ALBANY, April 16&#8212;The State Office of Parks and Recreation has ordered all 140 state parks and 21 state golf courses to be closed one day a week this year because of cuts in its budget.

New York State Is Closing Its Parks One Day a Week

Lindbergh Field (San Diego): Article discusses extraordinary airport curfew at Lindbergh Field, San Diego, which bans late-night takeoffs and landings; prospect that program's results may encourage similar experiments elsewhere, and possibly cause chaos in natl air transport system, prompts FAA to prepare measures to prohibit such local decisions (L)

San Diego Plane Curfew Stirs Federal Opposition

Carter presents natl health plan, speech to group of minority med students, Washington; does not get overly enthusiastic reception (S)

CARTER PROPOSES U.S. HEALTH PLAN

Pres Ford decides against imposing higher tariffs or other import restraints on shoes made abroad; decision seen most important trade action in many yrs; illus

FORD BARS CURBS ON SHOE IMPORTS; FEARS PRICE RISE

oil rig crewmen who were drowned in survival capsule in Gulf of Mex listed (S)

13 Die as Oil‐Rig Rescue Fails in Gulf

Justice Dept files major civil rights suit charging virtually all of US real estate appraisers and savings and loan assns with using 'racially discriminatory standards' in assessing homes in integrated areas and making loans to owners of these homes; suit names 4 natl appraisal and lending orgns as defendants: Amer Inst of Real Estate Appraisers, Soc of Real Estate Appraisers, US League of Savings Assns and Mortgage Bankers Assn of Amer (L)

U.S. ALLEGES BIAS IN REALTY Mg

Indian Health and Family Planning Min Karan Singh outlines broad new birth-control policy designed to give 'top natl priority' to slowing India's rapid population growth (M)

India Plans Strong Steps To Slow Population Rise

Syria and Palestinian guerrilla movement reach accord on moves to end civil war; pledge 'unified stand against any party that resumes mil operations'; Assad and Arafat detail 7-point program, communique; program apparently has support of Christian factions, Karami and leftists; calls for resurrection of Higher Mil Com, resistance to partition, rejection of 'Arabization' or 'internationalization' of conflict and of 'US solutions and plots' and continuation of Syrian initiative; Palestinian sources say meeting between Syrian leaders and Arafat, who was accompanied by As Saiqa leader Zuheir Mohsen and Popular Dem Front for the Liberation of Palestine head Nayef Hawatmeh, took place in 'cordial' atmosphere; leftist leader Kamal Jumblat, after reptdly meeting with Arafat in Beirut, says Lebanese natl front has taken 'constructive attitude vis-a-vis the 7 points'; French mediator Georges Gorse speaks in hypothetical terms of his Govt's readiness to study proposal of entry of internatl forces to Lebanon if it is put forward by Lebanese Govt; Beirut is relatively calm, with only sporadic shelling reptd (L)

PLAN ON LEBANON DRAFTED BY SYRIA AND PALESTINIANS

NYS Atty Gen Louis J Lefkowitz, at request of NYS Tax Comr James H Tully Jr, files suit against NJ in US Sup Ct seeking $225.6-million that NJ has collected in income taxes from New Yorkers employed in NJ, '62-75; suit contends that 'commuter tax' is unconst because it falls exclusively on nonresidents and is not offset, even approximately, by other taxes on residents; Penna has filed similar suit for $40-million; suits are based on US Sup Ct ruling in favor of Maine resident who sued NH on similar grounds; Tully, in lr to Lefkowitz, notes NY and NJ in '62 agreed not to contest right to levy and collect taxes on residents of one another; says agreement may have seemed reasonable at time, but now appears highly questionable; Gov Byrne has set aside $81-million in his budget for coming fiscal yr to reimburse NY and Penna should they win suits (M)

Jersey Is Sued to Nullify Its Tax on New Yorkers

Some Romans comment on inflation, econ problems and changed lifestyles in Italy as Easter nears (M)

Italians Are Anxious at Eastertime as Prices Soar

Article on soc, econ and pol problems notes that city is suffering from over-rapid expansion; map (M)

Winds Gone, Rains Due, an Unsettled Mood Hangs Over Lagos

Saudi Arabian Cabinet has decreed sweeping measures to fight inflation, several of which are intended to alleviate shortage of housing that has caused steepest price increases; Cabinet decreed that cos with Govt contracts for projects lasting 3 yrs or more and using more than 50 employees must provide housing for workers to be constructed by contractor on site of project; also ordered increase in Govt credit available for home building and banned most demolition of urban bldgs for more than a yr; also took steps to encourage prefabricated bldgs (L)

Saudis Act to Fight Inflation, Shortages, Port Delays

Apr 17: Rabin repeats that Israel is watching Syrian intervention in Lebanon carefully, int; Israeli sources say Israel will feel compelled to react if number of Syrian troops in Lebanon exceed those that will be reasonably required to restore order or, alternatively, if they are deployed south of Litani River (S)

Warnings by Israel

Syrian Army's mil deployment in Lebanon appears to be standby operation; Army has dug in at border and uses small, mobile force to make deep advances; Khatib's forces and various Moslem-leftist factions man roadblocks on Beirut-Damascus hwy; illus; map (M)

On Highway From Damascus to Beirut, Tanks and Guns but Few Civilian Cars

Egyptian Vice Pres Husni Mubarak will make official visit to China on Apr 18 as head of 'sr delegation' (S)

SOVIET NAVY SHIPS QUIT EGYPTIAN PORT

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Sakharov on Apr 16 admits slapping 2 policemen as his arm was twisted and as he and his wife were grabbed and pushed roughly away from courtroom in Omsk on Apr 14, int with Western correspondents; Mrs Sakharov also acknowledges striking policemen during melee; says on Apr 15 she suffered neck and shoulder bruises when plainsclothesman grabbed her and threw her down courthouse steps; illus of Sakharovs (M)

Sakharovs Confirm Soviet Charge They Hit Policemen

Paris reptdly calm on Apr 16 following night of violent clashes between protesting coll students and Govt security forces in capital's Latin Qr; students meet with State Sec for Univs Alice Saunier-Seite to discuss Govt's plan for higher educ reform (M)

Paris Calm After Clashes Over University Reforms

China approves nomination of Indian amb to Peking and will reciprocate by sending amb to New Delhi (S)

China Says It Will Send Ambassador to India

N Vietnam Govt charges that US Sec of State Kissinger 'irresponsibly' misinterpreted recent exchange of notes between Hanoi and Washington (DC) by suggesting in Sen testimony that progress is being made toward normalizing relations (M)

Hanoi Says Kissinger Misread Notes Concerning Normal Ties

Bomb explodes on Apr 17 outside apt bldg near Syrian and Ivory Coast embassies, Paris, France, and another explosion badly damages offices of ins co; neither explosion causes injury (S)

Two Bombs Go Off in Paris

Czech Communist Party retains Gustav Husak as party leader for another 5 yrs on Apr 16, close of 15th Communist Party cong, Prague; Ludyik Svoboda is dropped from ruling Presidium of Central Com; vacany is not filled; Cong theme was Czech-Soviet solidarity under banner of 'proletarian internationalism'; Soviet delegate Andrei P Kirilenko is flanked by Husak and Vasil Bilak (M)

HUSAK RETAINED AS CZECH LEADER,

analysis of Czech Communist Party Cong holds gathering was used by Soviet Communist Party to regain and strengthen its dominance as leader of Communist world; notes slogan 'proletarian internationalism' is being used as euphemism for 'Brezhnev Doctrine,' which limits sovereignty of any Communist country

The Prague Congress

Kissinger who will begin tour of 7 African countries, had explored possibility of visiting Ethiopia but arrangements could not be worked out (S)

Kissinger to Begin Tour Of African Nations Friday

Fed Dist Judge James Lawrence King says Ronald Reagan need not appear at Miami trial of Michael Lance Carvin, who is accused of pointing toy gun at him; says aide may testify (S)

Reagan Averts Trial Role

Maurice Andre Wignall is a Jamaican hurdling athlete.

Maurice Wignall, Jamaican hurdler and long jumper

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Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.

April 17, 1976

Headlines from April 17, 1976

New York State Is Closing Its Parks One Day a Week

San Diego Plane Curfew Stirs Federal Opposition

CARTER PROPOSES U.S. HEALTH PLAN

FORD BARS CURBS ON SHOE IMPORTS; FEARS PRICE RISE

13 Die as Oil‐Rig Rescue Fails in Gulf

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Frampton Comes Alive

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