Cong after studying rept; says he believes there could be 'internal improvement' in CIA; White House counsel Roderick M Hills says Ford is satisfied that full story of alleged plots will emerge; says comm rept will endorse findings of Warren Comm that Lee Harvey Oswald operated alone in assassinating Pres Kennedy; illus of Ford (L)

NYS Legis early on June 10 begins debate on accord among state and city officials and banking indus on creation of Munic Assistance Corp designed to rescue NYC from pending default; Sen, at about 2:45 AM, passes bill, 50-6; City Council at 2:02 AM voted, 38-1, to send home-rule message to Legis formally requesting passage; plan for enactment early on June 9 was scrapped when Repub Sen majority leader Warren M Anderson complained that draft would permit city to use up to $1.8-billion of funds generated by corp to pay expense needs; a point settled in Mayor Beame's favor provides more flexibility than city had sought in selling future revenue and bond-anticipation notes on own; at midnight on June 11, city must meet debt of $792-million in principal and interest or else be in default; corp is designed to convert presssing short-term debt into long-term bond obligations; would sell bonds to redeem short-term debt, backing bonds by reserve fund containing revenues from city's sales and stock transfer taxes; Gov Carey puts pressure on Dems, some of whom contend that most substantial points are being won by banking indus, for approval of plan (L)

Premier Rabin will discuss econ and mil aid requests with Pres Ford and Sec Kissinger during meetings in Washington (S)

Western mil sources in Middle East say forces that Israel claims to have withdrawn from Suez Canal recently had actually been withdrawn many mos earlier or, in some cases, had never been there; say Egyptian command had full knowledge of US intelligence repts showing Israeli troop movements but decided against challenging Israeli announcement because it was considered important gesture; say under Jan '74 disengagement plan, US planes have been carrying out surveillance over area and intelligence gathered is passed on to Israel and Egypt under secret terms of agreement, which was negotiated by Sec Kissinger; say Egypt and US decided to go along with Israeli announcement because it served to create atmosphere for negotiated settlement; State Dept has no immediate comment on rept (M)

USSR has advised Western govts it is willing to give advance notice of mil maneuvers in E Eur, including portion of USSR territory, as confidence-bldg measure to improve East-West relations: mutual commitment on notification of troop maneuvers is to be incorporated into final declaration of Eur security conf, which top US officials expect to be completed by end of June in Geneva; Pres Ford, in news conf, says compromises are being made by both sides and that proposed summit-level windup of conf in Helsinki will probably be held; high-ranking US official says USSR has 'substantially accepted' Western demands on other aspects of final declaration, including issues of human contacts (M)