September 28, 1975

EPA Admr Russell E Train's directive ordering his assts to reduce number and complexity of regulations to combat pollution has raised charges by conservationists that Ford Adm has abandoned natl commitment for clean air and water; order appears to parallel Pres Ford's announced drive to reduce unnecessary or arbitrary actions by Fed Govt; EPA deputy dir John R Quarles denies that agency's effort has been taken in direct response to Pres's position and defends campaign as being required to improve agency's performance, int; Natural Resources Defense Council atty David G Hawkins charges that policy will produce delay and inaction in environmental programs and will frustrate citizen participation by creating body of secret agency decision-making; Ford's speeches have emphasized importance of eliminating many regulations as part of effort to induce business to compete harder and thus reduce costs to customers (M)

Norwegian Premier Trygve Bratteli says nation's oil production will be ltd to prevent dislocations in labor force, distortion of econ by oil revenues and destruction of traditional way of life; production will total 9-million tons this yr, equaling amount nation consumes; is expected to reach 25-million tons in '76, 33-million tons in '77 and 90-million tons by beginning of '80s, where Govt expects to keep it for 100 yrs; businessmen and trade unionists, as well as Western nations, argue that Norway should exploit North Sea resources at faster pace; farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and lefitist urge lower production goal; por (M)

Chase Manhattan Bank of Central NY pres Dennis Longwell urges Fed Govt to intervene in NYC fiscal crisis, lr to Syracuse Mayor Lee Alexander, who asked for advisory opinion to prepare for appearance last wk with 12 other mayors before Cong Joint Econ Com; Chase Manhattan (NYC) sr vp acknowledges that document was worked out at Chase hq; stand, in effect, pits Chase Manhattan, whose chmn is David Rockefeller, against Vice Pres Rockefeller, David's bro, who has counseled Pres Ford not to intervene; lr cites turmoil in capital mkt for munic securities, fears further erosion if NYS or NYC fails to meet maturing obligations; Longwell says that 'it wasn't just a coincidence' that lr was written day Ford discussed fiscal crisis with David Rockefeller, First Natl City Bank pres Walter Wriston and Morgan Guaranty chmn Ellmore C Patterson; Alexander also submitted to com analysis by law firm of Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander warning of far-reaching consequences of NYC default; Repr Samuel S Stratton proposes 5-point program for providing Fed aid which he says 'would cost Fed Govt virtually nothing' (M)

survey of growing adversary relationship between public employe unions and politicians notes NYC Mayor Beame won over-all constituency points when he ordered wage freeze and removal of thousands of employes from city payroll in battle against bankruptcy (S)

5 convicted pol terrorists are executed by firing squads Sept 27 after Spanish Govt denies appeals for clemency and disregards violent protests in other parts of Eur; 5 are Juan Peredes Manotas and Angel Otaegui Echeverria of Basque group ETA, and Ramon Garcia Sanz, Jose Luis Sanchez Bravo and Jose Francisco Baena Alonso, members of Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front; demonstration in Madrid by 2 small groups of leftists are quickly dispersed by police; official attitude is defiance of all external pressures that have been placed on Spanish Govt in last few days; attacks on official and semi-official Spanish missions in such places as Lisbon, Brussels, Paris and Rome are denounced by state-run TV as part of international Communist-inspired campaign; Ambs of W Ger, Denmark, Norway and Netherlands protest executions; Pope Paul and Common Market condemn sentences; Spanish Ambs in Oslo, Hague and Bonn are recalled to Madrid in apparent retaliation; Spain withdraws diplomatic mission from Portugal but stops short of breaking relations; Portuguese leftists sack andburn Spanish Embassy and Consulate in Lisbon; illus of Franco and Spanish Embassy in Lisbon (M)