Drawing by Gil Eisner

Article on Americana '77, antiques, crafts, entertainment and food fair on 52d St, NYC; map

A Two‐Mile Bazaar on 52d Street

United Merchants & Mfrs Inc dirs approve phasing out (S)

U.M.&M. Ousts President, Plans End to Robert Hall

WEEKENDER GUIDE

NYS unleashes predatory wasps in 45 counties in effort to eradicate cereal leaf beetle; illus (M)

New York Unleashes Wasps on Ravaging Beetles

Natural gas stocks ranked as prominent gainers yesterday as the general market overcame its early weakness to finish with a moderate recovery.

Gas Shares Rise on Court ActionAnd Dow Closes With Gain of 2.88

Gulf Oil chmn Jerry McAfee and Gulf Minerals Resources pres S A Zagnoli admit Gulf's participation in cartel and say it brought about increase in world and, to a limited extent, US uranium prices, June 16 testimony to HR Commerce Subcom on Oversight and Investigations; deny violation of US antitrust laws, saying Canadian Govt required Gulfs Canadian subsidiary to cooperate with cartel in return for right to mine uranium; documents released by subcom snow that cartel involved Canada, France, Australia, South Africa and Rio Tinto Zinc and operated from '72 to at least '74; some documents show Gulf a willing participant in cartel, and others show it acting under Canadian pressure; Irwin J Landes, chmn of NYS legis com investing cartel, estimates that price increases set in motion by cartel cost consumers in NY alone about $1-billion; Gulf memorandums written by Roy D Jackson and W D Fowler and questioning of Gulf officials by Reprs Albert A Gore Jr and John E Moss noted (M)

Gulf Aides Admit Cartel Increased Price of Uranium

JOHANNESBURG, June 16&#8212;At least 11 blacks were wounded today, some seriously, when the police opened fire during clashes that grew out of a commemoration of the anti&#8208;Government upheaval that started in a Johannesburg black township and was to sweep others South Africa last year.

United Press International UNREST IN SOUTH AFRICA: Residents of Soweto, near Johannesburg, disperse as a tear gas shell explodes nearby. They were leaving a Roman Catholic church after memorial for those killed in the 1976 riots. Eleven persons were wounded when police opened fire during scattered clashes. Page A6. SOUTH AFRICA STRIFE WOUNDS AT LEAST 11

Toth believes authorities, in their questioning of him, tried to compile evidence in their case against Shcharansky; adds his treatment by KGB reflects tougher line against US reporters and their sources (M)

Questions Over, Toth Is Allowed To Leave Soviet

ABOARD THE BROADWAY LIMITED, June 16&#8212;This famous American train is late, two and a half hours late and holding, dawdling across the cornfields of Indiana, or maybe still in Ohio &#8212;it is hard to tell.

Elegant, Unhurried, Broadway Limited Enters Its 76th Year The New York Times/Chester Hleafins Homer Hill, a railroad buff, enjoying the view from the parlor car

fails to appear in ct, June 16, for arraignement on charges of failing to file NYS income tax returns for yrs '73-75; Judge Vale issues warrant for his arrest, and Asst Atty Gen Weintraub starts extradition process; Vale finds reasonable cause to believe that crime was committed; arguments by Weintraub and Conrad's atty, Boris Kostelanetz, noted; Conrad por (M)

Conrad Extradition Is Planned by State; Warrant Is Issued

ban spreads confusion in city and causes clash between city's business community and Fed EPA (L)

NEW YORK NOW SAYS PARKING EMICT MEANS LOSS OF 12,700 SPACES

Fed Appeals Ct denies request by several consumer orgns, including Consumer Fed of Amer, to strike down FPC action that set ceiling price of $1.42 per thousand cu ft on gas sold in interstate mkt; Ellen Berman of Energy Policy Task Force, umbrella consumer group, says case may be appealed; Judge Harold Leventhal's opinion noted (S)

NATURAL GAS PRICING BY THE F.P.C. UPHELD BY COURT OF APPEALS

Sup Ct, 7-1, reverses lower ct decision that had prevented merger into du Pont; du Pont's 5-yr campaign to win acquisition recalled; illus (M)

High Court Backs du Pont Family On Linking Christiana to Company

Suarez coalition apparently wins close to half of seats in new lower house and is assured of firm control in Sen; Spanish Socialist Workers party runs strong 2d to Suarez's Union of the Dem Center, scoring pluralities in Barcelona, Valencia and Seville; partial tallies; Min Martin Villa projects seat distribution; has been named Sen by King Juan Carlos; Arias Navarro is defeated in bid for Sen seat on Popular Alliance ticket, but alliance leader Manuel Fraga Iribarne wins lower house seat, as do Gonzalez, Carrillo, Tierno Galvan and Dolores Ibarruri; Catalan Socialists demand return of Josep Tarradellas, pres of Catalan govt in exile, and start of talks with central Govt for election of Catalan assembly in wake of victory there of forces favoring autonomy; Tarradellas hails vote (M)

SPAIN GIVES SUAREZ CLEAR‐CUT VICTORY; SOCIALISTS SECOND

Is elected USSR Pres by Sup Soviet, becoming 1st person to hold positions of Communist Party chief and Pres simultaneously; his por (L)

Brezhnev Is Made Soviet President, First Party Chief to Take the Title

The British Oil Corporation has obtained an agreement for an $825 million, eight&#8208;year loan from a group of British and American Banks. The money would fund North Sea prospecting and development. Page D7.

British Oil Loan

Commerce Dept repts housing starts for May were at annual rate of 1.92-million, 1.6% increase from Apr; new privately owned housing construction was authorized at rate of 1.60-million units, compared with 1.56-million for Apr; simgle-family housing starts were 1.46-million, compared with 1.43-million in Apr; graph of starts and permits, Jan '76-May '77 (S)

Housing Starts Up in May; 1.6% Gain Encourages U.S.

The baseball trade that sent Tom Seaver, the pitching ace of the Mets, to the Cincinnati Reds converted New York into an angry forum of debate in which old friends screamed at one another and lifelong lovers of baseball portrayed the sport as the epitome of greed.

Sidewalks Are a Forum

trans-Alaska pipeline cos defend tariff proposals (S)

Owners of Pipeline Deny Inflating Fees

HR, 225-157, approves HEW-Labor Dept bill amendment barring Govt from withholding funds from dists which refuse to merge or consolidate schools for integration plans calling for busing; responds to Califano warning that HEW Dept will demand dists use such methods; sponsor Repr Ronald M Mottl charges Carter Adm tries to evade Cong will as expressed in '76 Byrd Amendment (M)

HOUSE VOTES TO BALK CARTER BUSING POLICY

From opposite sides of the country this week have come two of the most respected quarterly forecasts on the American economy for this year and next, and the similarities are striking. They were remarkably close in their numbers for various cote gories of the economy, in their general assessment of the outlook, in their concern over the energy program'gram uncertainty, in their satisfaction with the present course of monetary policy and in their desire for more fiscal stimulus to keep the expansion running beyond next year.

2 Forecasts for ‘77 and ‘78, With Striking Similarities

2d article discusses scandal's effects on Justice Dept

Watergate: Justice Dept. Changes

Tom Seaver cleared 11 years of mementos and memories from his locker in Shea Stadium yesterday, bade a tearful farewell to New York and the Mets, packed four baseball gloves under his arm and left town for his new career with the Cincinnati Reds.

Pitcher Tearful, Bitter

US Steel agrees to pay $3.5-million in fines for failing to meet pollution standards of EPA and Ind, consent decree, US Dist Ct, Hammond, Ind (S)

U.S. Steel to End Water Pollution Near Gary, Pay $3.5 Million Fines

Bartosz Paweł Brożek is a Polish philosopher and jurist whose main research interests are in philosophy of law, philosophy of science, logic and cognitive science. He is currently professor of jurisprudence at the Jagiellonian University and vice rector of the Jagiellonian University, as well as a former director of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Kraków. Author or co-author of more than 20 book monographs and more than 70 scientific papers. He holds PhDs in both law (2003) and philosophy (2007), habilitation in law (2008) and the title of full professor (2013).

Bartosz Brożek, Polish philosopher and jurist

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Tjaša Jezernik is a Slovenian retired tennis player.

Tjaša Jezernik, Slovenian tennis player

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Mark Tauscher is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 11-year career as an offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers. Tauscher was selected by the Packers in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL draft. He won Super Bowl XLV with them over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He now provides studio commentary for NFL coverage on Sky Sports in Britain.

June 17, 1977

Headlines from June 17, 1977

Drawing by Gil Eisner

A Two‐Mile Bazaar on 52d Street

U.M.&M. Ousts President, Plans End to Robert Hall

WEEKENDER GUIDE

New York Unleashes Wasps on Ravaging Beetles

Billboard 200

Rumours

The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl

Commodores

Rocky

Hotel California

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 17, 1977