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)

Pres Carter orders Asst Agr Sec Robert H Meyer to stop seeking preferential treatment for farmers in Calif's Imperial Valley (M)

Oct 1-2: Sec Vance, after meeting with Soviet Foreign Min Gromyko, says US and USSR pledge 'utmost effort' to overcome Israeli-Arab differences to bring about Middle East peace conf before end of yr; says both sides would probably issue statement that would include discussion of Palestinian representation at conf; Vance earlier discussed problems of convening Geneva conf with Israeli Foreign Min Moshe Dayan; Dayan illus (L)

Sen rejects motion to table decontrol bill proposed by Sens Bentsen and Pearson, but Sens Gary Hart and Sparkman, who voted against tabling last wk, vote with Carter Adm on this round; Sens Metzenbaum and Abourezk threaten to continue filibuster for 10 days; opposing forces are coming closer together, but remain adamant on question of regulation; Sen Baker calls for change in Sen rules to prevent recurrence of this sort of filibuster; Sen Johnston comments; illus of Sens Byrd and Long (M)

Sen Human Resources Com, under pressure from univs, votes to exempt tenured coll profs from new legis raising mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 (S)

School Chancellor Irving Anker notifies bd that he will retire at end of current school yr when his 1-yr contract expires (M)

Hillary ends attempt to go by boat up Ganges; cites difficulties in navigating river; will proceed to source of river on foot (S)

article on apptmt; illus (M)