February 27, 1977

US 200-mi fishing limit set to go in effect Mar 1; New England Fisheries Steering Com head Howard Nickerson comments; map shows interim enforcement zones; map, graph show total catch off US coast by country (M)

The City Council adopted new lines for New York's 23 councilmanic districts. Page 21.

Fed Dist Ct Judge Marvin Frankel declares Raisa Nemikin in contempt on Feb 26; threatens to jail her if she continues to balk at grand jury's questions; asst US atty Thomas E Engel repts that search of possible illegal electronic surveillance was conducted and no records of illegality were discovered involving Nemikin's telephones; Nemikin por (L)

NY Times survey reveals Soc Security Adm and state govts are conducting number of pilot projects to introduce radical new ways of paying hosps for care they provide in major effort to cut waste and runaway costs; common objective is to restructure financial reimbursement system; Fed and state officials in NYS and NJ are experimenting with new reimbursement formula under which hosps will no longer be paid daily rate based on avg cost of all patients cared for but will be reimbursed on case-by-case basis; NYS Health Comr Robert Whalen regards present system as ‘highly inefficient’; Community Health Systems Center (Columbia Univ) dir Robert Weiss comments; graph indicating rising natl health expenditure, '50-76 (L)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — The White House said today that it welcomed assurances that the Government of Uganda intended no harm to the iiiore than 200 Americans in that country but that it remained concerned about their welfare.