December 12, 1975

NYS Regents Bd on Dec 11, holding that NYC can no longer afford to finance CUNY, urges NYS to assume 'full responsibility' for finances in exch for majority voice on expanded Higher Educ Bd; plan also calls for tuition at levels paid in SUNY, establishing minimum acad standards for admissions, requiring students to work faster toward degree and eliminating duplicative courses and closing unneeded campuses through merger with others; proposals offered by Chancellor Theodore Black in testimony to Joint Legis Hearing on City Univ; were drawn up by special com of Regents and outside educators and businessmen; aim at insuring greater state aid without completely severing CUNY from city control and from ability to continue special programs deemed of particular importance to city; call for 15-member Higher Educ Bd, with Gov apptg 8 members and Mayor 7; rept proposes 3-yr plan in which state's share of CUNY budget would rise from level of about 40% to 75% by '78-79 acad yr; recommends tuition be imposed at same level as currently charged at SUNY; cites programs available which would more than offset tuition costs for those from low-income families; also urges CUNY faculty members earning more than $12,700 yrly to forfeit 1 wks pay, for saving of $5-million in next spring's term; Higher Educ Bd chmn Alfred A Giardino and Professional Staff Cong 1st vp Irwin Polishook comment (L)

high-ranking US Govt official says that US has sent $25-million in arms and support funds to Angola over last 3 mos and plans to send another $25-million in supplies to counter large-scale mil intervention in Angola by USSR and Cuba; says 1st $25-million was distributed by CIA, mostly through Zaire, which has 1,200-mi frontier with Angola; says secret US operation is attempt 'to create stalemate' in Angolan civil war; says that additional $25-million worth of weapons and support funds to be sent to Angola 'shortly' would exhaust CIA's funds for such contingencies; holds that additional funds will have to be authorized by Cong; asserts that USSR-Cuban involvement is 'far in excess' of US involvement; CIA Dir William E Colby says US assistance is 'secret' and declines to supply details; LI newspaper Newsday, quoting US intelligence sources, says that CORE is recruiting black veterans to fight as mercenaries in Angola; CORE head Arthur Fitzjohn says rept is 'distortion of orgn's actions'; illus (L)

US Census Bur repts that Ariz was fastest-growing state, '70-75, with population expanding by more than 25% (S)

Spanish Cabinet, 1st under King Juan Carlos I, will be sworn in Dec 13 and is expected to embark on program of cautious pol reform as most important task; Premier Carlos Arias Navarro has kept only 3 men from previous Cabinet in 1 of most sweeping Govt changes in many yrs; although most of 17 new mins have in past statements declared themselves in favor of pol change, they also have been loyal to Gen Francisco Franco; apptmts appear to represent effort not to frighten traditionalists while signaling new era under new chief of state; among new Cabinet members are Interior Min Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Foreign Affairs Min Jose Maria de Areilza, Justice Min Antonio Garrigues and Information Min Adolfo Gonzalez Posada (M)

NYS Mediation Bd Chmn Vincent D McDonnell says private carting cos in NYC have raised wage offer to employes, who have, in turn, scaled down their wage demand; says union has also dropped demand for cost-of-living increase and sick-leave benefits; McDonnell and Franchise Bur Dir Morris Tarshis, representing Mayor Beame, ask both sides to submit differences to binding arbitration; Acting Sanitation Comr Martin Lang says Sanitation Dept has so far been able to remove commercial refuse that has been certified as health or fire hazard; 70,000 tons of garbage are estimated to be on streets; Deputy Health Comr Jean Cropper says dept does not consider situation health hazard or emergency as yet (M)