November 20, 1975

FBI asst deputy dir James B Adams tells Sen Select Intelligence Com that he can confirm that FBI mailed Dr Martin Luther King Jr a tape recording in late '64; says he assumed anonymous threatening lr found in FBI files accompanied tape; says he cannot conclude that lr's purpose was to force a suicide; says FBI is not trying to avoid embarrassment but is only trying to hold back names of informants and sensitive projects; says many FBI counterintelligence projects were started by men who 'felt they had a responsibility to act,' and did so; concedes there was no legal authority for harassment tactics and that FBI officials acted outside authority in taking part in them; asks for clear-cut guidelines and law on what FBI's domestic security role should be; says original decision to investigate King was made because it was feared his movement was being infiltrated by members of Communist party; declines to discuss details of investigation because he says it might endanger an ongoing FBI investigation; com discloses what was known at FBI as 'no comment' list, publications to which FBI agents and officials were forbidden to make comment; NY Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CBS and NBC appeared on list (L)

Greater New Haven (Conn) Central Labor Council calls strike meeting to urge 30,000 workers in 92 affiliated unions in New Haven area to walk out in support of striking local teachers; public schools are ordered to shut as result; nearly 1,000 janitors, cafeteria workers and other employes join school strike Nov 19; teachers' dispute detailed; illus (M)

The New York Jets football team, which has lost six straight games, dismissed Charley Winner as head coach yesterday. Ken Shipp, an assistant, was named interim coach. Page 55.

Queen Elizabeth, in traditional speech opening new session of Parliament, says Govt will continue to strive for constitutional solution to problems of N Ireland; says Govt will ask for new antiterrorist law to help combat wave of bombings in London and other parts of GB (M)

Air pollution emergency declared in Pittsburgh, Pa, area by Allegheny County Comrs as weather inversion causes air pollution reading to rise to 249 on scale of 300 in Monogahela and Yougiogheny River Valleys; AP repts US Steel Corp was ordered to shut down Clairton Coke Works as result of air pollution emergency; warnings issued for persons with respiratory or heart conditions (M)