February 26, 1976

Final returns show Reagan losing NH primary to Ford by 1,300 votes, one of slimmest margins on record; results seen increasing prospect of extended contest between him and Ford; Reagan is considered to have lead in Fla (M)

Indian Govt, acting to encourage sterilization, announces plan to penalize Govt employes and New Delhi residents who do not limit their families to 2 children; plan detailed (M)

Zubin Mehta was named yesterday as the new director of the New York Philharmonic to succeed Pierre Boulez.

US Sup Ct rules unanimously, in case brought by 2 migrant farm workers, that states may forbid employers to hire illegal aliens if such hiring would make it harder for lawful resident workers to get jobs (S)

Moreland Act Comm on Nursing Homes blames Nelson Rockefeller for pol influence, official neglect and poor care that it says were rife in indus while he was Gov; 218‐page rept accuses dozen major pol figures of interference, negligence or impropriety; among them are former Gov Malcolm Wilson, State Atty Gen Louis J Lefkowitz, Speaker Stanley Steingut, Assembly majority leader Albert Blumenthal, and, to lesser degree, former Mayor John Lindsay and Mayor Beame; clears former Mayor Robert F Wagner of allegations that his adm suppressed '60 Kaplan rept that charged large‐scale fraud by city 's nursing homes; comm chmn Morris B Abram says thousands of instances of larceny or worse have been left to special state prosecutor Charles J Hynes 's rept detailed; Abram illus (L)

Bhutto ends 3‐day visit to Canada, during which he had talks with Prime Min Trudeau on Canadian demands for say in how Pakistan will use nuclear reprocessing plant it has purchased from France (M)

Draft budget proposed by Mayor Beame has eliminated allocation of $15,000 annually for each of NYC 's 62 community planning bds; adm officials say the deletion is part of incomplete draft but Manhattan Boro Pres Percy E Sutton, who notified bd members that their vouchers could no longer be accepted, indicates that draft budget is complete; austerity measure is immediately denounced by bd members as crippling blow at time that local bds are to assume broadened powers under city charter changes; Charles M Kinsolving Jr, chmn of Community Bd 6 on East Side, scores cut; his por (L)

illus of ex‐Pres Nixon with official of Tsinghua Univ in Peking

NY Times/CBS News Poll shows Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter drew support from similar sources in NH Pres primaries; shows Carter having most conservative appeal of all Dem aspirants in NH; shows Reagan outpolling Ford approximately 3‐2 on issues of balancing Fed budget, decentralization of Fed services and opposition to detente; poll gives first good indication of Carter 's constituency, showing him to have fashioned centrist coalition; shows people voted on issues, not personalities; shows NH voters do not feel Govt should guarantee jobs to all who want to work; find them more liberal, however, on question of detente than those in natl sample; find NH Repubs disagreeing by 2‐1 on issue of whether budget should be balanced at expense of social programs; chart showing how NH voters view issues, relating their views on issues to their choice of candidates; illus of candidates Ford, Reagan, Carter, Udall, Bayh, Shriver and Harris (L)

Ronald Reagan releases financial statement placing his net worth at $1,455,571, but confusion remains about some aspects of rept; statement values 1 real estate holding of Reagan 's at $417,500, which is county 's official assessment figure and not repr of far higher price land would bring under current mkt conditions; statement further values Reagan 's home at $213,000, figure real estate agents claim is far less than value of other homes in area; breakdown of his holdings; statement shows most of Reagan 's stocks to be in real estate investment trusts; Reagan reptdly acquiesced to releasing statement on his financial worth after being convinced his earlier refusal was politically damaging; controversy over his finances while he was Gov of Calif, and acknowledged nonpayment of state income tax in '70, recalled; Reagan 's client relationship with Oppenheimer Indus Inc, co specializing in managing cattle herds for individuals as legal ‘tax shelter,’ was also acknowledged; matter resulted in his signing state law providing for payment of at least minimum income tax (M)

Rhodesian Govt announces that security forces have engaged in ‘hot pursuit’ of nationalist guerrillas along Mozambique border, killing 24 and losing 1 soldier; fighting came 12 days after Mozambique Pres Samora Machel issued warning that country will invade Rhodesia in retaliation for possible future violations of borders; ‘hot pursuit’ is seen as challenge to Mozambique, where USSR arms recently have been reptd unloaded and where Rhodesian guerrillas are encamped; threat of possible USSR and Cuban involvement looms for Rhodesian Govt and country also has found itself under increasing pressure from only open ally S Africa (M)

USIA aides Charles D Gallagher and William R Dykes Jr, kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct 22 '74, are freed on Feb 25, apparently unharmed and in good health (M)