June 17, 1975

Nebraska's efforts to recruit drs for some of its small towns have been successfully rewarded with move of S Vietnamese refugees Drs Pham Van Hoang and Phung Minh Tri and their families to state; drs will be supported by towns until they can practice med legally; Pham Van Hoang and family with some of Loup City Mayor Larry Clark's children illus; map (L)

Ital election returns show Communist party with large gains, while Christian Dems suffer sizable losses and Socialist party, which is allied with Communists in many local adms and with Chrisitan Dems in natl coalition Govt, also scoring gains in local voting; Interior Min Luigi Gui announces returns showing Christian Dems polling 35% of vote, as compared with 38.4% of all votes in same areas in '72 parliamentary elections; returns show Communist party with 33.7% of total popular vote, against 28.3% in '72, and Socialist party with 12%, against 9.8% in '72; sharp swing to left seen as threat to survival of Premier Aldo Moro Govt; Parliament members stress that, politically and psychologically, votes would strengthen leftist groups and weaken Christian Dems on all levels, including Chamber of Deputies and Sen; Pres Giovanni Leone seen possibly disbanding Parliament prematurely and calling for new gen elections in fall; diplomats in Italy see heavy Communist vote weakening Italy's commitment to NATO; recall that Pres Ford and US Sec Kissinger visited Italy before elections in overt attempt at strengthening link to NATO; Western diplomats say heightened Communist leverage would result in bland attitude toward NATO; Ital Communist party is expected to restate its offer of 'historical compromise' with Christian Dems; Christian Dem sec Amintore Fanfani and Communist party leader Enrico Berlinguer comment; Ital Soc Movement-Natl Right Wing party suffers heavy losses, Soc Dems and Repubs remain stable and Liberal party loses ground; Soc Dem party sec Flavio Orlando comments; Communist party spokesman says many of new votes for their party came from nearly 3-million citizens who voted for first time because of lowering of minimum voting age from 21 to 18; illus (L)

US Agr Dept Inspector Gen Office '73 rept, obtained by NY Times, finds that Grain Div, which is responsible for assuring safety and quality of US grain shipments, was failing to meet some of principal obligations; shows that proposed instructions to inspectors were dropped because of objections by N Amer Export Grain Assn, whose principal members are large grain exporting corps, even though no contact had been made with 40 or more other grain trade orgns; finds that Fed grain inspectors did not inform FDA when they found contaminated grain; holds div did not produce safety code to prevent employe exposure to health hazards in fumigated ship holds; notes inspection regulation allows 10% grain cargo to be off-grade potentially victimizing some foreign buyers; notes inspectors who are licensed by Agr Dept but employed by private agencies were using unapproved shortcuts in grading grain; most of these problems still have not been corrected; grain inspection system is part of investigation of alleged corruption under way in N Orleans and other ports; handling and weighing of grain also are being investigated in inquiry that has turned up evidence of bribery and large-scale thefts; Agr Mktg Service Admr Ervin C Peterson and former Grain Div Dir Howard H Woodworth comment; new Grain Div Dir David R Galliart declines comment (L)

White House press sec Ron Nessen, in response to inquiries about Vice Pres Rockefeller's comments about CIA assassination plots and about continuing opposition to Rockefeller among conservative Repubs, reads statement by Pres Ford endorsing Rockefeller as partner in Govt and running mate in '76 election (S)

HR refuses to accept resignation of Repr L N Nedzi as chmn and member of HR Select Intelligence Com; vote of 290-64 appears to put com's future in doubt; Nedzi says he cannot continue to serve as chmn as com is now constituted; other options noted; Repr B F Sisk introduces resolution to abolish com; situation revd; Nedzi's difficulties grew out of his having been briefed over yr ago about CIA's possible involvement in assassination plots; Reprs P Burton, R Boiling, J G O'Hara and S S Stratton urged HR to reject resignation; com member Repr D Edwards says he disagrees with view that only Nedzi could head proper investigation; notes that Nedzi, even without jurisdiction over CIA inquiry, would still have been in charge of bulk of investigation; all 64 votes to accept Nedzi's resignation came from Dems; Nedzi por; HR Armed Services Com votes, 16-13, to deny com member Repr M J Harrington access to classified information; Harrington contends that material, secret testimony by CIA Dir William E Colby, which Harrington has been accused of leaking, should not have been classified in 1st place (L)