Jan 30: Israeli Cabinet votes unanimously to resume participation in joint Egyptian-Israeli Mil Com talks in Cairo; Cabinet spokesman says Prime Min Begin was called a 'terrorist' and man of duplicity in Egyptian wkly October but said Begin told Cabinet mins that most recent criticisms were personal attacks on him rather than on Jewish people and were 'normal professional hazard; Defense Min Ezer Weizman will resume contacts with Egyptian Defense Min Gen Mohammed Abdel Ghany el-Gamasy and may meet again with Pres Sadat (M)

ISRAEL WILL RETURN TO MILITARY TALKS WITH EGYPT IN CAIRO

question-and-answer article on Fed offshore lease sales and fight over Georges Bank sale; map; illus (M)

Georges Bank Lease Sale: Who, What, Why, Where?

article on Seattle Slew's owners Dr Jim Hill and Mickey Taylor considering syndicating horse as breeding stallion for $12-million or more; chart showing other syndications; illus of Seattle Slew (M)

Slew's Stable Mulls The Mating Game

News Summary

Piedmont Airlines: Steward Stephen John Addona, with help from passengers and other crew members, captures hijacker Sam Dawkins Jr, who tried to commandeer craft during Washington, DC-Wilmington, NC flight; Adonna and other crew members illus; Dawkins illus (M)

120‐Pound Steward Captures Plane Hijacker

A crater, believed caused by a. large piece of the Soviet satellite that broke up over Canada was  found in the Northwest Territories. Page A3. 

Satellite Crater Reported

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29&#8212;While the attention of the world was focused on flights to the Moon and the orbital handshake between Soviet and Americfn astronauts, a less publicized but more important competition was accelerating&#8212;an arms race in space.

U.S. Officials Fear Soviet's Lead In Hunter‐Killer and Spy Satellites

The first major overhaul of the Federal Bankruptcy Act since 1938 is about to come before the House of Representatives for consideration. Proposed changes would give more protection to people overloaded with consumer debt and to employees of companies that fail. Page D6.

Bankruptcy Act Revision

Assessment of financial and other problems facing school dists in implementing Educ of All Handicapped Children Act of '75; notes that while Fed contribution of $250 million will rise sharply each yr, bulk of program financing will be carried by states and local dists; other factors complicating implemention of law discussed; number of identifiable handicapped children in US school systems noted; educ programs for handicapped planned or in effect in various dists discussed; illus (L)

Law on Education of Handicapped Poses Fiscal Burden for Districts

article on Alamar Assocs head Kirby Jones, who provides liasion between Amer businessmen and Cuban trade officials (L)

Cuban Business? See Man Named Jones; Agent in Washington Knows Ins and Outs of Bureaucracy

Based on incomplete data, '77 4th qr profits rose to annual rate of $108-billion; after-tax profits are expected to rise 16-19%; most major industries participate in broad advance; chart; private economists speculate on final figures for 4th qr (M)

Profits Again Exceet $100 billion Rate

Article on rapidly growing reputation among scientists and engineers Natl Bur of Standards is developing for being able to solve virtually any tech problem; notes bur has served for 77 yrs as natl official yardstick, setting standards of measurement in many diverse fields; notes bur plans to expand and is asking for additional Govt funding to meet expansion; notes cts, Cong, Govt and private orgns increasingly see bur as tech referee; acting dir Dr Ernest Ambler comments; Ambler por; illus (L)

Natio.n's ‘Yardstick’ Agency Moves to. Frontiers of Science

NYS officials and financial analysts say that uneasiness over NYC's financial future and poor securities mkt are expected to raise cost of NYS's 'spring borrowing' this yr by millions of dollars (S)

ALBANY CREDIT COSTS MAY CO UP MILLIONS

Blue Trade Seen Vetoed

Article notes that comm's early supporters are disappointed at its performance; says consumer advocates feel that what they hoped would serve as 'watchdog' agency is instead a confused bureaucracy hobbled by indus pressure and poor adm; article notes that comm's 1st and 2d chmn, Richard O Simpson and S John Byington, were Repub appointees in agency created by Dem Cong; notes that Byington's confirmation was fought, and that final solution involved confirming him for 2 1/2-yr, instead of full 7-yr term (L)

Performance of Consumer Agency Disappoints Its Early porters

message from Pres Carter expressing concern over repts of new Israeli settlement on West Bank was ordered delivered orally to Prime Min Begin; sources rept that Carter was worried that if Begin had approved Shiloh settlement, this would mean he had reneged on personal commitment made to Carter (M)

Carter Voices Worry to On Settlement

NJ intensifies enforcement of laws covering disposal of toxic chem wastes; Dr Ronald J Buchanan of Environmental Protection Dept says state's high cancer rate is almost certainly related to illegal dumping of toxic wastes; Edwin H Stier, law official, says illegal dumping is big business and may involve organized crime (M)

Jersey Hunts Dumpers of Toxics

Investment bankers are concerned over increasing competition from commercial banks in thriving field of private placement, in which corps sell their securities directly to inst investors; hold commercial banks exert pressure on corps already dependent upon them for basic financing; Securities Indus Assn chmn Robert H B Baldwin, Chase Manhattan vp Roman Friedrich and Citibank vp James W Stevens comment; most placements involve sale of long-term bonds issued by small and medium-sized cos that wish to avoid cost, regis and delays involved in public underwritings; mkt detailed; graph; illus (M)

Private Placements Pit Wall Street Against Banks

correction; citation was also recd by all-black 969th Field Artillery Battalion

CORRECTIONS

lr questions US involvement in internal pol situation

Hearing on Plane Landing Devices To Weigh British and U.S. Rivals

U.S. TO PUT 3 ISSUES ON SALE THIS WEEK

US Professional Tennis Indoor Championship: Jimmy Connors defeats Roscoe Tanner to win champ; illus (M)

Connors, Smiling More, Is Victor

&#8220;If I'm scoring, it's going to be hard for us not to Win.&#8221;

Knicks: Behind Big Mac Attack

Sister Chapel, exhibit of works by women artists celebrating feminist, anti-patriarchal view of creation, is shown at PS 1 in LI City; contributing artists noted; illus (M)

The ‘Sister Chapel': A Feminist View of Creation

R Metz on decline in price of Combustion Equipment Assocs stock following publication of Business Wk article critical of co's process for converting garbage to fuel; Kenneth Ch'uan K'ai Leung and another analyst comment (M)

Market Place

Carmen Küng is a curler from Solothurn, Switzerland.

Carmen Küng, Swiss curler

Carmen_Küng

John Hollis Patterson is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2002 to 2007.

January 30, 1978

Headlines from January 30, 1978

ISRAEL WILL RETURN TO MILITARY TALKS WITH EGYPT IN CAIRO

Georges Bank Lease Sale: Who, What, Why, Where?

Slew's Stable Mulls The Mating Game

News Summary

120‐Pound Steward Captures Plane Hijacker

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

Foot Loose + Fancy Free

All 'n' All

Out Of The Blue

News Of The World

Notable Births

Historical Context for January 30, 1978