July 27, 1977

NY Times survey of inequities in Fed disability system funded through Soc Security System; finds cts are becoming overburdened by disability cases; notes budget officials are becoming disturbed because disability fund will run out of money late in '78; chart shows increasing demands on disability programs, '65-76 (L)

Beame charges Carter's welfare reforms will not include Fed takeover of local costs, which he says Carter pledged himself to, City Hall news conf; announces citywide, and perhaps nationwide, campaign to put community pressure on Adm; expects 500,000 to 1-million petition signatures from city residents; illus (M)

Internatl Cricket Conf bars over 50 players who will appear in barnstorming series organized by Australian TV promoter Kerry Packer; illus (M)

18 cultural insts in NYC will get nearly $8-million from Natl Arts Endowment in 1st round of new 'challenge grant' program whose funds must be matched, $3 for each $1 granted; money represents more than 1 /4 of $27-million that endowment will give to 75 arts orgns in 23 states and DC, sum, that with matching funds from other sources, is expected to amount to well over $100-million; Pres Carter is expected to sign appropriations bill that will give endowment its financing for fiscal '78; recipients and their grants noted (M)

Law enforcement authorities say NYC's multimillion-dollar sex indus has been infiltrated by organized crime; underworld infiltration of sex indus has been accompanied by violence, including 2 murders, in last 4 yrs; officials of NYC IRS confirm that because of enormous cash flows in sex indus they had begun widespread inquiry into possible tax evasions by many of operators of city's 100 sex-related businesses; practices and finances of such operations detailed (L)