September 7, 1977

fair opens; customs officials bar at least 9 Amer books from display and remove 4 Amer and Brit publishing catalogues; Chester Kerr (Yale Univ Press), Robert A Baensch (Harper & Row) and Leo Albert (Prentice-Hall) meet with Boris I Stukalin, head of Soviet publishing indus, to find out why; among 1,500 publishing firms from 63 countries, including 900 from West, are 3 Israeli publishers; some publishers comment (M)

State Dept declines to comment on Teng's statement; dept spokesman says Carter Adm made clear that normalization of relations is goal in China policy (S)

Justice Dept weighs prosecution of Lance for use of bank's airplanes; affidavit filed with IRS by Sen Governmental Affairs Subcom shows Lance urged Acting Comptroller in '76 to withhold potentially embarrassing banking agreement from FBI, which was conducting background check of him; Repr Fernand J St Germain scores Lance's banking practices, HR Banking Subcom hearing; accuses Lance of converting Calhoun bank into pol machine to assist in his '74 gubernatorial campaign; Robert Bloom, testifying before subcom, denies misconduct in Comptrollers office's initial handling of Lance's affairs; acknowledges failure to rept information on Lance to outgoing Treas Sec William Simon for fear of becoming entangled in partisan pol quarrel; Tarleton tells hearing his decision to cancel enforcement agreement between Comptroller's office and Calhoun bank was motivated 'purely by banking considerations'; says he was not asked by Lance to rescind agreement, but acknowledges Lance asked to be introduced to officials of Comptroller's office; Bloom says he was extremely upset when Tarleton unilaterally canceled agreement with Calhoun; illus (M)

special state ct on judicial discipline will investigate NYS Appeals Ct Judge Jacob D Fuchsberg's transactions in NYC securities while crucial cases on city's finances were before ct; special ct--called Ct on the Judiciary--was convened by Chief Judge Charles D Breitel, who calls situation 'unprecedented crisis'; Fuchsberg says he welcomes inquiry; case revd; Breitel and Fuchsberg pors (L)

NYC Educ Bd commits itself to affirmative action program that will, by Sept '80, redress alleged discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in city's school system; tentative settlement of civil rights suit brought by NAACP ends threatened loss of $35-million in Fed educ funds, including $15-million for city to hire 1,200 teachers under CETA Act; agreement calls for setting of goals to accelerate miniority hiring program as well as change in employment tests to accomplish these goals; other provision detailed; Chancellor Anker comments (M)