Article on impact of Indian Child Welfare Act, which will let tribal cts decide child custody cases; Amer Acad of Child Psychiatry repts that, proportionately, 20 times as many Indian children as non-Indians are placed away from families, whose only failing in many cases is poverty; Amer Indian Affairs Assn survey found that at any given time 25% to 35% of Indian children are in foster care, adoptive homes or insts (M)

Indians' Tribal Courts Prepare to Take Over Child Custody  Cases

Article on growing disaffection among members to radical changes adopted by Wallace Muhammad on 4th anniv of death of Elijah Muhammad; attempts by members to change group's image through community participation discussed; illus (L)

Radical Changes by New Leader Leave Many Muslims Disaffected

Fed Election Comm figures indicate that pol action coms representing corps, unions and controversial causes more than doubled their contributions to re-election campaigns of HR com chmn in '78; details of findings (M)

Interest Groups' Campaign Gifts To House Leaders Doubled in '78

New Yorkers marked Christmas Eve and the arrival of Hanukkah yesterday with a crescendo of cheer and celebration and commerce.

Arrival of Christmas and Hanukkah. Captures the Spirit of New Yorkers

Vance, Dayan and Khalil fail to arrange resumption of peace talks; illus (M)

VANCE, IN BRUSSELS, IS UNABLE TO REVIVE ISRAEL‐EGYPT TALKS

Marine guards fire tear gas at students demonstrating near US Embassy; mil Govt says over 60 hs in Teheran will remain indefinitely closed; illus (M)

U.S. Embassy Guards In Iran Fire Tear Gas At Student Protesters

Carter Adm reptdly is becoming concerned that increased fighting between Cambodia and Vietnam will involve major powers in rivalry, specifically China on behalf of Cambodia and USSR for Vietnam; Cambodian officials reptdly have said attack on 3 Western visitors, in which Brit scholar Malcolm Caldwell was killed, was politically motivated, designed to show that Cambodia could not protect its friends; US State Dept officials say Vietnam's policy shift over last yr from noninterference in Cambodia to attempt to topple Govt is alarming to US and 'very upsetting' for neighboring countries; Caldwell por (M)

Cambodia‐Vietnam Battles Spur U.S. Concern Over ‘Proxy’ War

Deep-seated Soviet concern over Carter decision is seen by Amer officials as major factor in USSR's reluctance to conclude SALT; Vance reiterates that most major issues have been solved, news conf, Brussels (M)

SOVIET'S RELUCTANCE ON FINAL ARMS PACT LINKED TO CHINA TIE

China, in extraordinary gesture of atonement, holds memorial service in Peking honoring Peng Teh-huai and Tao Chu, 2 of most prominent victims of Mao Tse-tung during Cultural Revolution; illus (M)

2 Victims of Mao's Purges Honored At Big Memorial Service in Peking

Article on arrival of Christmas in GB (M)

Christmas in England—A Dickens of a Holiday

at least 55 people are killed in rioting between Sunni and Alevi Moslem sects in Kahramanmaras; Anatolia News Agency estimates 1,052 people are injured; illus (M)

World News Briefs

Brazil to require Amer tourists get visas before leaving US (S)

Brazil Requires Pre‐Entry Visas

Gandhi remains jailed on Christmas Eve; supporters demonstrate in Bombay (S)

Mrs. Gandhi Remains In Jail Christmas Eve As Protests Continue

Article on how spreading guerrilla war and terror tactics have driven many farmers off their land; notes Cashel Valley, where few yrs ago over 60 white families lived, now has 17 white families and many predict they will not remain long into new yr; nationalists have killed 100 farmers during war, at least 50 of them in '78; Govt relies heavily on agr to finance $1.2-million-a-day cost of war; map; illus (M)

Fear Is Speeding Flight From Rhodesia's Farms

Asst Sec of State Patricia M Derian denies that pressure by US for improvement in human rights conditions has been responsible for widespread demonstrations (S)

Aide Says U.S. Discussed Issues Of Human Rights With Chinese

ALGERIA AT IMPASSE OVER A NEW LEADER

Article on China's drive to modernize its econ resulting in opening of travel visas to Amers, Japanese and Europeans (M)

China's Drive to Modernize Opens Vistas of the Outside

40,000 hotel workers in 3d day of strike (S)

Canary Islands Strike in 3d Day

Cambodian diplomats suggest that attack might have been staged by Kampuchean United Front for Natl Salvation; Dudman and Becker leave for Peking with Caldwell's body; 3 were among 1st nonofficial Westerners to visit Cambodia since '75; they arrived in Cambodia on Dec 9 and each spoke separately with Prime Min Pol Pot on Dec 22; Dudman recounts shooting (M)

Murder in Cambodia Said to Be Meant as a Lesson

more than 100 Cuban ex-prisoners arrive in Caracas, Venezuela, from Havana (S)

100 Cuban Ex‐Prisoners Resettle In Venezuela — 1,400 More Due

analysis of growing support in UN Gen Assembly for PLO (M)

U.N.'s Session: Plus for P.L.O.

Article on Canada's dual-language policy, which critics contend has caused divisiveness, misunderstanding and widespread waste instead of promoting natl unity and mutual understanding; controversy has arisen over recent rept by Canadian Sec of State that French-speaking Govt employees are not using French in their dealings with bilingual English-speaking colleagues (M)

Dual‐Language Policy Accused of Dividing Canada

Steven Scott Pannell arrested, Farmington, Utah, and 2d suspect being sought in series of shootings in northern Utah (S)

Around the Nation

Menard, Tex, cannot get enough gas to keep itself warm this winter because well supplying it is apparently near depletion; pipeline from well deteriorated under met of J D Smith Distribution, and people believe that as much as 15 yrs' supply may have been wasted; town has reed $100,000, including $80,000 in Fed funds, to help it build new pipeline to another well or buy into existing pipeline network; map; illus (M)

For a Small Texas Town, Oil and Gas Everywhere

Article on increased interest in writings of author-theologian Thomas Merton, 10 yrs after his death; his beliefs discussed; Merton illus (M)

Spiritual Influence of Merton, the Author, Growing Stronger 10 Years After His Death

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December 25, 1978

Headlines from December 25, 1978

Indians' Tribal Courts Prepare to Take Over Child Custody Cases

Radical Changes by New Leader Leave Many Muslims Disaffected

Interest Groups' Campaign Gifts To House Leaders Doubled in '78

Arrival of Christmas and Hanukkah. Captures the Spirit of New Yorkers

VANCE, IN BRUSSELS, IS UNABLE TO REVIVE ISRAEL‐EGYPT TALKS

Billboard 200

52nd Street

A Wild And Crazy Guy

Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits; Volume 2

C'est Chic

Grease

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 25, 1978