August 14, 1977

comment on Vance's Middle East mission (M)

Berkowitz's father Nathan, news conf, expresses his grief for families of victims and says 'I will live with this heartache for the rest of my life'; visits with his son in Kings County Hosp; other developments noted; illus (M)

Article on growing trend of placing problem children in insts outside their home states and concern situation causes among child‐interest orgns and welfare officials; some 20,000 children involved; insts are seldom monitored by states responsible for their care; treatment of children are harsh and sometimes brutal; case cited of Jarmille Batiste of New Orleans who allowed officials to send her 5‐yr-old son to out-of-state facility for emotionally disturbed for what she thought would be a yr but did not see him again for 8 yrs; ct order got boy out of a Tex inst; as result of lawsuit that returned boy, La prepares for return of nearly all 500 or more children it has in out-of-state insts; NY Civil Liberties Union files suit to stop out-of-state placements (M)

March by right-wing group Natl Front through multiracial Lewisham area of London erupts in bloody battle with 2,700 leftists counterdemonstrators; 209 persons are arrested and at least 104 are injured, including 46 policemen; Natl Front leader Martin Webster says another march will be held in about 6 wks; efforts by Lewisham Mayor Roger Godsiff to ban march were unsuccessful; illus (M)

comment on finding (S)