November 28, 1977

For retailers, Sunday was a busy day. Pedestrians were five deep at Macy's as entertainers performed, above, and one shopper just had to rest after adding to purchases at Korvettes. Even pretzel vendors, right, were doing brisk business on a wintry day; page 35. Merchants around the nation are expecting banner season in sales. Page 49.

14 US med schools have forfeited $11-million in Fed capitation funds in continuing battle over new law that requires them to accept as transfer students Amers who began their med studies in other countries; HR measure would reduce number of such students schools are required to admit and allow schools to apply usual standards to transfer candidates; Sen votes to repeal transfer student provision entirely; med schools contend provision violates traditional integrity by prohibiting them from applying own acad standards to transfers; 6 state-supported schools in group include Ill Univ and 5 in Calif Univ; 8 private schools are Baylor, Case Western Reserve, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Stanford, Chicago Univ and Yale (M)

Begin plans policy statement to Israeli Parliament followed by full-scale debate; says Israel has not yet recd detailed inv to Cairo conf; says he will not be going to Cairo; Dayan says question of who will go will be decided when inv is recd; says that if PLO members attend Israel will not deal with them; Begin also says Israel will not negotiate with PLO; Gaza Mayor Rashad Shawa says that while he favors Sadat's moves, they have put moderate Palestinian leaders in critical position; says he wishes Sadat had coordinated his moves with PLO; says number of West Bank and Gaza officials are contemplating sending delegation to Damascus, Amman and Cairo to avoid rifts; Begin illus (M)

Nov 28: Carter Adm officials say they are perplexed over how to react to Sadat's call for preliminary Cairo conf; see Sadat, by announcing plan without consulting US and USSR, scoffing at established negotiating channels; State Dept is concerned that Cairo meeting attended only by Israel and Egypt will not be regarded by other parties as proper preparations for Geneva conf and will be seen as cover for separate Egyptian-Israeli agreement; Carter consults with natl security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Vance; Sadat, in int on CBS-TV program Face the Nation, says PLO should attend Cairo conf; denies Egypt and Israel had secret contacts; says he is ready to negotiate with Israel alone if other parties do not come; says he is ready to go to Geneva to negotiate comprehensive peace agreement; repeats that Israel will have to give up all territory, including E Jerusalem; says he undertook his bold moves because of impatience with continual squabbling over precedural aspects of convening Geneva conf (L)

Article on surging growth of elderly as pol force; their influence is expected to increase as number of Amers over age 65 rises; elderly as pol force in NJ detailed; illus (L)

Mayor-elect Koch says that woman deputy mayor will be on team of top advisers that he plans to announce this wk; politicians expect job to go to Ronay Menschel, who was in charge of Koch's Cong office; Koch meets with Repr Herman Badillo, who is reptdly candidate for deputy mayor in charge of operations (L)

2d article discusses strains on marriage as couples accommodate tradition to new moral and econ choices; repts divorce rate leveling off, noting some 95% of Amers will marry and about 80% of divorcees will remarry; describes life style of Bklyn working-class family in which wife now works and husband keeps house; illus; graphs (M)

PBA pres Samuel DeMilia offers no opposition to residency requirement for new officers, CBS 'Newsmakers' TV program; considers rehiring of 1,700 laid-off officers and wage increase for officers in new contract more important issue; DeMilia por (M)

Govt, beset with developmental problems, gives low priority to opium problem; since domestic addition is no serious problem, and farmers who grow poppies depend on crop for livelihood, Govt is more willing to act against traffickers than against farmers; illus (M)

Fukuda, plagued by criticism of Japan's trade policy abroad, reshuffles Cabinet (M)

French Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing's call for cutback in production of ICBMs spurs debate between members of center-right Govt over whether nation is building credible nuclear force or maintaining ind natl defense policies established by late Pres de Gaulle; criticisms of neo-Gaullist Michel Debre noted; Prime Min Raymond Barre denies nation's nuclear capacity is being undermined; cutback in ICBM production from 27 to 18 noted (M)

S African Prime Min John Vorster recalls in recently published biography his experiences with GB during war, when he was detained for 17 mos on suspicion of undermining S Africa's participation in struggle against Nazi Germany (M)