Thousands of home-bound travelers are trapped in subway tunnels by blackout; although many trains are stranded in tunnels at least 2 hrs after blackout began, many others are able to coast into stations and discharge passengers with ease (S)

Riders Safely Flee the Subway Though Some Swelter Hours

Lightning strikes in vicinity of Con Ed's Indian Point plant, contributing to July 13 blackout of Con Ed system; utility repts no damage to plant or radioactive leakage (S)

Lightning Bolt: How It Struck

Gov Carey sends state police to city; details on crime (M)

State Troopers Sent Into City As Crime Rises

Westchester is completely blacked out; Nassau and Suffolk Counties and Rockaway Peninsula of NYC, which are served by Lilco, experience brief outage when co tries to comply with Con Ed request for power; NJ is spared; scattered blackouts reptd in Conn, where some trees were knocked down by storm; curfew is imposed in Peekskill after Con Ed's Buchanan substation apparently exploded (S)

Westchester Is Also Darkened After Lightning Hits Line

Bellevue Hospital's backup power supply fails shortly after blackout begins; scene described; illus (M)

Bellevue Patients Resuscitated With Hand‐Squeezed Air Bags

LIRR repts commuters on 12-14 trains were stranded in Queens during NYC power blackout (S)

Westchester Dark; Long Island Power Interrupted Briefly

It is the New Yorker's real badge of pride &#8212; not the little red&#8208;apple lapel pins &#8212; that whatever else can be said about them, one truth is undeniable: New Yorkers know how to cope when trouble strikes their city.

Some Led Others by Flashlight, Some Knocked on Doors to Help

State Dept repts that US Army helicopter was reptd shot down over N Korea after it strayed over line that separates N and S Korea (S)

U.S Copter Down Over North Korea

Power failure results in shutdown of Kennedy Internatl and La Guardia; Newark not affected (S)

Lightning Apparently to Blame ‐ Some Suburbs Affected

Within minutes after the power failed last night, police radios around the city began to crackle with reports of crime.

Thousands of home&#8208;bound travelers were trapped in subway tunnels and along suburban railroad lines by last night's blackout.

No Panic Reported in Subways Among Trapped Passengers

Westchester Dark; Long Islands Power Interrupted Briefly

The blackout had its beginning in the thunderclouds that gathered last night over Westchester County. Lightning struck in the vicinity of Consolidated Edison's Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant 3, and major power transmission lines were shortcircuited.

Weather extremes of cold and heat throughout world in '77 raise concern of scientists, CIA and several internatl orgns which have begun climate studies to make future predictions; US experts warn world has grown used to mild climate in recent decades and does not have land reserves to meet new crop problems; fear Amers live in 'air-conditioned dream world,' heedless of real climactic changes; unusual N Amer air circulation patterns which caused severe winter described (M)

1977, a Year of Weather Extremes, Causing Concern Among Experts

examination of auth's travel-expense accts by NYS Comptroller's Office reveals pattern of paid overseas trips for officials, and often their wives, that was vastly more systematic and extensive than previously reptd; reveals that in some cases, officials apparently authorized their own trips, that cost of trips appear to total hundreds of thousands of dollars; some examples discussed (M)

More Free Travels By Port Aides Found

Sen rejects Sen Mark Hatfield's proposal to halt funds for production of neutron bomb; Hatfield lifts threat of filibuster; Sen Humphrey says White House has authorized releases of impact statement on bomb compiled, by Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, apparently to blunt speculation that agency warned Pres Carter that production of bomb might damage arms talks with USSR; Sen debate summary; Sen Dick Clark comments; illus (M)

SENATE VOTES FUNDS FOR NEUTRON BOMBS, HEEDING CARTER PLEA

E Henry Knoche resigns as top aide to Dir Stansfield Turner, reptdly because of sharp differences with him; Turner denies trying to force several sr members of agency's covert operations section into early retirement; Turner illus with Robert Hepworth of Cong support staff (M)

No. 2 C.I.A. Man Resigns

Schmidt meets with Carter, Washington; illus (M)

CARTER ACTS TO EASE EUROPEANS' CONCERN ABOUT VEXING SOVIET

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Brit union leaders tell Govt they will no longer be bound by voluntary wage restraints (S)

British Unions End Voluntary Restraint On Wage Increases

ALBANY, July 13&#8212;Leaders of the Democratic&#8208;controlled Assembly reluctantly agreed today to stiffer sentences for serious crimes by juveniles, particularly crimes against the elderly. The concession was an effort to gain from the Republican&#8208;controlled Senate an extension of the temporary&#8208;release program for adult prisoners.

DEMOCRATS SEEKING ALBANY COMPROMISE

3 sr advisers to Pres Carter have urged him to consider abandoning strict enforcement of job safety rules and instead use econ incentives to persuade businessmen to make work places safer; have told Carter that Occupational Safety and Health Adm is 'leading natl symbol of overregulation'; advisers are Office of Mgt and Budget dir Bert Lance, Econ Advisers Council chmn Charles Schultze and Stuart E Eizenstat, asst to Pres for domestic affairs (M)

Key Carter Aides Urge Incentives For Job Safety, Less Regulation

Over 100 Western scientists conclude conf, Oxford, Eng; scientists present papers and hold discussions in gen area of physiochem hydrodynamics--arcane field of which Levich is considered founder (M)

Western Scientists Protest to Soviet on Levich

July 14: Begin discloses to his Cabinet proposals he will present to Carter; reptdly receives unanimous approval to proceed; Jerusalem officials withhold comment on Pres Carter's announcement that Egypt will return to Israel bodies of 19 Israelis killed in Oct '73 war; Israeli commentators speculate bodies might have been found earlier, but that Egypt timed announcement to improve Pres Sadat's image on eve of Begin's US visit (S)

Israeli Cabinet Gets Peace Plan Begin Will Show Carter

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, as the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she would be Sweden's fourth queen regnant and the first since 1720. Her inheritance is secured by Sweden's 1980 Act of Succession, the first law in Western Europe to adopt royal absolute primogeniture.

July 14, 1977

Headlines from July 14, 1977

Riders Safely Flee the Subway Though Some Swelter Hours

Lightning Bolt: How It Struck

State Troopers Sent Into City As Crime Rises

Westchester Is Also Darkened After Lightning Hits Line

Bellevue Patients Resuscitated With Hand‐Squeezed Air Bags

Billboard 200

Barry Manilow Live

I'm In You

Rumours

Book Of Dreams

Streisand Superman

Notable Births

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