May 29, 1979

Ayatollah Khomeini was challenged over his declaration that all Iranians who did not subscribe to Islam and the leadership by the clery were “enemies.” His position was assailed by the director of Iran's national oil company. Later, Prime Minister Bazargan said on television that “the decision‐making roles are so numerous in our country that they have paralyzed much activity.” [Page A1, Column 6.]

investigations into NYC bus-shelter franchise controversy concentrates on new testimony by Robert Hong, who was special assistant to former Transportation Comr Alexander Mautner and who played key role in drafting original bidding proposals for franchise, and handwritten memo that raises questions about propriety of bidding process; Investigation Comr Stanley N Lupkin says agency is expanding inquiry into role of City Comptroller's office in matter to include other irregularities by Comptroller's office; Mautner, through lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste, denies instructing anyone to destroy or hide any document dealing with bus shelter inquiry; Hong told FBI and dept that there were gaps between version of bidding guidelines attributed to Hong and draft that Hong contends he actually wrote (L)

TVA Chmn S David Freeman says that although TVA has postponed some nuclear construction and instituted safety-first program, it is not abandoning nuclear power, which he views as necessary bridge to time when less risky technologies can be used; graph shows place of nuclear power in TVA's power generation system; illus (M)

Article describes work of Council on Wage and Price Stability monitors, group of 116 persons who watch wages and prices; also describes how price monitoring is organized; council divides business into 6 main sections: energy, food, machinery, metals and transportation, health and construction; illus of 2 monitors (M)

Article on growing malaise in Carter Adm and how it could affect Pres Carter's re-election chances; notes possible Presidential aspirations of Sen Edward Kennedy and Gov Edmund Brown

Scientists see possible loophole in Second Law of Thermodynamics, fundamental law of physics which shows that any functioning system or organization produces predictable amounts of entropy and which has long seemed to scientists to doom all long-term struggles against depletion, decay and death; now work by Belgian chemist Dr Ilya Progogine seems to imply a fundamental impetus pushing life and humanity to further evolution; Prigogine's findings show that although nearly everything runs downhill, there are cases in which 'open' systems, which he calls 'dissipative structures,' run uphill against general tide by interacting with that tide, gaining from it and dumping their own decay or entropy; Progogine discusses findings in telephone interview; diagrams (L)

Article on Greece becoming 10th member of Common Market notes that by advancing date of integration into Market, Greeks expect to achieve net gain of $1.8 billion in funds received from community during 5-year transitional period; Greek agriculture, in long run, is expected to benefit but industry will probably suffer from competition of other member countries because of low productivity and lack of modern technology and management skills; Government insists that Greece will ultimately win its proper market share; view is disputed by Andreas Papandreou, who heads main opposition party, Panhellenic Socialist Movement; he and his fellow party members, as well as representatives of Communist Party, which also oppose Common Market membership, are absent from ceremony (S)

Government and industry officials say US is now bearing disproportionate share of world oil shortage, perhaps 2/3 of estimated shortfall of 1.2 million bbls a day; say cause can be traced to recently reversed Energy Department order forbidding American oil companies to buy oil at high spot market prices and to trend among oil-producing countries to market more of their oil themselves rather than through mediacy of international, largely US-based, oil companies; US companies have also been put at disadvantage in bidding for Iranian oil as result of poor US-Iranian relations; Theodore Eck (Indiana Standard) and John Treat (Energy Department) comment (M)

Noninsurance companies are increasingly seeking to take over insurance companies, lured by stable profits of life insurance companies and higher returns of casualty companies; Felix G Rohatyn of Lazard Freres & Co recalls Continental Group's purchase of Richmond Corp, life insurer, 2 years ago; says despite cost, $325 million worth of stock, deal was 'brilliantly successful' for Continental; other recent takeovers noted; Monumental Life Insurance Co has paid premium of nearly 40% for its own stock to avoid takeover by Kaufman & Broad; chart showing some prime takeover targets in '78 and '79 (M)

Article on school, boro of Queens, and 58-yr-old senior Martin L Simms, a retired Washington, DC, Postmaster; says Simms epitomizes black, middle-class Queens resident who will save York, which has faced prospects of having its 4-yr baccalaureate program downgraded or eliminated because of NYC's fiscal crunch (M)

Article on adverse reaction among many in academic community to recent questionnaire sent by social scientists, Seymour Martin Lipset and Everett Carll Ladd Jr, soliciting views on topics ranging from grade inflation to defense spending; many scholars criticize survey's methodology, alleged technical design flaws, validity and alleged 'ambiguity' of wording; Lipset calls criticism 'academic McCarthyism' (L)

The United States appears to be bearing perhaps two‐thirds of the world oil shortage of 1.2 million barrels a day, Government and industry officials say. As a result, the Department of Energy has quietly changed its policy opposing American purchases on the costly spot market. [Page A1.]