November 28, 1975

NYC Housing Authority will soon announce availability of Fed rent subsidies for 1,075 NYC residents of low or moderate incomes who live in substandard housing or who live in adequate housing but have severe rent problems; largest problem facing city is how to distribute allotment and officials are preparing for massive screening program; 3,000 additional certificates have been issued but it is uncertain when these will be distributed; formal announcement of program is tentatively planned for Dec 15 (L)

Chinese People's Repub quietly turns to Amer cos for highly sophisticated equipment and tech to allow it to accelerate offshore oil production, make more accurate assessments of onshore and offshore reserves and advance production and refining techniques; accelerated petroleum development has reptdly been given major priority in next 5-yr plan; purchases are expected to continue regardless of state of US-Chinese relations; China continues to eschew aid in form of exploration, production and service contracts with big oil cos, contracts that could greatly speed up development; currently produces estimated 1.3-millions bbls of oil a day and has proved reserves equal to those of Indonesia and Nigeria, but potential reserves offshore could put it in class with Middle East; Prime Min Chou En-lai says port facilities to fill supertankers with oil from shipment abroad will be operational within a few yrs; Houston-based cos dealing with Chinese listed; Raymond G Cox (Geo Space Corp), Christopher H Phillips (Natl Council For US-China Trade) and Anthony Reso (Houston Geological Soc) comment (M)

News analysis of Pres Ford's decision to back direct Fed loans to NYC to avert default (L)

Recent travelers from China rept Chiang Ching, Chmn Mao Tse-tung's wife, is under strong criticism and may have dropped in Communist Party standing because she disclosed confidential data to Amer Assoc Prof Roxane Witke; say Mao reptdly was furious when he read transcripts of her ints with Witke; she and another leading leftist, Wang Hung-wen, appear to have been in eclipse in recent mos, making few public appearances; unusually large number of old party regulars who suffered because of her during '60s Cultural Revolution have been rehabilitated in last few mos; analysts see possible efforts by more moderate party leaders, particularly Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, to consol power; say Teng and his associates may have seized upon some indiscreet remark by Chiang in ints as pretext for attacking her; Witke denies knowledge of Chiang's reptd troubles, phone int; says Chiang is vulnerable to criticism as woman in man's role and because ints were unconventional, irregular act; notes Chiang told her Mao failed to visit or phone her in '57 when she was in Moscow hosp and he visited Moscow; says she seemed to be faithful Mao follower; denies repts that Chinese diplomats in US pressed her not to go ahead with her biog of Chiang, but says she was encouraged to make book history of Chinese Revolution from Mao's viewpoint; Chiang por (M)

Portuguese Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes says coup of vast proportions has been quelled; pledges to defend multiparty democracy; Army Chief of Staff Gen Carlos Fabiao is dismissed; Gomes attributes rebellion to 'false left'; Portuguese centrist forces apparently have emerged from crisis with renewed strength; big losers apparently are groups to left of Communist party that advocated popular insurrection and rise of 'people's power'; rebellion detailed; Lisbon region remains under state of siege; Armed Forces Command declares mil situation normalized; northern mil command says 51 officers and noncommissioned officers implicated in revolt are being held in Oporto prison, including mil police comdrs Maj Antonio Augusto Cuco Rose, Maj Carlos Jose Campos de Andrade and Maj Mario Antonio Baptista Tome; Gen Otelo Saraivo de Caravalho, who has been stripped of mil security chief post, reptdly is at home in nearby seaside resort; Gomes names Col Ramalho Eanes to replace Fabiao; civilian leaders of radical left groups reptdly have gone into hiding; Marines reptdly disperse crowd of leftist demonstrators in front of Almada naval fort across Tagus River from Lisbon; fort comdr reptdly has been removed; cavalry troops are brought into Setubal to control civilians who are everting pressure on local infantry regiment to give them arms; Finance Min says all banks and credit institutions will reopen Nov 28; Revolutionary High Council leader Maj Ernesto Melo Antunes asserts Communist party participation is 'indispensable to construction of socialism'; statement is widely interpreted as concession that Communists have proved they can yield force; central mil region comdr Brig Manuel Franco Charais says much of current pol unrest is result of conflicts between Communist and Socialist parties; Carvalho and Fabiao pors (M)