December 8, 1975

Repub Natl Com refuses to give Pres Ford's campaign com access to its mailing list of major pol contributors, on grounds it has decided to make available to Ronald Reagan any services it furnishes Ford, including fund-raising assistance; situation, in which Repub party refuses request of incumbent Repub Pres, is unprecedented, and comes at time when Ford is encountering serious difficulty building campaign chest for primaries (M)

Gov Carey, during and after appearance on NBC-TV's Meet the Press, says that on Dec 9 he will announce new pkg of taxes aimed at eliminating state budget deficit and averting default by 4 state construction agencies; says pkg will include increase in business taxes and system of tax credits and incentives for job development; says there is no present plan to raise state sales tax; says other taxes, never before imposed, will be suggested; declines to indicate whether plan includes rise in income tax (M)

Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola, aided by vast quantities of USSR arms and by Cuban fighting men, has made sharp mil advances on 3 fronts in recent days; Natl Front for Liberation of Angola and Natl Union for Total Independence of Angola continue to fight Popular Movement's forces in spite of fact that they have nothing to match USSR-supplied tanks and rockets; Natl Front leader Holden Roberto and unit comdr Carlos Ferreira comment (M)

NY Times series in conjunction with Suffolk County Consumer Affairs Dept finds that of 24 repair shops asked to fix car with minor and easily detectable mechanical fault, 13 either misdiagnosed problem or performed or recommended expensive and unnecessary work; intent of investigation was to test honesty rather than competence of auto-repair shops; before each shop was visited small throttle-valve linkage to transmission was deliberately disconnected; fault was chosen to create obvious symptoms that could be diagnosed with relative ease by mechanics; 6 of 12 shops in Manhattan did only necessary work at prices ranging from $5 to $39.96; 3 of 12 shops did work for $19.79 or less in Suffolk and 1 did it for nothing; probe was conducted to gain some idea of problems that will be encountered by NYS Motor Vehicles Dept in enforcing new state law requiring regis of auto-repair shops; Suffolk County Consumer Affairs Comr James Lack, NYS Service Stations Assn dir Mac Victor, NYS Motor Vehicle Comr James Melton and Farmingdale Univ Auto Tech Dept chmn Leroy Parsons comments; actions taken by repair shops detailed; list of such actions by shop, Manhattan and Suffolk County (L)

NY Times series finds NYC's illegal narcotics traffic at highest level in 5 yrs; narcotics investigators say open street sales are common in Harlem and Greenwich Village; attribute problem to recent emergence of major black and Hispanic narcotics rings and cutbacks in police narcotics div; Times investigation finds: control of illicit drugs has shifted significantly from Mafia to black and Hispanic importers and dealers; Council of 12, Harlem-based orgn, has been established to oversee distribution of heroin in Upper Manhattan; black and Hispanic importers have nudged Mafia from dominant position because of success in establishing ties with Mex and Asian heroin suppliers; cutback in Police Dept personnel has led to 20% decline in narcotics arrests; police officials project more than 1,000 overdose deaths in '75 because of increase in number of addicts and availability of stronger heroin (L)