February 4, 1977

Sec Vance, in AP and UPI int, says that on his Moscow visit in Mar he will raise possibility of reductions both in USSR and US strategic weapons and in conventional arms around world; reporters are told that Carter, in his conf with Dobrynin, asked for Soviet reaction to series of hypothetical proposals for ending current deadlock on completing Vladivostok agreement, including lowering 2,400 ceiling for bombers and missiles; White House press sec Jody Powell stresses Carter commitment to Paul C Warnke as chief negotiator and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency dir despite some criticism in Sen (M)

NYC Estimate Bd approves controversial plan to use most of troubled Manhattan Plaza apt development as housing for performing artists but makes approval contingent on 'favorable rept' by Comptroller Goldin regarding city's efforts to assure that project's developers will not reap major profits; plan gives 70% of apts to performers receiving Fed rent subsidies and 30% to similarly subsidized neighborhood residents and to elderly; about 200 performers attend bd hearing; illus of Helen Hayes and Estelle Parsons at hearing (L)

city and state officials fear that if Emergency Financial Control Bd rejects proposed contract between NYC Educ Bd and city it could jeopardize ongoing effort to get unions and banks to raise $1‐billion to pay off city notes (S)

NEW DELHI, Feb. 3—Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, under increasing opposition attack following the defection of her major supporter, sought today to carry, her election campaign directly to the people.

reason for attack remains mystery; bizarre episode is being decried throughout black Africa as 'mercenary' invasion; xenophobia has swept Benin since incident; map (L)