April 25, 1976

Several US oil cos have reptdly been invited by Hanoi to submit proposals for resuming offshore oil exploration off S Vietnam; Hanoi, despite continuing chill in pol relations between it and Washington, is expected to begin signing deals with foreign cos, including Amer ones if current embargo on trade with Vietnam is dropped beyond 6‐mo no‐embargo trial period about to be approved by Cong over Ford Adm objections; US cos involved in exploration before fall of Saigon listed (M)

Matthew Ruffer, 3, is only person now alive who has apparently successfully recd bone‐marrow transplant from donor unrelated to him; some 30 physicians and scientists to hold working conf in May at Mich State Univ to discuss problems and prospects of widescale bone marrow transplantation; illus of child and his parents (L)

NYS Environmental Comr Ogden R Reid reptdly has refused GE's alleged exonerated payment of $2‐million to settle controversial PCB case, provided that payment is not cited as penalty and co is not required to make ‘restoration, reclamation or other like remedy’ because of its discharge of PCB into Hudson River; GE insists that state sign ‘good‐faith clause'; Reid's bargaining position with GE reptdly has made him renewed center of controversy and further complicates his already strained relations with Gov Carey

Humphrey toys he will bypass NJ Pres primary on June 8, last primary open to him, regardless of what happens in Po primary on Apr 27; number of his associates have been pressing him to change his mind; Humphrey says he will make move only if Jimmy Carter or another front‐runner seems likely to enter 1st ballot with fewer than 1,100 of 1,505 votes need for Pres nomination (M)

RC school enrollment, after decade of decline, reptdly showing slow gains; upturn attributed to school system's emphasis on religious and moral values, as well as to their relatively safe atmosphere; new mood of cautious optimism evident among some 15,000 lay and religious educators at Natl Catholic Educ Assn annual meeting in Chicago; other factors contributing to optimism noted (M)