November 25, 1975

Gov Carey announces that Dem and Repub Legis leaders have 'reached broad understandings' and are now optimistic that $200-million NYC tax pkg, stalled since Nov 21, will pass both houses Nov 25; asserts misunderstandings consisted of 'refinements' in language of tax bills, rather than changes in kinds and amts of taxes to be levied in state's effort to secure Fed aid to prevent NYC default; participants in bipartisan meeting that leads to tax agreement say that basic element is role for Emergency Financial Control Bd (M)

Sen E M Kennedy says Pres Kennedy archives and museum will be built at urban campus of Univ of Mass, Boston, not at Harvard Univ, Cambridge; says there will be a Kennedy School of Govt and a Kennedy inst of Pol at Harvard; controversy over bldg archives and museum at Harvard revd (M)

CUNY Faculty Sen and council of its coll presidents urge NYS to take over CUNY's financing and mgt rather than have univ face additional cuts in already reduced budget; fate of free-tuition policy not mentioned in proposals, but bd members and coll officials see possibility of imposition of tuition comparable to SUNY system, if takeover is enacted; faculty union also calls for dissolution of Higher Educ Bd and proposes plan for tripling state per-student contribution, alternative proposal which would not entail state takeover; bd's plans to cut $55-million more from budget in spring '76 are denounced, with majority of speakers contending further cuts will destroy univ system; past and proposed cuts revd; arguments for and against state takeover noted (L)

Defense Dept, after investing $5.7-billion in Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system, plans to shut it down; has yet to announce decision to place site near Grand Forks, ND, on 'standby status'; HR and Sen have voted to dismantle installation; history of controversy over system; site illus (M)

Md Gov Marvin Mandel and 5 of his friends and pol supporters indicted on Nov 24 by Fed grand jury, Baltimore, on charges of mail fraud, bribery and 'pattern of racketeering activity'; Mandel and W Dale Hess also accused of falsifying Fed income tax returns; Mandel, Hess, Harry W Rodgers 3d, William A Rodgers, Irvin Kovens and Ernest M Cory Jr alleged to have engaged since '69 in 'corrupt practices, fraud and deception' to enrich selves through concealed transactions in which Mandel shared secretly in profits gained by others that were result of his official state actions; most of acts alleged had been widely reptd in Baltimore and Washington press; 'central charge' links Mandel and others to secret ownership of half-mi race track at Upper Marlboro, Md; Mandel accused of vetoing bill that would have given former owners of track profitable additional racing days, then persuading legis to override veto after partners obtained concealed interest in track; in return, Hess-Rodgers group secretly gave Mandel 5% interest in Security-Investment Co, firm that owns large office bldg complex near Baltimore that is leased to Soc Security Adm; Mandel also accused of having recd as gift 15% investment in residential and resort development, Ray's Point Inc, organized by Hess-Rodgers interests; 3 counts involve alleged mailing out of transcripts of Mandel news confs in which Gov purportedly lied to newsmen; Kovens and Cory charged with 'corrupt' and 'fraudulent' role in race track transaction; US Atty Jervis S Finney asks Fed Dist Ct for gag order barring public comment by any defendants or witnesses in investigation or forthcoming trial; Mandel says he will ask prompt trial to prove innnocence and not resign, statement; por (L)