April 8, 1977

Fed grand jury indicts retired FBI supervisor John J Kearney on charges of ordering other agents to open mail and tap telephones in their search for Weatherman fugitives between '70-72; alleged offenses were carried out by Squad 47 of bur's NY field office, and directed at known associates of Weather group who were being sought for bombings and other terrorist activities; Atty Gen Bell releases statement asserting his 'overall respect' for bur; Jack B Solerwitz, atty for nearly 50 agents who were granted immunity in return for their testimony about superiors, deplores Kearney indictment (M)

Assassins riding motorcycle pull alongside limousine carrying chief prosectuor Siegfried Buback, 57, spray it with submachine-gun fire, killing him, driver and critically wounding another official; Buback had been leading proceedings against leaders of Baader-Meinhof gang, anarchist group, on trial in Stuttgart since May '75 for 2 bombings that killed 4 Amer servicemen in '72; news agency DPA says it recd calls from man saying shootings were work of Ulrike Meinhof Action Com; Govt offers $85,000 reward for arrest of assassins; illus (M)

Treas Sec W Michael Blumenthal predicts that Carter Adm welfare reform pkg will provide some financial relief for NYC (M)

PLAY BALL Catfish Hunter of the Yankees pitching against the Brewers in the first inning of season opener in Yankee Stadium yesterday. Below: Reggie Jackson, in his first regular season game with the Broni Bombers, The New York Times/Robert Walker connecting for a single in the fourth inning. The Yanks won, 3‐0, behind the pitching of Hunter and Sparky Lyle. In Chicago, the Mets beat the Cubs, 5‐3, as Tom Seaver won his sixth season opener in 10 tries. Details, page A17.

sharp rise in food prices causes 1.1% rise in Wholesale Price Index (S)

EPA and FDA, in move designed to preserve earth's ozone layer, are drafting regulations that would ban 'nonessential' uses of fluorocarbons as spray-can propellants; proposed restrictions detailed (L)

Ford comments on arms-limitation treaty at meeting with journalists on 1-yr fellowship program sponsored by Natl Endowment for the Humanities (S)

Young, after receiving 'reprimand' from Brit Amb Richard, apologizes for remarks (M)

resigns as Labor Party's candidate for 2d term as head of Israeli Govt after Israeli newspaper repts that he lied about amts he kept in Washington bank accts, accts that are illegal under Israeli currency restrictions; illus of Rabin with wife Leah (L)

Sen Jackson releases CIA rept on indebtedness of USSR and other E Eur nations to West; suggests indebtedness might be giving leverage to Eurs; urges Carter Adm produce its own study of debts (S)

Palestinian and leftist-Moslem forces press offensive, recapturing Khyam; also maintain their pressure on Men 'Uyun and Qlaia; Palestinian press agency repts Israeli planes flew over Palestinian positions but did not attack; former Pres Camille Chamoun, spokesman for Lebanese Front, which includes 3 major Christian parties, appeals to Pres Sarkis and Arab govts to 'use force if necessary' to bring Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon under control; diplomats note appeal was not addressed to Syria, which supplies most of 30,000 troops of Arab peacekeeping force; map (M)

fighting can be heard in northern Israeli towns; Israeli aid to Christians, in effort to create buffer zone along Lebanese-Israeli border, noted; Israeli Foreign Min and mil will neither confirm nor deny that Syrians are abetting Palestinians (M)