Conn Gen Assembly com rejects shifting veterans benefit fund into state's gen funds after protests by veterans (S)

AUSTERITY EFFORT LOSES IN HARTFORD

Conn Gaming Comm clears late John M Bailey on Dec 3 of charges that he accepted $250,000 cash payment to help David Friend, developer of Bridgeport, Conn, jai alai fronton, to get state license; unanimous official rept states that Bailey 'never received any payments from Friend or anyone else in connection with Bridgeport jai alai fronton'; Bailey's widow Barbara and Conn Gov Ella T Grasso comment on ruling; situation revd (M)

Panel CIears Bailey On Jai‐Alai Funds

Justice John M. Murtagh of the State Supreme Court has ordered Maurice H. Nadjari, the special state prosecutor, to stop presenting evidence to a grand jury now investigating Surrogate S. Samuel DiFalco's role in a controversial 1963 estate settlement, court papers disclosed yesterday. Page 81.

4th Nadjari Setback

official rept delivered at Sup Soviet shows that USSR harvest, which was hit by severe drought in summer, appears to have yielded as little as 137.2-million tons of grain, about 78-million tons less than planned; USSR, if figure is correct, has suffered most disastrous harvest failure in decade; 137.2-million figure is derived from speech, which was carried by agr newspaper Selskaya Zhizn and by evening Govt newspaper Izvestia; Deputy Prime Min Nikolai K Baibakov put '76 goal at 206-million tons (M)

Moscow Indicates A Poor Grain Crop Of 137 Million Tons

Rept by Sen Select Com on Intelligence, based on data from FBI files and testimony of former officials and other witnesses, charges Pres Kennedy authorized FBI to wiretap 6 US citizens, including officials of domestic Govt agency, Cong staff member and 2 registered lobbyists for foreign interests, in probe of efforts by foreign interests to influence US econ policies (S)

F. B. I. IS ACCUSED OF POLITICAL ACTS FOR 6 PRESIDENTS

Vientiane radio broadcast says Communist-led Pathet Lao has taken full control of Laos, Dec 3; end of 600-yr-old monarchy, abolition of 19-mo-old coalition Govt and establishment of People's Dem Repub is announced; AP repts people's cong, which met recently, has named Prince Souphanouvong as Pres, Kaysone Phoumvihan as Prime Min, King Savang Vatthana as presidential adviser, Prince Souvanna Phouma as adviser to Prime Min, Khamtay Siphandon as Deputy Prime Min, supreme armed forces comdr and Defense Min and Phoune Sipraseuth as Foreign Min and Deputy Prime Min; broadcast says cong received and accepted Souvanna Phouma's resignation as Prime Min; Joint Pol Council has been abolished; while final Pathet Lao takeover was expected for some time, thousands of Laotians, including some of Savang Vatthana's relatives fled to neighboring Thailand; Savang Vatthana reptdly has left royal palace at Luang Prabang and is staying at summer residence; Prince Souvanna Phouma reptdly joined Savang 2 days ago; Savang por (M)

COALITION REGIME IN LAOS ABOLISHED

Amer and Chinese leaders decide not to issue joint communique when Pres Ford's visit to Peking ends: announcement confirms expectations that meeting between leaders would not produce any fundamental change in relations; members of Pres Ford's party acknowledge that relationship will not alter fundamentally so long as Amer troops remain on Taiwan (S)

FORD AND CHINESE OMIT COMMUNIQUE ON PEKING TALKS

Sen, 57-23, votes to table or kill motion by Sen Jesse Helms to send Pres Ford's proposed legis, providing $2.3-billion in loan guarantees to near-bankrupt NYC, back to Banking Com; move comes after Sen Mike Mansfield files cloture petition to head off threatened filibuster by conservatives; Sen leadership also indicates it will reject any amendments to legis; Sen Proxmire warns such procedures may delay enactment past city's Dec 11 default deadline; principal backers of legis identified as Sens Proxmire, Brooke, Javits and Buckley; opponents identified as Sen Helms, Harry F Byrd, James B Allen and Strom Thurmond (L)

Bill on City Loan Survives Senate Attempt to Kill It

NJ law enforcement sources say Organized Crime Strike Force investigating James R Hoffa disappearance has asked for 3 search warrants, one of which involves safe-deposit box numbered 398 at Garden State Natl Bank, Union City, NJ, where money connected with loan-sharking and also notebooks and documents are being sought (S)

FIVE SUBPOENAED IN HOFFA INQUIRY

indictment of Assemblyman Albert H Blumenthal for perjury in nursing home investigation appears imminent; special grand jury has completed investigation into Blumenthal's testimony about his efforts in behalf of Bernard Bergman; Blumenthal confirms he appeared before grand jury; at issue are conflicts between testimony before Temporary State Comm on Living Costs and Econ of Blumenthal and that of at least 6 former or present state officials regarding meeting at State Health Dept in Albany in Apr '71; meeting concerned application by Bergman for license to operate Park Crescent Nursing Home, NYC; testimony by then deputy health comr Andrew J Fleck and others revd; Blumenthal says he was approached in behalf of Bergman by C Daniel Chill, then majority leader and now Speaker of the Assembly; Steingut has been under investigation regarding his relations with Bergman; Blumenthal por (M)

Indictment of Blumenthal In Perjury Reported Near

Studies reptd in New England Journal of Med indicate estrogen hormones taken by millions of Amer women to alleviate symptoms and aftereffects of menopause are linked to substantially increased risk of uterine cancer; studies do not prove hormones cause cancer but suggest causal relationship; FDA obstetrics and gynecology com to meet Dec 15-16 to determine if anything should be done to protect women receiving estrogens; studies indicate that users of estrogens face 5-fold to 14-fold increased risk of developing endometrial cancer, compared with women who do not take hormones; repts by Drs Donald C Smith, Harry K Ziel, Kenneth J Ryan and Noel S Weiss cited (M)

Estrogen Is Linked To Uterine Cancer

NYS Educ Comr Nyquist on Dec 3 orders Mt Vernon Educ Bd to implement plan for voluntary shift of black and white pupils to improve racial balance of schools in case pending since '68; plan is less stringent than 1 drafted by Educ Dept last Jan; provides for grouping of city's 14 schools into an eastern and a western portion; most of city's white population lives in north sec, blacks in south; desegregation to be achieved primarily by permitting enrollment of black pupils in predominantly white schools, if space is available, and conversion of predominantly black elementary school into 'magnet' school which will offer special programs aimed to attract blacks and whites in equal numbers; NAACP local chap pres Percy Summerville attacks plan; NAACP aide James I Meyerson attacks Nyquist; map shows predominantly white and predominantly black areas of city and site of magnet school (M)

Mt. Vernon School Integration Ordered After a 7‐Year Battle

The Ford Administration is preparing to announce soon the removal of the $2&#8208;a&#8208;barrel fee on imported crude oil. The action could reduce domestic crude oil prices And retail prices for heating oil and gasoline, Page 25.

Oil Fee to Be Removed

Delegation from Dutch Labor Party, after 5-day visit to Spain, says its party will oppose Spain's membership in NATO until dem freedoms are fully established in Spain (S)

Dutch Caution Madrid on Trade Bloc

CIA Dir William E Colby and Defense Intelligence Agency head Lt Gen Daniel O Graham deny there was conspiracy to downgrade Communist troop strength in Vietnam before '68 Tet offensive, testimony before HR Select Intelligence Com (S)

U.S. Intelligence Chiefs Deny Falsifying Vietnam Troop Data

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Portuguese Govt announces nationalization of TV network and all private radio stations except that of RC Ch (M)

Portuguese Nationalize TV and Private Radio Stations

convocation session; Defense ex-Sec Schlesinger and Repr Les Aspin speak (S)

Schlesinger Again Asks Caution In Pursuing Detente With Soviet,

Japan's govt workers' unions capitulate to Premier Takeo Miki's firm stance and call off illegal strike that had lasted for 8 days brought nation to brink of pol crisis; railway, postal, telecommunications and various govt monopoly employes, striking in attempt to gain right to legal strike, say that it will take several days before services are returned to normal; union heads comment (M)

Japanese Unions Yield and Halt Strike

UN Security Council meets behind closed door on Dec 3 to consider Arab complaints about Dec 2 Israeli air attacks on Palestinian camps in Lebanon, but it is stalled by Egyptian demand for PLO participation in debate; meeting was requested by Lebanon and Egypt; PLO has never before taken part in Council meeting, although it attained permanent observer status in Gen Assembly; majority of Council members advocate PLO participation, but US is opposed; US delegate Daniel P Moynihan says issue of Palestinian role should be discussed in public session; motion to invite PLO was to be sponsored by Iraq, nonpermanent member of Council, and have support of Byelorussia, Cameroon, China, France, Guyana, Italy, Japan, Mauritania, USSR, Sweden and Tanzania; US and Costa Rica plan to vote against motion and GB is reptd considering abstention; procedural resolution requires approval of 9 of 15 members (M)

U.N. TO MEET TODAY ON ISRAELI RAIDS

Lebanon experiences 1 of its calmest days on Dec 3 in wks of fighting; Pres Franjieh thanks France at Cabinet meeting for its recent mediation mission by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville (S)

Beirut Charges ‘Defiance’

Egyptian Foreign Min Ismail Fahmy, in calling for emergency UN Security Council meeting with Palestinian participation to deal with Dec 2 Israeli air attack in Lebanon, urges Council to take 'deterrent steps' against Israel to prevent more attacks (S)

Egypt Asks U.N. Action

Credit Lyonnais (France): 2 gunmen stage 14-hour siege at Credit Lyonnais, Paris, holding 30 hostages and demanding $2-million ransom; siege ends in street gunbattle in which 1 of gunmen is killed and other is injured and arrested; all hostages escape injury (S)

A Gunman in Paris Is Killed by Police After Bank Siege

Egyptian Energy Min Ahmed Hillal says oil from Abu Rudeis oilfields in Sinai will be marketed in Cairo in several days; oil is shipped by tanker to Suez where refinery destroyed in '67 has been reconstructed; Hillal says Egypt will seek $2-billion from Israel for oil it extracted from Abu Rudeis and neighboring fields since '67; operations are conducted by Compagnie Orientale des Petroles d'Egypt, jointly owned by Egyptian Govt and Italian ENI; ENI kept employes at Abu Rudeis during Israeli occupation and recd its share of income from production from Israel during that time (S)

EGYPTIANS EXULT AT SINAI OILFIELD

Israeli Army spokesman denies repts from Lebanon that Israeli Air Force planes dropped antipersonnel devices of any kind during Dec 2 raids in Lebanon; says planes dropped ordinary munitions (S)

Lebanese Village in Ruins After Bombing by Israelis

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December 4, 1975

Headlines from December 4, 1975

AUSTERITY EFFORT LOSES IN HARTFORD

Panel CIears Bailey On Jai‐Alai Funds

4th Nadjari Setback

Moscow Indicates A Poor Grain Crop Of 137 Million Tons

F. B. I. IS ACCUSED OF POLITICAL ACTS FOR 6 PRESIDENTS

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