negotiations ordered by Gov O'Callaghan break off (S)

2 RHODESIAN SIDES BREAK OFF TALKS, APPEAL TO BRITO

Labor Dept repts that drop in meat prices accts for small increase in Feb Consumer Price Index (0.1%) (S)

PRICE INDEX IS UP SMALLEST AMOUNT IN OVER 4 YEARS

jury deliberations begin in trial of Patricia Hearst; Judge Oliver J Carter instructs jury that key question in case is whether defendant was willing participant in bank robbery; Bailey, Browning comment; illus (M)

Hearst Jury Deliberates 6 Hours in First Session

BLS repts consumer prices in NY-northeastern NJ area displayed in Feb stability not seen in yrs, with food prices showing smallest over-the-yr rise in 4 yrs; index fell by 0.1%; other statistics; Bienstock comments; chart (L)

February Level of Prices Almost Stable in City Area

ACWA pres Murray H Finley and sec-treas Jacob Sheinkman, and TWUA pres Sol Stetin and sec-treas William M DuChessi announce that 2 unions have reached agreement on merger; leaders say unions will combine to confront major conglomerates and multimational corps in apparel and textiles and to press organizing efforts in unorganized areas of South and Southwest; merger is subject to ratification; under terms of merger, Finley is expected to be gen pres of merged union, Sheinkman will be gen sec-treas, Stetin vp and DuChessi exec vp (M)

2 APPAREL UNIONS AGREE ON MERGER

Maintenance workers ratified a contract with Ageduct last night that ended a one&#8208;day strike and will allow racing to resume at the track today. Details, Page 21.

Aqueduct Strike Ends

President Ford declared that the longer he and Ronald Reagan continued their Republican primary battles the more likely it became that they would foster divisions that could hurt the party. Page 12.

A Ford Warning

Spokesman repts Queen saddened by separation; Queen illus (S)

Margaret and Snowdon Agree to Separate

Daughters of Pittsburgh banker Seward Prosser Mellon, Catherine Leigh, 7, and Constance Elizabeth, 5, abducted by 3 men Mar 19 as they left Bklyn home for school with their bodyguard; have been subject of custody battle between Mellon and former wife, Karen Leigh Boyd Mellon; Bklyn Dist Atty Eugene Gold comments; Mrs Mellon was awarded girls custody in Feb (L)

2 Mellon Children Abducted Here in Custody Battle

US Appeals Ct, Washington, DC, rules that EPA may order reductions of lead in gasoline to head off potential but not fully proven public health hazards; authorizes agency to enforce regulations first issued in '73, requiring staged reduction of lead in gasoline over 5 yrs; EPA's schedule calls for reductions starting in '76 and increasing through '79; majority decision backs EPA ruling that lead emitted by auto exhaust is absorbed by human beings from air and that, added to lead from other sources, could build up poisonous levels of lead in body; Ethyl Corp, PPG Industries, E I Du Pont de Nemours, Nalco Chem Co and Natl Petroleum Refiners Assn had challenged regulations on ground of EPA failure to demonstrate direct cause-and-effect connection between leaded gasoline and harm to human health; Ethyl Corp vp Lawrence E Blanchard Jr to appeal to Sup Ct (M)

COURT BACKS CURB ON GASOLINE LEAD

WASHINGTON, March 19&#8212;The Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into the first alleged instance of internal financial corruption in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to knowledgeable officials within the department.

NEW FRI. INQUIRY ON FUNDS ORDERED

To give up space in Look Bldg on Madison Av, NYC, and relocate hq in Daytona Beach, Fla (S)

Union Carbide, 3,500 on Staff, to Quit City

Basque industrialist Angel Berazadi Urbe is presumed to have been kidnapped by Basque nationalist orgn ETA (M)

Kidnapping of Basque Renews Warfare of Extremists in Spain

US consular officials in Beirut say 12 Amers who were among hundreds of prisoners freed by gunmen from Lebanese jails this wk are returning home; official says 10 men and 2 women were jailed on drug charges (S)

12 Americans Are Freed In Lebanese Jail Aitacks

Halloran on plight of S Korean laborers not changing much despite recent surge in nations econ growth rates; several laborers comment; illus (M)

South Korean Labor Benefits Little in Boom

Analysis of Argentina's chaotic econ and pol situation; says pol and business sources foresee imminent mil coup; step-up in left-wing guerrilla activity and Radical Party leader Ricardo Balbin's last attempt to form front of civilian pol forces against mil coup noted; top labor leaders reptdly are supporting Pres Peron because they fear losing their jobs and influence if she is overthrown (M)

Argentina Is at the Crisis Point

Pres Alfonso Lopez Michelsen authorizes strict measures, including suspension of workers from jobs, arrest and confinement for up to 180 days without trial for persons found disturbing public order and continuance of summary mil trials, in effort to counter growing labor unrest; measures reptdly are aimed particularly at wildcat strikes; strikers have been demanding higher wages in face of rising inflation (M)

BOGOTA TIGHTENS SECURITY CONTROL

Ky House adjourns Mar 18 without acting on amendment that would have rescinded state's ratification of Equal Rights Amendment (S)

Rights Action Stands

presents credentials to UN Sec Gen Waldheim; holds news conf (M)

Scranton, at U.N., Doubts Need For U.S.‐Third WOrld Face‐Off

Pres Sadat issues decree approving new Cabinet of Prime Min Mamdouh Salem, designed to tackle Egypt's ailing econ; main change is promotion of Electric Power Min Ahmed Sultan to Deputy Prime Min for Production; he continues to hold power portfolio; most of other ministries are unchanged; Ismail Fahmy remains Deputy Prime Min and Foreign Min; Lt Gen Mohammed Abdel Ghany el-Gamasy is War Min and Deputy Prime Min (S)

MAKEUP OF CABINET APPROVED BY SADAT

Pres Ford hails Pres Sadat's move as victory for US foreign policy, statements to members of Natl Newspaper Assn, White House; pledges that US will respond with econ aid and other assistance to Egypt (M)

Ford Acclaims Sadat's Decision To Annul Treaty With Soviet

Libya and Pakistan, in joint lr to UN Security Council's Pres Thomas S Boya, assert that situation in E Jerusalem and West Bank areas 'is becoming explosive'; lr notes that Moslems had held protests against decision and that magistrate's decision must be seen as part of policy of absorbing occupied Jerusalem into Israel and changing its cultural and demographic character (M)

Israel Will Attend U.N. Debate Despite Participation by P.L.O.

Illus of young S Vietnamese refugee attempting to punch 1 of several Danish policemen who removed 28 youngsters from orphanage near Copenhagen; Henning Becker, former newsman who runs orphanage, has been criticized by welfare orgns for way he educates youngsters; police took struggling children to Govt school

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Syrian Air Force jet transport with Prime Min Rashid Karami on board is hit by gunfire shortly before it was to take him and other Lebanese leaders to Damascus; Karami, former Prime Min Saeb Salam, Syrian mil police head Col Ali al-Madani and high-ranking As Saiqa offical escape unhurt from burning jet; it is not clear who fired at plane; Salam blames attack on Franjieh's refusal to resign; Karami says he is still ready to go to Syria; Kamel al-Assad, Speaker of House, who was not on plane because he was late, says he spoke with Syrian Foreign Min Abdel Halim Khaddam, who said attack was conspiracy against Lebanon, Syria and all Arabs; communique issued by As Saiqa says 'soldier' who fired at plane was 'identified' but gives no details; security at Beirut airport is shared by soldiers from Lebanese Arab Army and As Saiqa; in Beirut, fighting continues between battered Holiday Inn, held by Phalangists, and leftists in uncompleted Murr Tower; sporadic artillery duels heard in mountains to east, where partisans of Kamal Jumblat's Progressive Socialist Party have mobilized for possible attack on Baabda, Franjieh's residence; there are repts of heavy fighting between Tripoli, dominated by leftist and Palestinians groups, and Franjieh's hometown of Zghorta (M)

Karami Escapes an Attack On Syrian Plane at Beirut

US Postal Service places embargo on surface mail to Lebanon, Mar 19; cites 'severe problems' in port of Beirut (S)

U.S. Bars Szrface Mail For Lebanon Delivery

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March 20, 1976

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2 RHODESIAN SIDES BREAK OFF TALKS, APPEAL TO BRITO

PRICE INDEX IS UP SMALLEST AMOUNT IN OVER 4 YEARS

Hearst Jury Deliberates 6 Hours in First Session

February Level of Prices Almost Stable in City Area

2 APPAREL UNIONS AGREE ON MERGER

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