November 30, 1976

Survey of once‐strong Latin Amer univs finds them in pol and acad decline, with their traditional claims to autonomy from state interference ignored by authoritarian regimes; decline linked to students' pol activism and govts' ambition to expand higher educ without financing its mounting costs; situation at univs in Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Mex, and Brazil discussed; illus (L)

Mozambique Govt is preparing Mozambicans for wider Rhodesian guerrilla war; Rhodesian guerrillas have been using Mozambique as base of operation; increase in USSR arms shipments to Mozambique noted; map (M)

NEWARK, Nov. 29—Mat??hew Feldman, president of the New Jersey State Senate, pleaded guilty today to charges that he had paid $6,400 in bribes to assure that his liquor distribution company would he the exclusive supplier to the Emersons Ltd. restaurant chain in New Jersey.

at least 12 people are killed and 70 injured in derailment; survivors include party of 17 Amer students, some Peace Corps volunteers and a score of delegates attending UNESCO conf at Nairobi; accident, called by rr officials ‘worst in E African history,’ described; map (S)

Last June, 24 hours after the Yankees engineered a 10‐player trade with the Baltimore Orioles, players from the two teams collided in the lobby of a Chicago hotel.