Sec Kissinger, meeting with Chinese officials in Peking, is told that relations between nations have moved forward in last yr; reporters say that this statement in intended to dampen recent speculation that China was unhappy over progress in US pledge to ultimately withdraw from Taiwan (M)

KISSINGER WARNED BY CHINA OF PERIL IN DETENTE POLICY

In what appeared to be one of Beirut's most violent nights this year, fighting broke out again in the city, spilling into the area where many foreigners live. Page 4.

Beirut Strife Erupts

NYS Controller Arthur Levitt analyzes NYC's fiscal mistakes; expresses belief that lack of planning and 'inflationary psychology' led to financial crisis (L)

LEVITT ANALYZES CITY'S MISTAKES

SKATING IN THE RAIN: No customers showed up at the Rockefeller Center rink yesterday, so Marion Altlinger, an instructor, went for a turn by herself. The

The New York Times/Jack Manniog

Heavy rains in Boston caused the postponement of the sixth game of the World Series for the second straight day. The Cincinnati Reds, who need one more victory for their first Series triumph since 1940, and the Red Sox will attempt to play the game tonight at 8:30.

Series Rained Out; Jets Defeated, 43‐0

one in series of articles on new proposals being discussed or implemented to help NYC save money and improve or tighten services as result of fiscal crisis discusses 3-yr Met Transportation Auth program aimed at rewinning subway riders (S)

3‐Year M.T.A. Program Seeks to Rewin Riders

bipartisan group of Sens begin laying group work for cutting defense budget by contending that defense appropriations bill passed by HR exceeds Cong budget guidelines by $1-billion; joint statement, signed by Dem Sens Alan Cranston, Thomas F Eagleton, Edward M Kennedy and William Proxmire and Repub Sens Charles McC Mathias Jr, Mark O Hatfield and Richard S Schweiker, argues that Sen must make additional cuts in defense budget if Cong is to demonstrate fiscal responsibility and make its new budgetary process work; group makes public estimate by Cong budget Office that HR's $90.2-billion defense appropriations bill exceeded Cong budgetary target by $932-million; Sen sources say Sen Appropriations Com chmn John L McClellan has instructed com to prepare bill adding about $1-billion to HR measure; reliance on new budgetary guidelines represents different approach by Sen liberals in usually unsucessful efforts to cut annual defense appropriations bill substantially; new budgetary procudures described (M)

BIPARTISAN BLOC IN SENATE FIGHTS TO CUT ARMS FUND

Article notes that 3 yrs after reprs of 113 nations met at UN Conf on Human Environment, Stockholm, to attack world's environmental problems, rate of progress in solving them is both encouraging and dissatisfying to those involved; petition signed by thousands in many countries will be presented to UN on Oct 24, exhorts UN to intensify internatl efforts to protect and improve global environment; summary of and evaluation of programs started at conf noted; UN environmental chief Maurice F Strong comments (L)

U.N. Environment Effort: A Start, a Long Way to Go

Islip, LI, Supervisor Peter Fox Cohalan, chief architect of plan to create 'adult entertainment zone' in area, says plan was abandoned; deputy Frank R Jones cites adverse publicity; charges Dems have 'completely distorted' issue and made it into 'grotesque matter'; Cohalan, Repub running for re-election, said purpose of plan was to stop spread of bars featuring nude dancers into residential dists in Islip; under plan, adult entertainment area would have been established by instituting complex zoning changes; Suffolk Dem chmn Dominic J Baranello, Supervisor aspirant Louis Palombi, Min Nicholas Nappi and Nassau-Suffolk regional planning bd dir Lee E Koppelman comment on their opposition (M)

Islip Drops Plan for Pornography Zone

Former Fed Govt informer and witness James Jelicks, who contends that Mafia forced him into playing major role in conspiracy to discredit Fed investigators of organized crime in NJ, is currently aiding state officials in their inquiry into Mafia operations; law enforcement officials comment; Jelicks story concerning Mafia conspiracy discussed (L)

‘Double Agent’

Article finds that worldwide fertilizer shortage of '74 now is past but notes that there has been decline in fertilizer usage, and therefore in potential food production, in world's poorest countries; notes that fertilizer mfrs, who increased prices during shortage, are expecting huge profits; impact of shortage noted; notes that in some of poorest nations that fertilizer consumption has fallen as much as 30%-40%; US, major donor of fertilizer, has reduced aid; some observers fear that food production has not been so high as it might have been in hungriest areas; steep price increases also have meant that poor countries have had to spend so much scarce foreign exch to pay escalating fertilizer bills that they were forced to defer expenditures in other vital sectors; Blythe Eastman Dillon & Co broker Robert J Eastman, Internatl Commodities Export Co pres Emil S Finley, IMC pres and chief exec officer Richard A Lenon and Internatl Fertilizer Development Center employe Dr Paul J Stangel comment (L)

With Fertilizer Shortage Past, Poor Countries Are Still Hungry

State Emergency Financial Control Bd's final action on Mayor Beame's 3-yr austerity plan reptdly will include measures to shave construction budget even more than Beame intends; several involved officials express concern at size of capital budget; city officials reply that capital cutbacks already are severely close to fine line of minimal physical maintenance and growth (S)

STATE ACTS TODAY ON CITY FINANCES; NEW CUTS LIKELY

Pope Paul beatifies 4 Eur missionaires in apparent effort to attract more volunteers to RC missionary work; 4 are Sister Maria Theresa Ledochowska, who founded Sodality of St Peter Claver for African missions and campaigned against slavery, Rev Joseph Freinademetz, missionary in China for 29 yrs, Rev Arnold Janssen, who founded Divine World Missionaries, Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters and Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, and Most Rev Charles Joseph Eugene de Mazenod, who founded Oblates of Mary Immaculate (S)

4 European Missionaries Are Beatified by Pope Paul

Communist-led Pathet Lao leaders' use of anti-Amer songs and re-education seminars apparently to mold Laotians into nationalistic and highly mobilized and rigidly disciplined soc described; sharp contrasts in life-styles present in Vientiane noted as Communists strive to gently cajole people into changing (M)

Communists Use Songs and Seminars In Drive to Remold Gentle Laotians

situation at US bases since July 29, when Turkey put them under her command, and outlook for negotiation of new status now that arms embargo has been partly lifted, discussed; effect of suspension of activities at intelligence-gathering bases such as Sinop also discussed; map of these bases (M)

Americans Adjust to Turkish Command of Bases

Morocco has brushed aside Spanish protests and is going ahead with plans for peaceful march by 350,000 volunteers led by King Hassan II into Spanish Sahara to back Morocco's claim to northwest African territory; Spanish Saharan groups Natl Union party and Algerian-backed Polisario Front say followers will mass along northern border to block march; Moroccan officials apparently are hoping for some Western support in emergency UN Security Council session, due to meet on Oct 20 at Spain's request; Moroccan Information Min Ahmed Taibi Benhima has issued communique denouncing Spanish request for meeting; illus (L)

Morocco, Unyielding, Gets Set for March

Japan's Kyodo news service quotes China's Natl People's Cong Standing Com deputy chmn Tan Chen-lin as saying that China's new 5-yr plan will give priority to agriculture and steel indus (S)

China to Stress Steel

strike against El Al by maintenance workers enters 4th day (S)

Israeli Air Strike in 4th Day

Killing of Spanish civil guard Manuel Lopez Trivino and shooting incident on French-Spanish border has brought renewed tension to Spain's troubled Basque region; there is no immediate indication of who is responsible for either attack (S)

BASQUE AREA TENSE AFTER 2 SHOOTINGS

violent fighting erupts in central Beirut after midnight on Oct 20; some fighting spills into Ras Beirut section of city, where many foreigners live, but main front is Bechara el Khour St, major dividing line between Christian and Moslem neighborhoods; new violence comes on eve of meeting of pol subcom of recently established natl dialogue com that is to consider pol reforms demanded by some Moslem and leftist groups; 2 people are reptd killed and 10 wounded in fighting on Oct 19; map (M)

Intense Fighting Resumes in Beirut And Spreads Into Foreign Quarter

French Cabinet Min Pierre Abelin is re-elected with 52.6% of vote to seat from Chatellerault in Natl Assembly on Oct 20 after intense campaign that pol leaders considered test of prestige and policies of Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing; defeats Socialist Edith Cresson, who received 47.4% of vote (M)

GISCARD MINISTER IS ELECTION VICTOR

3 US soldiers die in accident during NATO maneuvers in W Ger, including Sgt Forest Deloch (S)

3 Soldiers Die in Europe

5 persons reptd dead in Manila on Oct 19, when tropical depression passes over northern Philippines, bringing winds of up to 34 miles an hr, flooding and 8 inches of rain in 24-hr period (S)

5 Killed in Manila Storm

major Jewish orgn leaders in US sharply condemn resolution adopted by UN Soc, Humanitarian and Cultural Com equating Zionism with racial discrimination (S)

Criticism in U.S.

Israeli Foreign Min Yigal Allon deplores UN Soc, Humanitarian and Cultural Com vote equating Zionism with racism but expresses satisfaction that Arabs did not muster majority with usual ease, rept to Israeli Cabinet (S)

October 20, 1975

Headlines from October 20, 1975

KISSINGER WARNED BY CHINA OF PERIL IN DETENTE POLICY

Beirut Strife Erupts

LEVITT ANALYZES CITY'S MISTAKES

The New York Times/Jack Manniog

Series Rained Out; Jets Defeated, 43‐0

Billboard 200

Windsong

Wish You Were Here

Born To Run

Red Octopus

Win; Lose Or Draw

Historical Context for October 20, 1975