JOHNSTOWN, Pa., May 9 &#8212; Stockholders of the General Public Utilities Corporation today got their first chance to challenge management since an accident crippled the company's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant last March 28.

Three Mile Shadow on G.P.U. Meeting

Iran to raise price of all grades of its oil by 60c a bbl, to $17.17 a bbl for lighter crude and $16.64 a bbl for heavier oil (M)

Iran Plans 3.5% Rise In Oil Prices

BUSINESS Digest

WASHINGTON, May 9 &#8212; The Carter Administration today cited one of the nation's largest cement manufacturers, Ideal Basic Industries Inc., as out of compliance with the President's trice guidelines.

Cement Company Cited As Price‐Guide Violator

Dave Anderson article on Islanders defeat; illus (M)

Those Irresistible Rangers

article on opening to public of Bassett Hall, 18-century manor that Abby Aldrich and John D Rockefeller restored to serve as their residence, Williamsburg, Va; John D Rockefeller 3d Fund last weekend decided to give Colonial Williamsburg Foundation contents of Bassett Hall, more than 500 furnishings valued at about $700,000; Hall described; illus (L)

A Rockefeller Gift: Folk Art in Virginia

Multimillionaire businessmen Habib Elghanian and Rahim Ali Khorram are killed with several others by revolutionary firing squads in Teheran, bringing total number of dead at hands of revolutionary courts to 200; executions mark first time that private individuals rather than Government or military officials have been executed for their activities in time of Shah's regime; Elghanian, prominent leader of Jewish community, was accused of spying and raising money for Israel; Khorram was accused of operating gambling dens and prostitution ring and feeding man to lion in his amusement park; Elghanian is first non-Moslem executed under revolution's concept of Islamic justice; his killing has frightened Jewish community; former Information Min Gen Hassan Saadatmand and group of Savak members are also executed; Ayatollah Khomeini calls for Egyptian people to ‘cut off the hands’ of Egyptian Pres Sadat for signing peace treaty with Israel; illus of Elghanian at trial (M)

FIRING SQUADS KILL 2 IRAN BUSINESSIVIEN

NYC Mayor Koch signs measure that makes it illegal to drink alcoholic beverages on city streets; violators will be punished by fine of up to $25, imprisonment of up to 5 days, or both, and will receive desk appearance summonses; measure also prohibits possession of open containers of alcoholic beverages and applies to all public places; Deputy Police Comr Ellen Fleysher says measure has ‘limited support’ from Comr Robert J McGuire; Councilman Frederick E Samuel and NY Civil Liberties Union official Richard Emery comment (M)

New York to Ban Alcoholic Drinks In Public Areas

US and USSR reach basic new agreement on new SALT accord that places limits on deployment of long-range missiles (M)

U.S. AND SOVIET COMPLETE STRATEGIC ARMS TREATY; SENATE BATTLE FORECAST

Over 400 Israeli soldiers cross into southern Lebanon to pursue 3 Palestinian guerrillas who had raided Menara kibbutz; Israelis occupy Shaqra village briefly while searching unsuccessfully for guerrillas; withdraw after confrontation with UN peacekeeping troops; are escorted by Lebanese Christian militiamen under command of Maj Saad Haddad; UN force, consisting of 620 Irish soldiers, reptdly refused to help Israeli soldiers search for guerrillas, believed to be members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; operation follows 3 days of air strikes against Palestinian sites in southern Lebanon and is largest incursion since March '78; underscores repeated Israeli warnings that Israel will press its attacks on guerrilla areas until Palestinians can no longer conduct raids across border; Israeli gunboats shell Tyre port; map (M)

ISRAELI ARMY ENTERS LEBANON TO PURSUE PALESTINIAN RAIDERS

News Summary

Analysis of new US-Soviet arms accord; discusses some likely international political side effects of pact; says it comes too late in life of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who is no longer well enough to conduct lively discussions with Pres Carter; says US Senate rejection would be seen in Moscow as ‘a slap’ sufficient to jeopardize Brezhnev's detente policy; illus

The International Side Effects

Article notes that despite likely criticism for underestimating strength of economy and for underestimating virulence of inflation, Council of Economic Advisers under chmn Charles L Schultze will win laurels in history books for bringing about important change in way executive branch regulates business; under Schultze, council has inserted Presidency as moderating force into continuing process by which new regulations are planned, drafted and revised; assessment of council's performance since '76; council members include Lyle E Gramley and George C Eads; their responsibilities noted; illus of Gramley, Eads and Schultze; other council members noted; chart on council (L)

Economic Advisers’

Group of major French banks sign agreement to lend China $7 billion to finance Chinese purchases of French industrial goods and services; loan is believed to be largest ever negotiated by China; loans will be made available only when china places firm orders for industrial goods; Francois Giscard d'Estaing, bank official, says China is unlikely to make much immediate use of new credit, which lasts until '85; banks include Credit Lyonnais, Banque de Paris et de Pays Bas, Societe General and Banque Rothschild (M)

Big French Loan Pact With China

Popular Revolutionary Bloc vows to continue its occupation of Metropolitan Cathedral, despite attack on anti-Govt demonstrators by security forces during which at least 22 people were killed; heavily armed soldiers and policemen seal off 16 blocks of downtown San Salvador surrounding cathedral where clashes occurred; 11 bullet-ridden bodies are in cathedral, and 8 more lay on building's steps; security forces withdraw to allow bodies to be removed; illus (M)

Militants in El Salvador Undeterred by the Death of 22

EPA says that before it will approve work on sewage system to stop pollution of Lake George, local authorities will have to determine whether NYS law specifically forbids discharges of treated effluent into lake or conduct $50,000 study of relative merits of in-basin as opposed to out-of-basin discharges; study is seen mainly as protection in case of lawsuit; local authorities insist that law prohibits in-basin discharges, but will seek clarification from Atty General; Eckhardt C Beck, regional EPA administer, and local officials comment; illus (M)

Red Tape Snarls Project to Keep Lake George Clean

Temperature reaches record 94 degrees in NYC on May 9; illus (M)

New York City Swelters in 94 °, A May 9 Record

Stainless Steel Comes Out

HUD Dept is sponsoring workshops to help women buy homes; program director Dr Jo Ann McGeorge says project is not only to educate women about their rights and possibilities of home ownership but also to demonstrate to ending institutions that women are worthy of credit (M)

Helping Women To Buy Property

Correction: Samuel H Lovejoy did not once blow up a meteorological tower in Massachusetts to protest nuclear power, as stated in May 8 article on meeting he and other antinuclear activists had with Pres Carter; he toppled the tower by loosening guy wires

CORRECTIONS

Sen Jacob Javits says US is being ‘held hostage’ by oil-producing nations; Sen Henry Jackson warns that Middle Eastern oilfields are in ‘a very tenuous and uncertain situation’ (S)

SENATE, BY 58 TO 39, BACKS CARTER PLAN TO RATION GASOLINE

article on ‘precarious’ struggle facing Pres Carter in efforts to win Sen ratification of treaty; notes political climate has changed dramatically since Sept '72, when initial SALT accord was ratified by Sen, 88-2; notes current disillusionment with detente as well as rising concern nationwide and in Congress over rapid buildup of Soviet arsenal since '72; cites concern that US has allowed its military position to weaken to one of strategic inferiority, and nagging anxiety that Washington may no longer be able to check effectively any Soviet cheating under new treaty; says fate of treaty is likely to rest with moderate conservative senators and says Adm may be forced to compromise by developing new weapons programs or accept Senate resolution condemning certain Soviet actions; Defense Sec Harold Brown and proposed storage system for MX ICBM illus (M)

Congress Worried Over Soviet

NYS Higher Educ Services Corp reports that more than 23,500 students or their families cheated NYS out of $5.3 million in '78 by understating their incomes when applying for Tuition Assistance Program awards; figure is based on study matching up income tax returns and applications of large sample, which found 14% of applicants lied; corp head Eileen D Dickinson and Assemblyman Melvin H Miller comment (M)

Applicants for Tuition Aid Cheat State of $5.3 Million

Treasury Sec W Michael Blumenthal concedes that Pres Carter's plan to remove price controls from domestic crude oil will not necessarily guarantee greater production within US, May 10 hearing of House Ways and Means Committee; indicates that Adm will oppose permanent decontrol if windfall profits tax is not passed; Repr Al Ullman, committee chairman, says Carter plan 'seems to be the only way we can go’ (S)

Blumenthal Wary on Oil Output Rise

Informed sources say Algerian Pres Chadli Benjedid is considering giving former Pres Ben Bella his freedom after 14 years of imprisonment; Ben Bella currently is being detained at Birtouta compound; illus; map (M)

May 10, 1979

Headlines from May 10, 1979

Three Mile Shadow on G.P.U. Meeting

Iran Plans 3.5% Rise In Oil Prices

BUSINESS Digest

Cement Company Cited As Price‐Guide Violator

Those Irresistible Rangers

Billboard 200

Minute By Minute

2-hot

Breakfast In America

Desolation Angels

Spirits Having Flown

Historical Context for May 10, 1979