says munic unions are not insisting on same contract as transit workers; says unions will hold firm to position that they must wind up in same place as transit workers at end of 2‐yr contract (S)

Labor Reported Relaxing Stance On City Accord

Corso rules that Berkowitz is mentally competent to stand trial for murder of Moskowitz and attempted murder of Robert Violante; sets May 8 as trial date; Bklyn Dist Atty Gold and defense lawyers Leon Stern and Ira Jultak comment; Asst Dist Atty Sheldon Greenberg expected to prosecute case; illus (M)

Berkowitz Is Judged Competent

Red Brigades publishes list of 13 prisoners they say must be released by Ital authorities in exchange for Moro's freedom; Govt rules out exch; Rome daily Vita publishes Moro lr; prisoners listed; Mrs Moro illus (L)

TERRORISTS IN ITALY OFFER TO EXCHANGE MORO FOR 13 IN JAIL

NATO comdr Gen Alexander M Haig Jr reptdly threatened to resign over Carter Adm's neutron bomb decision; reptdly was persuaded to remain on job after discussions with Secs Vance and Brown, who expressed concern that resignation would disrupt alliance and harm US relations with W Ger; reptdly was irked also by Adm decisions concerning NATO on which he was not consulted; illus (M)

U.S. AIDES SAY HAIG THREATENED TO QUIT

WASHINGTON, April 24&#8212;An apologetic Richard T. Hanna, a former Democratic Representative from California, was sentenced today to from six to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States in the Korean influencebuying scandal.

Ex‐Rep. Hanna Is Sentenced to Prison in Korean Influence‐Buying Case

US and USSR resolve key issue blocking arms pact; approve part of draft treaty that would bar any efforts by both nations to circumvent provisions of either main treaty that will last until '85 or limited protocol that will run until '80; only limited progress reptd on other issues; Sec Vance says talks with USSR resulted in some ‘forward progress’ but declines to give details, news conf, Washington; says both sides consider secrecy vital to success of talks; says tight‐lipped policy is shift from previous practices; sources indicate stumbling block centers on Soviet insistence that ability of Western Eur nations to develop cruise missiles be restricted and ban against transfer of Amer tech to allies; other areas of disagreement cited as Amer effort to obtain specific written limitations on Soviet Backfire bomber and on modernization of existing missiles (M)

U.S. and Soviet Said to Resolve A Key Issue Blocking Arms Pact

Treas Dept is attempting to persuade Pres Carter to modify his tax bill on grounds it is unrealistic; officials believe adviser Stuart E Eizenstadt led Pres to overestimate popularity of tax program to which he committed himself in '76 campaign; believe miscalculation is responsible for series of defeats proposals have suffered in HR Ways and Means Com; provisions of Carter tax pkg revd; criticisms of it by Repubs and Dems noted; Carter meets with Ways and Means Com members Reprs Barber B Conable Jr and Bill Frenzel; both reptdly assure Carter that bill will be approved (M)

TREASURY STRIVING TO PERSUADE CARTER TO MODIFY TAX BILL

US Sup Ct lets stand Patricia Hearst's conviction for '74 robbery of Hibernia Bank, San Francisco, by denying her appeal for rev; defense attys say they will ask Fed Judge William H Orrick to modify her sentence; US Atty G William Hunter comments; illus of Hearst and Hunter (M)

Miss Hearst's Robbery Conviction Stands as High Court Bars Review

passengers arrive in Tokyo and Seoul; S Korean Pres park Chung Hee thanks USSR for speedy repatriation of passengers; appeals for release of pilot and navigator; Korean Air Lines pres Cho Choon Hoon says plane's navigational equipment malfunctioned; passenger describes assault by Soviet interceptor; fatalities identified as Yoshitaka Sugano and Bang Tai Hwan; illus (M)

Airliner Survivors ln Tokyo and Seoul

office of special State Prosecutor John F Keenan is investigating possible corruption by city officials in awarding of contracts and approval of minority‐controlled subcontracting cos for $54.6 million modernization of Yankee Stadium; 1 of key areas under scrutiny is whether there were any ‘kickbacks’ or collusion on stadium's plumbing contract; original low bidder B L & A Co was allowed to drop out after bids were opened and later was quietly awarded $342,000 subcontract by co that replaced it; neither present nor previous team owners are involved in probe; other aspects of investigation noted; probe has been aided by recent acquisition of 160 hrs of telephone taps involving former city officials and Mansfield Contracting Corp, 1 of principal stadium contractors; illus (M)

Yankee Stadium Contract Awards Are Being Investigated by State

Article on Spain's little‐known Chueta community on Balearic Is; families in 10,000 to 15,000‐member community are descendants of Jews who were forced by Inquisition 300 yrs ago to convert to Roman Catholicism; map (M)

After 300 Years, Inquisition Still Taints Some  Majorcans

Meets at 10:30 A.M. and 3 P.M. on South&#8208;West Africa. Listed to speak in general debate; Panama, Soviet Union, Tanzania, Canada, Jordan, Surinam, Guyana, Philippines, Rumania, India, Malta, Egypt, Austria, Brazil, Congo.

The U.N. Today

Palestinian sources say dissension has subsided within Al Fatah over Arafat's commitment to cooperate with UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon (M)

Arafat Said to Heal Palestinian Split

Begin tells Israelis living in occupied West Bank city of Hebron that they will be joined in coming yrs by hundreds of Jewish families, speech on 10th anniv of controversial settlement; illus (M)

Israelis Will Expand Hebron Settlement, Begin Says on Tour

White House press sec Jody Powell says Adm, in move to win Cong support, might restrict Saudi Arabia's use of mil aircraft it would obtain in proposed arms package; Sen Byrd urges Adm to delay sending package to Cong; Sen Church urges Adm to submit sales separately (M)

White House Raises Possibility of Restricting Use of Military jets Sold to Saudi Arabia

Uganda Vice Pres Mustafa Adrisi reptdly is recovering from auto accident but rumors suggest that incident was not accident (S)

Uganda's Vice President Is Injured in Auto Crash, Starting Spate of Rumors

Special UN Gen Assembly session opens with African countries demanding that Western members compel S Africa to withdraw from SW Africa (M)

West Urged to Compel South Africa To Abandon Neighboring Territory

Sadat gives Atherton message for Pres Carter on Middle East situation (S)

ATHERTON GIVEN MESSAGE FROM SADAT FOR PRESIDENT

Delegates to UNESCO meeting in Stockholm on flow of world news disagree sharply on now internatl news agencies cover developing nations and how their reptg can be improved; 4‐day session opens with news execs and govt officials from 43 countries speaking before 16‐member UNESCO comm; Saad Mujber, head of Libya's JANA news agency, accuses Western news agencies of distorting news from 3d World; comm is headed by Sean MacBride, who suggests that internatl advisory group might be established to examine performance of news agencies; other speakers include Claude Roussel (Agence‐France‐Presse), Joe Rodrigues (Nairobi Daily Nation), D R Mankekar (India) and Max Snijders (Utrechts Nieuwsblad) (M)

News Agencies' Work Assailed at UNESCO Session

2‐wk strike ends as waiters leave picket line to return to work, reptdly under threat of dismissal (S)

Strike at Claridge's Hotel Ends As Waiters Leave the Picket Line

Desai says that if Pres Carter does not reverse decision, it will be breach of '66 agreement between 2 countries and free India to adopt any course it chooses to safeguard own interests; rejects opposition demand that he cancel visit to US (S)

Desai Attacks U.S. Nuclear Fuel Ban

Article on China, aiming at modernization, encouraging special skills, particularly of engineers and technicians, as way of speeding production; effort at Darien Locomotive Factory in Manchuria to end separation of engineers and technicians from their spouses seen as example (M)

China, Aiming at Modernization, Main Encourages. Special Skills’

USSR and Cuba promise further aid to black nationalist guerrilla movements in southern Africa (S)

World News Briefs

Van Norman to be freed in 3‐way internatl exch of pol prisoners (S)

Final Round Is Awaited in a 3‐Way Prisoner Trade

OTTAWA, April 24 (UPI)&#8212;The sevenmonth&#8208;old (tabloid Ottawa Today did not publish today. Robert Essery, the publisher and executive editor, denied that the newspaper had folded but said there were financial problems.

Ottawa Paper Fails to Publish

Matthew "Matt" Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in four Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals. He competes in the S7, SM7 (medley) and SB7 (breaststroke) classifications.

April 25, 1978

Headlines from April 25, 1978

Labor Reported Relaxing Stance On City Accord

Berkowitz Is Judged Competent

TERRORISTS IN ITALY OFFER TO EXCHANGE MORO FOR 13 IN JAIL

U.S. AIDES SAY HAIG THREATENED TO QUIT

Ex‐Rep. Hanna Is Sentenced to Prison in Korean Influence‐Buying Case

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Saturday Night Fever

Slowhand

Even Now

The Stranger

Weekend In L.a.

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Historical Context for April 25, 1978