November 29, 1977

Mayor-elect Edward I Koch intends to name David W Brown, NYS Investigation Comm chmn, as deputy mayor for planning; is expected announce appmts of Repr Herman Badillo as deputy mayor for operations, Basil A Paterson as deputy mayor in charge of labor relations and Ronay Menschel as deputy mayor in charge of intergovt relations; Brown will get job that was supposed to go to Edward N Costikyan, who bowed out when Koch abolished post of First Deputy Mayor; John LoCicero is expected to be named special asst to Koch (L)

Stanford Univ Med School Dr Ralph S Paffenbarger Jr study of 17,000 Harvard Univ alumni finds that there were fewer heart attacks among those who engaged in strenuous exercise (M)

Nov 29: Begin tells Israeli Parliament that he will send Eliahu Ben-Elissar, dir gen of Prime Min's office, and Meir Rosenne, legal adviser to Foreign Min, to Cairo soon to take part in informal talks called by Sadat to prepare for Geneva conf; says he recd Egyptian inv, signed by Acting Foreign Min Ghali, from Israeli UN delegate Herzog; Herzog recd it from Egyptian delegate Meguid at unusual meeting between 2 in NY; inv, addressed to Dayan, says Cairo conf will start on Dec 3; Begin urges Syria, Jordan and Lebanon not to boycott Cairo conf; says Israel docs not want to drive wedge between Arab countries; reiterates Israel's refusal to accept Palestinian state on West Bank; MP Zalman Shoval dismisses calls on Israel to make concessions in wake of Sadat's moves, saying such move would weaken Israel's negotiating position; illus of Ben-Elissar and Rosenne (M)

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rept on attack (S)