January 24, 1977

Bernard (Toots) Shore, NYC ‘saloonkeeper’ for more than 35 yrs, died Jan 23 at age 73 (M)

Arrives in Brussels night of Jan 23 at start of trip to W Eur and Japan

Cong and Adm officials say Defense Sec Harold Brown plans large‐scale reorgn of top layer of Pentagon; say Brown wants to do away with present structure of 10 asst secs and 11 dirs of offices who rept directly to Sec; say he proposes to set up 3 clusters headed by under secs—for resources, for policy and for evaluation; functions of asst secs would be absorbed in clusters; reorgn seen needing Cong approval; those under consideration for high posts include Prof Samuel P Huntington for top policy job and Walter B Slocombe for 2d place in policy cluster; Brown weighs retaining Fred P Wacker as comptroller and William K Brehm as Asst Sec for Manpower; R James Woolsey seen slated to be gen counsel; others weighed for top posts are Jack L Stempler, Wolfgang Panofsky, Richard Garwin, Barry Blechman, Graham T Allison, Matthew Shaffer; Brown por (L)

Request by NYC bankers for 5‐yr extension of $2.3‐billion worth of emergency Fed loans to city has run into strong, probably insurmountable opposition in Cong; Sen Banking Com is drafting rept urging that loan program be continued to current termination date of June 30 '78 but no longer; com action seen reflecting view of chmn Sen William Proxmire that NYC, NYS and financial community have, collectively, resources to solve city's financial problems with no further Fed assistance (L)

dancers are jubilant over end of orch strike, are eager to return to work; some comment; illus (S)