May 28, 1977

HR Defense Appropriations Subcom proposes elimination of practice of 'double-dipping' and also hold Govt jobs which bestow additional pension benefits (M)

NYS Regents Bd elects exec deputy Gordon M K Ambach as outgoing NYS Educ Comr Ewald B Nyquist's successor; choice considered surprising, in view of Ambach's close identification with Nyquist and his policies and expressed desire of several Regents to select someone outside state's educ bureaucracy; Ambach and Nyquist illus (L)

US Sup Ct Chief Justice Burger, speaking at conf sponsored by Amer Bar Assn at Columbia Univ Law School, warns that unless new ways were found to settle disputes, country might be 'overrun by hordes of lawyers hungry as locusts'; says people want quick, inexpensive relief from their legal problems (M)

team of Dutch psychiatrists continues negotiations with S Moluccan terrorists; Dutch Govt officials, psychiatrists and some of released children comment; illus (M)

Sen Select Com on Small Business, FTC and Justice Dept are investigating monopolistic practices in sale of eyeglasses that may cost Amer consumers as much as $400-million a yr in excessive prices; com hearings show prices Fed agencies pay for glasses are only fraction of those customarily charged to most private buyers in open mkt; prices in 45 states that prohibit or limit ad of prices are 25-40% higher than in states that permit ad; Amer Optometric Assn opposes ad; assn pres Ron G Fair comments; other witnesses testify; drawing (M)