August 28, 1976

Nunn charges Army defense attys are withholding hundreds of affidavits by cadets accusing others of cheating in effort to win more lenient treatment for clients; Nunn says approximately 700-800 affidavits are being withheld in attempt to blackmail acad; Berry echoes similar sentiments; calls action by attys irresponsible; says attys will be guilty of obstruction of justice if affidavits pertain to criminal rather than adm proceedings; Nunn lauds Hoffmann's handling of cheating scandal; Berry illus at com hearing with cadets (M)

Badillo accuses Beame adm of providing 'massive protection' for Velez, int with NY Times editors and reporters; notes that Velez has been target of numerous investigations that never seem to come to anything despite Badillo's contention that 'I believe criminal activities are involved'; Beame's office holds Badillo is engaged in campaign 'histrionics'; Badillo charges that primary might be 'fixed'; illus (L)

prestige of Dutch royal house seen damaged by Govt rept on Prince Bernhard's dealings with Lockheed; future of Queen Juliana put in question; she reptdly considered abdication, but reptdly was persuaded not to step down to avoid const crisis; general reaction in nation is shock (M)

Kruger to meet with urban black leaders manifests 'acute impatience' with pressures from Western countries, particularly US; casualties update (L)

MIT scientists led by Dr Har Gobind Khorana construct gene, basic unit of heredity, complete with regulatory mechanisms such as 'start,' 'stop' and other control messages to make gene work; feat gives geneticists important new tool for studying how genes function or malfunction, as in case of many diseases; Khorana's sr colleagues, Drs Hans-Joachim Fritz and Ramamoorthy Balagaje, to deliver paper on achievement at annual meeting of Amer Chem Soc; list of contributing scientists; reasearch was funded by Natl Insts of Health, Natl Science Foundation, Amer Cancer Soc and Alfred P Sloan Foundation; illus of Khorana; diagram of 1st functional synthesized gene (L)