WASHINGTON, Feb. 16&#8212;Postmastei General Benjamin F. Bailer said today that he would resign to become executive vice president of the U.S. Gypsum Comvans? of Chicago.

BAUR QUITS AS HEAD OF POSTAL SERVICE

H R Haldeman's new book, The Ends of Power, offers appraisals of his former colleagues on White House staff; calls Henry A Kissinger 'brilliant' but 'insecure'; calls Charles W Colson an 'iron-man bully'; says Gen Alexander M Haig Jr made anti-Semitic remark; pictures John W Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder as young men out of their element (M)

Ex‐President Is Accused of Initiating Break‐In at the Watergate

MUSIC lovers of all persuasions who have been attracted by the idea of Middle Eastern and Far Eastern music but who have been too perplexed or timid to go into it, will have a chance to sample it in an extensive musical smorgasbord tomorrow night at 8 P.M. at New York University's Loeb Auditorium, 566 La Guardia Place in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Music of the East Comes to N.Y.U.

The circumstances surrounding the premature release of parts of H. R: Haldeman's book raised a host of journalistic and&#8208;legal questions. Page. A 16

Book's Release Stirs .Debate

US delegation headed by David L Aaron, Deputy Asst to Pres Carter for natl security, leaves for Ethiopia in effort to improve relations; to meet with Lt Col Mengistu Haile Mariam, who recently bitterly attacked US for indirectly supplying arms to Somalia (M)

U.S. MISSION TO SEEK BETTER ETHIOPIA TIES

32 Reprs sign lr to HR ethics com chmn John J Flynt Jr seeking formal inquiry into charges against Reprs Joshua Eilberg and Daniel J Flood (M)

REP. FLOOD'S FRIENDS SAID TO AID 2 IN TRIAL

Amer Elec Power, whose system takes in 7 states, seeks to cope with continuing coal strike by buying power from elsewhere, by using non-coal generating plants 1st and by encouraging conservation; comments by Donald P Nofsinger, who directs sharing of power within system, Charles Falcone, Energy Dept official assigned to monitor operations to insure equitable sharing of power, and Owen A Lentz of East Centra Area Reliability Group, which is acting as consultant; Nofsigner illus (M)

Power Shuffling Stretches Utilities’ Coal

Israeli Foreign Min Dayan meets with Pres Carter and Sec Vance, Washington, with both sides making determined effort to play down serious differences that may have opened widest gap between 2 Govts in many yrs; Dayan, who was greeted in unusual gesture by Vance at airport, reiterates his Govt's opposition to mil aircraft sale to Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Israel's determination to keep as part of security belt civilian settlements in Sinai, news conf after White House meeting; later, in closed session with HR Internatl Relations Com, reptdly was more opposed to sale of F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia than F-5 E fighters to Egypt; com member, Repr Benjamin Rosenthal, says there are enough votes on com to block sale to Saudi Arabia; Dayan, when questioned on disapproval of entire arms pkg, says it would be unfair to Israel to deny it airplanes; illus of Carter and Dayan (M)

Carter and Vance Confer With Dayan; Rift Is Played Down

Sale of Eur-mfd Airbus-300B jetliners in US is endangered by NY-NJ Port Auth rule limiting weight of jetliners that use La Guardia Airport, since facility's main runways are built on landfill; rule limits takoff weight to 268,000 lbs on critical taxiways-far below weight calculated by plane mfr Airbus Industries; use of plane by Eastern Air Lines noted; its specifications and operating economies noted; Eastern chmn Frank Borman expresses enthusiasm over its performance; map of La Guardia; Airbus illus (M)

Sale of European Airliners Here Endangered by Port Agency Rule’

Brit internatl master David Levy will win 1,250 from 4 profs in computer tech if he can defeat computer programmed at Northwestern Univ; illus (M)

Computer Gains on Chess Master

Dollar continues slide on Eur mkts on Feb 16; falls to new lows against W Ger and Swiss francs; some prices cited (M)

DOLLAR FLUCTUATES IN A BROAD RANGE, SETTINGv RECORD LOWS

News Summary

ALBANY, Feb. 16&#8212;In an unusually, early bipartisan agreement, the State Legislature's fiscal leaders announced today that they would support $200 mil lion of state aid to help New York City close its budget gap next year, in a forni similar to Governor Carey's proliosals.

LEGISLATIVE LEADERS IN ALBANY WILL BACK, $200 MILLION FOR CITY

Co earned $393-million in '77 4th qr, 70.2% increase from corresponding '76 qr; Henry Ford 2d comments (M)

Ford's Earnings For 4th Quarter Double ‘ 76 Level

BLS regional comr Herbert Bienstock announces results of survey of spending by NYC area consumers in connection with news briefing on new kind of Consumer Price Index; says that compared with '60-61, proportionately more income is going for rent, transportation and educ and less for food, clothing and med care; says New Yorkers on avg spend larger share of their budgets (more than 50%) on housing, food and clothing than do consumers in US as whole (44%); typical Bienstock workday noted; survey shows that although annual spending between '60-61 to '72-73 rose 51% in dollar terms, an even greater rise of 55% in Consumer Price Index indicates that no real growth occured; shifts that Bienstock terms significant noted; graph shows increases in avg annual spending by families by object of spending, '60-61 to '72-73; Bienstock illus (L)

Busy Bienstock Notes Big Shift By Consumers

Sec Marshall sets 2-day deadline for contract agreement and says that if deadline passes, Govt may encourage regional or co-by-co negotiations; says reprs of union bargaining council that rejected last contract proposal have been included in negotiations in hopes that whatever emerges will be more than tentative; Pres Carter meets with a dozen govs to hear recommendations for handling strike; govs reptdly advise against use of back-to-work provisions of Taft-Hartley Act; Sec Schlesinger tells HR Commerce Com that Adm is prepared, if necessary, to order surplus coal moved into areas of acute shortage (M)

White House's Call F or Quick Coal Pact Meets ‘ Resistance’

Com on Gas Production Opportunities reptd on Jan 19 that natural gas production cannot be increased in 2 Gulf of Mex fields operated by Continental Oil and Mobil Oil; study grew out of allegations that withholding of gas by producers exacerbated last winter's gas shortage; Continental newspaper ads charge that while allegations received widespread coverage, Jan 19 rept was ignored (S)

2 Areas Seen Unable To Raise Gas Output

Current scene described; residents are trying to cope with 2 major econ problems--aftermaths of last July's flood and cutback in steel production; illus (M)

Merchant, 83, Symbol of Johnstown Pluck

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WASHINGTON,. Feb. 16 (AP)--Builders reduced construction of new houses by the largest:amount on record last month, mainly because of severe winter weather, the. Commerce Department said today.

Housing Starts Fell By 29% in January

Museum of the City of NY is displaying exhibition entitled '21 Dance Photographs' by late photographer Marcus Blechman; show is composed of life-size black-and-white photographs of Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Ruth St. Denis and Charles Weidman (S)

New Photo Shows Full of Surprises

On ti cold and blustery winter&#8221;s weekend day or evening, surely one of the most satisfying drinks is a cup of hot chocolate. There is no drink comparable for bringing a chilled body back to life and instilling a sense of contentment and well&#8208;being, as weld, as bearing a heartwarming feeling of nosWide. Most of us associate a cup of hot chocolate with the welcome coziness of a warm house, family and Mends and the good times of childhood.

Where to Sip the Best Hot Chocolate in Town

Smith and 3 black leaders reach broad agreement on future of nation's armed forces; details of interim govt must now be worked out before nation can begin historic transition from white to black rule; new agreement detailed; various officials comment (M)

Agreement on Rhodesian Military Reached by Smith and 3 Blacks

H R Haldeman, White House chief of staff under Pres Nixon, in account from his (Haldeman's) book The Ends of Power,' says Soviet Union made several overtures to US in '69 proposing joint nuclear attack on China's atomic facilities but that Nixon turned them down; contends Henry A Kissinger, Nixon's security adviser at time, was so alarmed by buildup of Soviet forces along Chinese border that he volunteered prediction that Russians would attack China Apr 15; William P Rogers, then Sec of State, and Kissinger both deny any recollection of such events; illus (M)

Ex‐Aide Asserts Nixon Refused‐Kissinger and Rogers Deny Account

LIRR issues apology to its riders for 'vicious cycle of delays, breakdowns, short trains, incredible overcrowding and short tempers'; statement follows repeated excuses, denials, assurances and other statements by rr minimizing growing problems of recent days; notes 20% of line's elec cars were out of service for repairs; some spokesmen for rr say snowstorm was to blame for problems; rr spokesman Al Cannizzaro and customer relations dir George Thune comment; rr also announces that it will give refunds to commuters who were unable to use their monthly or wkly tickets on Jan 30 or Feb 7 because of snowstorms; rr pres Robert Pattison comments; statements by former Gov Nelson Rockefeller in '69 and MTA chmn Harold L Fisher in '77 that LIRR is 'best' rr noted (M)

L.I.R.R. Says Service Is Bad

Rory Michael Kinnear is an English actor. He won two Olivier Awards, both at the National Theatre, in 2008 for his portrayal of Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode, and for playing the William Shakespeare villain Iago in Othello in 2014.

Rory Kinnear, English actor and playwright

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The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mostly took place in Northern Ireland, at times violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England, and mainland Europe.

The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.

February 17, 1978

Headlines from February 17, 1978

BAUR QUITS AS HEAD OF POSTAL SERVICE

Ex‐President Is Accused of Initiating Break‐In at the Watergate

Music of the East Comes to N.Y.U.

Book's Release Stirs .Debate

U.S. MISSION TO SEEK BETTER ETHIOPIA TIES

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Saturday Night Fever

The Stranger

News Of The World

All 'n' All

Foot Loose + Fancy Free

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Historical Context for February 17, 1978