March 1, 1976

BUCHANAN, N.Y., Feb. 29—Demonstrators calling for the closing of the Point nuclear power plant outnumbered and outshouted today by union members threatened with the loss of their jobs.

Canada to proceed with purchase (M)

NYS Dem Legis leaders agree on pkg of alternative cuts in Gov Carey's budget, including heavy reductions in adm personnel in Educ Dept; Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut and other Dem leaders will seek to restore some of $110-million in cuts Carey is seeking in local-assistance educ programs, but only if they could assure that money paid for programs are directly beneficial to students and classrooms, and not for adm costs in local dists, shift that requires some basic formula changes in educ (S)

Norman John Rees, former exec with Mobil Oil and M W Kellogg Co, is found dead in Conn home, apparently of self-inflicted gunshot wound, after Dallas Times Herald repts that he sold oil indus information to USSR between World War II and '71 and then became FBI double agent; reptdly passed along to Russians a Mobil design for newly developed converter that increases percentage of gasoline that can be derived from crude oil; was reptdly decorated by USSR and paid total of $30,000; por (M)

Carter now says he plans to win Fla primary, reversing his earlier goal of finishing a 'respectable second' to George C Wallace; new tack is taken on his 33d swing through state, after polls he commissioned indicate his original 'stop Wallace' strategy was proving most effective; Carter illus (M)