May 31, 1977

Sec Vance tells OECD conf, Paris, that Pres Carter will seek $375-million emergency increase in Amer foreign aid to help needy nations; Vance illus (M)

S Moluccan terrorists still holding 56 hostages seem to have softened their demands after wk of determined confrontation with Dutch Govt; Agt comments; other developments noted (M)

New Drug Regulation Rev Panel investigating FDA finds major shortcomings in regulation of drug indus and will propose 91 detailed charges; major recommendations include giving FDA greater legal authority to bar potentially hazardous drugs from mkt, offering higher salaries to attract better scientific talent, granting it power to force drug makers to submit amplified safety repts for their products and providing agency with own center; other findings noted (M)

NY Times survey finds revolutionary Electronic Funds Transfer System is changing way in which people handle money, but that computerized system may be outracing willingness of consumers to change their habits; some problems arising from electronics fund transfers described; bankers comment; chart depicting consumer deposits in financial insts; illus (L)

leaves with Kay Vance, wife of Sec Vance, on 12-day, 7-nation tour of Caribbean and Latin Amer nations; Carter calls trip good-will gesture; Mrs Carter says she has studied to make trip more valuable to nations visited; illus saying goodbye to Pres and their daughter (S)

parimutuel clerks end strike; illus (M)

Assembly Com on Cities holds st forum in Coney Is to find out New Yorkers views on community problems; Assemblyman John C Dearie illus (M)

Pres Carter selects Gerard C Smith, arms-control chief in Nixon Adm, to be Amb at Large on nuclear issue; Smith will reptdly try to bring nuclear-cooperation agreements between US and countries to which it supplies nuclear tech and enriched uranium into line with Carter Adm's policies; is expected to represent US at Internatl Atomic Energy Comm and in deliberations on long-term nuclear study authorized by London summit; terms of new agreement, which are meant to give US virtual veto power over such deals as that between W Ger and Brazil, noted; Smith por (M)

Kissinger expected to withdraw from consideration for apptmt; opposition to apptmt is based on policies in Indochina (M)

Article on survival of Armenian culture despite repub's pol integration into USSR; illus (M)

article on June 5 elections focuses on shift toward pol left for many who once lived in rural areas, but were lured to indus centers as new jobs were created; some pol issues noted; illus (L)

May 31, 1977