August 17, 1975

comment on pol situation in Portugal holds strong Socialist and centrist sentiment expressed by Portuguese in Apr election is now being expressed forcefully in Portugal's streets and armed forces; holds Portugal's Communist party has been placed on defensive and Communist-supported Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves may soon be removed from office (M)

new Bengali Govt moves to take nation out of India's pol orbit; Bangladesh radio stresses common cause of world's Islamic nations and refers in friendly way to Pakistan, which was 1st nation to grant diplomatic recognition to new regime; Pres Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed promises to 'normalize relations in subcontinent." which has been dominated politically by India since '71 war; Indian Govt, in its 1st reaction to coup, says it is 'deeply grieved' by death of Pres Mujibur Rahman; Pakistani Pres Bhutto, in announcing his Govt's diplomatic move, refers to Bangladesh by its new designation as 'The Islamic Repub of Bangladesh'; Mujib had named nation 'The People's Republic of Bangladesh"; govt radio repts that Mujib's body has been buried 'with full honors' in Tungipara (M)

Analyses saying that NYC's munic hospital system could be strengthened by closing tome hospitals and dismissing hundreds of employes were deliberately withheld from bd of dirs of NYC's Health and Hospitals Corp when it was deciding how to economize in budget crisis; repts were kept from bd members by corp pres Dr John L S Holloman Jr, who has opposed closing of any of 19 munic hospitals; corp 1st vp Jopseh M Giglio, who directed studies, says that after he presented 1st study to Holloman last Jan he was told not to talk about it; says he was told same thing about his subsequent studies; Holloman denies attempting to suppress repts; says he did not circulate them because 'we are not just a financial operation' but have 'professional divisions'; says only detailed repts he asked for were those from corp's finance div, headed by Giglio; without access to, repts, bd, supplied mainly with material supporting Holloman's philosophy, resisted closing any hospitals until last May 8 when it voted to close Frances Delafield Hospital; 1st study recommended consolidation of Goldwater Memorial and Bird S Coler Hospitals; Holloman says repts from finance div were just staff papers that had not been approved by him; says a rept is not official policy until he initials and approves it; says no munic hospitals should be closed; disputes charges that munic hospitals are overstaffed; Dr Lowell E Bellin, Acting Health Services Admr and chmn of bd of dirs of Health and Hospitals Corp, comments (L)

Survey shows that US Sup Ct ruling 7 wks ago in Kenneth Donaldson case has apparently not led to release of single mental patient; Ct ruled that mental patients cannot be held in insts against their will if hosp offers no treatment, if person is not dangerous to himself or others, and if person is able to live in community with help of friends or relatives; medical and legal experts say conditions set by Ct are imprecise and need clarification; state comrs of mental health are to discuss issue in Nov; reaction in many states is that ruling does not apply to them; most common reason given is that mental patients are dangerous; attys are looking for appropriate cases to further expand rights of mentally ill persons (M)

NY Times (Ann Crittenden) survey of growing internatl demand for nuclear power, growing export of nuclear materials, and growing concern over potential for spread of nuclear weapons; exporting and recipient countries and some of major cos involved discussed (L)