Gov Grasso budget message calls for reorgn and consol of higher educ adm for Univ of Conn, state, tech and community colls (S)

MRS. GRASSO PRESSES CONSOLIDATION PLANS

Mayor Beame, in proposing to overcome budget deficit, says force will be cut by 1,500 through attrition (S)

BEAME TO SEEK RISE IN REAL ESTATE TAX AND MORE JOB CUTS

Article on plight of Indochinese refugees, including estimated 10,699 Cambodians, who are living in Thai camps; map (M)

Exit Routes Closing for Indochina Refugees

Sea-Land Service Inc agrees to pay $4-million penalty for making more than $19-million in rebates to customers; is largest civil penalty ever assessed by US transportation regulatory agency; co admitted to making illegal rebates between '71 and '75 (M)

Sea‐Land to Pay U.S. $4 Million As Rebate Fine

Selected by Sen Dems to new post as Deputy Pres pro tem of Sen on Jan 5 (M)

Solace for Humphrey: Senate Democrats Give Him a $7,450 Pay Rise, a Chauffeured Limousine and New Title

Fed grand jury, concluding 18-mo investigation, repts that IRS intelligence agents did not violate civil rights of taxpayers during highly publicized 'sex and drinking' investigation in Miami known as Operation Leprechaun; sharply criticizes press for not exercising greater care in printing series of exposes in early '75 that led to Cong hearings and cutback by Donald C Alexander, IRS head, on intelligence activities; rept specifically accuses Miami News, which first disclosed details of Operation Leprechaun, of 'knowingly' publishing false information about IRS intelligence activities; bulk of grand jury rept dealt with various published allegations stemming from Operation Leprechaun, IRS intelligence div operation in early '70s aimed at gathering tax information on group of 30 prominent Miamians, including city officials and Fed and state judges (M)

Panel Clears I.R.S. on Miami Inquiry

Gov Carey proposes replacement of $500 threshold for lawsuits under no-fault auto ins law with new verbal standard of precisely defined 'serious injury' (S)

CAREY ASKS TAX CUT AND A NEW BOND ISSUE FOR WORKS PROJECTS

Proposed regulation eliminating major tax shelter enjoyed by builders is ordered withdrawn by Treas Sec Simon hrs after it is published by IRS; withdrawal comes after housing interests applied intense pressure against regulation, which they said would halt nearly all investment in low- and moderate income housing (M)

A TAX SHELTER BAN IS VETOED BY SIMON

The recent advance of several important economic indicators has convinced many private American economists that the so&#8208;called pause in the nation's economic recovery from the deepest recession since World War II is now ending and that growth this year may be somewhat stronger than they had expected earlier.

Economists Find Pause Ending; Growth Projections for’77 Raised

The U.N. Today

Prime Min Bhutto announces scries of agr reforms to improve his party's chances in upcoming elections (S)

PAKISTAN LEADER UNVEILS AGRARIAN REFORM PLANS

Article on increased Saudi Arabian arms purchases in US cites purchases of F-5 fighters and possibility of purchases of advanced F-14s and F-15s (S)

Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up Arms Purchases in the United States

Gandhi wrote lr Dec 23 to Asoka Mehta, former cabinet min who was released in May after 10 mos in jail under state of emergency, expressing hope that it would not be impossible to find solution to problems between opposition and Govt; Mehta illus (M)

Mrs. Gandhi Writes a Key Critic Saying Differences Can Be Resolved

pol debate begins over whether accusations against Ofer should be investigated by police (S)

Rabin, at Funeral, Defends Aide Who Was a Suicide

Natl Liberal Party leader Camille Chamoun says he suspects Communists are behind car-bomb blast; sees effort to rekindle civil war; Phalangist radio station says time bomb went off in port of Byblos, causing damage but no casualties; rightist militia command demands more stringent security, sending memo on subject to Col Ahmed al-Hajj, Lebanese comdr of Arab peacekeeping force; shops reopen in east Beirut after 24-hr strike; Phalangist radio says it has information that gang of women is being used by foreign embassy to spread terror in Lebanon (M)

A Lebanese Leader Sees Communist Role In Bomb Death of 40

Orlov seized on Moscow st and questioned by justice officials; incident occurs on his way to news conf where he planned to tell Western journalists about police searches of his apt and those of 4 other dissidents; phones reporters after interrogation to say seized documents are being used to start Govt's criminal proceeding against him; Ginzburg, Sakharov and Grigorenko attend news conf (S)

Leading Moscow Dissident Is Questioned

Jan 6: Repr Stephen J Solarz, who has returned from visits to Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, says he found prospects for peace agreement 'slim' but better than they have been for yrs; notes Saudi Prince Fahd told him that time is ripe for settlement and that Saudi Arabia recognizes that Israel is reality and fact of life in Middle East; says Syrian leaders told him that Israel must withdraw completely from Golan Hts and that they want right to put troops on hts; says Egyptian Pres Sadat told him that if Israel withdraws completely from Sinai he would agree to demilitarization of peninsula; says Egyptians and Saudis adopted 'moderate' position of advocating Palestinian state on West Bank and Gaza Strip; says Syrians said issue was up to Palestinians, who are now working out coordinated position on issue; Solarz illus (M)

Syria Said to Promise It Will Ease Restrictions on Jewish Community

Wall poster defending ousted former Deputy Prime Min Teng Hsiao-ping is displayed on Peking's main st; charges purged leftists radicals provoked Apr 5 riots in Peking's Tien An Men Sq and then suggested Teng was culprit (S)

Wall Poster Backing Teng,Ousted Leader, Is Put Up in Peking

At least 6 people die and as many as 6 are missing in fire at Hull, Eng, old age home (S)

World News Briefs

Eric Abraham, S African journalist who was declared banned person and placed under house arrest in Cape Town in Nov '76, arrives in Botswana after escaping across border (S)

Banned South African Journalist Flees Across Botswana Border

Schools reopen in black Soweto twp after 6 mos of disturbances (S)

Soweto Schools Are Reopened And Boycott by Students Eases

Pres-clect Carter informs Giscard he agrees in principle with proposal for econ summit conf among leading Western econ powers (M)

CARTER BACKS MOVE FOR EUROPE PARLEY

group calling itself Lolita Lebron Puerto Rican Liberation Command takes responsibility for placing bombs in ROTC at Univ of Puerto Rico on Jan 3 (S)

Group Says It Planted Bombs

Visitors to E Berlin from countries outside Communist block must obtain visas, at cost of $2.20, which replace free 24-hr passes; step apparently was taken because of lower prices for goods in E Berlin; E Ger on New Yr's Day withdrew border guards stationed on roads leading out of E Berlin into E Ger (M)

EAST BERLIN VISITORS NOW MUST PAY A FEE

analysis of Brit efforts and skepticism with which ruling white minority views Brit-Amer initiatives launched by Sec Kissinger; Prime Min Ian Smith's negotiating strategy discussed

January 6, 1977

Headlines from January 6, 1977

MRS. GRASSO PRESSES CONSOLIDATION PLANS

BEAME TO SEEK RISE IN REAL ESTATE TAX AND MORE JOB CUTS

Exit Routes Closing for Indochina Refugees

Sea‐Land to Pay U.S. $4 Million As Rebate Fine

Solace for Humphrey: Senate Democrats Give Him a $7,450 Pay Rise, a Chauffeured Limousine and New Title

Billboard 200

Songs In The Key Of Life

Hotel California

Boston

Wings Over America

A New World Record

Historical Context for January 6, 1977