November 16, 1976

NYS Sup Ct Appellate Div throws out indictment of Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut and son Robert, NYC Councilman, on charges of 'corrupt use of position' in offering job in return for campaign contribution; finds that Kings County grand jury that returned indictment lacked jurisdiction; indictment alleged that Speaker and son, who was then candidate for Councilman at Large from Bklyn, agreed to obtain hon city job for Hans Rubenfeld, Bronx haberdasher, in return for $2,500 pol contribution to Robert Steingut's Council campaign (M)

named press sec to Pres-elect Carter

Brezhnev illus being welcomed by Tito in Belgrade

NY Times/CBS News poll finds low voter turnout reflects demographic factors and sense of powerlessness among less priviledged and young, rather than disillusionment with Amer system after Watergate and other scandals; finds 55% of nonvoters and voters alike said public officials do not care about people, tending to disprove pre-election theory that mass of voters would boycott polls to show their distrust in govt after Watergate; finds 6 out of 10 voters who made up their minds just before election voted for Carter; finds if 146-million eligible voters had gone to polls, Carter would have won by even larger popular margin; charts comparing voter and nonvoter responses on various issues; charts comparing voters and nonvoters by age, educ, occupation and income (L)

US vetoes Vietnamese UN membership bid, Nov 15, on ground that Vietnam failed to give accounting of Amer servicemen still officially listed as missing in action; Amb Scranton comments; dozen Vietnam supporters attack US stand; illus (M)