November 23, 1977

Indian Govt begins major relief effort as official cyclone death toll reaches 10,000; relief efforts and destruction noted; people and local govt officials in devastated areas reptdly failed to take preventive steps, despite cyclone's early warning, unlike emergency measure initiated in Tamil Nadu wk earlier; Pres N Sanjiva Reddy and Home Affairs Min Charan Singh will survey damage on Nov 23; map; illus (M)

survey of middle-class Puerto Ricans in NYC finds that those who would take pride in their accomplishments remain largely a people overlooked, neglected and abused as they search for better life in NY; ints with 10 Puerto Rican families show seemingly perpetual motion of people who for 30 yrs have been moving northward and that all complained that within few yrs of their moves, their original reasons for seeking new neighborhoods had all but vanished; moves cannot totally be explained in terms of discrimination, but rapid withdrawal of non-Hispanic whites resulted in massive influx of welfare recipients, most of them Hispanic or black; other data; illus (L)

Air France and Brit Airways Concorde jetliners illus at Kennedy Internatl Airport

NYC Educ Bd to introduce fast-food lunches into 3 city hss by '79 in effort to appeal to student tastes, reduce waste and lower local taxes; schools noted; program, based on 'Energy Factory' system introduced into Clark County, Nev, school system in '72, will be expanded to other schools if successful; school food service official Elizabeth Cagan, Chancellor Anker and nutritional consultant Barbara Freidlander comment (M)

Jordanian Information Min Adnan Abu Odeh says Sadat's trip has brought new hope for resuming Geneva conf; Jordanian Prime Min Mudar Badran flies to Damascus for 'policy coordination talks' with Assad; Israeli radio says Hussein is interested in talks with Israeli leaders; says Jordanian officials were disappointed by Begin's noncommital reply to Sadat's call for Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands (M)