May 31, 1976

Vice Pres Rockefeller sees no chance of Ford choosing Reagan as running mate, May 30 appearance on CBS news program Face the Nation; sees Ford winning nomination by narrow margin; says logic dictates Ford choosing conservative running mate to unite party; White House aide confirms May 30 that Ford might take diplomatic journey to underline his foreign policy leadership shortly before Repub conv; Newsweek speculates that trip might be ‘super summit’ conf in Caribbean; Sec Kissinger issues statement denying Parade magazine rept he wants to debate natl security with Reagan; Rockefeller illus (M)

Efforts to nudge civil war toward pol solution appear to have collapsed; indiscriminate shelling of civilian populations increase, causing many deaths, and there is fighting all along front lines in Beirut and in mountains of eastern and northern Lebanon; casualties noted; Sarkis is described as being pessimistic about chances of ending conflict; most urgent issue on which 2 sides disagree centers on role of Syria (L)

Gov Carey pressures NYC Higher Educ Bd by terming tuition at CUNY unavoidable; sets current univ fiscal crisis in long‐term context by announcing plans to appt comm to plan for overall conduct of private and public higher educ in NYS, speech, Fordham Univ commencement; function of planned comm detailed; NYC Higher Educ Bd to meet June 1 to take up several issues facing univ system, including possibility of imposing tuition; expected approval of tuition will be 1st step in pol process that could reopen univ, closed on May 29 by Chancellor Robert J Kibbee; illus of Carey at Fordham Univ commencement exercises (L)

Brit Foreign Office, in apparent move to accept Iceland's proclaimed 200‐mi offshore boundary, says it has ordered flotilla of Navy frigates out of Iceland area, May 30; Foreign Min Anthony Crosland reptdly will begin talks with Icelandic Foreign Min Einar Agustsson in Oslo on Apr 1; Brit deep‐sea trawler fleet spokesman John Davis says fact that frigates have been ordered out of area indicates agreement is imminent; early indications are that Iceland will allow 24 Brit trawlers to operate within boundary; new agreement reptdly will be renegotiated in 6 mos; adverse impact on 1,500 Brit trawler fishermen and 7,500 support workers, many of whom may become jobless as result of fishing limitations, discussed (M)

UN Conf on Trade and Development Nairobi, Kenya, approves compromise proposal on issue of regulating world's commodity prices, but rejects US proposal for establishment of Internatl Resources Bank to promote development of resources in Third‐World nations; Asst Sec of State Charles Robinson tells conf that US views still are ‘in a fluid state'; demands of developing nations for debt relief and index system linking price of commodities with world inflation and their arguments in favor of common fund revd (L)