April 4, 1976

Gov Carey orders Health Comr Robert P Whalen to develop statewide plan for early detection of breast cancer following rept by NYS Health Advisory Council that ‘breast cancer occurs in epidemic proportions'; names 15‐member com to devise detection system; rept, prepared under direction of Dr Thomas J Fahey Jr, who was named co‐chmn of new com, says private and public programs directed at cancer detection are not fully optimized and are unorganized; other Breast Cancer Advisory Com members listed (M)

Intermittent shelling and sniping and pillaging by gunmen noted; people trying to flee nation crowd Beirut airport; 20 people found murdered in Baabda are believed inmates of inst for criminally insane; Brown meets with Sarkis and Edde; Pres Assad's regime fears that if figures like Jumblat prevail, then Syria's Baathist rivals in Iraq will gain stronger hand in Lebanon; Syrians are reptd to have blocked Iraqi shipments of Soviet‐designed arms and munitions intended for Jumblat's partisans; informant says Syrian patrol boats are operating off coast; Lebanese Moslem leader Saeb Salam, ally of Edde, meets with Assad in Damascus in effort to ease Syrian apprehensions about Edde, who earlier in yr denounced Syria's ‘mandate’ over Lebanon; Syrians reptdly favor Sarkis; Chamoun and Gemayel tell speaker of Parliament that they and their followers cannot come to Parliament because of sniping in area (M)

Queens Children's Psychiatric Hosp, Bellerose, NY, answers audit of its operations by State Comptroller Arthur Levitt by issuing pseudo‐scientific rept entitled ‘Audit of an Audit'; rept, prepared by center dir Dr Gloria Faretra and center research dir Dr Abbas D Nabas, cites Comptroller's office for incompetence and unfairness of auditing agents (M)

Article on Medtronics Inc, world's leading maker of heart pacemakers; yrly sales run upward of $125‐million; pacemaker described; co officials comment; pacemaker illus; chart of co revenues, net income, earnings per share, 3 mos ended Jan 31 ('75‐76) and yr ended Apr 30 ('74‐75); other financial data; drawing (L)

Pen‐Y‐Bryn Farm's unbeaten Zen extended his streak to five yesterday in the 24th running of the Gotham at Aqueduct, hut the 3.year‐old son of Damascus found the going much more difficult than in his preceding successes.