September 9, 1975

NYS Educ Comr Ewald Nyquist urges imposition of tuition fees at CUNY, with full-time undergrads paying same fees as SUNY students, $650 annually for freshmen and sophomores and $800 for jrs and srs; recommends Higher Educ Bd take such action at next meeting on Sept 22, and put it into effect at spring semester; says proposal will yield $32-million in new revenues; proposal draws bitter opposition from leaders of bd and student bodies; bd chmn Alfred A Giardino, bd member Franklin H Williams, and NYS Deputy Educ Comr T Edward Hollander comment (M)

NYS Gov Hugh Carey's emergency plan, which will pump $2.3-billion into NYC during next 3 mos and force reformation of city's fiscal machinery to avoid default, is put to debate in State Sen after 80-70 passage in Assembly; lawmakers act after warnings of state-wide credit disaster in event of default by city; Sen session begins amid expectation of final passage after Repub Majority leader Warren M Anderson expresses optimism that Fed officials currently are more concerned about city's problem; Carey plan revd; bickering between Assembly's Dems and Repubs noted; criticisms of Mayor Abraham Beame and former NYC politicians Nelson Rockefeller, John V Lindsay and Robert F Wagner noted; Dems opposed to Carey measure listed as: Ronald A Stott, Melvin N Zimmer, Andrew D Virgilio, Roger J Robach, Matthew J Murphy, G James Fremming, Dennis T Gorski and Vincent J Graber (L)

UFT membership votes on Sept 8 to strike NYC 950 pss, move that will disrupt educ of some 1-million pupils on 2d day of new term; more than 20,000 teachers approve strike in voice vote; NYC Educ Bd, following strike vote, seeks ct injunction against union under NYS Taylor law prohibiting strikes by public employes; union acts after collapse of efforts by NYS mediators and fact-finders to avert walkout by getting both UFT and Educ Bd to agree to extend temporarily school contract that expired midnight Sept 8; bd's rejection of last-minute compromise providing for indefinite extension of old contract on grounds it would have weakened its further bargaining position noted; negotiations revd; 3 separate illus of Albert Shanker, UFT members and Shanker and membership during strike vote (L)

US Army discloses that it surrepitituously gave LSD to soldiers in cocktails in much same way as CIA conducted tests that led to death of patient, HR Armed Services Com hearing; says there were no deaths in Army's tests during late '50's and early '60's, but that comdrs apparently coerced soldiers into participating in experiments and that soldiers had not been informed about nature of experiment; says orgn and its research insts had at times failed to follow 'sound ethical principles' in experiments with hallucinogens and other drugs involving more than 7,000 persons in past 25 yrs; Army gen counsel Charles D Ablard tells subcom that experiments with hallucinogens began partly in hopes of finding alternative to nuclear war, and that concept was enthusiastically and openly discussed in mil publications and before Cong in late '50's; says Army, like CIA, also is interested in knowing how drugs might be applied in intelligence operations, particularly how they might be used by foreign agents to break down Amer agents; says Army's initial interest in hallucinogens was spurred by intelligence repts that other govts had made large purchases of 'possible hallucinogenic agents' as well as information that foreign agents captured by US and allies had been transporting drugs to control behavior of captives; says experiments in which soldiers were unwittingly fed LSD were part of series of tests to determine potential applications of drug in intelligence operations; says tests indicated drug could be effective in reducing resistance to interrogation; says information was withheld from soldiers in order not to prejudice experimental results by suggestion; Army ceased experimenting with LSD in '67 because of its unpredictability, but maintains arsenal of other potent hallucinogens at Pine Bluff, Ark; death of Harold Blauer during Army-administered drug tests in '53 noted; Repr F Edward Hebert illus with Lieut Gen Richard R Taylor (L)

Justice Dept contends that Cong had ample reason to conclude that ex-Pres Nixon 'would not be a trustworthy custodian, even temporarily' for his Pres papers; urges US Dist Ct, Washington, DC, to reject Nixon's bid to win back possession of materials and to uphold constitutionality of statute that placed them in Govt's custody; statute is Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act; dept brief cites series of what it calls 'threats to the integrity of the Pres materials'; cites as 'threat' the 18 12/-min gap in 1 crucial White House tape; cites 'Nixon's propensity to distort the historical record'; brief makes repeated references to what it describes as Cong's 'rational' conclusion that Nixon should not be trusted to preserve his materials intact; brief is signed by Asst Atty Gen Rex E Lee, Deputy Asst Atty Gen Irwin Goldbloom and dept attys David J Anderson, Jeffrey F Axelrad and John T Boese; Watergate prosecutor's office asks, in brief signed by Henry S Ruth Jr, Peter M Kreindler and Kenneth S Geller, to withdraw from case (L)