February 27, 1976

Signs of stop‐Carter effort begin to emerge among liberal Dems as result of Carter's triumph in NH Pres primary; Sen Birch Bayh, Sen Henry Jackson and Repr Morris Udall attack Carter, but deny that there is any organized move to stop him; Joseph L Rauh Jr and Alan Baron, 2 men associated with Washington liberal establishment, discuss and then drop idea of strategy session on ‘Carter problem’; expressions of alarm over Carter at recent Natl Govs Conf by Govs Patrick J Lucey, Marvin Mandel and Calvin L Rampton and largely unfavorable comment on Carter at primary night dinner party given by Averell Harriman noted; Carter's appearance at Georgetown dinner party given by Mr and Mrs George Stevens Jr and attended by Frank Mankiewicz, James Flug, Richard Holbrooke and Mr and Mrs Joseph D Duffey noted; Duffey and Mark Shields, a sometime campaign consultant, warn against stop‐Carter effort; Carter suggests that ‘nonelected professional politicians in Washington,’ among them Harriman, are trying to hurt him by propping up someone like Sen Frank Church, but does not believe they can decide who nominee will be; Carter illus (M)

For the first time in a current campaign against “rightists” in China, wall posters in Peking identified Deputy Prime Minister Teng Hsiaoping by name as a target of the attacks. [Page 8.]

The lower house of the Japanese Parliament subpoenaed three Americans to appear before it next week in the continuing investigation of the Lockheed bribery scandal. Details on page 7.

Saudi Arabia has promised Egypt immediate grant of $300‐million, which will reptdly enable Egypt to repay $3‐billion debt to USSR for mil equipment received before '73 Arab‐Israeli war (M)

Pres Ford says ex‐Pres Nixon's trip to China ‘probably was harmful’ to Ford's campaign in NH primary election, taped int with Ralph Renick of radio station WTVJ in Miami; Ford narrowly won Repub Pres primary in NH (S)