July 16, 1976

League of Voluntary Hosps and Homes agrees in principle to submit 10-day-old hosp strike to binding arbitration after NYS threatens to curtail Medicaid and other funding to hosps if strike is not ended; union officials are angered by negotiator for league who gave reporters copies of guidelines before they had been discussed; ultimatum to hosps is delivered by Emergency Financial Control Bd exec dir Stephen Berger, Gov Carey's sec David Burke and Dr Kevin Cahill, Carey's adviser on health matters (M)

July 16: Eur, Middle East and US diplomats say broad terrorist network, stretching from Middle East to Africa and Eur, is being trained, armed and financed by Libyan leader Col Qaddafi; targeted Arab countries and guerrilla forces receiving arms noted; Arab leaders, including Egyptian Pres Sadat, view Qaddafi as threat to Middle East stability and central figure underwriting campaign of hijackings and terrorism; recent terrorist incidents in which Qaddafi has reptdly been involved discussed (L)

Racial and regional harmony prevailing at Dem Natl Conv seen as reflection of deep pol change that has swept South; Ross Barnett Jr, whose father walked out of '60 conv over seating of blacks, is member of '76 Miss delegation that is half-black, half-female and part liberal; speeches by Sen Humphrey, Dr Martin Luther King Sr, Gov David Pryor and Sen George S McGovern hailing end to regional split noted; lone problem arises when Ala Sen Robert Wilson is booed as he tries to praise Gov George C Wallace during roll-call; Repr Andrew Young seen deserving much credit for conv's harmony; civil rights leader Aaron Henry illus with Ross Barnett Jr

WASHINGTON, July 15—Jamaica was the country in which an American ambassador solicited contributions, apparently for officials and political parties, from the Aluminum Company of America, according to evidence gathered today and confirmed by a source close to the transaction.

IOC and US Olympic Com approve compromise offer by Canada that will allow Taiwan to compete with own flag and anthem, but not as Repub of China; IOC's USSR' member Vitaly Smirnov promises that all countries recognized by IOC will be welcome at '80 Games in Moscow; puts cost at $250-million (M)