Intensive lobbying to reinstate Sen Veterans Affairs Com results in defeat of plan to streamline Sen by reducing coms from 31 to 15 (M)

How Senate's Reorganization Plan Was Scaled Down

Schultze says he sees no reason to change basic views that unemployment rate by end of '77 will be within range of 6.7% to 6.9%, int; Sen Budget Com agrees to accommodate Carter's request for more than $1.5-billion for jobs stimulus program, citing severe winter; HR Public Works Com clears legis to authorize $4-billion for accelerated public works projects in '77 (M)

Plans for Stimulus Unchanged by Cold

McBride is apparent victor; speculation that Sadlowski would contest election based on charges of voting fraud, but key aides rept no knowledge of any major irregularities (M)

M'BRIDE SEEMS  VICTOR IN STEEL UNION VOTING

Rubin (Hurricane) Carter and John Artis again get multiple life terms; both men aver innocence: charge they were convicted because they are black; Judge Bruno L Leopizzi holds Carter has not tried to rehabilitate self; lauds Artis efforts at rehabilitation; case revd (M)

Carter and Artis. Life Again

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Fed Energy Adm is expected to take measures to bring more heating oil to East Coast from abroad without driving up prices (M)

U.S. PLANS NEW MOVE TO BRING EAST COAST MORE HEATING FUEL

NYC Housing Auth officials, appearing before Planning Comm to apply for air-rights permit to build $39-million HUD-financed housing project over Penn Central rr tracks near Park Av and E 163d St, say proposed site seemed novel 7 yrs ago but no longer makes sense; say 7 yrs ago there was little or no vacant land available in neighborhood but since approval was given surrounding neighborhood has been devastated, creating vast stretches of open space; possible sites noted; map (M)

Rules Restrict U.S.‐Aided Housing In South Bronx to Site Over Tracks

Survey of Roman Caths on East Side, NYC, conducted by Archdiocesan Office of Pastoral Research, indicates sharp decline in attendance at mass over last decade has resulted from loss of faith in supernatural rather than from disagreement with ch's moral teachings or changes in ritual; finds Caths who are young, highly educated or divorced are most likely to drop out; says 1/3 of NY Roman Caths attend ch, 44 drop since '65; decline may stem, in part, from disillusionment with ch teachings on sexual morality, particularly ban on artificial birth control, and rejection of Vatican Council II reforms; dissatisfactions of nonchurchgoers noted; graph of Cath beliefs and ch attendance (M)

A Poll of East Side Catholics Ties Attendance Drop to Loss of Faith

Sen Govt Operations Com rept calls Cong rev of Fed regulatory agencies ‘sporadic, haphazard and incomplete’; cites as reasons for Cong failure fear of reprisals from econ interests who are regulated, and Cong coms that are ‘stacked’ with members sharing similar backgrounds and values with agencies they are charged with overseeing; com study includes poll of over 1,000 experts in field who conclude that 50% of comrs in 7 major independent agencies are ineffective and should not be reapptd; study lists goals of regular Cong rev and calls for periodic authorization of all regulatory agencies, increasing staff assigned to appropriations coms, requiring standing coms to rept on their oversight plans and hiring of staff members with expertise in areas to be regulated; finds lack of White House commitment in last 15 yrs to search for outstanding persons to fill regulatory agency positions; notes many positions are filled through pol pressures, much of it coming from Congressmen themselves (M)

Congress Called Lax. on Review Of U.S. Agencies

Spain re-establishes diplomatic relationship with Hungary (M)

MADRID AND MOSCOW RESUME RELATIONS, ENDING 38‐YEAR RIFT

Pol poetry, which has always been central part of Greek life and literature, is flourishing again 2 yrs after fall of mil regime; some of poets comment; examples of modern poetry by Manolis Anagnostakis, Takis Sinopoulos and Tannis Ritson; pors of poets Yannis Kondos, Sinopoulos and Titos Patrikios (L)

With Military Junta Gone, Poetry in Greece Is Reaching Floodtide

I write poems within the limits prescribed by responsible state offices

Examples of the Modern Poetry

wave of arrests by Ethiopian Govt has followed violent power struggle; arrests follow vow by Govt to crush militant underground opposition parties, particularly Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party and Ethiopian Dem Union (M)

Ethiopia Arresting Enemies of Regime After Power Fight

Rhodesian security forces shoot and kill 4 black nationalist insugents in area of St Paul's Mission; Govt has assigned responsibility for murders to Patriotic Front (S)

Rhodesian Army Slays Four Blacks

Smith confers with Vorster, Cape Town (M)

Smith Meets With Vorster in Cape Town

S African riot police use tear gas to disperse thousands of black student militants who made bonfires out of exam papers in Soweto; illus (M)

South African Police Use Tear Gas To Quell Soweto Student Protest

Young has reaped substantial harvest of goodwill, especially in Nigeria (M)

Different Style Pays Off for Young in Africa

Article discusses prosperity of Tohoku, one of poorest towns, relative to rest of Asia; notes wide array of consumer goods available to most residents; Mayor Tomia Numata comments (M)

Even Japan's Poor Areas Have Cars, Stores Full of Goods and Color TV

Soviet Communist party delegation arrives in Prague for discussions, prompting speculation that it is seeking information on strains caused by emergence of Czech human rights movement; delegation led by Ivan V Kapitonov; Amb Vladimir V Matskevich reptdly conferred with Gustav Husak and is believed to have attended meetings in which Charter 77 was discussed (M)

Soviet Visit to Prague Stirs Questions on Dissidents

Communist Party says it will seek election alliance with Prime Min Gandhi's Cong Party but criticizes her for promoting interests of her son Sanjay; also criticizes ‘misuse of emergency powers’ but praises econ gains; observers say Communists hope to deprive Gandhi of her majority in Parliament so that she would have to depend on them to remain in power (S)

Indian Communists to Seek Alliance With Mrs. Gandhi

Paul H Nitze, former Deputy Defense Sec, opposes confirmation of Warnke, Sen Foreign Relations Com testimony; Sen Ted Stevens sees close Sen vote (S)

Nitze Bids Senate Reject Warnke Nomination

Provisional IRA members Hugh Doherty, Martin J O'Connell, Edward Butler and Harry Duggan, all from Ireland, are found guilty of 6 murders, including that of Guinness Book of Records founder Ross McWhirter, during terrorist attacks in GB during '75 (S)

4 Irishmen Are Convicted Of 6 Murders in England

NICOSIA, Cyprus, Feb. 9 (AP)&#8212;King Khalid of Saudi Arabia is suffering from an undisclosed ailment in his left leg and requires surgery, the Saudi state radio reported today. It said the 62&#8208;year&#8208;old monarch would fly to an unspecified European capital on Friday for medical treatment.

Saudi King Is Facing Surgery

Center for Internatl Policy rept finds selection of recipients of Amer foreign aid is increasingly outside control of Cong; cites growing proportion of financial assistance to Third World nations that is being extended by financial insts, such as Ex‐Imbank and IBRD; notes 69 of $24.9‐billion in foreign aid distributed to developing nations by insts was allocated without Cong rev (M)

FOREIGN‐A1D CONTROL IS REPORTED SHIFTING

Salif Alassane Diao is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

February 10, 1977

Headlines from February 10, 1977

How Senate's Reorganization Plan Was Scaled Down

Plans for Stimulus Unchanged by Cold

M'BRIDE SEEMS VICTOR IN STEEL UNION VOTING

Carter and Artis. Life Again

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Billboard 200

A Star Is Born (Soundtrack)

Hotel California

Songs In The Key Of Life

Wings Over America

A Day At The Races

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 10, 1977