September 8, 1975

Israeli arms procurement in US is about to accelerate, focusing on weapons to cope with change in mil situation in Middle East caused by recent signing of Egyptian-Israeli Sinai agreement; Israeli Govt sources say negotiations have resumed on shopping list that includes: F-15 fighter planes, hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers, surface-to-surface missiles and advanced electronic countermeasures and laser-guided munitions, or 'smart bombs'; Defense Dept estimates that Israeli arms acquisitions will cost more than $2.2-billion; illus of F-15 (L)

NYC pss open for new term on Sept 8 facing possibility of teachers' strike on Sept 9 and with over-all educ prospects gloomiest in many yrs because of fiscal crisis; Educ Bd and union negotiators continue talks in attempt to work out new contract that would avert strike; NYS mediators Harold Newman and Louis Yagoda comment on talks; Bd's chief negotiator Robert Christen sees money issue as main block to settlement, while other sources see picture complicated by city's fiscal problem which prevents bd from making financial commitment; union to hold gen meeting and vote on strike action on Sept 8; 4 separate illus of Newman, Yagoda, Christen, Albert Shanker and UFT officials Sandy Feldman and Lucille Swaim (L)

Calif's new farm labor law has thrown entire collective-bargaining future of state's 250,000 farm workers 'up for grabs'; all existing labor contracts can be challenged if majority of workers on farm petition for election at harvest time; state's 2 principal farm labor representatives, United Farm Workers and Teamsters, are locked in struggle in state's central valleys in dozens of union elections; factors in each union's favor noted; United Farm Workers pres Cesar Chavez comments on troubles that reprs have been encountering in trying to gain access to workers; illus (L)

Twelve people were reported taken from a bus in Tripoli, Lebanon, and shot to death by gunmen from the nearby town of Zgharta in a renewal of communal fighting. Page 3.

Like a matador taunting a bull, Manuel Orantes destroyed Jimmy Connors, 6‐4, 6‐3, 6‐3, yesterday for the men's singles title in the United States Open tennis championships.