Image of Atlanta as internatl city suffers setback with rejection by Pres Ford of application to become gateway for trans-Atlantic internatl airlines (S)

Atlanta in Midst of Retrenchment After a Decade of Rapid Expansion

Carter and econ advisers decide on 2-yr econ stimulus program estimated to cost $25- to $32-billion; Schultze reptdly favored 2-yr plan with option of canceling 2d part of $4-billion public works construction program (M)

Carter and Aides Decided Economy Needed More Than Year's Stimulus

US Fish and Wildlife Service commissions 6-yr $17-million study to determine ecological implications on fish and animal life of opening St Lawrence River to winter commercial shipping; study is sponsored by Corps of Engineers and undertaken by Syracuse Univ Coll of Environmental Science, Cornell Univ Dept of Natural Resources, SUNY Oswego branch and NYS Environmental Conservation Dept (M)

USE OF ST. LAWRENCE FOR ALL YEAR SOUGHT

Carter expresses hope that substantial progress will be made toward SALT II agreement before he meets Brezhnev in US in fall but says meeting will take place 'in any case'; says Dobrynin's remarks in recent conf with Vance and Kissinger were 'encouraging' but there was no major breakthrough (S)

MONDALE TO EXPLAIN CARTER AIMS ON VISIT TO EUROPE AND JAPAN

New York City Metropolitan Area: Illus of 3 cars of 96-car Conrail freight train which derailed and landed in Queens, NYC, backyard

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Description and history of Long Island city; illus (L)

Puerto Ricans Disagree Sharply Over the Advantages of Statehood

article compares Minn and Oakland; drawing; illus (M)

Super Bowl Spectacle Today To Rivet Interest of Millions

Rupert Murdoch appointed Edwin Bolwell editor of The New York Post and James Brady editor of New York magazine, in moves to consolidate control over the publications. Page 37.

Murdoch Names 2 Editors

Article on attack by criminals and looters against foreign freighters awaiting berths in Lagos; map (M)

Pirates Plying Nigerian Seas

correction notes NY Times Jan 2 article erroneously stated that HR Select Com on Assassinations was aware of formal criticism of some actions of Sprague before he was hired

CORRECTION

State Department Under Vance Is Expected to Be Solid but Not So Colorful as Kissinger's

Tribute Is Paid to Chou in Peking

Tass repts Gen Viktor G Kulikov, Chief of Gen Staff of Soviet armed forces, is named new comdr of forces (S)

Gen. Kulikov, 55, Is Made Warsaw Pact Commander

Bombs explode at Jewish school, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at home of Jewish businessman; school bldg and house are severely damaged; bombings are 1st anti-Jewish attacks since rash of explosions against Jewish cos and synagogues in Aug and Sept (S)

Jewish School in Buenos Aires Is Severely Damaged by a Bomb

Mondale expresses pleasure with Pres-elect Carter's assignment of him to make early trip to W Eur and Japan (S)

Assienment Pleases Mondale

4 miners killed, 6 hurt by gas in coal mine at Velenie, Yugoslavia (S)

4 Miners Killed in Yugoslavia

Peru expels Gen Leonidas Rodriguez Figueroa, Gen Arturo Valdez Palacio, Adm Jorge Dellepiani Ocampo and Capt Manuel Neza Chacon for leftist opposition activity (S)

World News Briefs

Pres Tito reptdly rejects Soviet demand for permanent overflights by civilian and mil aircraft (S)

Yugoslays Report That Tito Rebuffed Brezhnev on Air and Naval Rights and a Role in the Warsaw Pact

Is seriously ill in Florida and Royal Air Force plane has been sent to bring him home to England; Prime Min James Callaghan's office says RAF plane was dispatched after Lord Avon's family requested that he be brought home; declines to specify Eden's illness (S)

Anthony Eden ‘Seriously Ill’ at 79

Middle East Econ Survey repts that Saudi Arabia will require Aramco partners to submit repts to prove they are passing on oil-price benefits to consumers (S)

Saudis Say Price Benefit On Their Exports of Oil Must Go to Consumers

Govt has succeeded in significantly cutting population growth rate; Lopez Portillo backs program; study by research inst El Colegio de Mex says 2.2-million women are planning families and growth rate has dropped from 3.5% to 3.2%; program having difficulty in reaching rural women with family planning advice; success of program seen holding population to 115-million by yr 2000 rather than forecasted 130-million (M)

Mexican Government's Family Planning Is Making Progress in Lowering Population Growth Rate

S Korean Govt officials seek to end dispute with US over scandal involving Korea's alleged efforts to bribe Amer Congressmen; Pres Park Chung Hee reptdly is eager to begin relations with Carter adm on clean footing and to minimize pol damage to his regime; Min Kim Seong Jin has toned down his strong demand, issued in Dec, for public clarification by US of repts it had wiretapped Park's residence; although Park regime has forbidden news repts of scandal, details have filtered into Korea, producing outrage among citizens; Park now permits limited publication of some coverage of matter, but all repts are in past tense (M)

Seoul Is Seeking Quick End of Dispute With U.S. Over Bribery Scandal

Maruti Ltd, auto corp founded by Sanjay Gandhi, son of Prime Min Gandhi, seeks to act as sales agent for foreign corps wishing to do business in India; co mfd only 21 autos as of last spring; further production was deferred because of reptd gen slowdown in Indian auto indus; question of possible conflict of interest noted (M)

Mrs. Gandhi's Son in New Controversy Because His Company Is Sales Agent for Foreign Concerns

5 black African leaders meet in Lusaka, Zambia, to decide whether to support Brit's latest proposals; Tanzanian Pres Nyerere chairs meeting attended by Zambian Pres Kaunda, Mozambican Pres Machel, Botswanan Vice Pres Quet K Masire and Angolan Amb Pascal Luvualu (M)

Five Black Countries Convene a Special Meeting to Consider Britain's Latest Proposals on Rhodesia

Orange County, NY, weighs establishing publicly owned power co; County Exec Louis V Mills cites rise in utility rates (S)

January 9, 1977

Headlines from January 9, 1977

Atlanta in Midst of Retrenchment After a Decade of Rapid Expansion

Carter and Aides Decided Economy Needed More Than Year's Stimulus

USE OF ST. LAWRENCE FOR ALL YEAR SOUGHT

MONDALE TO EXPLAIN CARTER AIMS ON VISIT TO EUROPE AND JAPAN

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Billboard 200

Songs In The Key Of Life

Hotel California

Boston

Wings Over America

A New World Record

Historical Context for January 9, 1977