Red Smith article on opening day cermonies; illus (M)

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Apr 4 article on Teamsers Detroit Local 299 stated incorrectly that members of union are not eligible for strike benefits in lockout (S)

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Reptd ban on air travel by foreign correspondents to prov centers seen reflecting Govt concern over unrest following hanging of ex-Prime Min Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (S)

Pakistani Police Arrest Hundreds After Violence at Rites for Bhutto

Illus of Begin visiting Israeli settlements in Sinai Peninsula

The New York Times/Micha Bar‐Am

Pres Carter says he has ordered ind investigation of Mar 28 accident at 3 Mile Island, Apr 5 TV speech; says special Pres comm will recommend safety improvements for all nuclear power plants in US; Repr Morris K Udall has announced separate investigation, and Sen Gary Hart weighs same move; special research team estab by Ralph Nader says Met Edison obtained tax break of approx $40 million by rushing plant into commercial elec production, even though reactor was experiencing mechanical failures and other problems; urges Carter to see that Fed tax policies are compatible with nuclear safety regulations; Gerald Charnoff, Met Edison atty, argues before Joint Econ Com that utility's customers and not its stockholders should pay hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up radioactivity at reactor, repair it and buy replacement fuel to get plant back in operation; Sen Edward Kennedy and Mark P Widoff, consumer advocate for Penna, say that that course would enable utilities to escape accountability for their errors; Repr Eugene V Atkinson introduces legis making it unlawful for power cos to automatically pass to consumer excess power costs created by reactor shutdowns; Hazel Rollins, deputy admr of Econ Regulatory Comm, says preliminary estimates indicate cost of replacing elec generated at 3 Mile Island plants range from $500,000 to $900,000 a day, which would mean 20% increase in customers bills; says that without reactor there will be 25.7% more elec available to area than required on hottest summer day, compared with 30.6% surplus before accident; her por (M)

President Establishing Commission To Study Nuclear Reactor Mishap

CAB chief hearing officer Judge William H Dapper rules Pan Am and Texas Internatl Airlines bids to merge with Natl Airlines should be denied because of potential impact on Indus; says merger of either with Natl would reduce competition and possibly set off wave of additional consolidations; finds merger would violate Clayton Antitrust Act and conflict with intent of Cong when it passed Airline Deregulation Act; also finds Texas Internatl acquired controlling interest in Natl without CAB approval and should be required to divest itself of holdings; ruling does not include Eastern Air Lines, which has also proposed merger with Natl (L)

National Merger Bids Lose Round

Labor Dept repts inflation continued at rapid pace in Mar as producer prices at wholesale level rose by 1% for 2d straight mo; Producer Price Index made its largest qrly advance in 4 yrs in 1st qr of '79, 14.1% at annual rate; food, both in Mar and qr, accounted for major portion of rise, but significant advances were also recorded for nonfood items; Carter Adm official says Alfred E Kahn and Esther Peterson, special asst for consumer affairs, will announce coordinated price-monitoring campaign using consumer groups at local and natl level to collect data on price movements in specific products; business groups and Repub Party attack Carter's gen econ policies and his beleaguered wage and price guideline program; Repub Natl Chmn Bill Brock, George G Hagedorn, chief economist of Natl Assn of Mfrs, White House press sec Jody Powell and Labor Dept economist John Layng comment; increases in various items noted; graph shows changes in producer prices, Feb '78-Mar '79 (M)

Producer Prices Up 1% in Month; Rising Food Cost a Major Factor

indus spokesmen and analysts predict Pres Carter's new energy plan is likely to rejuvenate lagging effort to find new supplies of oil in US; warn that in short-term, Carter's proposals would probably further inhibit petroleum exploration (M)

Drilling Prospects Mixed Under Carter's Oil Plan

Boeing Co is being forced to rethink future of its intermediate-size 767 airliner as result of sales success of A-310 European Airbus that competes directly with 767; recent Airbus sales to KLM and Lufthansa cited; both craft described; graph compares their size, range, passenger capacity, price and number ordered to date (M)

Boeing Seen Rethinking the 767

NYS Insurance Supt Albert B Lewis says $20 million in credits and refunds will be issued to nearly 2 million motorists in next 6 mos in 1st major divd of state's no-fault auto insurance law; says savings could more than double over yr if bonuses continue; rebates, granted by 5 leading insurers, range from 4% of part of premium of Aetna Life & Casualty Co to 16.75% of total premium of State Farm Insurance Co; other cos offering rebates are Allstate, Kemper and Atlantic Mutual (M)

2 Million Drivers to Get No Fault Refunds

Hundreds of NY-bound commuters experience long-delays in morning rush hr when they drive to Lincoln Tunnel after radio repts warn of traffic-slowing job-action by Port Auth police at Holland Tunnel; Port Auth Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn public-relations official James Connelly says there was no job action; says he lied about calling it to dramatize that police are working without contract; auth officials, union pres Dominick Evangelista and WCBS-Radio reporter Art Athens score Connelly move; illus (M)

Lie by Port Authority P.B.A. Aide Ties Up Tunnel

Carter Adm has quietly approved sale of Amer computer system to USSR for press agency Tass, reversing decision made by Carter last July; Carter had ordered that license be withheld for natl security reasons and to express US displeasure with trials of Soviet dissidents and Amer journalists; Sens Henry M Jackson and Daniel P Moynihan score shift; hold Tass has 'close ties' with KGB; sale may not be completed because Tass reptdly will buy computer system from French concern, CIT-Honeywell Bull, to help in its handling of 1980 Olympics (S)

U.S. to Let Soviet Buy Computer

Southern and Norfolk & Western Ry discuss merger which, if successful, would create nation's 3d largest rr with assets near $5.5 billion and 19,000 mi of track; move comes after stockholders of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries approved merger of those lines; Chessie has told ICC that it would not object to N&W-Seaboard merger if those rrs were denied ICC approval to question Chessie and Seaboard about merger; N&W and Southern say they would not oppose Chessie merger if Chessie and Seaboard would sell part of holdings to keep both systems competitive; maps of 4 lines' routes (M)

N.&W., Southern Talk Merger

News Summary

President Carter said he would, gradually lift price controls domestic crude oil and would ask Congress for a tax on the resulting &#8220;windfall profits.&#8221; In a nationally televised address, the President presented his complex new plan to end the country's dependency on foreign oil. [Page AL] The President's proposal was initially interpreted as a complete turnabout of the strategy he used in campaign.. ing for office in 1476, when he voiced unwavering support for continued oil price controls. [03.]

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Jim Walter Corp to sell South Coast Corp to Mid-South Mortgage Co for $45 million (S)

Dow, Up 7.80 to 877.60, At Highest in Sfr Months

Missionaries of Charity, Society of the: Article on RC religious group Missionaries of Charity, whose mission is to live among and take care of 'poorest of poor'; orgn's work in South Bronx, NYC, discussed; illus (L)

Nuns in Saris Help ‘Poorest’ in Bronx

Trumpets Proclaim Easter Music Season

Pres Carter says he will immediately require that thermostats in nonresidential bldgs be set no higher than 65 degrees in winter once Cong authorizes him to do so, Apr 5 TV speech; proposes tax credit to encourage use of wood-burning stoves (M)

CARTER TO END PRICE CONTROL ON U.S. OIL AND URGE CONGRESS TO TAX ANY ‘WINDFALL PROFITS’

Sen ends impasse by approving budget that includes Medicaid funds for abortion

STATE BUDGET VOTED AS ALBANY APPROVES I AID FOR ABORTIONS

An Art Critic Rediscovers The Riches of the Cloisters

Portraits of George and Martha Washington by Gilbert Stuart are sold to Natl Portrait Gallery in Washington by Boston Athenaeum for $5 million; illus of George Washington portrait (M)

A STUART PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON SOLD

After his scintillating summer of 1978, what could Ron Guidry do for an encore? How about opening the season of &#8216;79 with a perfect game, or at least a no&#8208;hitter?

The New York Times/Barton SlIverman

Addresses Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy Assn, NYC; illus

Brown Says Atom Pact With Soviet Will Save Money and Aid Stability

Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is a member of the British royal family. He is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and is 54th in the line of succession to the British throne. He is married to British actress Sophie Winkleman and is a financial analyst by profession. As a great-grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, he is a second cousin of King Charles III.

Lord Frederick Windsor, English journalist and financier

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Richard Clay Travis is an American writer, lawyer, radio host and television analyst, and founder of OutKick.

Clay Travis, American sports journalist, blogger, and broadcaster

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Ivan Vasilyov was a Bulgarian architect, born in 1893, deceased in 1979.

April 6, 1979

Headlines from April 6, 1979

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Pakistani Police Arrest Hundreds After Violence at Rites for Bhutto

The New York Times/Micha Bar‐Am

Billboard 200

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Dire Straits

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