State Sec Cyrus Vance says '77 is ‘critical’ yr for Middle East, news conf; believes new Geneva conf should be held in consultation with USSR; does not want to make any policy suggestions until after he has consulted with Israeli and Arab leaders; says PLO must accept Israel's existence and pertinent UN resolutions before Israel or US will deal with it (M)

VANCE SAYS THE U. S. WON'T BE STRIDENT OVER RIGHTS ABROAD

Buffalo remains buried, isolated and paralyzed after worst winter storm in its history, as snow‐removal efforts of city crews and Natl Guard troops are hampered by wind and snowdrifts; 7 persons have died; city receives Fed relief assistance, but faces shortages of gasoline, fuel oil and food because of delivery problems; principal newspapers, Courier‐Express and Evening News, put out limited press runs because of delivery problems; illus (L)

Buffalo's Effort to Dig Its Way Out Blocked by Winds and Snowdrifts

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HR panel approves sweeping new code of ethics for Cong that would limit outside earned income, ban slush funds and single gifts of over $100, outlaw ‘lame‐duck’ travel and require extensive financial disclosures; Repr Lee H Hamilton, chmn of panel on financial accountability, expects provision limiting outside earnings to run into stiff opposition; similar legis is being drafted by com chaired by Sen Gaylord Nelson (M)

Stringent Code On Ethics Urged By House Panel

ed on slow progress by banks, union pension funds and NYC on plan to repay $1‐billion in short‐term notes as ct deadline nears

CARTER COOL TO PLEA ON NEW YORK'S LOAN

NYS PSC estimates 250,000 workers have been laid off throughout state because of gas shortage; US C of C chief economist John Carlson predicts cold will put unemployment for 1st‐qr '77 above 8%; Gov Carey, in telegram to Pres Carters aide Jack Watson, says 2,145 indus plants and 11,500 commercial enterprises were closed, with 75,000 other commercial customers cut back 20% on gas use; waives normal 1‐wk waiting period so that idled workers can begin collecting unemployment ins; Penna Labor Sec Paul Smith says 90,000 workers were idled (M)

HEAVY SNOWS STRIKE UPSTATE AREAS AGAIN

USSR is still looking to Carter Adm to revive kind of accommodation that nourished during Nixon yrs despite run‐in over human rights; appeared caught off guard by State Dept criticism of treatment of Andrei D Sakharov; apparently worried that bad publicity may help conservatives in Washington who want Carter to take firm line on issues like arms limitation; statements by Brezhnev and other indications of Soviet desire to reinvigorate detente policy discussed (M)

Soviet, Undeterred On Dissidents, Seeks Improved U.S. Ties

TRENTON, Jan. 31&#8212;The New Jersey Assembly approved a restoration of the death penalty for first&#8208;degree murder today and sent the measure to Governor Byrne, who has indicated he will sign it.

Death‐Penalty Bill Goes to Byrne After a 58‐to‐16 Vote in Assembly

Mex Pres Portillo plans to galvanize shaky econ into agr‐indus alliance (S)

Mexican Leader, Outlining Plans, Sees a Challenge in National Crisis

Pres Carter, in econ message to Cong outlining econ stimulus plans, says Council on Wage and Price Stability will actively monitor wages and prices through system of voluntary prior notices of increases; expects business and labor cooperation; labor and business spokesmen dispute assumption; Chase Manhattan Bank vp Richard Everett and AFL‐CIO Washington (DC) repr Allen Zack comment (M)

PRESIDENT WILL TAKE ACTIVE ROLE TO CURB WAGE AND PRICE RISES

US Amb Young, questioned on statement that Cuban troops brought ‘certain stability’ to Angola, says he had not meant to defend Cuban intervention, in fact had thought it wrong (S)

Young, Taking Over U.N. Duties, Prepares to Leave for Africa Today

Ethiopia, 2 yrs after coup, is racked by pol assassinations and unrest, mil suppression and war against secessionists in Eritrea; difficulties facing mil council as it tries to move Ethiopia from feudal empire toward Marxism‐Leninism discussed (M)

Ethiopia, Under Military Leaders, Is Racked by Unrest and Warfare

Mondale Says U.S. Will Keep Some Forces in Korea

French Pres Giscard d'Estaing officially thanks Libya for helping end 33‐mo ordeal of Claustre; illus (M)

Libyans Thanked on Hostage Aid

news analysis of reasons for Mondale's Eur and Far Eastern trip cites econ slide of indus nations, widening econ disparity between US, W Ger and Japan and weaker Eur nations, and difficulty of West in coordinating econ policies aimed at averting major recession

More Open U.S. Diplomacy Is Message of Mondale's Trip

More than 100 lawyers with cases on docket boycott Sup Ct to protest apptmt of Mizra Hameedullah Beg as India's new chief justice over more sr colleague; Beg adjourns about 10 cases in which lawyers fail to appear in his own ct; virtually no business is conducted in any of 5 cts (S)

Lawyers in India Protest Naming of Chief Justice

Natl Liberation Front (Vietcong), Fatherland Front and Natl Alliance of Dem and Peace Forces, Vietnamese resistance orgns formed during war, are to be merged into Natl United Front (S)

Vietnam Resistance Groups Are Merged Into One

Tomisaburo Hashimoto and Takayuki Sato, 2 former Japanese Govt officials plead not guilty, Tokyo, to charges or receiving bribes from Lockheed (S)

3 on Trial in Tokyo Deny Lockheed‐Case Charges

Palestinian‐leftist forces and Israeli‐supported Christian rightists reptdly fought 3‐day battle in south (S)

Israelis Seek an Accord On Nearby Troop Presence

craft found safe near Kidepo after making emergency landing in poor weather (S)

18 Britons on Uganda Plane Are Reported Safe

Grounding of E African Airways, because of mounting financial debts noted; carrier is jointly owned by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (S)

Kenya Halts Sport Events With Tanzanian Teams

USSR Central Com resolution, preparatory to fete marking 60th anniv of Bolshevik Revolution, affirms Soviet Communist party claim to be at center of world revolutionary movement and indicates parties everywhere should follow its doctrines or face failure (S)

SOVIET PARTY AFFIRMING WORLD REDS' LEADERSHIP

Spanish police, bolstered by new govt powers, continue to detain ‘extremists’ Jorge Cesarsky, Argentine ultrarightist with connections to Spanish neofascist party, and Carlos Perez, Cuban, have been jailed in killing of student 1 wk ago (M)

Madrid Cracks Down on Extremists

Ivor Richard ends mo‐long shuttle with no firm indication of how efforts to achieve peaceful settlement in Rhodesia could be revived (S)

Ivor Richard Ends Shuttle Trip

Reply of Joint Cs/S to queries by Sen Proxmire on Maj Gen Keegan assertion USSR has mil superiority is made public; says USSR has yet to achieve that status but that recent mil and civil defense trends could permit it to do so; Keegan expresses surprise at degree of support reply accords him; says Joint Cs/S ‘obviously’ could not admit publicly to loss of superiority (M)

JOINT CHIEFS ASSERT SOVIET IS NOT AHEAD

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February 1, 1977

Headlines from February 1, 1977

VANCE SAYS THE U. S. WON'T BE STRIDENT OVER RIGHTS ABROAD

Buffalo's Effort to Dig Its Way Out Blocked by Winds and Snowdrifts

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Stringent Code On Ethics Urged By House Panel

CARTER COOL TO PLEA ON NEW YORK'S LOAN

Billboard 200

Songs In The Key Of Life

Wings Over America

Hotel California

A Star Is Born (Soundtrack)

Boston

Notable Births

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