February 4, 1978

NYC Investigation Comr Stanley N Lupkin asserts that city officials should be disciplined if they fail to rept bribe offers or misconduct by fellow employees and that supervisors must be held 'accountable' for overlooking poor performance or misconduct by those they oversee; calls for stricter policies as part of broad plan he is preparing to fight corruption in city agencies and to get 'fair day s work' from munic employees (S)

Franc comes under heavy selling for 2d consecutive session as possibility of leftist victory in Mar elections increases (M)

D Carmody article discusses changing newspaper business; repts that out of 1,762 daily newspapers only about 400 are under single ownership, and these are being sought by 25 major newspaper chains; repts afternoon newspapers in large cities are closing because of middle-class flight to suburbs, competition from TV and distribution problems in congested streets; cites Buffalo Evening News, which is doing well, as exception; repts afternoon dailies in small cities doing well; notes recent purchase by Gannett Co of Wilmington News-Journal, Time Inc acquisition of Washington Star, and threatened closing of Chicago Daily News; repts total US circulation of dailies dropped from 62,108,000 to 60,677,011 in '76, but number of dailies dropped only from 1,768 to 1,762, most of them evening papers; lists 10 top newspaper chains, number of newspapers owned and circulation totals (M)

Klein, Marci: Marci Klein, 11-yr-old daughter of fashion designer Calvin Klein, is kidnapped on Manhattan's Upper E Side and released unharmed more than 9 hrs later after her father pays $100,000 ransom; illus (M)

Fob 4: Pres Sadat tells Pres Carter that Middle East it now at 'a historic and crucial crossroads' and urges US to become 'the arbiter in Israeli-Arab dispute, remarks on S Lawn of White House before flying with Carter to Camp David for talks; Carter lauds Sadat, pledges US will spare no efforts in quest for peace, but seeks to maintain neutrality; Sadat, using Carter's human rights policies, cites Egypt's willingness to sacrifice lives to defend lands against encroachment and stresses belief in inherent right of self-determination for all peoples; Carter and Sadat illus (L)