June 1, 1978

Alliance leaders issue communique, Washington, warning USSR that its actions in Africa endanger detente and jeopardize further improvement of E-W relations; endorse plans to counter growing strength of Warsaw Pact nations with long-range defense program stressing antitank weapons in Central Eur and integrated allied air defense; cost of program estimated at $60 billion to $80 billion, with US probably contributing slightly more than 50%; program is hailed by Pres Carter, who notes that no procedures have as yet been devised to carry it out; Carter and orgn sec gen Dr Joseph M A H Luns illus (M)

The Carter Administration, citing inflation and the trade deficit, warns industrial allies the United States cannot afford to help stimulate world economic growth. Stimulus is the objective of the economic summit scheduled for July. [131.]

Illus of Prince Charles after man threw lemonade bottle at car, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng

Co reptdly will sell Barclay, Biltmore and Roosevelt Hotels, NYC, to Loews Corp for $55 million; map (M)

Former Auth public affairs dir John Tillman and deputy dir Malcolm Levy are indicted on criminal charges of fraud and grand larceny respectively; 80-count indictment charges Tillman with systematically padding expense acct, defrauding Auth of more than $1,500; 86-count indictment charges Levy with theft of more than $1,500 from Auth; both plead not guilty; to remain in posts pending outcome (M)

Labor Dept repts consumer prices rose 0.9% in Apr, largely because of 6.6% increase in price of beef; Robert S Strauss, Barry Bosworth and Bill Brock comment on inflation rate; chart on Consumer Price Index (M)

Concern about Soviet and Cuban military activity in Africa, expressed by President Carter, was acknowledged by leaders of the Atlantic alliance. They warned Moscow that such actions endangered detente and jeopardized “further improvement of East‐West relations.” But the final cor‐;munique of the two‐day NATO meeting in Washington was modified to say that the leaders also stressed that such situations should not he viewed only in an East‐West context. Page A1, Col. 1.1.

WHEN I knew him years ago in Greenwich Village, it was hard to tell whether he was witty or insane. He was one of the first in our crowd to collect pornography for philosophical reasons. He had a fanatical determination experience things that prevented him from feeling them. After a year of smoking marijuana almost daily, he announced that he had at last succeeded in getting high. Because he preferred to go out alone at night, he used to slip sleeping pills into his wife's after‐dinner coffee.

Description of ex-Vice Pres Rockefeller's summer home in Seal Harbor, Me, which he has put up for sale for $1 million; 21-room waterfront house was built in '39; illus (L)

Chancellor Anker proposes more stringent requirements for pupil promotion; will require that any student with poor reading and math scores be kept back any number of times during school career and receive remedial educ; asks city's 32 school dists and all principals to comment on proposal by June 7; says proposal will be adopted before he retires, at end of June; proposal detailed (M)

Lilco requests 13.1% rate increase to raise annual revenues by $23.9 million (S)

French Govt will permit Paris commercial ct to begin bankruptcy proceedings against Boussac, textile co which has run up $100 million debt and owes Govt $33 million; co continues to suffer losses of $2 million a mo on annual sales turnover of $150 million (M)