February 17, 1979

School and Library Employees Union Local 74 of Service Employees Internatl Union, which represents cleaners and maintenance personnel, and Local 94 of Internatl Union of Operating Engineers, which represents custodial firemen, threaten to strike on Feb 21 unless they have contracts with their employers, the school custodians, who are themselves members of Local 891 of Internatl Union of Operating Engineers (S)

US Justice Dept investigates allegations that state has been buying swamps and other wetlands in deals that included overinflated prices, bribery and kickbacks — all in name of protecting environment; Fed investigators are looking into complaints that individuals are profiting from sale to state of ecologically important lands that were being endangered by tremendous pressures generated by development boom (M)

Yemen Arab Republic officials say their country will be next target in Soviet plan to dominate southern part of Middle East (S)

The first Americans evacuated from Teheran, Iran, since the attack on the United States Embassy Wednesday reached Kennedy International Airport last night after a flight that began witn convoy of blacked‐out cars through series of checkpoints in Teheran's streets and ended 15 hours later in the glare of television cameras at the Pan American World Airways terminal.

NYC Bar Assn, one‐time envy of bar groups throughout country for way it disciplined errant lawyers, has reached point where many assn officials are urging that it get out of business of disciplining lawyers entirely; assn's grievance com faces backlog of nearly 2,000 cases; assn officials comment; major cases awaiting action by assn discussed (M)