WIMBLEDON, England, July 7 &#8212;Two summers ago, Martina Navratilova left the stadium court at Forest Hills sobbing uncontrollably, her head buried in a towel. Today, after her singles victory at Wimbledon, Miss Navratilova was the toast of women's tennis.

Miss Navratilova Rallies to Take Wimbledon Crown

Israel reinforces its mil forces near borders of Lebanon and Syria to back up warning that it will not remain inactive if Syrians continue bombarding Lebanese Christian dists in Beirut; Syria puts its armed forces on alert; map (M)

ISRAELIS REINFORCE TROOPS ON BORDERS; SYRIA ALERTS UNITS

CAIRO &#8212; The citizens of Cairo and Alexandria, like their counterparts in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, want the peace that seemed so promising in November &#8212; the peace that has eluded so many for so long.

...The Mood in the Streets

group of TWU dissidents who voted to reject agreement with MTA obtains ct order blocking contract ratification; NYS Sup Ct Justice Angelo Graci issues show-cause order, in action brought by Revenue Collectors Benevolent Assn, to Local 100 to show cause why they should not return to arbitration with dissidents; at issue is whether 6 bargaining units that voted on contract should be treated as bloc or separately; dissidents contend they won right in previous ct action to have their votes treated separately; Graci orders ballots and membership lists impounded; group lawyers say settlement represents 6 individual contracts offering different provisions for each unit; dissidents illus (M)

Ratification of City's Transit Pact Blocked in Court by Dissident Unit

CAIRO, July 7&#8212; President Anwar elSadat left today for Vienna where he will meet with Shimon Peres, the Israeli opposition leader, to discuss the Cairo's new peace proposal. The Vienna talks will precede a meeting in London this month by the Israeli and Egyptian foreign ministers, with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance present.

Sadat Flies to Vienna to See Peres

Western diplomats fear trial of Soviet dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg may torpedo arms control negotiations between US and USSR (M)

Soviet Will Begin Trial Monday For Activist Defended by Carter

Articles by Christopher S Wren, Times correspondent in Cairo, and William E Farrell, correspondent in Jerusalem, who recently exchanged posts for 2 wks to compare contrasting lifestyles and current moods of Israelis and Egyptians; illus (L)

Two Reporters' Notebooks: Mideast Peace Outlook...

US Naval Observatory astronomers rept discovery of moon in orbit around Pluto; discovery credited to James W Christy; he comments; has increased suspicion that 1 or more massive objects, probably planet, may remain to be discovered beyond Pluto's orbit; astronomers Drs Robert S Harrington and Thomas van Flandern comment (M)

Moon Is Discovered In an Orbit of Pluto, The Outermost Planet

Commerce Dept economist Courtenay M Slater, testifying before Joint Econ Com, holds it likely that 8% rise in output rate, Jan-June, will drop to 4% or less, with upswing in unemployment, July-Dec (S)

UNEMPLOYMENT OFF TO 5.7% FOR JUNE, LOWEST IN 4 YEARS

2 Get 15 Years as Vietnam Spies

Western Eur loaders, in move to reinvigorate flagging movement toward Eur unity, pledge to set up new monetary arrangement by end of yr to stabilize their currencies on foreign-exch mkts and to strengthen ailing US dollar, Bremen conf of EEC leaders; plan, which entails establishment of joint float by all major Eur currencies against dollar and creation of large new $50-billion fund with which to defend currencies against speculative attacks, discussed; comments by EEC pres Roy Jenkins, Prime Min James Callaghan, French Pres Giscard d'Estaing and W Ger Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; d'Estaing and Schmidt illus (M)

Western Europeans Planning New System To Stabilize Currency

Maritime nations reach agreement, London, on 1st internatl accord specifying regulations and minimum requirements for masters and crews of merchant ships; agreement, reached at meeting of Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Orgn, sets basic standards for awarding ctfs to ships capts, officers and crew, and specifies training, experience and knowledge required for each grade of seafaring profession; orgn sec gen Chandrika P Srivasta va says accord is major step toward ensuring maritime safety; notes 80% of maritime accidents are caused by human errors (M)

Maritime Nations Agree to Pact on Crew Standards

About 700,000 hotel employees begin 24-hr nationwide strike, demanding pay increases (S)

Hotel Employees Strike in Rome

analysis of how crisis in Lebanon has revived threat of Syria-Israeli showdown and created complication for Carter Adm's plans to get Egyptian-Israeli negotiations under way in London (M)

Syrian‐Israeli Strain Disrupts U.S. Peace Strategy

Receives independence from GB; celebration illus; map (M)

Solomons, Once Battleground, Gains Independence

Del Gov Pierre S du Pont 4th and other Del officials urge East Coast reprs for regional orgn to coordinate ocean policy and use of ocean resources (S)

Delaware Urges States to Adopt A Regional Policy on Ocean Use

Malaysia begins natl elections that are expected to return governing Natl Front to power; campaign was restricted to 2 wks to forestall violence (M)

MALAYSIA ELECTING PARLIAMENT TODAY

Christian Dems, in major reversal, accept Pertini as candidate for presidency; Pertini career sketch; illus (M)

Italian Christian Democrats Agree to Support Socialist for the Presidency

US expresses 'deep concern' over trial of Soviet dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg and Anatoly Shcharansky; implies trial could affect over-all Soviet-Amer relations (S)

U.S. Hints That Trials Of Russian Dissidents Will Affect Relations

Panaiyotis Paschalis, Greek Cypriot Communist on newspaper assignment in Tel Aviv, is sentenced to 5 yrs in jail for photographing potential targets for Palestine Liberation Orgn; Hans Lebrecht, correspondent for several Communist newspapers in Eur, was acquitted of charges of helping gather material and covering up project; ct acquits Paschalis of charge of 'gathering information for an enemy' on ground that PLO is not a state (S)

World News Briefs

About 300 prison guards go on wildcat strike in pay dispute with state (S)

Massachusetts Budget Approved

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Issues of tax cutting and tax limitation, set in motion by Califs Proposition 13, are main concerns of lawmakers attending Natl Conf of State Legislatures, Denver; Calif State Assembly Speaker Leo T McCarthy says Proposition 13 approach is statement about govt as well as move to cut taxes; State Sen John Russo (NJ), State Repr David Copeland (Tenn), State Sen Fred E Anderson (Colo), Lewis K Uhler (pres of Natl Tax Limitation Com), and Walter W Heller (former chmn of Econ Advisers Council) stress need for tackling problems raised by Calif vote; Howard Jarvis, co-author of Propositon 13 in Calif, and Robert Tisch, author of Tisch amendment in Mich, illus at news conf in Wayne, Mich (M)

Tax‐Cut Issue Dominates State Legislators’ Parley

Energy Dept says sites of 2 former nuclear ore processing plants in Canonsburg, Pa, and Middlesex, NJ, are most hazardous of 26 former atomic energy sites in US where radioactive contamination was found; says it could cost as much as $250 million to clean up all 26 sites; dept officials Philip Garon and Dr William E Mott comment (S)

Radioactive Contamination Worst At Pennsylvania and Jersey Sites

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July 8, 1978

Headlines from July 8, 1978

Miss Navratilova Rallies to Take Wimbledon Crown

ISRAELIS REINFORCE TROOPS ON BORDERS; SYRIA ALERTS UNITS

...The Mood in the Streets

Ratification of City's Transit Pact Blocked in Court by Dissident Unit

Sadat Flies to Vienna to See Peres

Billboard 200

City To City

Saturday Night Fever

Natural High

Some Girls

Stranger In Town

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 8, 1978