May 22, 1979

South African Govt recently announced several plans to change fundamental aspects of apartheid; Botha Govt has accepted recommendations that will give many blacks trade-union rights and scrap some elements or pass system that keeps hundreds of thousands of blacks on run from police in 'white' areas; Govt has commissioned reviews of size and shape of fragmented tribal homelands assigned to blacks and rights that 9 million blacks living outside those self-governing tribal reserves have in areas allocated to whites; Prime Min Botha has asked Parliament committee to look at question of extending political rights to blacks outside tribal areas; Pieter G Koornhof, new minister for black affairs, has shown flexibility toward blacks that has startled those used to high-handed attitudes of most of his predecessors; official statements on plans for union rights and pass systems, however, are worded in general terms, leaving important points to be resolved; it is already clear that elements objectionable to many blacks are to be retained, at least in initial phase; Koornhoff por; illus (L)

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Dr Kenneth M Colby and other researchers at University of Calif have produced computer whose responses are so paranoid that psychiatrists 'interviewing' it with teletype machine cannot distinguish it from a mental patient; experiment is being conducted as part of broader program in artificial intelligence and is also designed to uncover hitherto unsuspected aspects of paranoia; excerpts from 'interview'; comparison of responses from paranoid computer and paranoid patient (L)

Israeli Government approves proposals for limited Arab self-rule on West Bank and in Gaza Strip in preparation for talks with Egypt and US; Defense Min Ezer Weizman and Foreign Min Moshe Dayan agree to serve on negotiating team; Weizman asked to be dropped from team following clash with Prime Min Begin over rigidity of Israeli position; Begin agrees that Israel's proposals for autonomy in occupied territories should not be presented to Egypt and US at beginning of talks; proposals will serve as guidelines for negotiators; Cabinet endorses public statements at Begin's request opposing establishment of Palestinian state and claiming Israeli sovereignty over West Bank and Gaza after 5-yr transitional period; confirms that Interior Min Yosef Burg will head negotiating team (M)

US Supreme Court rules unamimously that stock fraud is illegal even if brokers, not their customers, are victims; reinstates conviction of investor Neil Naftalin for engaging in fraudulent short-selling scheme, reversing Appeals Ct; scheme described; Justice William J Brennan Jr writes Court's opinion (M)