September 27, 1976

Nearly 1,000 off-duty officers noisily demonstrate outside Gracie Mansion for 2d consecutive morning, angering neighborhood residents who pelt them with bottles and tomatoes; 1 demonstrator hospitalized with head injury; PBA spokesman says demonstration was not sponsored by PBA, but numerous leaders identify themselves as PBA delegates; residents comment; illus (M)

Libyan prosperity and development plans of regime head Col Muammar el-Qaddafi, using extensive oil revenues, revd; background data on nation; illus; map (M)

Dem Vice Pres candidate Walter F Mondale says deterioration of man's environment on global scale is urgent US foreign policy problem, speech, Time Inc leadership conf (S)

Bronx, NYC, Puerto Rican residents seen as team's most avid fans; illus (M)

4 guerrillas, believed to be Palestinians opposed to Syria's intervention in Lebanon, seize Hotel Semiramis and 90 hostages in downtown Damascus and battle with Syrian troops before being overpowered; leader of guerrillas and 4 hostages are killed; 3 guerrillas, identified as 2 Palestinians and Iraqi, are captured and 34 hostages are wounded; Prime Min Abdel Rahman Khleifawi, Defense Min Mustafa Tlas and others watch fighting; guerrillas identified as members of Black June orgn; say they recd orders from Al Fatah, were trained in Iraq and that their aim was to gain release of Palestinians held in Syrian prisons; Syrian Pres Assad deplores attack; Robert Kestenbaum, asst producer for NBC, was taken hostage, but is unharmed; incident reconstructed by witnesses (M)