September 4, 1977

Investigation by Comptroller's Office reptdly finds aircraft owned or leased by Natl Bank of Ga was used for pol purposes, including trips to '76 Dem Natl Conv, in violation of Fed election law; investigators reptdly have found several hundred unexplained trips and allegedly have been given information on 400 of them by bank officials; IRS reptdly will issue rept to be submitted to Sen Governmental Affairs Com; sources rept Lance visited Comptrollers office immediately prior to Sen confirmation hearings and met with sr officials Robert Bloom and H Joe Selby; investigation seeks to determine whether Bloom or other officials acted properly in handling of Lance's nomination and regulation of his 2 Ga banks; IRS rept expected to be critical of several officials of Comptrollers office, including Bloom and Donald L Tarleton, admr of Atlanta office that regulated Lance's bank; Tarleton's involvement in Lance affair discussed (M)

ATLANTA, Sept. 3‐Interstate bootlegging of cigarettes, increasing for a decade because of growing disparities in state and local tax rates, has reached such proportions that it is regarded by some as second only to narcotics as a profit item for organized crime.

primary races revd; candidates' illus (L)

Studies involving thousands of individuals give new support to hypothesis that blood constituents known as HDI (high density lipoproteins), which are plentiful in some people and scarce in others, act as powerful preventers of heart attacks; high density lipoproteins are thought to remove cholesterol from body tissue; scientists are considering possibility that heart attacks might be prevented by artifically raising HDI levels in blood; study findings detailed; Drs Stephen B Hulley, Edward H Ahrens and Hugh Sinclair comment (L)

Former Prime Min Bhutto is arrested on charge of having conspired to murder pol opponent in '74; politician, Ahmed Raza Kasuri, was not hurt in attack, but his father, who was riding with him, was killed; Kasuri maintained at time that he was real target and that assailants were members of Fed Security Force, which many people say functioned as Bhutto's private police agency; its leader Masood Mahmood was arrested in Aug; sources say Mahmood is cooperating in reopened investigation of killing and has accused Bhutto of complicity; Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, ranking member of Bhutto's People's Party, calls urgent meeting of party's central com to consider what to do; says party will seek Bhutto's release on bail; with elections due on Oct 18, pol implications of Bhutto's arrest are unclear; Bhutto illus (M)