Int on her plans for future; reminisces about her yrs in Washington, DC; recalls her cancer surgery in '74; tells of her plans to do volunteer work and fund‐raising; her illus (L)

A Fresh Start And No Tears For Betty Ford

Mondale addresses NATO Council and confs with various officials in Brussels; illus with Sec Gen Luns and Gen Haig; flies to Bonn

MONDALE PLEDGES U.S. WON'T CUT NATO FUNDS

Zimbabwe African Peoples Union spokesman urges guerrilla warfare against Rhodesian Govt following rejection (S)

Smith Rules Out British Proposal On Rhodesia Pact

Trudeau to visit US in Feb to confer with Pres Carter (S)

Carter Cancels Chauffeur Service For His Staff as Economy Measure

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Unpublicized dispute between Gen Telephone & Electronics Corp and Hughes Aircraft Co over allegations of large‐scale bribery of Indonesian officials is revealed; situation arose when Indonesia decided to build a satellite communications system, whose cost arose from estimated $80‐million to about $160‐million; controversy detailed; Indonesian official implicated by Amer execs was Major Sen Sohardiono, Dir Gen of Posts and Telecommunications; William L Mayo, vp for Asian and Pacific affairs for Gen Telephone, says to his knowledge co has no indication of payoff requests; Times 1st learned of payoff charges during int in Sept with Dr Thomas P Chestham Jr, Gen Telephone consultant; illus (L)

Hughes Aircraft Faces Allegation That It Used Bribery in Indonesia

Mayor Beame and group of leading bankers meet and later declare themselve in ‘broad agreement’ on steps to meet NYC's debt and budget problems—but appear to be no closer on key issue of outside controls of city's finances; joint statement says banks' proposals for outside control constitutes nothing more than T possible set of conditions' that might enable city to sell its bonds; city officials view statement as softening of banks' position; Beame illus with Comptroller Harrison J Goldin (M)

Beame and Banks Meet on Budget And Find a ‘Broad Agreement’

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Acting Fed Energy Admr Gorman C Smith gives top priority for propane supplies to houses and indus plants that rely on fuel; permits local natural gas utilities to buy extra propane from local suppliers for mixing with air and blending with natural gas to meet peak demand; says conservation and weather will determine whether houses have adequate gas supplies; estimates shortage has caused 300,000 layoffs (M)

ENERGY AGENCY ACTS TO INCREASE SUPPLIES OF FUELS FOR HEATING

Pres Carter, in int with AP and UPI, says he is calling for halt to all nuclear testing, ‘instantly and completely,’ as part of broader program to curb spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately ban them altogether; says this includes underground tests; says USSR has sent encouraging message but has not indicated if it will agree to proposal; expresses optimism on ratification of offensive strategic arms limitation treaty, saying he would not let issue of Amer cruise missile and Soviet Backfire bomber stand in way; outlines 3‐step effort aimed at elimination of all nuclear arms; State Sec Cyrus R Vance says USSR has not replied specifically to Carter's proposal; says cruise and Backfire issue is open for discussion (M)

CARTER IS CALLING FOR A PROMPT HALT TO ALL ATOM TESTS

Saudi King Khalid suggests after talks with French Pres Giscard d'Estaing that France could play ‘eminent role’ in search for Middle East peace, reply in writing to questions from Agence France‐Presse; calls on France to convince other W Eur countries that they should voice support for ‘just cause’ of Palestinians; says those countries have been won over to Palestinian cause but fear to admit it publicly; says his Govt favors French participation in Geneva peace conf; insists ind Palestinian delegation be included; says Israel must withdraw from occupied Arab territories including Jerusalem (M)

KHALID SUGGESTS ROLE FOR FRANCE IN TALKS

Brit soldier is killed by sniper in Roman Cath dist of Belfast (S)

Belfast Sniper Kills Soldier, 19.

2 gunmen with submachine guns burst into Workers Comms office, Madrid, and kill Communist labor lawyers Enrique Valdemira Ibanez and Luis Javier Benevidex along with sec Angel Rodrigues; 6 other lawyers and labor activists are wounded; earlier, former army C/S Lt Gen Emilio Villaescusa Quilis, who heads Sup Council of Mil Justice, is kinapped, Madrid, reptdly by First of October Anti‐Fascist Resistance illus (M)

3 Reds Killed in Office at End of Violent Day in Spain

Amer journalist Stephen Teich expelled from Philippines on grounds of internal security; is 4th Amer expelled from Philippines in 4 months (S)

Manila Expels a Fourth American

Israeli budget analysts estimate '77 jobless rate at 5%; rise linked to shift in stress from domestic industries to export industries (M)

Israeli Budget for 1977 Foresees More Hard Times

analysis of recent food‐price riots; foreign observers say riots transformed pol landscape of Egypt and seriously impaired Pres Sadat's freedom of action at home and abroad (M)

Egyptian Riots Have Seriously Hampered Sadat's Freedom of Action at Home and Abroad

Al Ahram says IMF has agreed to lend Egypt $140‐million to help boost country's ailing econ (S)

$140 MILLION I.M.F LOAN FOR EGYPT LIS REPORTED

Bophuthatswana, 1 of S Africa's 8 remaining black tribal homelands, will be declared ind in Dec; map (S)

South African Area Will Be Declared Free

Prime Min Pak Sung Chul arrives in Moscow for talks expected to coordinate strategy toward Carter Adm on Korean issues (S)

North Korean Premier in Moscow

Article on improvement in Czech‐US relations notes Czechoslovakia has tied most‐favored‐nation tariff benefits by US to compensation to Amer bondholders of property seized by Communists after World War II (S)

Prague Urges Carter to Offer Aid in Exchange for Better Relations

Gandhi's son Sanjay says he might run for Parliament in Mar elections; predicts Cong Party victory (S)

Sanjay Gandhi Suggests He'll Run for Parliament

Turkish Govt announces on Jan 24 withdrawal of 1,000 troops from Cyprus, reducing its forces to about 27,000 men (S)

Turkey Is Withdrawing 1,000 Men on Cyprus

Czech Govt on Jan 24 calls press conf in which workers, artists and Communist Party officials reject Czech human‐rights document published recently in West; 47 persons summoned by Foreign Min accuse main supporters of manifesto of being in pay of Western reactionary circles, if not in active cooperation with Western intelligence agencies (S)

Human Rights Charter Criticized in Prague

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Christian militiamen reptdly attack leftists and Palestinian guerrilla outposts around southern Lebanese village of Khiam but fail to capture village; Christians in east Beirut go on general strike to protest presence of Arab peacekeeping force; Phalangist Party leader Pierre Gemayel calls on residents to halt strike, saving Arab deterrent forces ‘are our friends and allies’ (S)

Battles in South Lebanon And Beirut Strike Reported

Michael Robert Brown is an English former professional footballer and football manager who now works as a pundit.

January 25, 1977

Headlines from January 25, 1977

A Fresh Start And No Tears For Betty Ford

MONDALE PLEDGES U.S. WON'T CUT NATO FUNDS

Smith Rules Out British Proposal On Rhodesia Pact

Carter Cancels Chauffeur Service For His Staff as Economy Measure

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Songs In The Key Of Life

Boston

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