December 17, 1976

OPEC oil mins end pricing conf in Qatar on Dec 17, with Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates deciding to raise prices by 5% on Jan 1 and other members deciding to raise them 10% on Jan 1 and another 5% on July 1; show signs of disunity; Saudi Min Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani flies home before returning for final session; Venezuelan Min Valentin Hernandez Acosta says pricing question is now finished, but Qatari Min Sheik Abdel‐Aziz bin‐Khalifa al‐Thani says ‘no final decision’ has been made; pricing action urged at conf by Sheik Mane Saeed el‐Oteiba of Arab Emirates, Jamshid Amuzegar of Iran and Tayeh Abdel Karim of Iraq noted; members know of no diplomatic contacts with Pres‐elect Carter; other issues are set aside; illus of Yamani, Amuzegar, Sheik Abdel‐Aziz bin‐Khaliva al‐Thani and Mohammed Sadli of Indonesia (M)

Carter announces Young apptmt as chief repr to UN, news conf, Plains, Ga; Young comments; illus with wife and son (S)

Drs David M Hurst, Ralph D Little, Francis McLaughlin and Bertrand R Jacobs comment on patients who fall asleep on couch during psychoanalysis; suggest boredom, fatigue, defiance, avoidance as reasons; Sigmund Freud instituted use of couch; illus of Freud‧s couch (M)

Miki announces his intention to resign leadership of governing Liberal Dem Party once successor has been chosen; move also means that Japan will have new Prime Min; Takeo Fukuda is seen as Miki‧s successor (M)

Asst HEW Sec Theodore Cooper announces suspension of natl swine flu immunization program because of concern that shots are possibly linked to recently reptd cases of Guillain‐Barre Syndrome; Fed Disease Control Center is investigating repts from at least 14 states of 94 cases, 4 of them fatal; can neither prove nor disprove possible connection between paralysis and swine flu shots; of 94 reptd cases, 51 involved persons who recd swine flu shots (M)