April 18, 1978

 

Shevchenko reptdly met with FBI and CIA agents for several yrs; former US intelligence officer says contact involved some degree of cooperation by Shevchenko; FBI, CIA and State Dept refuse comment on rept in Time magazine that Shevchenko talked secretly with US intelligence officers for 2 yrs, and that he was offered $100,000 annually to provide information on whether man who cooperated with FBI in past is source of legitimate information or 'disinformation' planted by Soviet intelligence agents (M)

CUNY exec Frank J Macchiarola is named Chancellor, succeeding Irving Anker; apptmt seen as 1st step in Mayor Koch's plan to gain control over educ decisions; Macchiarola and Anker illus (L)

HR Ways and Means Com, voting on Carter's revenue-raising proposals, rejects plan to end itemized deductions for state and local sales taxes by 19-18 vote; rejects ending deductions for state and local property taxes, 20-17, and approves ending deductions for state gasoline taxes, 17-8; illus; Carter links opposition to reform to special interest groups (M)

Sen DeConcini agrees on language of reservation that would assert US policy of nonintervention in Panama's internal affairs; Carter Adm agrees to accept offer by Sen Brooke that would delay formal ratification of treaties until implementing legis is approved by both houses of Cong, or until Mar 31 '79, whichever is earlier; Sen adopts reservation, 84-3; Sen, 90-2, adopts understanding to clarify that if Panama does not get expected $10-million a yr in toll profits. US will not owe Panama accrued arrears; also votes, 65-27, to add reservation requiring both parties to waive their rights under treaty section dealing with construction of possible sea-level canal; section would have allowed Panama to bar US from bldg canal in another Central Amer nation, and US could have prevented another nation from bldg canal in Panama; illus of Sen DeConcini and Church (L)