July 4, 1975

Ex-Atty Gen John N Mitchell, who was convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice in Watergate scandal, is disbarred from practicing law in NYS; his disbarment is believed to be 1st in history of US of a lawyer who held such high office; Mitchell argues action should not be taken until his appeals are exhausted; rev of Mitchell-Nixon relationship and Mitchell's conviction; Mitchell illus (M)

article holds officials, ranging from White House to Labor Dept statisticians, emphasize that seeming decline in June unemployment rate to 8.6% resulted from statistical understatement based on long-standing method of adjusting data to reflect regular large influx of youths leaving school who enter labor mkt in June (S)

FDA proposes strongly worded label for pills used by more than 1-million diabetics, warning that patients may be more likely to die of heart disease if they become regular users of drugs; University Group Diabetes Program started controversy with rept that patients who used pills had death rate from heart disease twice as high as that of comparable patients who relied on diet alone; conclusions have been supported by AMA, FDA and other orgns; advocates of drugs have attacked study and demanded that any warning label be balanced by statement representing their side; Univ Group study involved drugs tolbutamide and phenformin; FDA statements lists 9 other oral drugs (M)

put Apollo spacecraft through final tests; discover leak in spacesuit system (S)

Chrysler Corp chmn Lynn A Townsend says he will retire on Oct 1; pres John Riccardo is most likely candidate to succeed Townsend with exec vp Eugene A Cafiero becoming pres; Chrysler says Riccardo and Cafiero will be given wider responsibilities as part of broad organizational realignment; says exec vps R K Brown, John A Ford, Gwain H Gillespie and Tom Killefer will sit on new operations com; Townsend, Riccardo and Cafiero pors (L)