March 7, 1978

Mayor Koch reorganizes city's federally financed $34.3-million antipoverty Model Cities Program, moving central adm to City Hall under Deputy Mayor Herman Badillo and ordering dismissal of clerical help and hiring of poverty-area residents; Koch, at City Hall news conf, declares that poor have not recd assistance they should have; holds money has not been used properly in past and City Hall did not seek to supervise mgt reform; says that present Model Cities adm, spread out over 3 areas, will be replaced by Model Cities program at City Hall; notes central staff will be reduced for saving of $4.7 million and that money will be used to replace 235 office workers with 324 persons living in 3 poverty areas--Harlem-East Harlem, central Bklyn and S Bronx (M)

illus of his arrival in Washington, DC

WASHINGTON, March 6‐The‐issues in the dispute between the striking United Mine Workers and the coal companies do not include one customary bargaining point: wages. Both sides appear reconciled to the 37 percent increase in wages and fringe benefits over three years.

trial opens; illus; drawing; Brown charges Jascalevich was framed by colleagues concealing own ineptness, aided by over-zealous prosecutors and reporters; questions Dr Stanley Harris finding curare in Jascalevich's locker on eve of hosp bd conf on high mortality rate there; Asst Prosecutor Sybil R Moses outlines charges but does not suggest motive (M)

Pres Carter invokes back-to-work procedure of Taft-Hartley, saying that 'at least a million more Amors will be unemployed' if strike continues; says law will be enforced; asks Atty Gen and Govs of coal-mining states to insure that violence will be prevented and that miners return to work; will take steps to restart contract negotiations; Miller says that fewer than half the miners will return to work and that those who do not will try to stop those who do; coal operators resists White House pressure for higher wages to induce miners to obey order, but say they will pay any increase retroactively; call for new union bargaining team 'that enjoys confidence of membership'; Joe Shepherd, deputy dir of Govt's food stamp program, says regulations provide for termination of food stamps to households that have a member in illegal work stoppage; bd of inquiry required by Taft-Hartley procedures is composed of John N Gentry, Carl A Warns and Eva Robins; Miller illus; Carter illus with HR Speaker O'Neill and Sen majority leader Byrd (L)