January 4, 1977

The Flushing National Bank yesterday dropped its court challenge to the constitutionality of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, thereby removing a major source of the resistance by banks to helping New York City pay off its short‐term notes.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 3—Israel's Minister of Housing, Abraham Ofer, who was a prominent politician in the governing Labor Party, committed suicide today. The police said the 54‐year‐old official had shot himself in a car parked on a

MOUNT DARWIN, Rhodesia, Jan. 3—For veterans of Vietnam, there is something strikingly familiar about the protected villages of Rhodesia—groups of thatched huts surrounded by wire fencing and guarded by soldiers—into which tens

The New York Telephone Company said yesterday that it would recognize, for 25 cents a month, that marriage was a partnership.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The 95th Congress will convene tomorrow amid efforts to improve the economy and the Congressional image.