August 23, 1977

Jody Powell says Natl Bank of Ga was not reimbursed by Carter for his trips aboard bank plane as result of 'bookkeeping oversight'; says 3 of flights should be considered pol and will be paid from campaign funds; Fed laws prohibiting corp contributions or expenditure on behalf of candidate, and knowing acceptance of them by candidate, noted; Powell denies violation of law or impropriety by Carter, Lance or Carter campaign com; says, in telephone int, that Lance had not ordered bank to omit billing Carter campaign for flights, cost of which are put at $1,793.70; Carter asks Fed Elect Comm to advise whether 2 '76 flights should be considered campaign trips (M)

NYS Educ Comr Gordon M Ambach gives Rockville Centre 1-yr extension on plan to integrate its school system, overturning order issued by former Comr Ewald B Nyquist; cites need for more extensive preparation in order to implement Nyquist's plan successfully; order comes at time of renewed interest in school integration on LI; School Supt William Leary lauds postponement, but Nyquist and NAACP official Jack Prophet score it (M)

Schlosser dismisses NBC-TV pres Robert T Howard and appts Robert E Mulholland to succeed him; move is prompted by network's poor ratings last season; Alvin Rush is named operating head of NBC Sports, which becomes separate div equal to NBC-TV and NBC News; WNBC-TV gen mgr Raymond Timothy is named exec vp of affiliate relations; Howard and Mulholland pors (M)

French Foreign Min Louis de Guiringaud says France has warned S Africa against any atomic tests; denied original Tass rept that S Africa, with French assistance, would pile up 100 atomic weapons within a yr, but Govt has since recd information to effect that S Africa appears to have means for tests; there is speculation that S Africa may have accumulated enough material for test from pilot uranium enrichment plant that it has had for some time (M)

Vance appeals for mutual efforts by China and US to find ways to move toward normalization of relations as he begins 4 days of talks with Chinese leaders; is met at Peking Airport by Foreign Min Huang Hua, who also heads Chinese delegation that confers with Vance; Huang, in toast in Great Hall of the People, indicates that China's conditions for normalization have not changed; notes Chmn Hua Kuo-feng, in his rept to just-concluded Communist Party cong, reiterated that US must withdraw all US mil personnel from Taiwan, break diplomatic relations with Nationalist regime and abrogate security treaty with Taiwan; only Chinese guests at head table, besides Huang and Huang Chen, head of Chinese liason office in Washington, are 2 of China's leading scientists, Chou Pei-yuan and Pei Shih-cheng, and Wang Hai-jung, Deputy Min of Foreign Affairs; illus of Vance and Huang (M)