rev of indictments against 3 former FBI officials (M)

Carter and Aides Press Spy Case That May Test President's Power

Rhodesia Talks Fail to Resolve 2 Key Elements

Japan to reduce exports of TV sets in move to reduce nation's record trade surplus in Mar (M)

JAPAN ASKS CURBS BY KEY INDUSTRIES ON MAJOR EXPORTS

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NY Times survey finds fraud in Fed aid programs may exceed $12 billion annually, making Govt major victim of white collar crime, 1st of 3 articles exploring large‐scale, systematic fraud against Fed Govt; finds much of fraud committed by drs, businessmen and other well‐to‐do people who have contracts with Govt to provide services for poor; notes chief targets of fraud are soc welfare and econ assistance programs which are poorly monitored by Govt; says some cases involve collusion with persons in bureaucracy; holds persons familiar with such fraud cite as problems and weaknesses of grant system the following

Fraud in Federal Aid May Exceed $12 Billion Annually, Experts Say

NYC Fire Dept is concerned about storage and transportation of LPG and LNG in city; considers LPG so dangerous that it prohibits mass storage in city except at 1 facility in Bklyn; Bklyn Union Gas and Con Ed each maintain 1 LNG storage facility, and application for 3d one is pending; dept believes trains and trucks carrying LPG are still moving through NY for use in other states; Transportation Dept, ICC and Compressed Gas Assn say they have no knowledge of shipments through city, and Conrail indicates that no shipments were made in last yr; Amer Trucking Assn estimates that there are 25 to 50 trucking cos, operating about 1,000 trucks, that are licensed to move LPG in city area; gas indus and utility spokesmen say liquefied energy is essential to econ and holds little risk; serious reservations about these fuels has been expressed by GAO, Natl Transportation Safety Bd, Dr James Fay of MIT and Dr Edward Teller; apparent failure of Fed, state and city govts to consider directly the potential hazards of liquefied energy gases until after they have become part of econ fabric of NY and US discussed; illus (L)

Volatile Gas Shipments in New York Raising Concern of Safety Officials

City Councilman Samuel D Wright is convicted of extortion and conspiracy to defraud US in $5,000 kickback scheme; was accused of having solicited money from Calif producer of educ materials while heading Bklyn community school bd in '73; por (M)

Wright Is Convicted On Extortion Charge

Dozens of passengers are killed and some 100 injured when Venice‐to‐Rome express train collides head‐on with local train during rainstorm in Bologna on Apr 15; accident described (M)

Dozens Killed and Over 100 Hurt When 2 Trains Collide in Italy

NYS Gov Carey signs bill to encourage tax‐deferred savings accts for parents planning to send children to coll; plan allows parents to save up to $750 a yr for each child, with no state tax on interest and delay in taxes on savings for 5 yrs after child's graduation, at which time child pays taxes at own tax rate (S)

2 TAX‐RELIEF PLANS FOR COLLEGE COSTS ENACTED BY ALBANY

Red Brigades communique says Moro's ‘trial’ has been completed and he has been sentenced to die; orgn formally assumes responsibility for killing of Lorenzo Cutugno, prison guard who was slain in Turin on Apr 11 (M)

TERRORISTS IN ITALY SAY MORO WILL DIE

News Summary

In an article last Sunday about deteriorating water and sewer lines, a contention that San Francisco had ignored changing technology for 30 years was attributed to the city's public works director, S. Myron Tatarian. The quotation should have been attributed to Richard Sklar, the projects director for the city.

CORRECTION

Claude Ryan, newspaperman, is elected leader of Quebec Liberal Party, with 1,748 votes, defeating former Finance Min Raymond Garneau, who recd 807 votes; Ryan backs both Quebec nationalism and federalism; charges Parti Quebecois with infringing on liberties of English‐speaking minority, and with talking of new assn with Canada when it really seeks separatism (M)

Journalist Is Elected to Lead Quebec Liberal Party

illus of Pres Ceausescu in 10‐gallon hat presented to him upon his arrival in Houston, Tex

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Article on widespread protests in Netherlands against neutron bomb; more than 1 million Dutch citizens have signed petitions against mfr of weapon and its deployment by NATO (M)

Neutron Issue Sparks Wide Dutch Protest

Neturei Karta, extreme group of Orthodox Jews who are fervent anti‐Zionists, will send delegation to Jordan during Passover to seek permission from King Hussein to pass through land in order to reach Wailing Wall in Jerusalem's Old City; Rabbi Moshe Hirsch comments (S)

JEWISH SECT WANTS JORDAN TO ALLOW PRAYER AT WALL

PRETORIA, South Africa, April 15 &#8212;The Western push for internationally acceptable settlements in Rhodesia and South&#8208;West Africa is likely to get a skeptical reception when the British Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owen, and Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance meet with Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha here tomorrow.

Pretoria Wary of West's Plans for Southern Africa

Unsuccessful attempted coup against Siad Barre revd (S)

Somali President Begins Talks With High Officials in Peking

Travel to remote tip of South Amer, Magallanes on Chilean mainland and Tierra del Fuego and other islands offshore, described (M)

Latins Reviving Isolated Region At Land's End

Chinese Deputy Prime Min Keng Piao says China was not involved in incident in which Chinese fishing boats were operating near disputed Senkaku Islands that are claimed by Japan and China (S)

World News Briefs

Brit and US airlines defy Brit Airports Auth by selling cheap standby trans‐Atlantic tickets at Heathrow Airport; Pan Amer, TWA and Brit Airways spokesmen comment (S)

Airlines at Heathrow Defy Ticket‐Sale Ban

New evidence is uncovered connecting Cuban exiles to deaths of Letelier and his colleague Ronni Moffitt; arrest of Alvin Ross Diaz in Miami by Dade County Sheriff's Dept and FBI agents is based on information that explosives and equipment for detonating them were found in shop formerly operated by Ross in Union City, NJ; warrants are issued against Ross by fed magistrate Serena Perretti; Guillermo Novo Sampol is also arrested; 2 suspects linked to Michael Vernon Townley (M)

NEW EVIDENCE LINKS CUBANS TO LETELIER

Lake Baikal, Nizhneangarsk, USSR, once threatened with pollution from timber indus, wood pulp mill and other factories, is now model of Govt pollution control; Govt restricted indus growth, obtained funds for water‐treatment facilities and increased number of pollution‐control inspectors; alarm over lake's future began in '50s when govt planners sought site for wood pulp mill; map; illus (M)

Siberian Lake Now a Model Of Soviet Pollution Control

Question of Berlin's demilitarized status raised after E Berliner Nico Hubner refuses to be drafted into E Ger army by claiming exemption under World War II accords between major powers; USSR says 4‐power rule no longer applies because E Berlin has been turned over to E Ger (S)

East Berlin Draft‐Jailing Protested

new French law abolishes need for donor to authorize transplants during lifetime and curbs right of family members to forbid transplants; those opposing organ donations must sign special hosp regis (S)

France Widens Authority for Transplants From Dead

Lucius Dubignon Clay was a senior officer of the United States Army who was known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II. He served as the deputy to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945; deputy military governor, Germany, in 1946; Commander in Chief, United States Forces in Europe and military governor of the United States Zone, Germany, from 1947 to 1949. Clay orchestrated the Berlin Airlift (1948–1949) when the USSR blockaded West Berlin.

April 16, 1978

Headlines from April 16, 1978

Carter and Aides Press Spy Case That May Test President's Power

Rhodesia Talks Fail to Resolve 2 Key Elements

JAPAN ASKS CURBS BY KEY INDUSTRIES ON MAJOR EXPORTS

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Fraud in Federal Aid May Exceed $12 Billion Annually, Experts Say

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

Slowhand

Even Now

The Stranger

Weekend In L.a.

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 16, 1978