June 5, 1976

NYS Sup Ct jury orders CBS to pay more than $250,000 to Manhattan restaurant Le Mistral because network's TV camera crew entered it without permission and took pictures as part of feature on restaurants charged with violating city's health code; decision of Justice Martin B Stecher noted; Le Mistral atty John F Lang (Saxe Bacon and Bolan) and CBS atty Gordon T King (Coudert Bros) comment (M)

Dr Malcolm R Currie, who was severely reprimanded in Mar '76 for accepting hospitality from major defense contractor, is promoted from current post as dir of defense research and engineering to 'acquistion exec' of Defense Dept; dept does not make public Currie's elevation; Currie illus (M)

Gov Carey calls upon angry and resistant Mayor Beame to increase his austerity measures sharply in coming yr, with more than $200-million in additional and accelerated cuts; Beame immediately denounces Carey proposal as unnecessary and impossible; what prompts flareup is rept to Emergency Financial Control Bd from exec dir Stephen Berger warning that Beame's latest austerity plan should be found 'unacceptable' because it is based on some weak assumptions and unfeasible cuts (L)

US loses its fight to keep PLO out of World Employment Conf when governing body of Internatl Labor Orgn reverses itself under strong pressure from League of Arab States, Orgn of African Unity and Soviet bloc; vote, 31-23 with 1 abstention, comes after exec group rejects contention by US delegation that May 29 vote barring PLO was not subject to rev under orgn's rules; US Govt, labor and employer delegates to ILO decide not to walk out but ot confine their protest to boycotting conf sessions at which Palestinians speak; PLO exec com member Abdul-Muhsim Abu Mizer hails seating of his orgn; Daniel L Horowitz, chief US Govt repr, praises GB, France, Italy and W Ger for siding with US in vote (M)

After a 5 percent rise in electric rates less than three months ago, the Consolidated Edison Company requested a further increase of 10.4 percent to take effect a year from now. Page 16.