January 9, 1979

agency is preparing to sue NYS Controller to determine whether several new bd appointees are properly in office and legally able to do business; controversy has arisen in dispute over whether Gov Carey had right to make 'recess' apptmts during gap between end of 201st Legis and beginning of 202nd Legis and whether Repub-led state Sen properly ousted them from office by rejecting them en masse (M)

Article on use of choline to improve memory of elderly; notes substance is found in egg yolks, meat and fish; drawing (L)

Many insts have stopped aggressive promotion of new 6-mo savings ctfs linked to Treas bill rates as rates have risen over 10%; at least $63 billion of ctfs have been sold since June, with resultant huge shift of funds from traditional savings accts; bankers comment; insts that tried to offer less than maximum permissible rate or raise minimum denomination above $10,000 suffered significant deposit losses; most were forced to return to competitive yields; banks find most investors are renewing ctfs for another 6 mos; graph (M)

Prime Min Lynch says Gulf Oil, which owns terminal, took every care to avoid spills and other disasters; tanker, which was carrying 31 million gals of crude oil, was being used by Total Oil Co and was owned by Compagnie Navale des Petroles; illus (S)

NAACP official David E Bryan Jr, in lr to HEW Sec Califano, assails Mayor Koch's plan to dismantle city's munic hospital system; asks for immediate investigation to determine if proposed cutbacks are unconst; warns of possible 'racial confrontation and disorder'; Fed official Cesar A Perales comments (M)

Carter Adm, in major policy change, urges Shah to leave Iran temporarily; national security adviser Brzezinski opposes former Under Sec of State George W Ball's contention that Adm has been too closely indentified with Shah (M)

China reptdly will build huge internatl trade center in Peking with Japanese and, possibly, Amer help; cost put at $500 million; idea 1st advanced by Mitsui & Co chmn Eiichi Hashimoto in Sept '78; proposed center and its financing described; Japanese and Chinese officials comment (M)

Dance, S Peter: The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and Their Work revd by Boyce Rensberger

BUSINESS Digest

Sihanouk appeals for help from US and UN against Vietnam invasion, Peking news conf; urges UN to intervene militarily; contends Cambodian Communist leader Pol Pot is patriot; says Pol Pot personally released him to permit him to lead Cambodian delegation to UN Security Council session on Jan 9; is cordial in comments about US; says Chinese have pledged to continue to supply Cambodia with mil supplies and food; says neither Pol Pot nor China want Chinese mil to intervene in border war; contends Vietnam is 'Soviet satellite'; expresses deep concern for Cambodian people, recalling that he was once King; illus (M)

Kampuchean United Front for Natl Salvation announces formation of new Govt; says front's central com pres Heng Samrin will serve as Pres of People's Revolutionary Council of Cambodia; more than 700 foreign officials and advisers cross into Thailand to escape Vietnamese onslaught, including Chinese Amb to Phnom Penh; front proclaims that Phnom Penh and all provs are 'liberated' but Western diplomatic sources say fighting is continuing; Thai Prime Min Kriangsak Chamanand says Cambodian Prime Min Pol Pot and other Govt members are somewhere west of Mekong River; 6 Cambodian council members named; map; illus (M)

Correction of Dec 31 1978 article misstating age range involving Carter Adm proposal to phase out benefits for students; range would be 18 to 21 (S)