Article on experimental reading program being tried at 8 schools in Chicago that seeks to develop students' ability to think (M)

EDUCATION

Illus of funeral of Dan Haran and his 2 daughters

ISRAELIS HINT PLO. FACES NEW REPRISAL

News Summary

Poll conducted by Daily Princetonian finds that more than 1/3 of Princeton University undergraduates have cheated on an examination at least once during their college careers, figure disputed by Undergraduate Honor Committee and university officials (M)

Princeton Poll Reports Over a Third Have Cheated

Article discusses increasing disaffection among scientists with assumption that universe abounds with advanced, human-like civilizations; many say it is entirely possible that earthly civilization is the only one of its kind; contentions of Dr Michael H Hart (Trinity University, San Antonio) noted; Hart says computer-assisted analysis discloses that, far from being common, civilized life must be exceedingly rare and that which exists on earth may even be unique; diagram (M)

Life May Exist Only On Earth, Study Says

Iranian Army Chief of Staff Gen Vali Ullah Gharani is assassinated by 3 unidentified gunmen, Teheran; is first major figure associated with Khomeini to be slain; had resigned as army chief March 27 after controversy arose over his role in suppression of Kurdish nationalists; Forghan Fighters, previously unknown group, takes responsibility for killing; 9 more men are put to death by Islamic firing squads after trials in Meshed and Bandar Abbas; army units are sent to Naghadeh, where Kurds are fighting Turkish residents; Kurdish Democratic Party Sec Gen Abdelrahman Ghassemlou urges Taleghani to go to Naghadeh; Ayatollah Shaikh Mohammed Taher Khaqani, chief religious leader of Arab minority in Khuzistan, threatens to leave country unless power of revolutionary committees in Abadan, Ahwaz and Khurramshahr is curbed; thousands of people march in Tabriz to protest article in Persian newspaper Etellaat criticizing Ayatollah Kazem Shareatmadary; Libya Prime Min Abdul Salam Jalloud arrives in Teheran with delegation of 50 people; Iranian Govt has reservations about visit because of disappearance of Lebanese Shiite religious leader Musa al-Sadr in Libya in '78; Gharani por; map (M)

First Iran Army Chief In Khomeini's Regime Is Slain by 3 Gunmen

Supreme Comdr Gen Alexander M Haig voices encouragement over gradual strengthening of alliance, luncheon, NYC; illus (M)

Haig Urges New U.S. Leadership Role

Article on prison doctors and alleged stigmas attached to their jobs; notes some doctors fear loss of private patients and/or losing face with colleagues, while others contend recent discharge of several physicians at Rikers Island on fraud charges has reinforced belief of some people that prison doctors are not only hacks but crooks; former NYC Health Comr Lloyd F Novick, however, contends there are no stereotypes nor is there any stigma attacked to working in prison; illus (L)

Prison Doctors Confront Stigmas and Stereotypes

West Coast newspapers, many of which have already been forced to cut their size and circulation because of newsprint shortage, are bracing for potential strike in Canadian mills that could restrict supplies even further; Union-Tribune Publishing Co gen mgr Alex DeBakcsy, repts street sales have been cut back by 50%; co publishes San Diego Union and Tribune; DeBakcsy says co's inventory of newsprint has dipped to as low as 7-day supply; shortage in West was caused by lengthy strike at mills in Pacific Northwest that began last summer and has since gradually wound down; other newspaper execs commenting on situation are Dick Wallace (Santa Ana Register), Michael Bell (Madison Newspapers Inc), William R Schover (Arizona Republic) and Don Schlichting (Durango Herald); part of reason for shortage is increased demand caused by strong economy; Amer Paper Inst repts newsprint production is at record levels (M)

Coast Faces Newsprint Cuts Again

Sen Edward M Kennedy, apparently on losing end of scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee vote on bill, cites illness of Senator Birch Bayh's wife as reason for adjourning committee session; Bayh aide says Senator did not request delay and gave his proxy to Kennedy, with understanding Kennedy would support 2 Bayh amendments to bill; legislation outlined; Democratic defectors, besides all 7 Republican committee members who opposed bill, are Senators Howell Heflin and Joseph R Biden Jr; bill is supported by Adm and number of consumer and labor organizations; opponents of bill are led by Sen Strom Thurmond; Kennedy, Thurmond illus (M)

Kennedy, Near a Defeat, Delays Antitrust Vote

spot check of Capitol Hill finds many members of Congress, such as Senators Howard H Baker Jr and Robert C Byrd, voicing strong support or predicting added pressure for tax on oil company profits, but also notes sharp division remains on how tax should be applied; main split in Congress centers on proposal to include 'plowback'--provision that would allow oil companies to deduct from their taxes any profits that are invested in exploration and production of new energy sources; ultimate shape of bill will be heavily influenced by Sen Russell B Long (M)

Legislators Facing Battle Over Details of a Levy as Support Increases

3 construction workers killed in drainage hole, Elmont Road Park, NY, after accidentally inhaling methane gas; 5 others, including 4 policemen, are overcome in efforts to rescue them; map; illus; workers were employed to reconstruct Little League baseball field (M)

Gas Kills 3 Men, Fells 5 Rescuers In a Park on L.I.

NYC Rent Guidelines Board votes against adding fuel surcharges to rents of about 200,000 rent-stabilized apartments, but leaves open possibility that surcharges will soon be added to yet another group of stabilized apartments, said to number 300,000 (S)

Rent Board Bars Fuel Surcharges In Some Houses

Mayor Koch announces transportation program to expedite bus and taxi traffic in NYC in order to save energy (S)

GROUP TAXI RIDING, 2‐STREET AUTO BAN PROPOSED BY KOCH

Reports 1st quarter net income of $349.1 million (S)

Exxon Net Rose 37.4% In Quarter

Harold C Schonberg reviews recording by Yale Univ musicologists Willie Ruff and John Rodgers of music of the spheres--computer synthesization based on astronomer Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion and hypothetical music based on them (M)

Computer Synthesizes ‘Music of the Spheres’

Pres Carter calls on scientific community to help him enact energy plan and create new energy technologies, April 23 speech to National Academy of Sciences (S)

Calls Bid for ‘Plowback’ of Profits an Attempt ‘to Hoodwink’ Public

President Carter said opponents of his energy plan had shifted their strategy from outright opposition to an effort to create enough loopholes to make the proposed oil &#8220;windfall&#8221; profits tax meaningless. He charged that the Congressional opposition was trying hoodwink the public with a tax that he called a charade. [Page AL]

BUSINESS Digest

Harold C Schonberg reviews recording by Ruff and Rodgers (M)

Disks: The Planets Are Not Candidates For the Hit Parade

Article on discovery of unknown object in Milky Way Galaxy that appears to be simultaneously flying toward and away from earth at 30,000 miles per second (W Sullivan report); observations disclose that spectral lines of light from object cannot be readily attributed to any known elements; Univ of Calif Dr Bruce Margon describes recent observations; scientists suggests object may be black hole or quasar; some comment (M)

Astronomy Is Puzzled By Oddity In the Sky

ITT formally introduces its domestic long-distance telephone service at rates it says are significantly below those of AT&T but comparable to those of 2 other competitors, MCI Communications Corp's Execunet service and SPRINT service of Southern Pacific Communications Co; FCC authorized service in Jan and this is 1st time ITT's rates have been publicly outlined; service, known as City-Call, will save customers spending at least $75 a mo on phone calls between 15% and 86% on Bell System rates, according to ITT; City-Call is slated to spread to 34 cities by end of '79; program mgr Jacques Harlow comments; map of US and long distance rates and services of various cities (M)

I.T.T. Cites Low Rates in New System

Comr Steisel says union has agreed to let its members comply with court order; statement is disputed by union (M)

Tugboat Union Reported Prepared To Carry Garbage to Staten Island

State Dept officials say Israeli Cabinet has disregarded US warnings and approved creation of West Bank settlements at Elon Moreh and Shiloh; settlements were approved over appeals of Deputy Prime Min Yigael Yadin; US is concerned that action will make Egypt's task of gaining Arab support for Mideast peace treaty more difficult; Shiloh has been occupied by members of militant nationalist Gush Emunim bloc; Prime Min Begin denies telling Pres Carter that new settlements would not be established until negotiations on Palestinian self-rule were completed (M)

2 NEW SETTLEMENTS APPROVED BY ISRAEL

Article on concentration of banking power in Canada's 5 largest banks in light of controversy stirred by $700 million line of credit extended to Brascan Ltd by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in connection with Brascan's bid to lake over F W Woolworth Co; takeover move has raised conflict-of-interest charges as bank is also Woolworth's largest single creditor; graph (M)

Canada's Tight Banking Ties

US State Dept withholds comments on elections until Pres Carter decides whether to lift economic sanctions against country (S)

Rhodesian Election Called a Fraud By Black Leader Seeking Top Post

Clement Blair Peach was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in April 1979 Peach took part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in Southall against a National Front election meeting in the town hall and was hit on the head, probably by a member of the Special Patrol Group (SPG), a specialist unit within the Metropolitan Police Service. He died in hospital that night.

Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, dies after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.

April 24, 1979

Headlines from April 24, 1979

EDUCATION

ISRAELIS HINT PLO. FACES NEW REPRISAL

News Summary

Princeton Poll Reports Over a Third Have Cheated

Life May Exist Only On Earth, Study Says

Billboard 200

Spirits Having Flown

Minute By Minute

Dire Straits

2-hot

Blondes Have More Fun

Historical Events

Historical Context for April 24, 1979