Carter Adm wins 1st major legis victory in energy field as HR Ways and Means Com, 21 to 16, approves equalization tax on crude oil; com rejects series of efforts to give oil producers reduction in income taxes for investment in oil-field exploration and development; Jody Powell says Carter is extremely pleased (M)

President's Plan To Tax Oil Wins Support in House

HR, 218-194, defeats bid by backers of Pres Carter to kill 16 dams and irrigation projects that he wants eliminated from public works appropirations bill; vote against amendment to $10.2-billion bill, which HR passed, is major tactical victory for Carter, for it shows that a veto cannot be overridden (M)

CARTER BACKERS LOSE ON WATER PROJECTS BUT GAIN TACTICALLY

Article in series finds many systems returning to basic curricula, stressing reading and writing skills that natl achievement tests find declining (M)

Suburban Schools Are Evolving ‘Basic’ Curriculums Geared to 70's

KGB summons Los Angeles Times correspondent Robert C Toth for interrogation after he is accused of gathering secret information; is questioned about manuscript on parapsychology given to him by scientist Valery G Petukhov; US Acting State Sec Warren M Christopher tells Amb Dobrynin that US views situation with 'serious concern'; Toth is 5th US newsman to be accused of subversive activities in last yr; Toth por (L)

K.G.B. IS QUESTIONING U.S. CORRESPONDENT

MADRID, June 14&#8212;Spaniards are voting tomorrow in freedom and secrecy for a new parliament that is considered to mark the formal end of of four decades of dictatorship.

United Precs International SPANIARDS GO TO POLLS TODAY: A campaign worker in Segovia, Spain, displays Socialist Workers Party poster. Today, Spain will hold its first free elections since 1936. Details appear on page A2.

Ronans Trip Postponed Dr. William J. Ronan, Port Authority chairman, and his wife postponed a world trip that vas to be made at public expense. Page B3.

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Eastern Air Lines agrees to ban smoking in 65% of seats on all its flights; to pay $10,000 fine for 14 specific violations of Fed regulations governing inflight smoking (M)

Eastern Air Lines Agrees to Ban Smoking in 65% of Plane Seats

Govt and opposition agree to hold new election before end of yr; Min Maulana Kausar Niazi and opposition spokesman Prof Ghafoor Ahmed say negotiators are no longer considering opposition demand for coalition caretaker regime to replace Bhutto's Govt in preparation for rerunning Mar 7 vote; opposition leader Maulana Mufti Mahmoud comments (M)

Bhutto and His Opposition Agree To a New Pakistan Vote This Year

Fed Appeals Ct, in reversal of lower ct ruling, says NY-NJ Port Auth has power to ban Concorde from Kennedy Internatl Airport as long as ban is fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory'; 3-judge panel orders lower ct to determine if criteria had been met for current ban, imposed in Mar '76; anti-Concorde community groups laud decision (M)

U. S. COURT UPHOLDS PORT AUTHORITY BAN ON CONCORDE FLIGHTS

Croatian nationalists Marijan Bunconjic, Jozo Brekalo and Vladimir Dizdar, armed with handguns, invade UN Yugoslav Mission, NYC, wound mission chauffeur Radomir Medic, barricade themselves in mission for 2 hrs and drop leaflets from window before surrendering to police and FBI agents; police repr says complicated legal question of jurisdiction has developed because crimes occurred on foreign property; Jaksa Petric, Yugoslavia's delegate to UN, denies rept that someone from mission was armed with gun and wanted to kill nationalists; Joseph Glennon, sr official in charge of UN security, says he was not notified of any 'special threat' to Yugoslav mission as did Francis J McLoughlin, deputy comr for public information for city police; incidents detailed; map; illus of nationalists (L)

THREE CROATS INVADE YUGOSLAVS’ MISSION

MADRID, June 14&#8212;With its first open elections in two generations tomorrow, Spain is finaily about to enter the era of party&#8208;building and institution&#8208;building that engaged most West European countries 30 years ago. There are dozens of parties, some local and some national, with 15 to 20 COMpetiting in single provincial constituencies. But apart from the Communists, who have been able to surface their well&#8208;knit underground, there are no real party organizations, only skeletal groups and loose coalitions built mostly around personalities rather than clear points of view.

With Election, Spain Takes a Giant Step Into Democratic Europe

Pres Sarkis and Prime Min Selim al-Hoss have been meeting leaders of Lebanon's Moslem and Christian factions to win consensus for reform program in attempt to avert recurrence of civil war; program would preserve sectarian structure of highest govt posts but would eliminate religious quotas in civil service: would revise electoral law to divide Parliament scats equally between Moslems and Christians; Dory Chamoun, sec gen of Natl Liberal Party, favors system of 'pol decentralization' that would divide country into Moslem and Christian areas; major problem still unresolved is reconstruction of army (M)

Lebanese Preparing Reforms to Avert New Fighting

Labor Govt abandons hope of making furthur progress during current session of Parliament on bill granting limited self-govt to Scotland and Wales; Commons Leader Michael Foot comments (M)

Labor Delays Action on Scottish‐Welsh Home Rule.

funeral service held for slain terrorists; Moluccan community reaction to raid noted; den Uyl comments; illus (M)

MOLUCCAN FUNERAL TURNS INTO PROTEST

White House Drops Appointment Of Lisbon Ambassador to New Job,

Brit-Amer talks on renegotiation of Bermuda Agreement, which controls N Atlantic air traffic between both nations, reptdly deadlocked (S)

World News Briefs

Begin starts setting up narrow coalition composed of his Likud bloc and religious elements; Yadin comments; Histadrut gen sec Yeruham Meshel comments (M)

Likud Assembling Narrow Coalition

40-ton electromagnet will be shipped to Moscow where it will be used in joint Amer-Soviet project to generate elec power using magnets (S)

Moscow to Get Electromagnet

Sec Vance urges Latin Amer nations to respect human rights even when combating leftist terrorism, address, OAS annual meeting, Grenada; urges strengthening of Inter-Amer Human Rights Comm and allowance of OAS members to conduct on-site inspections; foreign mins from Chile and Argentina emphasize that basic issue in human rights is terrorism and urge US address itself to issue; Chile's Foreign Min Patricio Carvajal comments (M)

VANCE TAKES THEME OF RIGHTS TO O.A.S.

Heavy fighting between secessionists and Cuban-supported Angola forces reptd in Cabinda (S)

Secessionists in Cabinda Report Heavy Fighting in Northern Areas

NY Times, in statement through its Washington bur chief Hedrick Smith, urges State Dept to do all it can to insure that Los Angeles correspondent Robert Toth is free to perform his journalistic duties and to leave USSR (S)

U.S. Expresses ‘Serious Concern’ to Moscow on Toth

White House silent on Dr Shtern's contention in Paris newspaper Le Monde that Amy Carter wrote to Shtern's son, August Stern; Shtern's por (M)

Did Amy Write Dissident'sson? She Knows, but Nobody Asked

US repr Albert W Sherer Jr meets with Soviet repr Yuli M Vorontsov on eve of preparatory conf on East-West cooperation and says he sees no need for confrontation with USSR over human rights (S)

U.S. AND SOVIET DELEGATES AT BELGRADE TALKS CONFER

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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general and dictator who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship.

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.

June 15, 1977

Headlines from June 15, 1977

President's Plan To Tax Oil Wins Support in House

CARTER BACKERS LOSE ON WATER PROJECTS BUT GAIN TACTICALLY

Suburban Schools Are Evolving ‘Basic’ Curriculums Geared to 70's

K.G.B. IS QUESTIONING U.S. CORRESPONDENT

United Precs International SPANIARDS GO TO POLLS TODAY: A campaign worker in Segovia, Spain, displays Socialist Workers Party poster. Today, Spain will hold its first free elections since 1936. Details appear on page A2.

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