December 22, 1977

Ismail Gilanpour says death toll stands at 519 dead and 671 injured in 16 villages; thousands are reptd homeless in freezing temps; map (S)

OPEC sec gen Ali Jaidah says proposal by Pres Perez will be subject of consultations among OPEC nations (S)

Pres Carter has adopted proposals by Transportation Sec Brock Adams that would increase flexibility of cities in planning transportation by giving mass transit projects same Fed financial support as hwys (L)

Dec 22: Sadat says he will not accept Israeli mil presence on West Bank of Jordan as part of peace settlement, comments following meeting with Israeli Min Weizman; comment seen as attempt to soften Israeli position before Begin arrives in Ismailia; Sadat also requests in his talks with Weizman that Palestinian pol prisoners held in Israeli jails be released, and Israeli radio repts that some prisoners were released; Egypt reptdly hopes to bring Yasir Arafat and others of more moderate PLO leaders into peace process; Weizman also meets with Egyptian Defense Min Mohammed Abdel Ghany el-Gamasy; Israeli Min Moshe Dayan is expected to travel to Cairo for preliminary peace talks; Egyptian officials say they are pleased by repts from US that Carter Adm advised Begin that his proposals for West Bank did not go far enough; note Sadat is proud he managed to shake up public opinion in US and in Israel; Weizman illus with Sadat (M)

Carter Adm authorizes State Dept to ask Atty Gen Griffin B Bell to use 'parole authority' to admit 7,000 Vietnamese 'boat people,' rather than 10,000 originally desired by dept, to US; cites budgetary problems; decides to cooperate with Repr Joshua Eilberg in pressing in '78 for legis that would allow admission of Vietnamese refugees on regular basis; other adm officials link decision on lower number to bureaucratic infighting; Sen Edward M Kennedy, head of Judiciary Subcom on Refugees, and John E McCarthy, US Cath Conf refugee services dir, favor open-ended parole auth so that Adm can admit as many refugees as it feels is warranted (M)

Carter Adm reptdly will name Frank C Carlucci, US Amb to Portugal, as Deputy Dir of CIA; selection seen as compromise between desire of White House and Natl Security Council to appt career civil servant, and CIA Dir Turner's reluctance to promote sr official already in agency (M)

article in series discusses efforts by regulators to improve their operations in response to 5 yrs of banking crises and GAO rept challenging their competence, integrity and stomach for aggressive action; Currency Comptroller Heimann comments, int (L)

BLS says real, take-home pay of nonfarm workers dipped 0.4% in Nov, result of higher prices plus shorter workweek that cut into gross wkly earnings; avg hrly earnings rose 0.4% from Oct, and 8% from yr earlier (S)

Pres Carter approves 11 additional Amer cities as gateways for internatl carriers, namely: Tampa, Atlanta, New Orleans, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St Paul, Houston and Dallas-Ft Worth; endorses CAB's designation of Delta Air Lines, Atlanta-based carrier, as exclusive carrier for Atlanta-London run aggressively sought by Pan Amer; will allow Northwest Airlines to replace Pan Amer on several routes between US cities and Glasgow and points in Scandinavia; endorses bd's approval for TWA to add 6 new domestic terminals to its direct non-stop trans-Atlantic schedules; approves authorization to Natl Airlines for routes between Paris and Miami, New Orleans and Tampa; agrees with bd's approval of Miami-Madrid routing for Pan Amer; CAB softens restrictions on charter flights, making it easier for them to compete with proliferation of bargain fares recently instituted by scheduled services; Pan Amer chmn William T Seawell expresses outrage at loss of route to Braniff; says Govt action continues to weaken Pan Amer; charges political manipulation; Braniff chmn Harding L Lawrence lauds action; Pres asst Mary Schuman rejects Seawell's charges (M)

Comment on decline in number of artists in Eur because of difficulties for them to make living; Paolo Carosone, Roman artist, comments on his plight; rept issued by Internatl Labor Orgn asserted that incomes of artists in many countries were substantially below blue-collar wages; illus (M)