Bernard Bergman resumes operating Park Crescent Nursing Home, NYC, despite earlier Medicaid fraud conviction; Assemblyman Alan G Hevesi charges Atty Gen Lefkowitz fails to stop Bergman from using legal trickery to evade state-ordered license revocation; Lefkowitz says Bergman is using right to appeal revocation; appeal process could take yr unless Lefkowitz intervenes (M)

BERGMAN RESUMES NURSING HOME ROLE

US and USSR officials complete 2 days of trade talks, Washington; Soviet imports of nonagr Amer products reptdly will decline sharply from $800-million annual level; total trade between nations in '76 put at $2.5-billion, $2.3-billion of which were Amer exports (M)

U.S. and Soviet Will Start Talks On Pact to Ban All Nuclear Blasts

Public Utilities Control Auth to hold hearing on Fletcher Elec Light, family-run co in Southwick, Mass, that supplies power to 292 Conn homes without being regulated by Conn; Fletchers buy power wholesale and distribute it at slightly higher rate; auth only learned of co's existence recently; auth spokeman King Quillan and Roderick Fletcher comment; illus of Mrs Fletcher (M)

Connecticut Blushing Over Mom‐and‐Pop Utility

James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison, Petros, Tenn, with 5 other convicts; bloodhounds put on trail; escapees identified as Larry Hacker, Earl Hill Jr, David Lee Powell, Donald Ray Taylor and Douglas Shelton; 6th convict, Jerry Ward, shot as he attempted to scale wall and is recaptured; prison spokesman comments; illus (M)

JAMES EARL RAY FLEES A PRISON IN TENNESSEE WITH 5 OTHER CONVICTS

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Pres Carter, through press sec Jody Powell, scores rejection of standby gasoline tax and modification of 'gas guzzler' tax by Ways and Means Com; suggests that Cong is surrendering to oil and auto lobbies (M)

Carter Suggests That Legislators Were Swayed by Energy Industries

Costa Rican political analysts say Govt move to oust Vesco was prompted by fears that his continued presence might harm governing party in upcoming elections; US Justice Dept reptdly contemplating new extradition attempt in hope of preventing Vesco from becoming citizen after completing 5-yr residency requirement on June 22; Vesco illus (M)

Analysts Link Move to Oust Vesco To Costa Rica's Political Situation

analysis of recent elections sees a more ind and self-reliant Turkey as main goals of Ecevit; Turkey's econ, soc and pol problems assessed

Ecevit's New Course for Turkey: Accent on Self‐Reliance

Soviet Union Launches Cosmos 916

State Sec Vance is expected to appt Robert E White to head US diplomatic mission to Cuba; former State Sec Kissinger's rebuke of White for White's public defense of human rights in Latin Amer during speech before OAS recalled; White por (M)

Diplomat Whom Kissinger Chided May Head U.S. Mission in Havana

Barcelona is in pol ferment as result of upcoming parliamentary elections; is heartland of Catalonia's resurgent regionalism; Socialists seen emerging as largest group in region; Suarez supporter Carlos Sentis has been attacked by nationalists; Catalan Communist Party leader Gregio Lopez Raimundo and nationalist spokesman Jordi Pujol comment; illus (M)

Resurgent Regionalism Is a Vital Force in Catalonia's Political Ferment

Uganda increases pressure on Britons living in Uganda by forbidding them to gather or travel in groups larger than 3; Robert Scanlon, who was arrested on charges of spying, will be executed if he is convicted by mil tribunal (M)

Uganda Puts Limits on Gatherings And Travel by British Residents

3 masked women, 1 man burn computer center, causing at least $2 million in damage (S)

4 at Rome University Burn Computer Center

Millions vote in state elections that will provide 1st test of ruling Janata Party's strength since it came to power; voting, for state assemblies in 10 states, will be spread over 5 days; Prime Min Desai urges people to end Cong Party rule in state legislatures (M)

State Elections Starting in India

obstacles apparently barring Dem Movement for Change from joining Begin's coalition govt include movement's demand for veto power over where Jewish settlements should be established on West Bank and refusal by Likud to include 'territorial concessions' in platform regarding peace negotiations with Arabs (S)

BEGIN PLANS TO FORM CABINET BY JUNE 30

June 11: Defense Min Peres says he expects difficulties in future relations between Israel and US (S)

Peres Expects Problems With U.S.

Rhodesia stages another raid inside Mozambique (S)

RHODESIAN TROOPS STAGE RAID INSIDE MOZAMBIQUE

Under State Sec Philip Habib and Joint Cs/S chmn George S Brown, appearing before HR Internatl Relations Com, say that S Korean and Japanese Govts support Carter Adm plans for gradual withdrawal of troops as long as 'adequate measures' are taken to insure 'security of NE Asia'; illus (M)

U.S. Officials Say Seoul and Tokyo Back Pullout

Commonwealth leaders agree to support US and Brit efforts, conf, London (S)

PARLEY IN LONDON BACKS PEACE EFFORT ON RHODESIA

conf completes 4-yr work updating '49 Geneva convs on rules of war to cover most modern weapons; articles grant immunity to attack for vehicles evacuating wounded and grant prisoner-of-war status to pol guerrillas involved in armed conflicts, but not terrorism; bars indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations in cities and attacks on dams, dikes and nuclear plants not involved in war; US delegate George H Aldrich comments on provisions; expects US Sen ratification (S)

Meeting on Revising Rules of War Ends in Geneva After Four Years

Podgorny appears to have lost his job as Soviet Pres; Sup Soviet bulletin repts Podgorny signed his last decree on May 25 and that all other such decrees in future would be signed by Deputy Pres Sabir B Niyazbekov; Pravda tacitly confirms Podgorny's loss of govt authority when it prints front-page message to Pres Tito omitting Podgorny's name (M)

PODGORNY, IN EFFECT, NO LONGER PRESIDENT

S Africa will appt admr-gen for SW Africa instead of proceeding with earlier plans for transitional govt to independence (S)

SOUTH AFRICA SUSPENDS SOUTH‐WEST AFRICA PLAN

France reptdly has begun development of cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads (S)

French Reported Starting Work To Develop Own Cruise Missile

residents experience little disruption in daily living since coup; Educ and Culture Min Jacques Hodoul comments; Mancham por; map (M)

On a Lush Island in Indian Ocean, A Coup Is Just a Case of Hiccups

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 8&#8212;This nation of tiny, lovely islands a thousand miles off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean whose major resource is romance experienced a coup the other day, but as political convulsions go it was relatively mild&#8212;more like a case of hiccups.

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June 11, 1977

Headlines from June 11, 1977

BERGMAN RESUMES NURSING HOME ROLE

U.S. and Soviet Will Start Talks On Pact to Ban All Nuclear Blasts

Connecticut Blushing Over Mom‐and‐Pop Utility

JAMES EARL RAY FLEES A PRISON IN TENNESSEE WITH 5 OTHER CONVICTS

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The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl

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