Article on how US steel indus fared in '78 notes that employment rose fairly steadily after declining 2% a yr since 50's; graphs (M)

Few Like Steel Trigger Prices

Iran, a Country Adrift

Dow Jones indus avg drops 13.08 points to 835.59; NYSE trading vol totals 30.34 million shares (M)

Dow Drops 13.08 Amid Dollar Woes

Sup Ct, 8-0, rules that workers who believe they have been cheated out of pension cannot use SEC antifraud law provisions to sue pension plan's sponsors; decision reverses ruling by Fed appeals ct, Chicago, and is greeted with relief by business and labor; case revd (M)

Pension Not A Security, Court Rules

BONN, Jan. 16 &#8212; The recent tenuous recovery of the dollar on international markets is unlikely to prove a lasting one, according to European foreign exchange experts, unless more evidence develops that the United States is firmly committed to defending its currency.

Dollar Outlook Viewed With Caution

NYS Sup Ct Justice Hortense W Gable enjoins drs from striking, but they vow to go ahead with plans (M)

Hospital Strike Barred by Judge; Doctors Defiant

Repts '78 4th qr operating earnings rose 12.9% from '77 level to $45.5 million; repts '78 operating earnings rose 15% (S)

5 Banking Groups Lift Earnings

Article on ways in which people can protect themselves from harmful noise in home and elsewhere; lists decibels of some noises (L)

Protecting Yourself From Harmful Noise

25,000 work-bound passengers on Conrail's New Haven div are delayed up to 3 1/2 hrs on Jan 16 because of explosion and fire at Bronx power substation; service is restored at 6:40 PM; illus; map (L)

25,000 Conrail Passengers Delayed by Fire in Bronx

Gov Carey and Civil Service Employees Assn, state's biggest public employee union, agree to adopt experimental bargaining method in which each side would negotiate to its 'last best offer' and an impartial arbitration panel would be forced to choose 1 proposal or other; assn guarantees as part of its agreement that its members will not strike and agrees to require arbitration panel to give 'substantial weight' to 'ability of the state to pay cost of any econ benefit without requiring increase in present taxes' (M)

New York State to Try New Negotiation Plan

Article on increasingly active role being played in soc life of Beverly Hills by wealthy foreign residents; illus (M)

Melting Pot, California‐Style

Robert S Strauss, Pres Carter's special repr for trade negotiations, pledges that farmers will not be shortchanged during current intl trade talks, speech, Amer Farm Bur red; says pkg of agreements will include reductions in trade barriers on about $2 billion worth of agr exports; Strauss por (M)

Farm Pledge by Strauss

Because of a transcription error, an article on the Style page yesterday. the genealogy of early American Jewish families, misspelled the name of one of family. The correct spelling is Sheftall

CORRECTION

News Summary

Tengelmann Group of W Ger plans to acquire 42% of A&P by purchasing shares from major shareholders, including John A Hartford Foundation and Josephine McIntosh Foundation; 42% interest would mean effective control of A&P and investment of over $75 million; Tengelmann official Henry W Van Baalen, Huntington G Hartford and A&P chmn and chief exec officer Jonathan L Scott comment; chart of A&P's assets for '77 and '78 (M)

West German Retailer Seeks 42% of A.&P. In a $75 Million Deal

THERE may be many a connoisseur and savant in this world who knows his wines and spirits from aquavit and amontillado to zubrowka and zwicker and is not conversant with the notion that almost any

Cooking With Wines and Spirits

NYC prepares to go ahead this mo with its proposed $100 million note sale after notes recd passing, but not superior, grade fron Moody's Investors Service Inc (M)

New York City Gets Passing Grade On $100 Million Notes It Will Sell

environmental groups blame Pres Carter's econ advisers for 6-month delay in enforcing new strip-mining regulations; bring suit to bar advisers from interfering in Interior Dept's regulatory powers

Battle Intensifies Over Authority Of President to Control Agencies

NYC police underwater recovery team members Tom Power and Jim Mottle demonstrate ice-rescue techniques for police officers in Bronx given by special operation div; illus; more sessions scheduled for uniformed personnel in other boroughs (S)

Police Demonstrate Ice Rescue the Hard Way

Shah leaves Iran amid massive popular upheaval; flies to Aswan, Egypt, whore he will be guest of Pros Sadat; illus with wife; describes stay as extended vacation but departure may mark start of long, perhaps permanent, exile

PULER GOES TO EGYPT

hundreds of thousands of people in Teheran hail Shah's departure; illus of demonstrators toppling statue of Shah's father (M)

On Streets: Cheers, Roses, Falling Statues

recuperates at Conn home after heart-bypass surgery

The Region

The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company said that Mexico's Government&#8208;owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicano's of Petnex had raised $100 million in international market with a public offering of five year notes.

January 17, 1979

Headlines from January 17, 1979

Few Like Steel Trigger Prices

Iran, a Country Adrift

Dow Drops 13.08 Amid Dollar Woes

Pension Not A Security, Court Rules

Dollar Outlook Viewed With Caution

Billboard 200

Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits; Volume 2

52nd Street

Briefcase Full of Blues (Soundtrack)

A Wild And Crazy Guy

C'est Chic

Historical Context for January 17, 1979