October 1, 1977

ILA strikes Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports after efforts fail to settle dispute over job security and other contract issues; union says strike will be selective, aimed at automated containership operations that have caused heavy loss of jobs on docks; dockers will continue to handle cargoes and baggage of conventional freighters and passenger ships; ILA spokesman Larry Molloy says talks with Council of N Atlantic Shipping Assn failed to break deadlock; FMCS Dir Wayne L Horvitz says he will continue to meet with both sides; earlier, ILA pres Thomas W Gleason met with shipping assn pres James J Dickman; issues detailed (M)

Miriam Bockman is unanimously elected 1st woman leader of Manhattan Dem orgn in move that is seen signaling transfer of pol power from Mayor Beame to Repr Edward I Koch, Dem mayoral candidate (S)

Carter Adm, reacting to growing Cong pressure, weighs negotiating temporary steel import quotas with EEC and Japan in effort to curb indus unemployment and more radical Cong action (L)

Pres Carter meets with Sup Ct members

Presiding Episc Bishop John M Allin offers to resign if his fellow bishops are unwilling to accept his outright opposition to ordaining women as priests, opening session of Episc House of Bishops; Bishops Robert Terwilliger and Brooke Mosley comment; faction that resists women's ordination appears to be moving toward some agreement whereby no bishop would be required to ordain woman but would agree to transfer woman applicant to bishop who is willing to do so; doubts have arisen in recent mos about Allin's effectiveness; his por (M)