one in series of article on issues in '76 Pres campaign focuses on Ford-Reagan debate over arms

Ford‐Reagan Race Focusing on Arms Issue

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Capt Arthur Lincoln, Army atty who criticized alleged abuse of West Point's honor code by officers and cadets, is being asked to leave acad; says he has recd communication from Defense Dept asking him to submit choices for reassignment; has defended cadet Stephen Verr against apparent campaign of harrassment, following reversal of charges that Verr had violated honor code; Verr case revd; current charges against 101 cadets noted (L)

Captain Critical of Honor Code Is Asked to Leave West Point

NYC Educ Bd and school supervisors' union are near agreement on new contract that would add 1 hr to work day of city's principals and other supervisors; new 2-yr contract will not contain demand that supervisors work 1 of their 2 summer vacation mos; will replace 3-yr agreement between bd and council of Supervisors and Admrs that expired last Sept 30, but ends practice of giving supervisors pre-retirement leave in lieu of sabbaticals; other contract provisions noted (M)

Principals Nearing Pact on Longer Day In New York City

Kenneth McFeeley, head of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for two years, declared his intention to resign, saying he would give his reasons at a news conference this morning. Page 10.

McFeeley to Resign

NYS Sup Ct Justice Nathaniel T Helman gives NYS Housing Finance Agency right to foreclose $436-million mortgage on Co-op City; 13-member exec com of Co-op City residents' steering com decides to continue fight; Helman expresses hope that housing agency will not take summary action against residents (M)

CO‐OP CITY LOSES FORECLOSURE SUIT

Jeremy Thorpe resigns as Liberal Party leader, accusing some Brit newspapers of having conducted 'sustained witch hunt' involving allegations of homosexuality; denies accusations that he had homosexual relationship with Norman Scott; says, in resignation lr to David Steel, party's acting chief whip, that he is leaving because controversy could wreck Liberal Party; says colleague is publicly challenging his credibility; is apparently referring to Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, who criticized Thorpe for not seeking to clear his name by starting libel action against Scott; disclosures that Scott recd money from various Liberal Party figures, including Peter Bessell, former MP now living in Calif, dicussed; Thorpe illus (L)

Top British Liberal Quits Over a Homosexual Furor

Eighteen Seventy Six: A Centennial Exhibition (Washington, DC): Illus of Chief Justice Warren Burger, who is chancellor of Smithsonian Inst, and S Dillon Ripley, its sec, arriving for opening of re-creation of 1876 Centennial exhibition at Phila

Smithsonian Revives Centennial of 1876

NYS Assembly passes bill to allow savings banks to offer checking accts after defeating handful of attempts to amend bill with requirements that banks establish mortgage pool for housing in poor neighborhoods; bill's passage is victory for Assemblyman Stanley Steingut whose efforts to pass naked bill were frustrated by alliance of liberals pushing for mortgage amendments (M)

Checking at Savings Banks Voted in Assembly, 91‐45

NYS enters bond mkt for 1st time since fiscal crisis began more than a yr ago and successfully sells $59-million of its own long-term bonds to group of underwriters headed by Chase Manhattan Bank; interest rate is 7.30%; State Comptroller Arthur Levitt says he is disappointed with rate but 'very gratified' that NYS has re-entered long-term bond mkt; sale is of great significance as symbol of how far NYS has come since it was virtually shut out of mkt last fall; by end of day, 140 members of underwriting syndicate had resold about 80% of bonds to investing public; bonds are dated May 14 and mature at varying dates between next yr and 2001 (M)

ALBANY RE‐ENTERS MARKET AND SELLS $59 MI WON BONDS

Darnton's notebook on experiences and problems in Rhodesia; contends that there is no hard-edged sense of impending disaster in Rhodesia; cites living conditions in several Rhodesian communities; illus (L)

A Reporter's Notebook The Tranquil Rhodesia

May 11: Israeli Govt officials say Israel is drawing up plans for large number of new settlements in occupied Arab territory over next several yrs; settlements, which are to range from small agr villages to indus towns, are to be located in Golan Hts, Jordan Valley and other parts of West Bank, and Rafah area of Gaza Strip; Israel reptdly plans to press ahead with new settlements despite possible confrontation with US; Prime Min Rabin says Israel's security considerations justify establishing settlements along Jordan River but not in hills of Samaria; settlers at army camp at Kadum, near Nablus, say they are willing to consider moving to another site so long as it is in Samaria; map of Israeli settlements (M)

ISRAEL PLANNING TO SETTLE MORE OF OCCUPIED LAND

Mayor Beame's midnight deadline for settlement of apt workers' strike passes without word from either side on whether it would submit dispute to arbitration, as Beame requested; State Mediation Bd chmn Vincent McDonnell announced shortly before deadline that he had informed Beame that neither mgt nor labor was prepared to make decision; says strikers and apt house reprs are far apart on all issues; McDonnell met with both sides after announcing that Realty Advisory Bd, representing NYC landlords, has rejected counter-proposal by strikers; Realty Advisory Bd negotiating com chmn Edward Sulzberger and Community Housing Improvement Program pres Seymour Zuckerman deny alleged split in ranks of landlord group (M)

DEADLINE PASSES IN BUILDING STRIKE

Special com of WHO has reptd that med care in Arab territories occupied by Israel has shown 'slow but steady' improvement in 9 yrs since '67 war; com was denounced by Israel because of 3 countries--Rumania, Senegal and Indonesia--chosen to participate in investigation only Rumania maintains diplomatic relations with Israel; diplomatic impasse between Israel and com was overcome by compromise in which Israel invited each of 3 experts--Dr Ibrahima Wone of Senegal, Traian Ionescu of Rumania and Dr Wirjawan Djojosugito of Indonesia--to visit occupied territories individually (M)

Study Calls Health Gain Slow In Territories Held by Israel

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

2-day meeting of French and African leaders, devoted to econ and pol problems, opens, Paris; French Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing outlines series of proposals dealing with strengthening Africa's shaky econ; meeting is 3d of kind since '73 (S)

19 AFRICAN LEADERS MEET WITH GISCARD

illus of police seizing demonstrator in Frankfurt, where march to protest Meinhof suicide erupted into violence

Palestinians Are Critical Of Syrian Role in Lebanon

Chinese UN repr Lai Ya-li praises Egypt for having freed itself from 'hegemonism,' term used to mean collaboration with USSR, speech at UN Security Council (S)

Soviet, in U.N., Charges Israeli ‘Genocide’

West Ger printers union says it will begin 12-day strike against nation's largest newspapers, but will allow smaller ones to publish (S)

German Printers Offer Deal

Egyptian Foreign Min Fahmy says Prime Mins of Egypt, Syria and Kuwait will meet in Saudi Arabia next wk on joint initiative of Saudi King Khalid and Kuwaiti ruler Sheik Sabah (S)

Arab Leaders Call Meeting On Egyptian‐Syrian Discord

Gas explosion in irrigation tunnel under construction in northern Japan kills 9 workers, Yamatgata (S)

Tunnel Blast Kills 9 in Japan

6 Iraqi mins are relieved of their posts on May 10 in Cabinet shuffle; 3 mins and 3 mins of state, or jr mins, lose their jobs; dismissed mins noted (S)

Six Iraqi Aides Ousted In a Shuffle of the Cabinet

among those known by Yoshio Kodama, Lockheed Aircraft Corp's secret agent in promoting sale of planes in Japan, is Tsuneo Watanabe, asst managing editor of Yomiuri Shimbun; Kodama also had contacts with Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun (S)

Lockheed Agent Had Contacts Among Top Japanese

FURTHER CHARGES SEEN FOR KODAMA

Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad repts investigative panel has cleared Prince Bernhard of bribery charges (S)

Bernhard Cleared In Lockheed Case, Dutch Paper Says

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May 11, 1976

Headlines from May 11, 1976

Ford‐Reagan Race Focusing on Arms Issue

Article 1 ‐‐ No Title

Captain Critical of Honor Code Is Asked to Leave West Point

Principals Nearing Pact on Longer Day In New York City

McFeeley to Resign

Billboard 200

Presence

At The Speed Of Sound

Frampton Comes Alive

Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

I Want You

Notable Births

Historical Context for May 11, 1976