February 8, 1977

US State Dept informs USSR of its concern over Ginzburg case; interest was conveyed on Feb 4 to Amb Dobrynin by State Sec Vance; Vance also asked Russians to rescind expulsion of AP correspondent George A Krimsky; Moscow refused and Washington expelled Soviet reporter in retaliation; Soviet Embassy calls expulsion ‘absolutely groundless’ and violation of Helsinki agreement; USSR reptdly wants to move energetically toward new arms-control accords, but Carter Adm reptdly wants Soviets to understand that US will not remain indifferent to human rights violations (M)

7 white RC missionaries are killed by black guerrillas at St Paul's Mission, Musami; guerrillas reptdly belong to Zimbabwe African Natl Union, whose pol spokesman is Robert Mugabe (L)

US blocks purchase of 24 Israeli fighter-bombers equipped with Amer jet engines (M)

survey of drought conditions in some Western states finds half the reservoirs in Colo River basin have less than normal storage; map (M)

Emergency Financial Control Bd approves contract granting full range of disputed wage increases to 55,000 NYC teachers and school employees—although contract will have to be renegotiated if some of increases are eventually determined to be illegal (M)