April 3, 1977

Number of Israeli politicians, including Yigal Yadin, who heads new Dem Movement for Change, Maj Gen Ariel Sharon, who heads Shlomzion Party, and Menahem Begin, head of Likud bloc, and their assocs have been soliciting money in US for their pol campaigns; moves are legal under Israeli and US law, but Justice Dept says Sharon and Yadin have failed to register, as required, as foreign agents; Yadin's fund-raising activities in US have been conducted by Rabbi Herbert Friedman, former exec vp of UJA, who is now living in Israel, and by Israeli businessman Meir Amit; Amer banker Samuel W Sax comments (L)

article on burial of Comdr Thomas Carl Kolstad, Virginia, Minn; family members comment; illus (M)

Health and Family Planning Min Raj Narain says India's birth control program will be moderated to eliminate all elements of complusion; says new Govt will halt cash incentive payments that were paid for more than decade to Indians undergoing sterilization operations; expects Govt to increase number of contraceptive devices and to encourage other methods of preventing conception, including abstinence; some public-health officials see signs of backlash to sterilization program as result of compulsion by Gandhi regime (M)

Article on some relatively young county politicians who show indications of promising pol careers; pors (L)

UN conf on establishment of multibillion-dollar fund to stabilize world commodity prices ends in failure except for uncertain agreement for new meeting in Nov, Geneva, Switzerland (M)