October 8, 1976

Number of grad students at CUNY fell from 12,736 in fall '75 to 9,519 this semester, drop of 25% and 9 times as much as projected; Vice Chancellor Egon Brenner cites factors contributing to drop in grad student enrollment, noting budget cuts and increased tuition fees; undergrad enrollment also declined at 9 sr and 9 community colls, from 174,830 in '75 to 145,019 this fall, for 17.1% drop; factors acctg for undergrad decline noted; chart depicting enrollment decline, '73-77, at sr, community colls and grad school levels (M)

Thai Govt on Oct 7 announces that some newspapers will probably be allowed to resume publishing in 3 days (S)

Dem Sen nominee Daniel P Moynihan appears to be retreating somewhat from stand on teachers right to strike, int, NY Times; says he supports NYS's Taylor Law barring such strikes; Moynihan and Sen James L Buckley pors (S)

E Eur ethnic groups in major US cities, including Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, react with astonishment and derision to Ford's statement in debate with Carter that E Eurs are not dominated by USSR; among those commenting are Aloysius Mazewski, pres of Polish-Amer Cong, Victor Viksnins, chmn of Captive Nations Com, George Dobrea, Bronis Klementowicz, Thaddeus L Kowalski and John Halmaghi; Ford, campaigning on W Coast, asserts support for independence aspirations in E Eur; Sec Kissinger, in NYC, interprets Ford remarks as rejecting Soviet domination; Lt Gen Brent Scowcroft agrees; Sen Robert J Dole concedes statement presents some pol problems for Ford; Carter calls statement 'ridiculous'; Sen Walter F Mondale indicates Dems will play up 'blunder'; pol gains for Carter seen because E Eur ethnic groups are largely Roman Caths, not generally favorably disposed toward Carter; Mazewski illus (L)

Article on HUD-sponsored Cedar-Riverside development, Minneapolis, Minn; barely 3 yrs after 1st 1,299-unit section's completion Cedar-Riverside is broke, many tenants are unhappy and HUD has been enjoined by landmark suit from putting funds into project's 2d stage; lawsuit, brought by coalition of community groups, charged that HUD, Minneapolis Housing and Redevelopment Authority and project's developer Cedar-Riverside Associates had inadequately considered alternatives to project's high-rise, high-desity design; US Dist Ct last spring decided that design 'was unnecessary and socially destructive'; suit's possible implications noted; illus (L)

Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon carry various weapons belonging to Israeli armed forces; acknowledge they have phone communications with Israelis; Western observers, Beirut, say close cooperation with Christians gives Israel 'early-warning system' permitting Israel to receive alert that Palestinian unit is approaching; Israelis reptdly promised Christian militia comdrs that Israeli force would reach scene of fighting in Lebanon within 20 minutes after receiving alert; reptdly conduct night patrols regularly as far north as Litani River; local Christians say their isolation since start of Lebanese civil war prompted them to turn to Israel for food and other necessities; map (L)

Labor Dept repts food prices rose 0.5% in Sept (S)

Oct 8-9: despite apparent pledge by Ford during debate, Commerce Dept says it will not disclose names of cos that participated in Arab boycott of Israel; Ford directs Commerce Dept to make available for public inspection all 'future' repts that are filed with it concerning boycott; exempts any information that might put co at 'competitive disadvantage'; dept spokesman Horace S Webb says no lists will be published, but that repts by US cos will be available to public; Sens William Proxmire and Harrison Williams Jr charge that Ford 'misled Amer people' regarding legis to curb boycott; say Cong took initiative on legis and Ford Adm 'blocked us'; although Ford stressed his signing of tax bill with its antiboycott features, high-ranking officials, including Sec Kissinger, Treas Sec William Simon and Asst Treas Sec Gerald L Parsky, worked against its inclusion in bill; Sen Abraham A Ribicoff says Ford's entire Adm fought to kill antiboycott section in bill as well as Stevenson-Bingham boycott provision in Export Adm Act; Repr Jonathan B Bingham also disputes Ford claim; Ford's legis aide Max Friedersdorf denies that Sen John G Tower, who blocked export act, acted for Ford; Tower aide says Tower acted on his own (L)

among factors in reversal of trend against Carter in Pres campaign is Ford's statement on E Eur; Lev E Dobriansky, of Natl Captive Nations Com, calls Ford's comment 'shocking' (S)

The noisy demonstration by angry offduty police officers outside the 17th Precinct station on East 51st Street fell strangely silent early yesterday morning as the Police Department changed work shifts and the antagonists changed sides.

Japan demands return of fishing boat and crew seized by Soviet patrol boat off Siberia in Sept (S)

Career and biog sketch; por (M)