situation in southern Lebanon, where Palestinians are fighting Israeli-backed Christians, described; map (M)

Visit to War‐Torn South Lebanon: Ghost Town and Roving Guerrillas

Pres Carter steps up drive to muster bipartisan support for treaties by obtaining qualified endorsement of pacts from ex-Sec Kissinger and by making appeal by telephone to ex-Pres Ford; Sol M Linowitz and Gen George S Brown, at Carter's request, will fly to Vail, Colo, to give Ford full briefing; Kissinger, after White House meeting with Carter, says he will withhold unconditional backing until he has been briefed by US negotiators and Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ellsworth Bunker and Gen David C Jones to brief Kissinger at State Dept; Carter, Kissinger illus (L)

QUALIFIED SUPPORT OF PANAMA TREATIES GIVEN BY KISSINGER

6 Amer carriers agree to reduce NY-London off-season round-trip fare to $256, effective Sept 15; will reduce one-way fare to $146 for flights originating in NY and $110 on trips from London; will require payment 21 days in advance; plan, initiated by Laker Airways, is adopted by IATA at 3-day Geneva conf (M)

SIX AIRLINES AGREE TO ROUND‐TRIP FARE OF $256 FOR LONDON

Con Ed is selected by ERDA to carry out test of 4.8-megowatt fuel-cell plant at 15th St and FDR Drive; cells, similar in principle to those used on Gemini and Apollo manned space flights, will use variety of naphtha liquids as source of its flameless production of elec and steam; plant will take up less than half an acre and is specifically designed for big-city elec consumers; Assemblyman Andrew Stein leads community opposition to plant, which concerns safety of two 25,000-gal fuel storage tanks; Con Ed chmn Luce says plant is 'benign'; co research dir Dr Robert Bell comments; illus of site; drawing of proposed facility (L)

Con Ed Preparing Fuel‐Cell Test Plant

Japan Mourns War Dead and Fetes Spirits of Ancestors

ct documents presented to Bklyn grand jury show that Son of Sam suspect David Berkowitz said after his arrest that he was responsible for wounding of elderly Yonkers woman with .45-caliber rifle found in his apt; NYC police officials confirm that search is under way to identify woman; Yonkers police refuse comment; other disclosures noted; NY News and NY Post publish lrs Berkowitz had written to girlfriend Iris Gerhardt in '71 and '72 (M)

Another Shooting Laid to Suspect In the ‘ Sam’ Case

Govt, in most decisive move so far against former Prime Min Gandhi, arrests on corruption charges 4 men who were key figures in her adm; details of charges against them and six other, lesser figures also arrested, are not announced; officials say 10 would be charged with conspiracy to acquire money by abusing their public offices; 4 principal figures are P C Sethi, who was Chemicals and Fertilizers Min, Yashpal Kapoor, who as Gandhi's agent in '71 parliamentary election, R K Dhawan, Gandhi's private sec, and N K Singh, civil service officer assigned to Gandhi's office; Prime Min Desai pledges new dedication to 'Gandhism' during 30th anniv celebration of India's independence at Red Fort, where Jawaharlal Nehru spoke after accepting sovereignty from GB in '47; Desai illus (M)

4 GANDHI AIDES HELD ON CHARGES OF GRAFT

Chance telephone encounter between NYC detective and Wheat Carr, Yonkers police dispatcher who is daughter of Sam Carr, believed to be Sam in Son of Sam, appears to have played pivotal role in search that led to David Berkowitz's arrest; conversation alerted detective to suspicions of Yonkers Ptl Peter Intervallo and Thomas Chamberlain that Berkowitz could be killer; other key developments leading to arrest noted; illus (M)

Phone Call Gave Police Key Clue To Berkowitz

Pres Castro plays host to Sen Frank Church, aides and party of journalists; descriptions of life in Cuba noted; Castro comments; Castro and Church illustrations (L)

Castro Plays Charming Host on Guided Tour for Yankees

members of Socialist Workers' Party clash with police in Birmingham as they try to break up meeting of right-wing Natl Front; by-election to be held in Ladywood sec, nearly 1/2 of whose electorate are nonwhite immigrants; both front and Socialist Workers have entered candidates; 10 persons arrested and at least 12 policemen and 2 demonstrators are injured; later, gangs of black youths rampage in Soho Rd area of Birmingham; police disperse youths after minor looting (M)

Leftists Clash With Police in Britain

Sen Edward M Kennedy calls for ending diplomatic relations with Taiwan to pave way for full-scale ties with China, speech to World Affairs Council, Boston; urges that Sec Vance prepare ground for developing full diplomatic ties with China by declaring willingness to part with Taiwan; says Vance should negotiate settlement of Amer financial claims against China that would also unfreeze Chinese assets in US (M)

Kennedy Calls for Diplomatic Split With Taiwan and Ties With China

Asst US Atty Jerome Sanford says Fed and Fla agents frustrated plans of Cuban exiles to raid their former homeland, seizing 3 boats, antitank cannon and other weapons; Pedro Gil was arrested and charged with violating Fed arms export laws (S)

EXILES REPORTED FOILED IN PLAN FOR RAID ON CUBA

The U.N. Today

2,100-yr-old tomb containing over 1,000 burial objects is unearthed in Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region, China; relics belong to Han Dynasty, which lasted from 206 BC to 24 AD (S)

Ancient China Tomb Yields 1,000 Artifacts

Bomb explodes at office of radical atty Klaus Croissant, Stuttgart, W Ger; Croissant fled to France last mo; is wanted for questioning on contacts with urban terrorists (S)

Bomb Explodes Outside the Office Of Radical West German Lawyer

Billy Graham accepts Council of Free Chs of Hungary Rt Rev Sandor Palotay's inv to visit Hungary from Sept 3-10; he is 1st Western religious leader invited by Hungary since World War II; move seen as continued change in attitude toward religion in Hungary (M)

BILLY GRAHAM VISIT TO HUNGARY IS SET

Japanese Prime Min Takeo Fukuda arrives, Thailand, for 2-day visit; is welcomed by Prime Min Thanin Kraivichien and Foreign Min Uppadit Pajariyangkul; is scheduled to meet with King Phumiphol Aduldet (S)

Fukuda Begins Visit to Thailand; Pledges Peaceful Role for Japan

US Army repts Sgt 1st Class Charles H Cole and Pfc Charles E Hampton were killed on Aug 8 as result of accident during mortar firing exercise in CZ (S)

Two Soldiers Killed in Canal Zone

Amnesty Internatl says there was widespread abduction, torture and killing of peasants by Natl Guard in Nicaragua in '76, although ch and diplomatic sources there say human rights situation improved in recent mos; rept covers period after imposition of martial law in Dec '74 up to Jan '77 (M)

Rights Organization Accuses Nicaragua Regime of Widespread Abuses

US Asst Sec Todman says talks with Argentine officials appear to indicate that human rights violations have decreased; meets with Pres Videla, Buenos Aires (S)

U.S. Official Has Talks in Argentina

Amnesty investigators were Kurt Madiener, Dir of Dept of Hispanoamerican Penal Law of Max Planck Inst, W Ger, and Michael McClintock of orgn's research staff; only min interviewed was Interior-Justice Min Jose Antonio Mora and he denied knowledge of mistreatment of prisoners; visits to prisons were not allowed (S)

No Prison Interviews Allowed

Amer Conservative Union to open campaign against approval of new treaty on Aug 21 with newspaper ad aimed at Southern Dem Sens and TV appearance by current leader of fight Sen Strom Thurmond; efforts are under way to persuade Ronald Reagan to take leadership role; Reagan weighing situation; union has budgeted $20,000 for ad (M)

Conservatives Map Drive Against the Canal Treaty

Pres Carter approves promotion of Rear Adm James B Stockdale, former Vietnamese war POW, to vice adm; Stockdale will become pres of Naval War Coll, Newport, RI (S)

Admiral, Ex‐Prisoner, Is Promoted

Young Urges Haitian Leader to Move on Rights

Nation's history, geography, population, govt and econ summarized (S)

Haiti at a Glance

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August 16, 1977

Headlines from August 16, 1977

Visit to War‐Torn South Lebanon: Ghost Town and Roving Guerrillas

QUALIFIED SUPPORT OF PANAMA TREATIES GIVEN BY KISSINGER

SIX AIRLINES AGREE TO ROUND‐TRIP FARE OF $256 FOR LONDON

Con Ed Preparing Fuel‐Cell Test Plant

Japan Mourns War Dead and Fetes Spirits of Ancestors

Billboard 200

Rumours

CSN

Streisand Superman

I'm In You

Love Gun

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for August 16, 1977