April 18, 1977

NYS and Civil Service Employees Assn agree to new contract, granting more than $215-million in increased wages and benefits over next 2 yrs; settlement, which averts threatened Apr 18 strike, gives 140,000 state workers represented by assn minimum increase of 15% over life of contract; provides 1st salary increase employees have recd since 7-4; Gov Carey praises settlement; notes additional cost of pkg was made possible by low interest rate negotiated for state's spring borrowing; assn pres Theodore C Wenzl comments; Carey illus with Wenzl, negotiator Donald Wollett and union dir William McGowan (M)

Pakistan Min Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, continuing effort to end Pakistan's pol crisis, offers program of legal and soc changes designed to appeal to more conservative Moslem elements including proposal for stricter censorship (S)

Lea Rabin is fined about $27,000 for her role in maintaining bank accts in Washington in violation of Israeli currency regulations; Dist Atty Victoria Ostrowsky-Kohn comments; Shimon Alexandroni, Mrs Rabin's lawyer, asks for light sentence; Judge Dov Levin says Mrs Rabin can either pay fine or go to jail for 1 yr; Prime Min Rabin tells Cabinet that he will take leave of absence for remainder of his current term on Apr 22; Peres will serve as Acting Prime Min until new Govt is formed after May elections; Lea illus (M)

Alex Haley returns to Gambia for 1st time since publication of book Roots (S)

Carter Adm new immigration policy may include amnesty for hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, mostly from Mex, who are in US, crackdown on employers who exploit them and efforts to insure that those suspected of entering country illegally are given same legal protection as citizens; Marshall says it is critical to determine whether illegal aliens are taking jobs away from US citzens, thus causing unemployment, or whether they are doing jobs that Amer workers would not take, thus promoting econ development (M)