June 24, 1977

METUCHEN, N.J., June 23—Rail service for at least 30.000 commuters and longdistance travelers on Amtrak's busy Boston‐to‐Washington corridor remained disrupted today because of a freight‐train derailment at the southern tip of the business district here last night.

Major policy rev in Carter Adm has concluded that sale of US mil technology to China would lead to 'fundamental reassessment' of Soviet policies toward US and increase of tension between USSR and China; policy paper makes it plain that efforts to send US defense technology to China would 'stiffen Soviet positions' toward US and result in sharp deterioration of US-Soviet ties; some key figures involved in study are known to disagree seriously with this position; persons involved in study noted (M)

Re-accreditation of coll is delayed because of questions about why evaluation team's critical rept was replaced by more favorable document; both repts were prepared under direction of Middle States Assn of Colls and Secondary Schools; inquiry is being conducted to discover whether coll pres Edgar D Draper used 'improper' means to persuade evaluation team chmn J Harry Smith to change rept; repts detailed (M)

Ed in USSR pub New Times attacks Carrillo's book on Eurocommunism (M)

NYS Gov Carey signs bill revising jury selection process to enlarge jury pools and to randomly select grand jurors from same pool that provides trial jurors; bill, prompted by criticism that current selection process creates professional rubber-stamp grand jurors who are not representative of community, allows teachers, civil service employees and other public employees to serve on grand jury; also authorizes appellate divisions of NYS Sup Ct to request new sources for names of potential jurors; other changes noted; details of past attempts at passing jury reform bill (M)