February 15, 1979

Team of scientists repts finding deep lake at Little Salt Spring, Fla, that has yielded bones of now‐extinct animals killed and cooked by humans 12,000 yrs ago, and plant specimens and artifacts, including what may be oldest hunting boomerang ever found; find offers opportunity to study complex interactions between climate, animal and plant ecology that molded early human survival in New World; scientists also find, in swampy ground of slough near lake, ancient burying ground estimated to contain remains of at least 1,000 people who lived 5,000 yrs ago, believed to be 1 or largest burial sites of archaic Indians found in N Amer; scientific team was led by Carl J Clausen; drawing (M)

issues likely to be covered in report revd; graph; illus (L)

WHILE my wife wears casual clothes, my friend's girl wears leisure clothes. Her pants are a Frencn copy of united states Army fatigues, and they are altogether fitting, for there is nothing casual about her. She is fatiguingly attractive.

Dept to close its export‐promotion centers in Mex, Paris, Cologne, Sydney and Taipei in budget move

Dow Banking, Zurich subsidiary of Dow Chem, has gotten NY County Ct order that bars NY banks from honoring checks drawn on accts of Iranians‘ Bank; holds Teheran‐based Iranians’ Bank failed to repay either principal or interest on $1.5 million 3‐mo deposit Dow made at bank's London branch; banking sources stress dispute is not directly tied to pol problems in Iran and note other foreign banks are not having problems collecting funds due them from Iranian banks; Citibank, which has cut its interest in Iranians‘ to 2.5%, and Mfrs Hanover Trust reptdly say they have deposits due Iranians’ (S)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1979

Higher bank profits spurred by high interest rates discussed in light of repts that Carter Adm abandons efforts to devise special profit‐margin test for banks (M)

Abu Dhabi and Qatar are raising oil prices by about 7 percent in the first across‐the‐board surcharges imposed by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries since supplies from Iran were cut off, according to an authoritative newsletter, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly. Mobil and Exxon said they could confirm the action taken by Abu Dhabi. [Page Al.]

NEW CANAAN, CONN. IN the neo‐Gothic private chapel of a New Canaan mansion, where priests once prayed and Abraham Hatfield, a wealthy philanthropist, held family services, Peter Jaquith, a New York

Guillermo Novo Sampol and Alvin Ross Diaz are convicted of murder in '76 slaying of Orlando Letelier; Ignacio Novo Sampol is found guilty of having lied about his knowledge of murder and of having failed to inform authorities; diplomats see conviction as increasing pressure on Gen Pinochet to agree to US request to extradite Gen Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of secret police, and 2 other officials; other Cubans involved in case, Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero are fugitives; Judge Parker orders convicted men held without bail; case revd; Isabel Letelier por (M)

Shell Oil gives up effort to find oil in Baltimore Canyon after spending $90 million to drill 3 dry holes; vp R L Ferris comments (M)

Article on top fabric designer Jay Yang; illus (M)