October 15, 1975

Pres Ford releases 'white paper' on drug abuse calling for concentration of Fed drug control efforts on substances that pose greatest risk to users and lower priority enforcement against less 'destructive' drugs, including marijuana; describes rept, prepared by members of Domestic Council, as 'realistic'; findings; Adm sources rept white paper was bitterly criticized by Customs Comr Vernon D Acree, who maintains it is unprofessional, biased, unobjective, will grossly mislead Pres and that it ignores role of Customs Bur in drug enforcement; Acree reptdly sees strong moral need not to assign lower priority to enforcement of laws against marijuana and cocaine, as white paper did; feels paper underestimated seriousness of current drug situation in US, contending that smuggling of illicit drugs into country is at highest level in nation's history (L)

With Amer Prof Tjalling C Koopmans, wins '75 Nobel Memorial Prize in Econ Science for contribution to theory of optimum allocation of resources; illus (M)

CUNY Chancellor Robert J Kibbee sends to NYC Higher Educ Bd a far-ranging set of proposals for restructuring univ to cut its scale of operations by 20%; proposals call for reducing size of faculty and full-time student body by 1/5, lengthening school yr to allow students to earn degrees more quickly, and increasing both salaries and work loads of remaining professors; believe scaling down could be accomplished while keeping univ's tradition of not charging tuition and with bd's 'original' concept of open admissions; proposals also include imposing tuition on all summer-school students and those who do not complete at least 9 credits a yr, restricting automatic admission to recent hs grads, and a financial formula to bring state aid for CUNY students into line with amts paid for those in SUNY, reducing percentage of support provided by city; other measures outlined; proposals come in wake of serious and continuing financial problems for univ (L)

failures in PR mfg have led to mild revival in agr, with agr yields up 8.3% in fiscal '75; PR Govt also has plans for back-to-land drive by redistributing thousands of acres of land to families who will till them in type of homesteading project (S)

Cincinnati Reds defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-5, on Oct 14 in 3d game of World Series; lead 2 games to 1; illustrations (L)