April 4, 1977

Carter Adm officials to begin shaping new US immigration policy that could have significant consequences for estimated 6- to 8-million illegal aliens in US, employers and native-born workers; areas covered will include whether amnesty should be granted to most illegal aliens, whether sanctions should be imposed on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, whether all workers should be required to carry counterfeit-proof identification cards and what strategies should be developed to stop flow of illegals across unguarded borders (M)

Article on remedial-writing program instituted at each of 17 components of CUNY to help students improve writing skills; notes Mina P Shaughnessy, dir of CUNY's Instructional Research Center, along with several faculty members, has been experimenting with several techniques in this area; various remedial-writing techniques discussed; Shaughnessy and several teachers comment; excerpts from English placement exams; Shaughnessy por (L)

NYC coalition contends Beame adm has been inept in handling community-development funds and that decayed housing has not been rehabilitated; holds funds have been spent for adm expenses and service programs rather than for badly needed physical improvements in housing (S)

Afrikaners strengthening defenses against mounting threat to white supremacy; Prime Min Vorster has commissioned development of 'total strategy' to stave off pressures for majority rule (L)