November 21, 1975

Franco, in message to Spanish people made public on day of his death, appealed for continued unity, warning that 'enemies of Spain and of Christian civilization are watching'; message, believed to have been written few days after Franco fell ill on Oct 14, is made public by Premier Carlos Arias Navarro; body is taken from La Paz Hosp to official residence of Chief of State in Pardo Palace, Madrid, where it will lie in state; public will be able to view body on Nov 21; illus (M)

Sen Intelligence Com repts Nov 20 that US Govt officials initiated assassination plot of Gen Rene Schneider; finds no evidence that any foreign leader was killed as result of US assassination plots (S)

Fed Election Comm, 5-1, rules that money spent to finance Pres Ford's pol travel as announced candidate in '75 should not be charged against his '76 campaign spending ceiling, except in special cases, but that all of Ford's domestic travel in '76 will be presumed to be in support of his candidacy, thus its cost will count against $10-million limit imposed on all Pres aspirants for primary elections; decision increases by hundreds of thousands of dollars amt Ford will be able to spend to turn back Repub primary challenge by Ronald Reagan; ruling also permits Dem Pres aspirants to exempt from campaign spending cost of their travel during rest of '75 as long as they are engaged in 'party building' rather than personal pol promotion; comm suggests that Repub Natl Com give 'equitable treatment' to Reagan during rest of '75 by financing his 'party building' trips; Dem Natl Com attacks comm ruling, saying Ford's appearances before Repub-sponsored functions since June 19, announcement of his candidacy should be attributable to cost of his '76 campaign; comm also approves receipt of Fed matching funds for primary campaigns aspirants Ford, Jimmy Carter, Lloyd Bentsen, Henry M Jackson and Terry Sanford; delays approval of others (M)

Sen sources say Sen Dem leadership prevented floor vote on making public Sen Select Intelligence Com's rept on pol assassinations; com votes to make it public; Sen J G Tower disassociates himself from rept because of Sen's failure to vote to adopt it; Sen R C Byrd says he objected to vote on whether to publish rept on ground that it was unfair to require Sens to vote to release a document they had not read and because Sen delegated to com the responsibility for making a rept and a vote would have been demeaning to com; Sens F Church, B Goldwater, W F Mondale, R S Schweiker and R Morgan comment (M)

The three‐year‐old merger that produced the 217,000member New York State Union Teachers is on the verge of being dissolved, leading observers to expect intensified strife between the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. Page 47.