long-suppressed 5,000-word lr in which Hauptmann wrote to his mother Pauline denying guilt in kidnap-murder of Charles A Lindbergh Jr is made public on Mar 27; remained in papers left by late Col Mark O Kimberling, Trenton State Prison warden, and was never sent to Hauptmann's mother; Hauptmann, in lr, charged that evidence against him had been manufactured and evidence favoring him disappeared; says he was certain that defense atty Edward J Reilly had worked with prosecutor; David T Wilentz, who as NJ Atty Gen prosecuted Hauptmann, says he never heard of lr; comments on case; illus (M)

35 Hauptmann Letter to Mother, Denying Guilt, Was Suppressed

Brazil bitterly resists Carter Adm effort to thwart nuclear deal with W Ger; some officials sec US aiming at preventing Brazil from becoming great and ind power (L)

Brazil Bitter at U.S. Effort to Impose Nuclear Curb

Gov Carey and Mayor Beame agree to give new health care admr sweeping powers over NYC munic hosps and private voluntary insts; failure to recruit admr linked to 18-mo tenure of position and $50,000 salary; state and city agree on giving proposed health chief 6 separate positions; list; new admr will rept to Carey health adviser Dr Kevin Cahill and State Health Comr Robert P Whalen on state level and to 1st Deputy Mayor John E Zuccotti on city level (M)

BROAD AUTHORITY SET FOR NEW HEALTH POST BY BEAME AND CAREY

Pan Am: 550 feared dead in collision of Pan Amer and KLM Boeing 747s on fog-shrouded runway at Los Rodeos Airport, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Is); KLM jetliner strikes Pan Amer craft during takeoff run, while latter was taxiing along main runway into takeoff position; planes carried total of 643 passengers; all 249 aboard KLM plane reptd dead; planes made unscheduled stop at Los Rodeos after bomb explosion at airport on Las Palmas; accident is worst in civil aviation history; witnesses describe crash; similar disasters recalled; wreckage illus; airport illus; map of Canary Islands; bombed Las Palmas Airport illus (M)

249 ON DUTCH JET DIE

Article on dial-a-ride transportation services provided to rural elderly, poor and handicapped Amers through Fed, state and locally funded programs; some elderly, who would never be able to move from homes without outside assistance, comment (M)

Rural Dial‐a‐Ride Service Breaks Isolation of the Poor and Elderly

RAM JOINS CABINET, ENDS INDIAN DISPUTE

Article on restoration of NY Botanical Garden Conservatory; illus (M)

New Panes Give Pleasure in Bronx Garden

Moslem Is Acquitted In Policeman's Death

Justice Dept investigation into alleged S Korean influence-buying is reptdly focusing on possible tax violations by former Reprs Richard T Hanna and Cornelius E Gallagher in hope they will testify against current members of Cong; Hanna's and Gallagher's close relations with Park Tong Sun recalled; both have denied any wrongdoing; Justice Dept has subpoenaed or inspected their bank and financial records; investigation has been balked by lack of key witnesses, absence of records, and fact that much original information came from illegal wiretaps; such wiretapping reptdly revealed that large part of S Korean lobbying operation was financed by commissions Park, acting as broker, recd from cos selling rice to Korean Govt; IRS claims Connell Rice and Sugar Co gave nearly $8-million in commissions to Park; Justice Dept reptdly is bogged down in its investigation of whether Reprs Joseph P Addabbo and Robert L Leggett recd bribes in connection with rice sales to Korea (M)

Inquiry Said to Focus on 2 Ex‐Congressmen

Sketches of Major Figures in India's New Cabinet

Sec Vance, in Moscow news conf for Amer reporters, says he is prepared to undertake detailed arms limitation discussions aimed at 'real progress'; says he will not raise human rights issue but will discuss it if it comes up; illus (M)

Vance Ready for ‘Detailed’ Talks In Soviet on Strategic Arms Cuts

Analysis of recent US visit by Genscher and Leber (M)

Germans Visit U.S. to Talk as Well as Listen

WASHINGTON, March 27 &#8212; Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda of Japan seemed to strike the tone of his visit with President Carter here last week with a mild admonition in a speech to the National Press Club.

U.S.‐Japanese Leaders' Meeting Was Quietest in at Least 8 Years

Vance Feted in Soviet On His 60th Birthday

The U.N. Today

mil junta is attempting to find country to accept 5 mil officers involved in recent attempted coup; leader Adm Sa-Ngad Chaloryu says no Asian country is willing to accept officers; officials refuse to rule out possibility that they may be tried for crimes stemming from coup attempt if evidence is found to link them to only death, that of Gen Arun Thavathasin or if no country is found to accept them; curfew reimposed; scene in Bangkok and prov areas described (M)

Thai Government Vainly Searches For Place to Exile Coup Leaders

About 200 rebel Karen tribesmen retreat from Burma into Thailand after Burmese troops overrun their border hq (S)

World News Briefs

Lebanese right-wing Christians, including former Presidents Camille Chamoun and Suleiman Franjieh, challenge authority of Pres Sarkis to name new comdr for still badly split and paralyzed Lebanese Army and fill several other key posts; Sarkis's choice for new army comdr is Col Habib Fares, who would replace Gen Hannah Saeed; both are Christian; Lebanese Front, umbrella orgn of 3 principal right-wing Christian parties headed by Chamoun, fears establishment of new command would block Christians' plans for dividing Lebanon into number of autonomous regions; Syrian Govt favors reorganization of army command and wants to see Sarkis assert his authority also on other issues (M)

Beirut Leader Facing a Test Today On Naming of New Army Chief

Mar 28-29: Sadat disagrees with Carter on 'defensible borders' for Israel, int on CBS-TV program 60 Minutes; reiterates his belief that core of Middle East problem is Palestinian question; urges that US sit down with PLO and that orgn be allowed to attend Geneva conf; says he wants US to resume its major role in Middle East; says he will ask Carter for arms (M)

‘Defensible Borders’ For Israel Opposed By Sadatin Interview

Arab League approves 6-mo extension of Arab peacekeeping force in Lebanon, and its members agree to provide $90-million toward costs; extension, at request of Pres Sarkis, will give him more time to reorganize Lebanese Army; Arab League sec gen Mahmoud Riad also announces 2-mo extension for mandate of 4-nation com (Egypt, Syria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) formed to oversee cease-fire and related withdrawal of Palestinian forces (M)

FORCES IN LEBANON EXTENDED BY ARABS

article on signs of change in China notes current acceptance of Western music and popularity of a visiting Canadian brass quintet (M)

Changes in Chinese Music and Art Reflect Upheavals in Its Politics

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 26 (AP)&#8212;President Idi Amin of Uganda accused the United States Central Intelligence Agency today of using Christian denominations as a cover for subversion and said he would bar all foreign aid to churches in his country.

Amin Charges Christian Churches Are Used by C.I.A. for Subversion

Survey of natl elections in world finds trend against incumbent parties and politicians, but one that appears to be more anti-Establishment than ideological; Dr William Schneider, Profs Walter Dean Burnham, Gary R Orren, Seymour Martin Lipset and Sidney Verba comment (M)

IT WAS A HARD YEAR TO REMAIN IN POWER

By-election Mar 31 in Stechford for Parliament scat vacated by Roy Jenkins, who resigned to head EEC, seen as index to Liberal Party's relative strengths, and also as referendum on deal in which Liberal votes kept Labor Govt in power; Liberal candidate Graham Gopsill faces Conservative Andrew Mackay and Labor candidate Terence Davis; other by-election campaign issues noted (M)

Liberals Learning in By‐Election How Britons View Commons Pact

Sen James Abourezk, whose selection as Dem dinner speaker was criticized because of his reptd pro-Arab views, wins standing ovation after telling audience that 'Israeli lobby' wields 'extraordinary influence' in Washington, address to annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, Denver (S)

700 in Denver Applaud Abourezk After Senator Criticizes ‘Israeli Lobby’

Eric Earle Shipton, CBE, was an English Himalayan mountaineer.

March 28, 1977

Headlines from March 28, 1977

35 Hauptmann Letter to Mother, Denying Guilt, Was Suppressed

Brazil Bitter at U.S. Effort to Impose Nuclear Curb

BROAD AUTHORITY SET FOR NEW HEALTH POST BY BEAME AND CAREY

249 ON DUTCH JET DIE

Rural Dial‐a‐Ride Service Breaks Isolation of the Poor and Elderly

Billboard 200

Hotel California

Rumours

A Star Is Born (Soundtrack)

Songs In The Key Of Life

Fly Like An Eagle

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 28, 1977