Primaries To Reach A Climax Today

Auditors for NYC Comptroller Harrison J Goldin charge city has agreed to high direct-lease day-care center rents 'without relation to cost, resulting in excessive profits to developers'; auditors' rept proposes that NYC attempt to terminate leases it does not need; rept criticizes NYC Real Estate Dept and Child Development Agency; says Real Estate Comr Ira Duchan contended that landlords would not agree to lower rents if costs turned out to be below estimates; other findings noted; Goldin illus (M)

Goldin Reports City Is Being Victimized On Day‐Care Rents

Chile Study Says Torture Goes On

US Sup Ct, upholding Police Dept exam that black applicants fail in higher proportion than whites (S)

Supreme Court Upholds Exam In Which Blacks Scored Low

pound sterling stages strong recovery on June 7; pound closes at $1.76 in London and $1.77 in New York; foreign exch mkts react favorably to Prime Min James Callaghan's decision to postpone further moves to nationalize shipbldg and aircraft industries; Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and Grindlays Bank dir Willian Clarke comment; Bank of England governor Gordon Richardson illus; chart depicts decline in value of pound during May-June '76 (L)

British Economic Actions And Credit Buoy Pound

Syrian troops hold Beirut in stranglehold as Syrian armored columns are reptd to have advanced toward Beirut from positions in eastern Lebanon; reptd deployments noted; informants in Jumblat's stronghold in mts east of Beirut say Syrians have pushed their positions to within 19 mi of Beirut; details of equipment losses and fighting; Damascus radio denounces Yasir Arafat's Al Fatah orgn, asserting that it is 'serving Zionism and imperialism'; illus; map (L)

SYRIANS MOVING TROOPS AND TANKS CLOSER TO BEIRUT

Pres Ford signs documents that will lead to imposition of quotas on imports of specialty steels; Frederick Dent arrives in Tokyo to sign agreement with Japan to limit Japanese exports of stainless and tool products to US for 3 yrs (M)

SPECIALTY STEELS WILL FACE QUOTAS

Mayor Beame and Ashmont Metal pres Paul Liu sign contract for $12-million plant to produce high-quality commercial steel from metal scrap recovered from SW Bklyn Incinerator; Beame says plant will reduce need for barge transport of ash by 1/3 and will reduce landfill needs by 25,000 tons a yr; 65-70 tons a day of ferrous metal can be extracted from 150 tons of refuse processed daily by incinerator; tech described (M)

Brooklyn to Get Plant Designed To Produce Steel From Refuse

Outlook for June 8 Pres primaries in NJ, Calif and Ohio detailed; Jimmy Carter is expected to win enough delegates to put him within relatively easy reach of Dem nomination; Sen Hubert H Humphrey says Ohio and NJ victories would 'propel' Carter to nomination; neither Pres Ford nor Ronald Reagan are expected to win enough delegates to settle Repub race; Repubs in 3 states will choose 331 delegates, 1/4 total needed for nomination; Dems will elect 540, over 1/3 of total; Reagan is only candidate campaigning in Calif on June 7; Ford is in Ohio; Carter stomps Ohio and NJ, abandoning plans to return to Calif; Dem Repr Morris K Udall and Sen Frank Church stress Ohio, while Brown stomps NJ; Ford is expected to win nearly all 67 NJ delegates and at least 75 of 97 Ohio delegates; Reagan is heavily favored to win in Calif, gaining 167 delegates under winner-take-all rules; Ford illus in Middletown, Ohio; Reagan illus campaigning with wife in Walnut Creek, Calif (M)

Carter Appears Near Goal In Last 3 Primaries Today

US joins with other industrialized nations on June 7 to provide $5.3-billion stand-by line of short-term credit for GB to bolster beleagured currency; pound sterling posts strong gains in reaction to news, closing at $1.77 on London Exch; factors leading to devaluation of currency and effect of devaluation on Brit econ and internatl monetary system discussed (L)

$53 BILLION IN AID PROVIDED BRITAIN TO BOLSTER POUND

NYS Sen majority leader Warren M Anderson asks for $24-million advance to reopen CUNY immediately, rebuffing Dem charges that his opposition to plan was responsible for Legis' failure to rescue univ; other aspects of Anderson proposal noted; possibility that Anderson's proposal may be passed by Assembly and signed by Gov Carey because it is better than any put forth so far noted; Dem reaction to proposal described as heavy with public indignation and private dismay at realization that Anderson's move puts Assembly Dems in very tight pol spot (M)

ANDERSON SEEKING A CITY U. ADVANCE

Patrick J Cunningham is accused in indictment on June 7 of threatening Co-op City News in Bronx with financial retribution unless it silenced its criticism of Bronx politicians Councilman Stephen A Baufman and former Dem dist leader Jerome Glanzrock; politicians are also indicted and charged with attempting to apply pressure on Bronx Surrogate Bertram R Gelfand to withdraw legal ad from newspaper as way of whipping paper into line; defendants plead not guilty

New Indictment Charges Coercion by Cunningham

Greek art collector L A Benaki strongly denies Egyptian suggestions that he intended smuggling about 30,000 valuable Greek- and Roman-era amphora handles that were found in his villa out of Egypt; Alexandria Greco-Roman museum dir Yussef Hanna reptdly says most of handles were donated to museum by Benaki in '63; Benaki says he donated collection to museum, half of collection was put on display and rest remained crated in villa basement until museum had sufficient funds to build display cabinets (M)

Greek Collector Denies Plot To Move Egyptian Antiques

Angolan Govt investigators seek death penalty for Amer mercenaries Gary Martin Acker and Daniel Francis Gearhart and 11 others, who were captured in Feb while fighting with Natl Front for Liberation of Angola; other Amer Gustavo Marcelo Grillo indicates he does not want to be defended by US lawyer Robert Cesner Jr, who is defending Acker and Gearhart; prisoners are to be tried before People's Revolutionary Ct, composed of 5 Angolan judges (M)

Death Sought for Mercenaries in Angola

Rhodesian security hq repts 3 Rhodesian white civilians were killed in landmine explosion (S)

3 Rhodesia Whites Killed

Egypt has withdrawn its entire diplomatic staff in Damascus and closed embassy (S)

Arab League Summons Key Ministers on Lebanon

Gunman shouting 'Free Croatia' shoots Carlos Abdala, Uruguay Amb to Paraguay in Asuncion, apparently mistaking him for Yugoslavia Amb Mancillo Vucekovic who was scheduled to make public appearance; gunman identified as Danziv Danjanovic

Wrong Envoy Is Shot In Assassination Bid

Oriental Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, among oldest in Asia, celebrates 100th anniv; famous guests noted (S)

Oriental Hotel Marks Its 100th Anniversary

Indian delegation to UN rejects as 'groundless' June 7 complaint from Internatl League for the Rights of Man charging Indian Govt with suppressing individual freedom and permitting torture of pol dissidents (S)

India's Delegation to U.N. Rejects Charges of Torture

4 minor earthquakes jolt different parts of Japan on June 6 for 2 1/2 hrs, causing no damage or casualties (S)

4 Minor Quakes in Japan

China confirms on June 7 that Yeh Chien-ying still holds key post of Defense Min, ending speculation that he might have relinquished his job because of his former association with Teng (S)

CHINA DEFENSE CHIEF RETAINS HIS POSITION

article discusses 'battlefront' in Lebanon, positions taken by Syrian troops and mood among gunmen from various factions (M)

Nerves and Calm on a Lebanese Front

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

Organizers of Farnborough air show stir controversy by barring Kfir, Israeli fighter, from participating; Desmond Clough, chmn of Soc of Brit Aerospace Cos, sponsor of show, says Israel applied too late for event, which is scheduled for Sept 5-12; Israeli Aircraft Industries official says Farnborough officials agreed on May 25 to allow plane to be entered but reversed decision 2 days later; rept in Israeli newspaper Maariv attributes decision to pressure from Saudi Arabia, which warned GB that its lucrative Arab export mkt for mil planes would be jeopardized if Kfir was permitted to demonstrate its capabilities at show; rept is denied by Soc as well as by Hawker Siddeley and Brit Aircraft Corp; Kfir described; Arabs are among biggest buyers of mil aircraft from GB (M)

BRITISH AIR SHOW BARS ISRAELI JET

UN Sec Gen Waldheim voices concern about thousands of Greek Cypriots in Turkish-controlled areas of Cyprus, rept to Security Council; asks 6-mo extension of UN peace-keeping force; Cyprus Min Ioannis Christophides in NYC to press for full-scale debate on Cyprus (S)

WALDHEIM VOICES CONCERN ON CYPRUS

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June 8, 1976

Headlines from June 8, 1976

Primaries To Reach A Climax Today

Goldin Reports City Is Being Victimized On Day‐Care Rents

Chile Study Says Torture Goes On

Supreme Court Upholds Exam In Which Blacks Scored Low

British Economic Actions And Credit Buoy Pound

Billboard 200

Black And Blue

At The Speed Of Sound

Presence

I Want You

Here And There

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 8, 1976