December 8, 1977

Dr Peter Carl Goldmark, who invented long-playing phonograph record, dies in auto accident on Hutchinson River Pkwy (S)

US Sup Ct concludes that Fed Dist Cts have authority to order telephone co to install surveillance equipment as part of criminal probe on basis of evidence no stronger than that needed for search warrant; holds Dist Ct could require NY Telephone Co to install devices through which FBI could learn telephone numbers of all outgoing calls made by subscriber who is considered suspect (M)

illus of Ghorbal with Synagogue Council pres Teplitz and United Jewish Appeal chmn Morris L Levinson

Dec 8: Egypt closes cultural centers and some consulates operated by USSR, E Ger, Hungary, Poland and Czech in retaliation for Soviet backing of hard-line Arab countries opposed to Sadat's peace initiatives; Prime Min Mamdouh Salem tells Egyptian Parliament that cultural centers were propagating Marxist propaganda (L)

HR and Sen compromise on dispute over use of Medicaid money; compromise liberalizes current law allowing Medicaid to finance abortions for physically ill women and certain med procedures to avert pregnancy for some victims of incest or rape; Reprs Robert H Michel and Henry J Hyde and Sens Howard M Metzenbaum and Edward Brooke comment; ACLU exec dir Aryeh Neier scores compromise; Natl Right to Life Com vp Dr Robert L Kerbsbach comments (M)