August 4, 1976

NYS Legis leaders, meeting with Gov Carey, break partisan impasse and agree to call members to Albany to enact package of amendments aimed at reorganizing state cts; deadlock is broken when Carey and Dem leaders agree to defer until '77 decision on when gubernatorial apptmt will replace election to Ct of Appeals; Repub leaders had insisted that decision be delayed in hope of holding 1 last election to Appeals Ct when Chief Judge Charles D Breitel retires in '78; components of package described; package will come up as single const amendment; some legislators and Carey comment on agreement (M)

18,000 hosp workers defy restraining order and strike NYC's 16 munic hosps; ambulance service remains unaffected; union leader Victor Gotbaum says ct order 'makes no difference'; issues in strike revd; some struck insts noted (L)

Litton, Jerry (Repr)

Pres Ford asks Cong for legis requiring reptg by US businesses of all substantial payments made in foreign countries to aid sales to foreign govts, whether or not they are proper; repts which would include names of recipients, could be disclosed to foreign govts, and would usually be made public after 1 yr; Commerce Sec Richardson, who made joint disclosure of bill with Pres Ford, argues that SEC does not have jurisdiction over all cos in internatl business and does not require recipients of payments to be named (M)

The Senate voted, 75 to 18, to override President Ford's veto of a bill increasing the states' share of royalties from private development of coal and other minerals on Federal land to 50 percent from 37.5 percent. The House is to vote on the bill today. Page 34.