June 22, 1975

comment on racial and pol unrest in several African states notes that Angolan black liberation front leaders Holden Roberto and Drs Jonas M Savimbi and Agostinho Neto are meeting in Nakuru, Kenya, at request of Pres Jomo Kenyatta to try to settle differences and avoid civil war; map (S)

Vatican protests leftist takeover of RC Ch radio station in Lisbon (S)

article describing soaring costs of NYC's pension system notes that 1 pension official asserts that layoffs of younger employes will ease long-term drain on pension system's $7.1-billion in assets but observes that Mayor Beame's drastic cutbacks, insofar as they encourage older employes to retire earlier than they would have otherwise, will also deplete further system's dwindling reserves (S)

Jean Heller article in Cox Newspapers repts that Gov Carey, during last term in Cong, and Sen John J Sparkman pressured Fed officials to approve oil export licenses that enabled Carey's brother Edward and Bart Chamberlain, a friend of Sparkman, to circumvent Fed oil price controls; licenses allegedly permitted Chamberlain's Citronelle-Mobile Gathering Corp to sell nearly 1-million bbls of price-controlled oil to Bahamas Oil Refining Co, which is owned 65% by Carey and 35% by Calif Standard, at $13.51 a bbl; refined oil was allegedly imported by Carey's New England Petroleum Corp, which sold it to utilities in NY met area at $17-20 a bbl; Chamberlain's profit on deal is put at $8.3-million; article states 2 Fed energy probes into transactions were dropped, although regulations have been changed to prevent any repetition; Rauer H Meyer, identified as Commerce Dept official who made final decision on licenses, declines comment; Sparkman acknowledges aiding Chamberlain; Carey denies having anything to do with licenses (M)

Article holds in surrender of Laotian non-Communists to Pathet Lao following Communist victories in Cambodia and S Vietnam, no element of Vientiane side collapsed more quickly than armed forces that US had built, trained, paid, supplied and all but commanded; Amer Embassy has conceded to Pathet Lao that only force remaining is Communist-led Pathet Lao, although semblance of 2 separate armies, Royal Vientiane Army and Pathet Lao, continues to exist; US sources concede ruefully that flight of mil leaders who were most committed to US view, notably Defense Min Sisouk na Champassak and Maj Gen Vang Pao, was merely culmination of process that began with '73 truce accord; Western expert contends that it was consistent Amer mil policy throughout Laotian war that demoralized Royal Laotian Army and brought it down without resistance; says US placed its faith in irregular army it created and directed and relegated Royal Vietiane Army to insignificance; US mil operations revd; illus (L)