HUD area dir Lawrence L Thompson has recommended that $910,000 community-development block grant to Glastonbury be cut to zero; town had stated in application for money that it favored construction of housing for low-and moderate-income families but Town Council recently defeated proposal for such housing (L)

Glastonbury May Lose U.S. Funds

NYC Investigation Dept confidential rept indicates that city overpaid millions of dollars for maintenance and elec because it failed to keep accurate count of number of lights for over 40 yrs; Con Ed, Welsbach Elec Corp and Bway Maintenance Cos deny overbilling charges; Comr Smith comments (M)

LIGHT AUDIT SAYS CITY OVERPAID MILLIONS

Long Beach, LI, city officials threaten to tear down antenna atop Long Beach Memorial Hosp unless hosp begins paying $500 monthly rental charge; threat is latest weapon in city's fight with hosp over unpaid $108,000 water bill; antenna is part of hosp's communications link with physicians, ambulances and other hosps and agencies in Nassau County's disaster network; City Mgr William J McKenney says city is willing to negotiate; hosp trustees say they are facing projected $800,000 operating loss in '78 and charge 'excessive' billing is attempt by city to shift fiscal problems to hosp (M)

Battle Over Water Moves Into the Air

To many vacationers an automobile trip of nearly 3,000 miles in Eastern Europe may sound outlandish, even forbidding. Well, it is not, at least, not so far as my husband, Clint, and I are concerned. Since 1965 we have traveled behind the Iron Curtain seven times, usually by car.

A Soviet Bloc Tour by Car

Article on Paramus, NJ, purchasing Paramus Golf and County Club in order to save it from demolition; illus (M)

Paramus Buys a Golf Course to Save It

The Congressional conference cornmittee on energy, now seven painful months old, is nothing if not consistent. With every step forward come fresh reminders of how much more must still be done, a pattern that remained unbroken last week with one of the committee's bigger steps.

Finally, a Vote On Energy Plan

Article on design of Calvary Hosp in Bronx, NYC, and Hospice Inc facility under construction in Branford, Conn; both facilities are designed for dying patients; illus of Calvary (L)

Hospitals Designed for the Dying

Once again, foreigners have salvaged Zaire's mineral&#8208;laden Shaba province for the shaky Government of Mobutu Sese Seko. The fighting, which seemed largely over last week, also gave France, Belgium and, to a lesser extent, the United States, a chance to compete in showing &#8220;decisiveness&#8221; against rebel Zairians believed to he armed and trained by the Soviet Union and Cuba. But ihe cost of rescuing Shaba and Mr. Mobutu keeps rising.

With a Lot of Help From His Friends

With summer upon us, weekenders will be streaming out of the city heading for New England beaches, lakes and mountains and warmweather outdoor fun in the days ahead. And whatever their favorite relaxation may be, there is one delight they all can share&#8212;eating. Here is a sampling of some landmark New England restaurants where food is plentiful, good and in some cases cheap&#8212;including a few headquarters of regional trenchermen, champion eaters whom the uninitiated can challenge at the buffet tables at one's own risk. All are open year round.

Hearty Yankee Eating

Brzezinski and aides gave Chinese officials unprecedented, detailed briefings on status of Soviet-Amer SALT talks and explained at length contents of some secret White House memorandums on Amer security goals during recent visit to Peking; discussions reptdly were fullest and most extensive since contacts were established in '71; Brzezinski, in int with NY Times, says basic significance of trip was to underline long-term strategic nature of US relationship to China; reptdly was eager to demonstrate that both nations have similar interests in opposing Soviet influence around world; Brzezinski's meetings with Foreign Min Huang Hua discussed; illus (M)

Brzezinski Gave Details to China On ArmsTalks With Soviet Union

Comment on lobbying efforts mounted by opponents of plan to include school lunch program in proposed Cabinet-level Educ Dept; notes 18 members of Sen's Agr Com sent lr to Sen Com chmn Abraham A Ribicoff opposing transfer of program from Agr Dept; says opponents argue that control over program and other aspects of child nutrition constitutes only effective means of maintaining price and mkt stability for farm commodities not protected by Govt price support programs (S)

Aides Lobby to Keep 3 Programs Out of a Department of Education

Choosing a travel companion is at least as precarious as choosing a marriage partner. The chances of success are perhaps even less. The initial stages of both journeys are filled with enthusiasms, indulgences and a fairly consistent closing of the eyes to that which may later become, if not unacceptable, at the very least unpalatable.

On Choosing a Companion

WHITE PLAINS YESTERDAY, in the city of Rye, the sound of drums ushered in the Memorial Day weekend. Marchers in Mount Kisco and Yonkers will be stepping off today. For those in Mount Vernon and Peekskill, it will be tomorrow. And on Tuesday it will be the turn of White Plains and New Rochelle, just to mention a few communities.

The Year

Ocean and Cape May County officials split on whether Atlantic City gambling will help tourism elsewhere; communities' plans for season noted (M)

,Crowds in Rest of Atlantic City Are Sparse, but Casino Is Packed

300 former POWs hold reunion, Los Angeles, Calif, 5 yrs after release from N Vietnam; former Air Force Cols George Day and Tom Collins, Lt Comdr Denver Key and Capt Eugene McDaniel comment on physical and mental well-being; Navy researchers, monitoring captives' progress, confirm that, with relatively few exceptions, POWS of Vietnam war did not have serious physical or psychological problems; reunion is marred by fact that former prisoner retired Marine Col Edward Miller, now lawyer, has sued former Air Force Capt John Nasmyth for slander and invasion of privacy, contending that Nasmyth accused him falsely on local radio show of collaborating with captors and receiving favorable treatment; reunion was largely idea of former Gov Ronald Reagan and millionaire H Ross Perot; illus (M)

Few Scars for Ex‐Hanoi POW's

At last, the pleasure/pain principles of gambling could be legally practiced in Atlantic City. And business for the Memorial Day weekend seemed every bit as good as expected.

Atlantic City Gladly Shows Its Openers

Center plans move move to Mitchel Field complex in Plainview; program currently is housed in mobile trailers; residents of Plainview and Old Bcthpage oppose more (M)

Drug Program Shift Draws Protests

Soviet Foreign Min Gromkyo concludes extensive round of talks with Pres Carter and Sec Vance, Washington; both sides rept limited gains toward new SALT agreement; no breakthroughs reptd on major issues; Vance and Gromyko voice optimism, news conf; some issues thwarting agreement revd; talks to be resumed within wk in NYC (M)

CARTER AND GROMYKO REPORT SOME GAINS ON STRATEGIC ARMS

Eugene Kinkead article on flora and fauna on Georgia's barrier islands; offers advice on travel and accommodations; illus (L)

Georgia's Golden Isles

article on Gov Carey's intervention in efforts to solve NYC fiscal problems, including Financial Control Bd legis; he is staying more in background than he did when he took active role in '75 crisis; drawing of Carey and Mayor Koch (M)

Flotation Devices

People's Repub of China to send ships to evacuate Chinese residents it says are being persecuted in Vietnam; announcement does not say where or when boats would go to Vietnam, or whether destinations will include Ho Chi Minh City, where there are estimated 800,000 ethnic Chinese, many of them merchants; total of about 1.2 million Chinese are in country; China repts over 83,000 have fled or been driven across border in recent wks; deteriorating relations between both countries noted (M)

Peking to Rescue Vietnam Chinese

last of 3 articles on NYC real estate taxes discusses tax delinquency; cartoon (L)

Unpaid Taxes Signify a Cloud On City's Future

From its start in 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been an agency that people like to dislike. Employers complain about nitpicking regulations and harrassment. Workers complain about indecision and ineffectiveness. Just last week, the General Accounting Office joined the chorus, accusing Federal job&#8208;safety inspectors of overlooking some hazards and not making sure that others are corrected.

Fourth Amendment Stays Healthy

INDIANAPOLIS, May 27&#8212;Even people from Akron, Ohio, call it &#8220;Indy&#8208;NoPlace.&#8221; The &#8220;in&#8221; nightspot remains the Holiday Inn&#8208;Northwest. Automobiles eat better than humans. But right here, on West 16th Street and Georgetown Road, the biggest and fastest sports spectacle in the world will be held for the 62d time tomorrow.

33 Cars in 200‐Plus M.P.H. Indy 500

LI house moving cos are hard pressed to keep up with demands to relocate or elevate homes on Fire Is and on oceanfront in Hamptons where winter storms eroded much of beach and dunes on which homes stood; illus (L)

House Movers in Action on the Shore

Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger is an American actor. He has starred as Nick Miller in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–2018), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2013. He has also voiced a version of Spider-Man in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its 2023 sequel.

May 28, 1978

Headlines from May 28, 1978

Glastonbury May Lose U.S. Funds

LIGHT AUDIT SAYS CITY OVERPAID MILLIONS

Battle Over Water Moves Into the Air

A Soviet Bloc Tour by Car

Paramus Buys a Golf Course to Save It

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

London Town

Feels So Good

Slowhand

Earth

Notable Births

Historical Context for May 28, 1978