March 13, 1979

Dr Arnold J Friedhoff and colleagues at NYU School of Med rept that some drugs taken by pregnant women as treatment for serious mental illness might cause permanent changes in brains of their children; conclusions based on new experiments with animals, in which chlorpromazine, haloperidol and similar drugs were studied; rept by Friedhoff and Dr Helen Rosengarten appears in Mar 16 issue of Science; illus; diagram (L)

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1979

3d article in series of 4 articles on unemployment among black youths describes Fed programs aimed at helping unemployed gain needed skills to compete in job mkt; centers on failings of 25-yr-old system of programs that experts say has produced little and cost billions of dollars; describes similar efforts by private indus; Ford Foundation official Mitchell Sviridoff, Wharton School economics Prof Bernard E Anderson, George Washington Univ economics Prof Sar A Levitan, manpower consultant David Robison, Labor Dept official Robert Taggart and Labor Sec F Ray Marshall comment; illus (L)

FAA to speed improvement of radar scopes at airport (M)

analysis of Pres Carter's Middle East peace proposals holds accord is foundering on Israel's demand for guaranteed oil supply from Egypt and Egypt's demand that Israel agree to go ahead with self-rule in Gaza Strip even if Palestinians on West Bank refuse to take part in plan (M)

Pres Carter delivers emotional plea for peace, address to Israeli Parliament; 12 members of Parliament angrily denounce peace talks and drown out speech by Begin; Guela Cohen accuses Begin of committing crimes against Israeli people; illus (M)

Illus of yeshiva at 176 DeGraw Street, Bklyn, which was nearly gutted Mar 12 in suspicious fire

Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger told a Senate commit tee that record oil consumption levels in recent weeks demonstrated that “the call for voluntary conservation isn't working.” But Mr. Schlesinger's testimony failed to explain how a shortfall that energy officials put at less than 2.5 percent of domestic use has caused such havoc. [Page 1.)

Article on Nazih and his hopes for improving lot of Iran's oil workers; some observers are concerned about his lack of expertise in oil; say real power lies with Islamic Com in Qum, that does not known much more about oil than Nazih does; illus; graph compared Natl Iranian Oil with other leading world corps (M)

article on data transmitted by Voyager spacecraft which indicates presence of live volcano on surface of Io, innermost Jovian moon, discovery has convinced scientists that Io must be churning with internal heat and more alive with volcanism than any other world in solar system that has been explored by spacecraft (M)

Sec Schlesinger warns of possible spot shortages of heating oil (M)

Planned celebrations marking centenary of Albert Einstein's birth described; they include internatl symposium, Jerusalem, ceremony in Berne, Switzerland, where Einstein worked on his relativity theories, and meetings in Ger, where Einstein was born in Ulm; recent meeting at Inst for Advanced Study in Princeton was followed by one at Hotel Roosevelt, NY, sponsored by NY Acad of Sciences; experts' comments noted; reproduction of page of Einstein's last calculations before death in '55; drawing of Einstein (M)