illus of Pres Carter, wife Rosalynn and Amy leaving ch after baptism

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A continuing investigation by the Justice Department has produced information charging &#8220;wholesale corruption&#8221; of the waterfront industry throughout the country, according to sources close to the inquiry.

CORRUPTION IS BROAD ON THE WATERFRONT, AN INQUIRY INDICATES

NYC hs students will be tested in reading as part of major new effort to evaluate and improve their acad performance; Chancellor Anker says school system weighs change in reading standard for hs grad, which would require students to demonstrate 9th grade reading level or better; new testing program described; hs div head Samuel Polatnick and educ evaluation dir Dr Anthony J Polemini comment; illus of sample questions from 9th grade reading test (M)

High Schools Test Reading

Article on vigorous efforts by colls and univs to improve their teaching of composition in light of recent tests showing decline in writing ability of coil‐bound students; various educators comment (L)

Decline in Training Cited

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Morgenthau, responding to announcement that Liberal Party had designated him and Repub State Sen Roy M Goodman as party's preferred mayoral candidates, says he is ‘flattered’ but interested only in running for full‐term as Dist Atty in '77 (S)

LIBERALS PROPOSING GOODMAN FOR MAYOR

Narayan and Ram tell New Delhi crowd of over 100,000 that coming parliamentary election will decide future of democracy in India; Ram warns that Gandhi would use ‘any excuse’ to remain in power and cautions his supporters to be peaceful in pol campaign against her; ridicules Gandhi's son Sanjay; enthusiastic crowd hails Ram and Narayan and newly formed Janata Party; illus (M)

MRS. GANDHI'S RIVALS EXHORT A BIG CROWD TO REJECT HER RULE

Gulf & Western Industries, largest Amer investor in Dominican Repub, converts part of huge sugar plantation into luxury winter resort for rich and famous to attract tourism; illus (M)

U.S. Company, Big Sugar Grower, Now Woos Tourists in Caribbean

Runs over body of unidentified man, Feb 6, Montreal, while driving home at 4 AM with secretary Corinne Cote; police seek to determine whether man was dead at time of accident; find no need to test for drunkenness; por (M)

Levesque's Car Hits Body in Road

Waldheim begins talks with Saudi leaders on steps for reconvening Geneva Middle East conf, Riyadh (S)

Waldheim Meets With Saudi Leaders

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Feb 7: Israeli officials, with separate visits set by Vance and Waldheim, are stressing that they feel prospects for solution of Middle East conflict rest more with initiatives taken by US than efforts by UN; sr Israeli official says renewal by US of ‘step‐by‐step’ diplomacy has better chance than reconvening Geneva conf; says Israel is willing to return to Geneva but only in accordance with UN resolution that convened brief Geneva meeting in '73 and not under more recent resolution that provides for PLO representation; says Palestinian state on West Bank and Gaza Strip would not be viable politically or economically and would be so weak that it would be ripe for intervention by radicals and outsiders, such as Libya, Iraq and USSR; Israel favors Palestinian entity that would be joint West Bank‐Jordanian state (M)

Israel Favors Moves by U.S., Not U.N., on Mideast

Jordanian King Hussein and Queen Alia arrive in Damascus as guests of Pres Assad (S)

No Hussein‐Arafat Meeting

former Indian Pres V V Giri endorses opposition demand that Gandhi end state of emergency (S)

India Wonders About Motive for Crucial Political Defection

Anna Farova, who signed Charter 77, manifesto demanding more civil and pol freedoms in Czech, is dismissed from her post as curator of photographic dept; says her passport has also been withdrawn (S)

Czech Leaders Are Reported Split On How to Deal With Rights Issue

Some Western analysts are uneasy about extensive use Soviet warships are being allowed to make of Yugoslav facilities, despite reptd Yugoslav refusals to give USSR naval bases for its Mediterranean squadron; Yugoslavia is servicing large part of Soviet force of submarines operating in Mediterranean, and analysts say there are strong commercial incentives; Yugoslav diplomats have asserted that when Brezhnev visited 2 mos ago he urged Pres Tito to provide unrestricted base for Mediterranean squadron; say Tito refused request as well as requests that Yugoslavia grant overflight rights for Soviet planes and assign high‐ranking officer to mil council of Warsaw Pact; operations at major new Yugoslav naval dockyd at Tivat discussed (M)

YUGOSLAV DOCKYARDS REPAIR SOVIET SHIPS

Rhodesian parents manage to persuade only 51 of nearly 400 children to return home and abandon plans to enlist as guerrillas (S)

Rhodesia Students Spurn Parents’ Plea To Quit Botswana

US agr scientists say Chinese are indifferent to basic agr research (M)

Scientists Find Chinese Cool to Farm Research and Seed Exchanges

Maj Mengistu Haile Mariam and Maj Atnafu Abate, top men in Ethiopian ruling mil council, said to agree on arrangement under which Mengistu will run central Govt in capital Addis Ababa, while Atnafu will operate in field (S)

Ethiopia's 2 Top Leaders Said to Reach Accord

Repr Less Aspin suggests ways to deal with possible surprise Soviet attack in Eur by means short of increased firepower (S)

Aspin Favors Arms Talks Over Increased Firepower

Alier accuses ‘unnamed foreign powers’ of engineering rebellion (S)

Sudan Says Other Nations Directed Rebellion

Sen Govt Operations Com, in upcoming rept, to charge that some of 65 internatl orgns to which US belongs are extravagant, ineffective, biased and uncertain of purpose; chmn Sen Abraham A Ribicoff comments (S)

Senate Committee Attacks International Agencies

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 6 (Reuters)&#8212;The United States today sent a specially chartered Boeing 707 to Kilimanjaro airport in northern Tanzania to bring back 140 American tourists stranded by the closing by Tanzania of its border with Kenya.

Airliner Chartered by U.S. Flies 140 From Tanzania

Portugal on Feb 6 announces plans for halting big losses by news media and reorganizing natl press agency and radio and TV; Sec of State Manuel Alegre announces suspension for 90 days of newspaper O Seculo

Portugal Shoring Up Unprofitable News Media

text of lyrics of Jubilee Hymn; Betjeman illus (S)

The Lyrics That Provoked Discord

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto  is a former Japanese football coach and former player who last coached Gamba Osaka. He played for Japan national team and is the current president of the Japan Football Association.

February 7, 1977

Headlines from February 7, 1977

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CORRUPTION IS BROAD ON THE WATERFRONT, AN INQUIRY INDICATES

High Schools Test Reading

Decline in Training Cited

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Billboard 200

Hotel California

A Star Is Born (Soundtrack)

Songs In The Key Of Life

Wings Over America

Boston

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 7, 1977