Televised statement announcing settlement of coal strike (M)

PACT TO END COAL STRIKE IS ANNOUNCED BIT CARTER; MINERS URGED TO BACK IT

Zbigniew Brzezinski says USSR gen now is directing some of Ethiopia's armed forces in effort to drive Somali forces from Ogaden, news briefing; says 10,000 to 11,000 Cuban officers and soldiers now are in Ethiopia; map (M)

BRZEZINSKI ASSERTS THAT SOVIET GENERAL LEADS ETHIOPIA UNITS

Feb 25: Sec Vance warns Adm will withdraw offer of 90 warplanes for Israel if Cong blocks parallel sale to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, HR subcom hearing; Repr Clarence D Long says he is 'disgusted' by sale of any arms; Reprs Sidney R Yates and Matthew F McHugh favor Israel sale; Vance says 3 nations insist on sales decisions now and that Saudis threatened to buy French arms unless F-15 fighter plan is offered (M)

VANCE ASSERTS ARABS MUST GET WARPLANES ALONG WITH ISRAELIS

Energy Dept is drafting program to develop synthetic natural gas; Adm planners are considering $6 billion program to build 5 coal-gasification plants capable of producing as much as half a trillion cu ft of gas a yr at cost of $4 per thousand cu ft; weigh encouragement of geopressurized methane and other unconventional gas supplies (M)

U.S. Drafts Plan to Put Emphasis On Alternative Sources of Energy

Educ Bd pres Stephen R Aiello says bd will direct School Chancellor Anker 'to do whatever is necessary,' including taking over community bds, to obtain a racial census of school staffs; census is a condition for obtaining Fed funds under Emergency School Assistance Act; Aiello notes action by Dist 26, Queens, and 7 other bds to fight census order threatens city schools' $200 million in Fed aid; issue sparks new battle in struggle between central and community bds (S)

School Board Head Says Bar on Job Aid In Queens Is Racist

Carter's Political Gamble

Spiritual leader Panchen Lama attends China's People's Pol and Consultative Conf, Peking (M)

China Calls Meeting With All Minorities, The First Since 1964

Nassau PBA lawyer Richard Hartman is instrumental in winning arbitrated contract settlement for Nassau policemen that will raise salaries by 245%, making Nassau officers among highest paid in US; Hartman has been recently retained by NYC PBA to negotiate its contract; details (M)

Nassau's Policemen Win 24.5% Raises

Dr Mary D Leakey, 2 yrs after finding fossilized footprints at Laetolif, about 30 mi from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, says she is '75% sure' prints were made by hominid 3.5-million yrs ago; discovery, if confirmed, would push back by more than 3-million yrs the oldest human-like footprint; human footprints reptd to be made by Neanderthal man have been found in Ital caves and have been dated at 80,000 yrs old; Leakey, during Natl Geographic Soc news conf, says 50 experts have observed prints and are in general agreement that they are hominid in nature; illus (M)

Oldest Human‐Like Footprints Believed Found in African Ash.

Jack Jones, head of Transport and Gen Workers Union, to retire in Mar after more than 50 yrs in union movement; career and biog sketch; por; he will be succeeded by Moss Evans (M)

Uncommon Common Man Leaving British Union Post

US negotiator Paul C Warnke briefs NATO ambs in Brussels on progress of arms control talks with USSR (S)

Warnke Briefs NATO Allies

Japanese fishermen club and stab to death about 1,000 bottle-nosed dolphins with approval of Nagasaki provincial govt on island of Ikishima; fishermen contend dolphins are ruining their livelihood; fishing co in another part of country says it caught 40 dolphins of same kind about 300 mi from Iki-shima and is shipping them to Netherlands for $667 each to be trained to perform in Eur; illus (M)

Japanese Slaughter 1,000 Dolphins

Infighting and scandals erupt in Service for External Documentation and Counter-Espionage, provoking calls for reorgn of service; press repts have mentioned 'purge,' investigation of 'inefficiencies' that includes discovery in service of 2 Soviet agents who then committed suicide (S)

Infighting and Scandals Break Out In Intelligence Agency of France

USSR leader Leonid Brezhnev charges obstacles in US block improved relations and urges Cong be 'more constructive,' remarks at Kremlin meeting; cites slow progress on arms control; again scores neutron bomb development (S)

Brezhnev Claims U.S. Is Blocking Improved Ties

Laotian woman and 2 daughters are shot dead on Laotian side of Mekong River after being driven back to country from Thai side, where they sought refuge; killings reptdly were witnessed by Thai officials, who said shooting was carried out by soldiers in Pathet Lao uniforms immediately after refugees arrived on shore and without visible provocation; Gov of Ubon Ratchathani Prov, Thailand, had disclosed that at least 300 refugees from prov had already been forced back to Laos; map (M)

3 Sent Back to Laos Reported Shot

Tibetan Spiritual Leader

Critics of Govt, in appeal given to foreign journalists and signed by 66 pol dissidents, urge Park to end his 1-man pol control and dissolve Natl Assembly (S)

Seoul Critics Assail One‐Man Rule

CHERRY HILL, NJ., Feb. 24 (AP)&#8212;A tractor&#8208;trailer rammed into the rear of another truck on Interstate 295 here today, killing a North Carolina driver, the state police said. John Heath, 27 years old, of Williamston, N.C., the driver of the tractor&#8208;trailer, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, troopers said. The other driver, John King, 23, of Atglen, Pa., was not injured.

Man Killed in Jersey Crash

US envoy Alfred L Atherton Jr, in Cairo, repts Egypt offers concrete ideas; will return to Israel (S)

ATHERTON REPORTS CAIRO OFFERED HELPFUL IDEAS

UN com adjourns without drafting accord committing govts to resist taking of hostages; repts some progress (S)

World News Briefs

Siberians Match Hardiness and Hardship

Austrian Defense Min says Govt is still weighing purchase of 24 Israeli-mfd Kfir C-2 fighters; says French, Swedish and Amer planes also are under consideration (S)

AUSTRIA STILL INTERESTED IN BUYING ISRAELI PLANES

Analysis of Ethiopian-Somali war notes problem of 'separating out lies from half lies' is compounded because Ogaden region is so remote and inaccessible and contains almost foreign legations that could serve as ind checks of official statements (M)

In Ogaden War, Exaggeration as a Weapon

Tenn becomes 1st state to require use of auto restraining devices for children under 4 yrs old; Dr Robert S Sanders is principal proponent of law (S)

Tennessee Is First To Require Seatbelts For Young Children

Mich Appeals Ct upholds $475,000 damage award to Richard and Gayle Elsasser, who were burned when '71 Amer Motors gas tank ruptured after being struck from behind (S)

Around the Nation

Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force who, in 1975, became the first African American to reach the rank of four-star general in the United States Armed Forces. Three years later, James was forced to retire prematurely due to heart issues, just weeks before he died of a heart attack.

February 25, 1978

Headlines from February 25, 1978

PACT TO END COAL STRIKE IS ANNOUNCED BIT CARTER; MINERS URGED TO BACK IT

BRZEZINSKI ASSERTS THAT SOVIET GENERAL LEADS ETHIOPIA UNITS

VANCE ASSERTS ARABS MUST GET WARPLANES ALONG WITH ISRAELIS

U.S. Drafts Plan to Put Emphasis On Alternative Sources of Energy

School Board Head Says Bar on Job Aid In Queens Is Racist

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

The Stranger

News Of The World

All 'n' All

Foot Loose + Fancy Free

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for February 25, 1978