January 7, 1977

World Bank sends mission to Vietnam, reptdly for econ 'reconnaissance' and not to examine specific projects for which loans might be made; risk that bank may alienate members of US Cong opposed to such aid noted; spokesman says bank is acting entirely on its own and not as possible leader of consortium of donors to country; US conditions for econ aid noted (M)

NYC Police Comr Codd, in int with NY Times editors and reporters, announces plan to begin using 1-man patrol cars this spring; hopes 100 additional ears will be put into daily patrol; PBA head Douglas Weaving scores plan as dangerous to men and community; says assn will attempt to block move through cts or through other means; Codd says that anticipated budget cuts could lead to increase in city's crime rate, that extensive use of plea-bargaining is undermining delivery of justice, that dept is not being shortchanged by city officials who have ordered cuts and that dept morale has dropped during last yr, largely because of 'badly fragmented' PBA; por (M)

Vice Pres Rockefeller announces Pres electoral vote before joint Cong session on Jan 6; Pres-elect Jimmy Carter and Vice Pres-elect Walter Mondale receive 297 votes, Pres Ford 240 and Ronald Reagan 1; illus of Rockefeller with HR Speaker Thomas O'Neill

Uganda has begun excavations on E 45th St, NYC, for Uganda House, 15-story hq for its UN delegation that will be 3 floors higher than its next-door neighbor, US Mission bldg; some US officials comment; rendering of bldg (M)

Pres-elect Carter confirms econ stimulation pkg will include Govt works program to create jobs; stresses public service jobs should be useful and well-administered; liberal bloc of 41 Dem Congressmen recently urged Carter to pour at least $30-billion into econ stimulation with heavy bias towards job programs; illus (M)

4 solar heating units to be installed in revg stand where Pres-elect Carter will watch inaugural parade to dramatize his interest in rational use of environment; units will warm official party, but not hundreds of thousands of spectators who are expected; despite inaugural com's efforts to make inauguration 'everybody's inauguration,' limited space will prevent most who go to Washington from attending many festivities planned for the day; free cultural events at Washington tourist sites described (M)

Latin Amer diplomats say Pres-elect Carter has selected as US repr in OAS former Sen Gale W McGee to succeed William S Mailliard; Herrera; McGee por (M)

Bronfman, Samuel 2d: Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne, convicted of extorting $2.3 million from Edgar M Bronfman but acquitted of kidnapping Samuel Bronfman, sentenced to minimum terms of 4 and 3 yrs, respectively; Justice George Beisheim comments (M)

Mayor Beame drops assumption that state would take over costs of city's correction system, which would have saved city $30 million (S)

French Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand attacks Giscard Adm for its handling of Christmas Eve murder (M)

Irina Astakhova McClellan, wife of US Prof Woodford McClellan, on Dec 29, '76, was denied exit visa by Soviet authorities for 6th time; was told by Soviet Visa and Registrations dir Vladimir S Obidin not to visit his office in '77 'because answer would be negative'; Prof McClellan has again been denied permission to visit his Russian wife; Mrs McClellan plans to appeal to Jimmy Carter after he assumes office; case revd; Mrs McClellan por (L)

Soviet dissident Andrei A Amalrik praises Radio Liberty, Jan 6 testimony to Comm on Security and Cooperation in Eur (S)