August 13, 1975

VAIL, Colo., Aug. 12—“Ohhh!” exclaimed the President of the United States in mild exasperation as he threeputted the the third green of a golf course nestled nearly two miles up in the Rockies. Gerald R. Ford is on vacation.

NYS Gov Carey signs 2 bills making beaver and brook trout NYS's official animal and fish; ignores complaints from Ore Sen pres Jason Boe and former Ore Gov Tom McCall that beaver already is their state animal; NYS Sen John D Caemmerer's complaint about beavers noted; comment on 17th century beaver hat craze which severely reduced NYS beaver population; illus (M)

After nearly 10 yrs of stalemate, black and white leaders of Rhodesia announce that they have agreed to meet within 2 wks to discuss new const for Rhodesia, Aug 12; talks will be held no later than Aug 25 in rr cars parked on bridge over Zambezi River just below Victoria Falls on border between Rhodesia and Zambia; dispute over location of meeting discussed; Rhodesian Prime Min Ian D Smith had insisted that talks be held in Rhodesia; African Natl Council had demanded that talks be held outside country, claiming that Smith might arrest black negotiators if talks broke down; talks are aimed at giving parties opportunity to express genuine desire to negotiate acceptable settlement; after conf adjourns, a formal conf will be held to ratify com proposals agreed upon; South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia have expressed willingness to insure that agreement is implemented by 2 parties involved (L)

US Army discloses Aug 12 that Harold Blauer, patient at NY Psychiatric Inst, died 22 yrs ago in Army-sponsored experiment with hallucinogenic drugs; death is first rept by mil in experiments with mind-altering drugs that ran from early '50s until about 3 wks ago and included nearly 4,000 subjects; Army reveals details on tests, conducted by civilians working under an Army contract with inst involving derivatives of drug mescaline; Blauer's daughter, Elizabeth Barrett, says her mother told her Blauer was given LSD and that he reacted badly to it; inst dir Dr Sidney Malitz, who was not at inst at time of experiments, says permission for tests was obtained voluntarily from Blauer; daughter says her mother, now dead, sued NYS for Blauer's death and settled out of ct for, she thought, $13,000; says father reptdly got fatal drug dose on day before he was due for discharge, Jan 8, '53; Army gave cause of death as heart attack; says it does not have contract number or other details of tests; Repr Thomas J Downey gives details on Army payments to inst; comment on disclosures on US Govt experiments on humans with mind-altering drugs as disclosed by Commission on CIA Activities Within the US, headed by Vice Pres Rockefeller; Malitz says inst began experiments on its own with LSD and various depressants in '46 and continued them until the early '60s (M)

Portuguese mil officers petition Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes to end what they view as efforts by Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves to turn Portugal into Communist state on Eastern Eur lines; Pres Costa Gomes says he docs not know how many mil men have signed document, but that sponsors of campaign claim 90% support in armed forces; document's contents noted; High Council of Revolution holds meeting; 9 suspended mil officers, sponsors of document, do not attend meeting; document has lately become rallying point for anti-Communist forces; rallies held in Evora and Viseu noted; both ended in violence; support for document has come from Pres Costa Gomes and Brig Gen Otelo Sarvaiva de Carvalho, members of ruling triumvirate; it appears that Costa Gomes and Carvalho are hoping that Goncalves will resign after finding it impossible to govern; Goncalves is described as disposed to fight to end; illus of anti-Communist demonstrators (L)

Oberammergau, W Ger, elders decree that next version of town's famous Passion Play will not use text that blames Jews for death of Jesus; for yrs there has been criticism that text was anti-Semitic; '80 performances will use script that ascribes condemnation and Crucifixion to Lucifer; text to be used was written in 1750 by Ferdinand Rosner; Mayor Ernst Zwink says that bringing presentation up to date in time for rehearsals in '77 will cost about $200,000 (M)

Grand jury votes 76-count indictment against 8 former officials and employes of Franklin Natl Bank and parent Franklin NY Corp on Fed charges involving loss of more than $30-million of bank's money in unauthorized speculation in foreign currencies; indictment follows arrest of former bank exec vice chmn Peter R Shaddick; former dir Carlo Bordoni is also indicted, but his whereabout are unknown; Michele Sindona is not charged in indictment; other defendants are Arthur Slutzky, former head of bank's back-office operations for foreign exch, former vp Andrew Garofalo, and former foreign-exch traders Donald Emrich, Martin Keroes, Paul Sabatella and Michael Romersa; indictment results from investigation still underway by US Atty's Office, Controller of Currency and FBI; prosecutor John J Kenney says indictment charges defendants with unauthorized speculation in foreign exch, which caused bank to take short position exceeding $400-million at 1 point; indictment alleges that defendants concealed this speculation from responsible bank mgt and from Fed regulatory authorities by failing to record contracts for sale of foreign currencies, submitting false repts and entering into fictitions contracts with foreign banks; alleges defendants caused bank to file false financial statements with Fed banking authorities and SEC from Mar '73 to Mar '74, when bank claimed profit of $79,000 although it had loss of more than $30-million; charges bank used these false financial statements to obtain $35-million extension of credit from Mfrs Hanover Trust Co and that other investors and creditors of bank were defrauded by these false financial repts; charges 6 of defendants of conspiracy to obstruct justice by allegedly impeding investigation; accuses Slutzky of giving false testimony to SEC investigator in June '74 and Garofalo of testifying falsely to grand jury on Mar 5; charges all 8 defendants with conspiracy, misapplication of bank funds and filing of false statements involving numerous foreign-currency transactions; says defendants sought to cover up fact that improper speculation in foreign exch was resulting in substantial losses and endangering very existence of bank (L)

Schwartz, Herman (Prof) Schwartz named Chmn of reorganized Correction Comm

Article on growing movement among police depts in cities throughout US to use civilians; figures collected by FBI show that percentage of civilians in police depts has grown from 7% in '50 to 13.2% in '72 and promise to go much higher; study by Urban Inst indicates that 35.565 civilians working in police depts in '70 should grow to 55,000 by '80 and to 73,000 by 2000, based on anticipated urban growth and needs; impetus behind growth in civilian use by police depts is seen as freeing officers for critical police functions; civilians seen as worthy of more intensive recruitment because they work for less and require shorter departmental training and civilians have wider skills and enhance capability of police depts to function smoothly; police and law enforcement officials comment (M)

John Walker of New Zealand became the first man to run the mile in less than 3 minutes 50 seconds. His time was 3:49.4 at an international track meet in Goteborg, Sweden. Page 39.

kidnappers of Samuel Bronfman are reptd to be demanding $4.5-million ransom and to have 'buried' victim with 10 day supply of air and water; law enforcement officials decline to say anything about timetable put forward in ransom lr but indicated that arrangements were to be concluded before end of wk; Bronfman family public relations consultant Charles G Leedham says there would be no family comment on ransom lr and sum demanded and that nothing has been done yet concerning ransom because family wants assurances that Samuel is alive and well; illus of Leedham (M)

analysis of Ford Adm's decision not to criticize authoritarian trend in India contends that decision has revived dispute over whether US should speak out against injustices or avoid interfering in internal affairs of other nations; says State Sec Kissinger has recd more criticism for his policy of noninterference than for any other aspect of his conduct of foreign affairs (M)