Carter Adm tells Cong that it will continue to observe interim agreement limiting strategic arms so long as USSR also adheres to accord after it expires Oct 3; Vance, in lr to Sen Foreign Relations Com, says USSR has been told that US will issue statement of its own 'not to take any action inconsistent' with '72 accord; says he does not think statement will require Cong approval; lr is released as Gromyko ends his 1st day of talks with Vance on problems blocking new agreement; differences holding up accord cited; illus of Vance with Gromyko (M)

U.S. PLANS TO KEEP ARMS PACT IN FORCE

Smith condemns Brit-Amer plan as 'attempt to appease Russian-oriented terrorists who are operating from Zambia and Mozambique' (L)

Smith Describes U.S.‐British Plan As Appeasement

Article on why farmers' income has sunk steadily since '75 to Depression level; illus (M)

Farmers’ Total Income at Depression Level

Egyptian Foreign Min Ismail Fahmy accuses Israel of 'aggression' in sending mil units into southern Lebanon, news conf, Washington (S)

EGYPTIAN SAYS ARABS ARE WILLING TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH ISRAEL

Lance welcomed by crowd in Calhoun on return from Washington; illus

Lance Tells a Cheering Calhoun He's ‘Proud to Be Back Home’

Sen rejects motion to table Bentsen-Pearson decontrol amendment, despite strenuous pleas for continued regulation by Pres Carter, Vice Pres Mondale and Energy Sec Schlesinger; majority leader Byrd chides Mondale for recognizing Sen McGovern over Sen Baker after vote, which was viewed by deregulation proponents as attempt to forestall tech vote to make defeat of tabling motion final; Sens Abourezk and Metzenbaum plan to offer 140 amendments to bill as delaying maneuver; Carter, who angered Sen Jackson by expressing willingness to compromise, reassures him that he will not accept gas price substantially higher than one he proposed or elimination of provision extending regulation to intrastate mkt; Sen Stennis holds off on his pro-deregulation vote so that absent Sen Humphrey's views can be reflected in final vote; Sen Tower argues for deregulation, and Sen Moynihan against (M)

SENATE KEEPS ALIVE PLAN TO DEREGULATE PRICES FOR NEW GAS

Sen Proxmire urges Gov Carey call NYS Legis special session to enact measures to permit NYC to re-enter public credit mkt this yr, lrs to Carey and Treas Sec Blumenthal; sees test of NYS good faith; responds to NYC legal ruling that state law will be needed to separate bond repayment revenues as demanded by potential investors; MAC chmn Rohatyn sees post-election session, also to consider raising MAC debt limit and permitting sale of capital bonds (M)

NEW YORK NOTE SALE PRESSED BY PROXMIRE

Reassignment process used by Educ Bd to place 3,500 recently rehired city teachers is cause of anxiety among teachers and school admrs affected; teachers are being assigned on basis of race in response to bd's effort to comply with Civil Rights Office order to equalize minority group representation; blacks and Hispanics are being assigned to dists where they number less than 10%, while whites are being sent to dists where proportion of minority teachers is more than 20%; bd also makes commitment to affirmative action program to substantially increase number of black and Hispanic teachers; UFT cautiously endorses minority hiring and assignment order, Amer Jewish Cong denounces it and teachers and admrs voice apprehension (M)

Assignment of Teachers by Race: Anxiety in New York City Schools

Spanish‐British ‘Thaw’ May Ease Isolation of Gibraltar

fighting continues; Israeli mil spokesman declines comment on repts that Israeli units crossed border; Palestinian Dr Ahmed Said comments on casualties; says most of inhabitants of Khiam area have fled; Internatl Red Cross members say they have not been able to get into Khiam for last wk; illus; map (M)

P.L.O. SITE IN LEBANON UNDER HEAVY GUNFIRE

Sarkis says new fighting has disrupted plans to send Lebanese soldiers to police area, radio and TV address on 1st anniv of his inauguration; pays tribute to Syrian-dominated Arab League peacekeeping force for enforcing truce in Lebanon; says Govt has reached agreement with Palestinians (M)

Sarkis Tells of Contacts

Central Com directive announces natl conf to promote science, with scientists to be given more time, money and freedom to pursue work; directive publication is unusual and indicates importance attached to renewal of scientific work; document seems to give official sanction to reversal of many of Mao Tse-tung's policies (M)

China Plans 1978 Parley to Revive Scientific Work

Egypt draws on Carter's own words to justify request for UN Gen Assembly debate on what it terms illegal measures by Israel to establish Jewish settlements on West Bank; Assembly com approves agenda item; US repr James F Leonard voices mild objection to wording of item; Egyptian repr Ahmed Abdel Meguid comments (S)

Egypt Quotes Carter To Back Plea at U.N.

The U.N. Today

Soviet scientists are puzzled by huge mass of light that recently flared in skies of Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia (S)

Soviet Sky Puzzle: ‘Jellyfish’ of Light

UN Center for Disarmament study finds arms race among major industrialized nations is continuing at alarming tempo and such developments as talks on limiting strategic arms, Helsinki Cong and detente have failed to make discernible impact on situation; Rolf G Bjornerstedt, Asst Sec Gen and head of center, says he hopes rept will serve to dramatize situation and help in preparing for Gen Assembly's special session on disarmament in May '78; rept recommends, as part of 'over-all plan' for disarmament, that all countries, but specifically 'big spenders'-meaning US, USSR, China, France, GB and W Ger--reduce mil budgets; recommends that nuclear disarmament be given 'highest priority'; countries involved in drafting rept, which will be formally presented by UN Sec Gen Waldheim to Gen Assembly, noted (M)

A U .N . Report Says? Arms Race Goes On At Alarming Tempo

Gen Zia ousts Chief Justice Yakub Ali Khan 2 days after Sup Ct granted hearing to Bhutto on his appeal for freedom from army detention; Zia's office says action was taken against Khan because of nation's distrust of higher judiciary; says Sheik Anwarul Haq, sr member of Sup Ct, will replace Khan (S)

PAKISTANI MILITARY RULER OUSTS THE CHIEF JUSTICE

Hungarian airliner with 53 aboard crashes killing 29 while attempting emergency landing in field near Bucharest, Rumania; was on Istanbul-Bucharest flight (S)

World News Briefs

Soviet psychiatrist Ernest Akselrod is arrested after earlier questioning by KGB agents about his relationship with Shcharansky (S)

Akselrod, Soviet Dissident, Seized After Questioning by K.G.B. Agents

Torrijos to visit Israel, Sept 28-30, as guest of Prime Min Begin (S)

Panamanian to Visit Israel in Cause of Canal Treaties

Natl Council of Churches of Korea urges Park Tong Sun return to US to face bribery indictment to prevent further harm to security and prestige of S Korea (S)

CHURCH UNIT OPPOSES TONGSUN PARK STANCE

meeting of leftist alliance ends with Socialists and Communists bitterly divided over nationalization issue (S)

FRENCH LEFTISTS’ PARLEY ENDS ON A DIVIDED NOTE

Cuban Foreign Trade Min Marcelo Fernandez Font and deputy Ricardo Carbrisas Ruiz to visit Washington as guests of East-West Trade Council; to participate in panel discussions with Cluver Gleysteen, Sen Humphrey and Repr Bingham; participation in trade talks was arranged through Alamar Associates pres Kirby Jones; State Dept officials say there is no early prospect that Carter Adm will end trade embargo with Cuba but say Adm sees no harm in airing Cuban-Amer trade issues in such trade forums (S)

High Cuban Official To Visit Washington For Talks on Trade

Kennedy Space Center announces that 3 Delta rocket launchings have been rescheduled to give bd of inquiry more time to look into Sept 13 explosion of Delta carrying Orbital Test Satellite owned by Eur Space Agency; further delays expected if cause of failure is found to be hardware common to all Deltas (S)

3 Delta Rocket Launchings Reset Pending Study of Sept. 13 Explosion

NYS Energy Office acting chief James L Larocca says office has awarded grants of $400 each to 867 persons in NYC met area for installation of hot-water systems using solar energy (S)

Solar Heating Grants Awarded

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September 23, 1977

Headlines from September 23, 1977

U.S. PLANS TO KEEP ARMS PACT IN FORCE

Smith Describes U.S.‐British Plan As Appeasement

Farmers’ Total Income at Depression Level

EGYPTIAN SAYS ARABS ARE WILLING TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH ISRAEL

Lance Tells a Cheering Calhoun He's ‘Proud to Be Back Home’

Billboard 200

Rumours

Star Wars

Moody Blue

JT

Shaun Cassidy

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 23, 1977