Richard M. Nixon says that during his historic trip to China in 1972 Mao Tsetung told him that he was &#8220;comparatively happy&#8221; when right&#8208;wing governments took power in Western countries.

Nixon Asserts That Western Rightists Pleased Mao

Uemura reaches North Pole alone by dog sled, becoming 1st person to do so; 600-mi trek started at Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island and took 54 days; illus; map (M)

Lone Sledcler Reaches North Pole; 54‐Day Trek Is First of Its Kind

Fed Judge Lloyd F MacMahon enjoins Curtiss-Wright from voting Kennecott shares it holds at annual meeting; says research by Curtiss-Wright execs Charles E Ehinger and T Roland Berner supporting co's promises to Kennecott shareholders is not objective or adequate; Milliken hails decision, which is being appealed by Curtiss-Wright; table of both cos' recent earnings repts and other financial data (M)

COURT BLOCKS MOVE BY CURTISS‐WRIGHT AGAINST KENNECOTT

Apparent cancer cluster in Rutherford, NJ, studied for environmental causes; illus; officials Drs Peter Preuss and Ronald Altman conduct tests; statistically valid evidence exists only for 6 of 13 leukemia cases and 10 Hodgkin's disease cases; 13 leukemia cases represent almost exact number expected for Rutherford population, but 6 of 13 victims were aged 5-19, rate six times higher than expected; Preuss doubts coincidence for Pierrepont School area (M)

Unusual Clusters of Cancer Place Medical Spotlight on Rutherford

Pres Carter, welcoming Israeli Prime Min Begin at White House, refers to persecution of Jews and says he will name comm to rept on suitable US memorial to those killed by Nazis (S)

SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AFFIRMED BY CARTER ON 30TH ANNIVERSARY

US Savings Assns League exec vp Norman Strunk and HLBB Chmn Robert H McKinney fear plan approved by Fed Reserve Bd to let member banks offer automatic transfer of funds from customers' savings accts to their overdrawn checking accts would spur transfer of funds from thrift insts to commercial banks; league to seek injunction; Reserve holds change will not have 'serious' effect on thrifts; will allow automatic transfers from savings accts in thrift insts to commercial checking accts (M)

Banks Get Right To Keep Checks From Bouncing

May 2: Arafat says only possible solution to Middle East problem is for US and USSR to provide guarantees for Israel and Palestinian state; illus (M)

ARAFAT HINTS EASING OF P. L O.'S ATTITUDE

 N July 15, 1971, I talked on television for only 31/2 minutes, but my words produced one of the greatest diplomatic surprises the century. I read an announcement that was being made that very moment in Peking:

‘RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon’

Assn is addressed by Barry F Bosworth, dir of Council on Wage and Price Stability

White House Ready to Subpoena Business Data in Inflation Fight

excerpts from some Moro lrs, which show growing bitterness toward Christian Dem leaders; illus (M)

Moro's Letters Grow More Bitter Toward Party Leaders

estimated 300,000 persons take part in parade organized jointly by Communist and Socialist unions, 1st freely celebrated May Day since Franco came to power 4 decades ago; Communist party sec gen Santiago Carrillo and Spanish Socialist Workers Party 1st sec Felipe Gonzalez call for labor unity and attack Spanish right; number of Eur Socialists, including Portugese Prime Min Mario Soares and French Socialist leader Francois Mitterand attend merger of Popular Socialist Party (6 seats in Parliament) into Socialist Workers Party; move bolsters Gonzalez's leadership of nation's 2d largest party, which now has 124 seats in Parliament; illus of Gonzalez and Carrillo (M)

300,000 Leftists March in Madrid to Mark May Day

Gilman and Israeli Parliament member Shmuel Flatto-Sharon have reptdly prepared list of Jewish dissidents, including Shcharansky, whose release from USSR they are seeking (S)

East Germans Free American in Prisoner Exchange

The U.N. Today

Demonstrators battle police in several W Eur cities during May Day internatl labor holiday; observances in Denmark, Chile, GB, USSR, Japan, Turkey and People's Repub of China noted (M)

May Day Marchers Battle Police in Several Cities

coup that installed what appears to be pro-Soviet Govt came as surprise to US; State Dept spokesman Hodding Carter 3d says diplomatic relations, not recognition, are at stake; says new Govt's policies are not yet clear, except that Communist Party sec gen Noor Mohammad Taraki has emerged as Prime Min and head of Revolutionary Council; biog material on Taraki (M)

Afghan Coup Was Surprise to U.S.

conditions are returning to normal; Prime Min Taraki is named head of Revolutionary Council; Council names Shah Mohammad Dost and Abdul Hadi Mokamel to share post of Foreign Min; new govt is recognized by USSR, Bulgaria, India and, reptdly, by Cuba and Iraq; diplomats and analysts in New Delhi speculate on relationship of new Govt with USSR (M)

New Afghan Leader Begins Selecting His Top Aides

Officials say Carter Adm, during recent visit of Sec Vance to USSR, agreed to vaguely worded provision that would limit future Amer cooperation on nuclear weapons with allied govts in Western Eur; agreement, which represents compromise between previous Amer and Soviet positions, is said by officials to have removed 1 of few remaining obstacles to achieving new arms agreement; reptdly poses sensitive questions for Western alliance as well as relations with Moscow since it does not clearly spell out whether US would be able to transfer arms to allied nations (M)

U.S. Agreed With Soviet to Limit Cooperation With Allies on Arms

Ousted Black In Rhodesia

Sen Foreign Relations Com urges Carter Adm to temporarily withdraw proposed sale of planes to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (S)

Arms Deal Delay Urged

AP gen mgr Keith Fuller says Reid's expulsion makes mockery of Helsinki accords, AP annual meeting (S)

World News Briefs

Organized labor holds May Day parade for 1st time since '67 Middle East war; aim of parade is to demonstrate that Histadrut labor fed is still powerful force (S)

Organized Labor in Israel Holds May Day Parade, First Since 1967 War

PLO opens Palestine Information Office, Washington, DC; Hatim I Hussaini is dir of office (S)

A Palestinian Office Opens in Washington

2 PLO guerrillas and 3 UN soldiers are killed in skirmishes in southern Lebanon (S)

U.N. Soldiers Killed in Lebanon

SWAPO member Victor Nkandi is acquitted of charges of assassinating Chief Filemon Elifas, Windhoek (S)

Nationalists in South West Africa Is Acquitted of Assassination

Four men who allegedly used the script of a Frank Sinatra movie to devise a reallife plot to hijack a Bahamas cruise ship and hold 800 passengers for $6 million ransom have been arrested in Staten Island and charged with ;onspiracy to, commit kidnapping, it was, disclosed yestorday in Federal Court

4 Held in Plot to Hijack a Cruise Ship and I‐kld It for $6 Million Ransom

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May 2, 1978

Headlines from May 2, 1978

Nixon Asserts That Western Rightists Pleased Mao

Lone Sledcler Reaches North Pole; 54‐Day Trek Is First of Its Kind

COURT BLOCKS MOVE BY CURTISS‐WRIGHT AGAINST KENNECOTT

Unusual Clusters of Cancer Place Medical Spotlight on Rutherford

SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AFFIRMED BY CARTER ON 30TH ANNIVERSARY

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Saturday Night Fever

Slowhand

London Town

The Stranger

Weekend In L.a.

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