March 10, 1976

Rhodesia announces that since late Jan black nationalist guerrilla forces have extended conflict area to full length of 800-mi border with Mozambique; Rhodesian Deputy Min Ted Sutton-Pryce announces that Rhodesian troop commitment to combat area has been increased by about 3/5 since Jan, with accompanying increase in number of reserves called to active duty; figure, given; Sutton-Pryce says that there is no evidence of any USSR or Cuban presence in field; says that 4,000 to 5,000 insurgents are based in Mozambique and Tanzania; says that they represent various groups in factionalized African Natl Council but have not over-all pol leader; announces that in effort to provide greater security to people living in tribal trust lands--areas limited to blacks--175,000 to 200,000 people have been moved from homesteads to so-called 'protected villages'; RC Comm for Justice and Peace in Rhodesia scores policy (L)

Museum of Modern Art acquires huge cutout work by Henri Matisse and will exch objects from its own collection equal to purchase price, said to be about $1-million; museum painting and sculpture dir William Rubin comments; Mr Georges Duthuit owns work; illus of work (M)

HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct formally starts its investigation of Pike com leak on Mar 9 with meeting attended by 7 com members, David Bowers, retired FBI official who will direct com's investigators, and C B Rogers, Atlanta atty who will serve as gen counsel to com; Natl Press Club says it condemns HR for singling out Schorr (S)

Canada to resume nuclear aid to India following reptd Indian pledge that 3 reactors to be supplied by Canada will not be used in developing explosive device; official source notes that agreement does not prevent India from exploding device after aid project ends; accord worked out in New Dehli by teams under Foreign Sec Kewal Singh and Canadian aide Ivan Head (M)

Former intelligence official says FBI may have been 'penetrated' by hostile foreign intelligence agencies on at least 3 occasions since end of World War II; says evidence in each case, which involved FBI agents in NY, Washington and another undisclosed Amer city, was entirely circumstantial and no criminal charges were ever brought against the 3 agents thought to have been subverted by foreign govts; FBI Dir Clarence M Kelley says 'exhaustive investigations' have not disclosed any evidence that a hostile foreign itelligence service ever successfully recruited or operated an FBI employe; Anatoli Golitsin, Soviet KGB major who defected to US in '61, is reliably reptd to have told Amer and Brit counterintelligence officials that such penetrations occurred (M)

15 coal miners killed in explosion at Ky coal mine owned by Scotia Coal Co; explosion attributed to methane gas (M)

42 persons are killed and 1 is seriously injured when cable car packed with skiers plunges 200 feet to ground in Cavalese, Italy; police say most of victims are West Gers; map (M)

NYC 1st Deputy Mayor John E Zuccotti, revealing findings of mayoral task force on operation of city's $128-million day-care program, says 'incompetence' and 'atmosphere of mistrust' has been found at highest levels of day-care mgt; says as many as 16,000 of 36,200 children enrolled in 410 centers financed by city, state and Fed govts may be ineligible; says task force uncovered no evidence of criminality; notes Investigation Comr Nicholas Scoppetta has given new HRA Admr J Henry Smith 2 wks to rev rept and make specific plans; in related development, NYS Sen Franz S Leichter urged Scoppetta and DA Robert M Morgenthau to investigate possible 'fraud or incompetence' in city's leasing of center in E Elmhurst (Queens); other task force recommendations revd; Zuccotti por (M)

Carter gets 35% of vote to win Fla Dem Pres primary; gets heavy support from state's black voters; will have 35 of state's delegates to Dem natl conv; voting details; campaign recalled; Carter illus (M)

R W Apple Jr analysis of Fla Pres primary results

Permanent Comm on Public Employee Pension and Retirement Systems recommends to Gov Carey and Legis that all public employees hired since '73 be brought under unified pension system that would save state and local govts estimated total of $200-million a yr through combination of required employee contributions and lower initial benefits; recommendations outlined; Otto Kinzel, comm chmn, has not been especially successful in getting his recommendations adopted and most recent proposals are seen likely to face difficult time in election-yr Legis; recommendations are immediately labeled 'totally regressive' by Jack Bigel, pension consultant to NYC munic unions (L)

about 450,000 daily riders of Transport of NJ buses have to find other means of getting to and from work after Amalgamated Transit Union strikes co; other carriers rept no difficulty in accommodating line's commuters; Transport pres John J Gilhooly says co cannot survive long strike (M)