Carter and Tito Are Said to Agree About Mideast and Horn of Africa

Kaiser, Alyce: Kaiser robbed of $500,000 diamond necklace in lobby of her apt bldg, UN Plaza; details; her por and diagram of apt lobby and st (M)

2 Men T ake $500,000 Necklace From Kaiser Widow

A technique known as high&#8208;pressure liquid chromatography provides ultraprecise separation of various chemicals in a mixture. The technique was pioneered by Waters Associates of Milford, Mass. Page D7.

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Carter Adm has asked its women econ officers to list qualified women for bd seat; reptdly weighs naming Courtenay M Slater, Nancy M Teeters, Alice Rivlin, Carol S Greenwald or Muriel Siebert; their careers revd; Vice Pres Mondale heads search effort; Greenwald, Slater and Teeters illus (M)

Reserve Weighs Naming Woman As One of Its 7 Board Members

Mar 8: Weizman tells Begin he will cut short his official visit to US and resign if work on new civilian settlement in West Bank is started in defiance of his orders; Begin says work will cease until after his talks with Carter (M)

ISRAEL DEFENSE CHIEF THREATENS TO RESIGN IN SETTLEMENTS RIFT

A Coeducational West Point Examines ‘Fraternization’

A new Israeli Government dispute was disclosed. Ezer Weizman, the Defense Minister, told Prime Minister. Menachem Begin by telephone Monday that he would cut short his mission to the United States, return to Israel and resign if work was begun against his orders on a new civilian settlement in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. However, Mr.. Weizman told newsmen that he spoke again with Mr. Begin yesterday and it was agreed that all expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Arab lands would halt until after Mr. Begin confers with President Carter next week. [Page 1, Column 1.1 

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Sen Jackson says Sen conferees have broken impasse over gas pricing with plan to end controls in '85 after allowing 62% price increase, plus inflation, in the interim; formula provides more generous definition of new gas than earlier, failed compromise did; authority to reimpose controls would be limited to 2 yrs and could be used only if Fed Energy Regulatory Comm found that avg new gas sales in previous yr exceeded price that would have been in effect if controls had remained in effect; compromise provides for emergency allocation of intrastate natural gas by Pres to interstate mkt; Sens Dale Bumpers and Floyd K Haskell, whose votes Jackson is needs, have not yet given final approval (M)

Gas‐Price Accord Nearing in Senate, Conferees Believe

Sun Co expects SEC to challenge purchase (S)

Sun Expects S.E.C. to Challenge Its Majority Purchase of Becton

Public infatuation with golden relics from the tomb of the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamen has inspired a wave of commercialism that threatens to become a Tut glut.

The New York Times/David Stuck

With investor sentiment buoyed by the rally in International Business Machines, Wall Street's favorite glamour Issue, stock prices moved higher yesterday.

Strong I.B. M. Rally Is Buoy for Market; Dow Advances 4.07

There is uncertainty over extent of coal shortage caused by strike, and this could bear heavily on Carter Adm's request for back-to-work order since Taft-Hartley requires ct finding that strike would imperil natl health or safety (M)

Experts Unclear About the Extent Of Coal Shortage

Article on concern in Japan over continuing rise in value of yen, to record 235 to dollar on Mar 7, and its impact on country's econ; notes Prime Min Fukuda has ordered Min Tatsuo Murayama and Kiichi Miyazawa to begin urgent studies on how to counter yen's further appreciation and minimize its domestic econ impact; notes yen's appreciation may threaten country's growth goal and is expected to have depressing psychological effect on Japanese businessmen who have seen number of corp bankruptices climb above 1,500 a mo; says major contributing factor is Japan's continuing monthly trade surplus and US's continuing deficit; Murayama says real stability of currency mkt will not be possible until US is very serious about defending dollar; subject will arise during Fukuda's talks with Pres Carter in Washington in May (M)

Japan Sees Yen's Rise as Threat to Economic Goals

IF PARSLEY were as scarce as sturgeon eggs and as rare as truffles, it would conceivably be one of the world's most sought&#8208;after herbs. Happily, it is almost as abundant as meadow grass, taken for granted In most kitchens throughout the world as salt ana pepper. un any given asy, IL is tossed, in one form or another, into countless soups and stews and assorted ragouts. Without parsley sprigs what would airline chefs resort to as they garnish those plastic trays?

Parsley Gets Star Billing

Rhodesian Govt announces that its forces have crossed into Zambia and have killed 38 black guerrillas at base belonging to Nkomo's army; move could complicate efforts to win support for majority rule agreement; map (M)

Rhodesia Attacks Guerrilla Base In Zambia and Reports Killing 38

Fed Dist Judge Jack B Weinstein declares invalid agreement between NYC Educ Bd and HEW Dept to assign NYC teachers to school dists by race; says he was vacating 'memo of agreement' between parties on procedural grounds because negotiators did not hold required public hearings before signing agreement; declines to nullity assignments already made: adverse reaction to ruling, which will be appealed by Civil Rights Office, noted (M)

Judge Says U.S.‐New York Accord Was Reached Without Hearings

analysis of growing division in Israeli Cabinet over Sadat's peace proposals (M)

Dispute and Strain in Israel

Carter Adm is reptdly planning to seek legis to seize mines if Taft-Hartley remedies do not work; Marshall and Robert S Strauss say course has not been ruled out; protests to Taft-Hartley procedures are voiced by miners, union pres Arnold R Miller and ACLU, which is considering suing Govt for abridgement of miners' civil rights; Govt is sending mine inspectors to mines in eastern Ohio, southern Ind and Ill in hopes of obtaining at least partial, regional observance of injunction (M)

U.S. MAY STILL SEEK SPECIAL LEGISLATION TO SEIZE COAL MINES

Complete Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, The (Book): Revd by Israel Shenker; illus

To Their Manners Born

Article on metomorphic art of artist Gerry Lynas, who, with help of his Pratt Inst visual communications students, transformed snow on south lawn of Amer Museum of Natural History, NYC, into N Amer Wolly Mammoth sculpture, and then, through natural snow changes, into life-size replica of dinosaur Stegosaurus; illus (S)

Museum Mammoth Is a Metamorph

It was incorrectly reported in some editions of The Times yesterday that Benjamin J. Few, a former director and president of Liggett & Myers who died Thursday, was one of 13 tobacco company executives who were convicted in 1941 of monopoly and price&#8208;fixing. Mr. Few was acquitted in that case.

CORRECTIONS

Morgan Guaranty Trust Co vp Rimmer de Vries, Chem Bank vice chmn C W Carson and for US Sec Henry H Fowler call for urgent measures to curb US dollar's decline, symposium, Brussels, sponsored by Conf Bd; First Penna Corp chmn John R Bunting, in speech to Amer Investors Life Ins Co, Phila, says dollar decline provides Carter Adm with opportunity to take energy and econ action that would benefit US in long run; NY traders predict dollar will remain in state of uncertainty; closing rates for dollar on NY mkt noted; price of gold closes at $186.875 an oz in London; 1 trader says fears of reaction by oil-exporting countries to dollar's slide have been allayed by assurance from Saudi Arabian Min Abdel-Aziz Al-Turki that there is no question of abandoning dollar for oil payments (M)

BANKERS URGE STEPS TO PROTECT DOLLAR AS DROP CONTINUES

Sen Charles H Percy wins Sen Governmental Affairs Com approval for drafting of amendment to bill for GAO audits of bank regulatory agencies' operating expenses setting sanctions for unauthorized Cong release of loan and other sensitive bank data; bill already includes criminal penalities for GAO employees who disclose such data (S)

SENATE UNIT BACKS MEASURE FOR AUDITS OF 3 BANK AGENCIES

CAIRO, March 6&#8212;The Japanese, who mastered the art of the compact automobile and the transistor television set, have now tried their hand at the Egyptian pyramid. They learned less about the ancient pharaonic secrets than they did about frustrations of modern Egypt.

Japanese ‘Pyramid’ Rises in Egypt

Thomas E Mullaney on improved econ situation in most of 50 states; notes that only 6 states show deficits in current fiscal yr, compared with 24 in '75-76 yr; lists some areas in which surplus funds could be used; chart showing state and local taxes in each state; map showing each state's revenues by primary source (M)

Developing Trend by States Toward Balancing Budgets

Nick Zano is an American actor. He played Vince in The WB's sitcom What I Like About You. He hosted MTV's former infotainment program about the film industry, Movie House, and briefly worked as an MTV News correspondent before he began an acting career. His recurring roles on television include Drew Pragin on Melrose Place, Pete on Happy Endings, P.J. Hillingsbrook on 90210, and Johnny on 2 Broke Girls. He also starred as a lead on the NBC sitcom One Big Happy and as Arthur Watson in the TV series Minority Report. He is best known as Dr. Nathaniel "Nate" Heywood / Steel in The CW Arrowverse, starring on Legends of Tomorrow.

March 8, 1978

Headlines from March 8, 1978

Carter and Tito Are Said to Agree About Mideast and Horn of Africa

2 Men T ake $500,000 Necklace From Kaiser Widow

Technology

Reserve Weighs Naming Woman As One of Its 7 Board Members

ISRAEL DEFENSE CHIEF THREATENS TO RESIGN IN SETTLEMENTS RIFT

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

The Stranger

Running On Empty

Slowhand

News Of The World

Notable Births

Historical Context for March 8, 1978