June 4, 1979

NY Harbor Waterfront Commission has secretly suspended investigator Alfonso T Pelaez on charges that he may have disclosed confidential information to Anthony M Scotto, Brooklyn International Longshoremen's Assn leader, while Scotto was under investigation by Federal and state agencies (M)

Deputy Prime Min Kang Shien, who is currently touring US, says his Government would like American companies to help in surveying and design of hydropower stations (S)

The oil outlook calls for an extremely fragile balance between supply and demand over the next year and for more spot shortages and rising prices, according to Carter Administration officials and private oil analysts. The balance, they say, will be vulnerable to almost any new disruptions In world oil supplies not now foreseen, including possible new cutbacks in production in Iran. [Page Al.]

Pope John Paul II, applauded by immense crowds, travels to Gniezno, Poland, to pledge his solidarity with what he calls often forgotten Christians of Poland's Soviet-bloc neighbors; says he is distressed that in a time of 'declared freedom and exchange of information,' an apparent allusion to East-West detente agreements, there might be East Europeans who cannot hear him speak; Pope's remarks come in homily at Cathedral of Assumption; earlier, in speech before crowd of about 300,000, Pope stressed importance of church education for young children and praised Polish youth for its perseverance in its faith; map; illus (L)

Oil economists generally believe that gasoline demand may be more responsive to price than they once thought; graph shows MIT's projection of decline in gasoline consumption in 7 countries if real price were to double; illus (M)

Sec Blumenthal says Pres Carter's wage‐price guidelines need revising and updating and that review will begin in next several weeks; says that despite complaints about guidelines not being effective, they have been adhered to in 80% of recent wage settlements by unions; commenting on CBS TV program Face the Nation, he says he sees nothing in latest econ statistics to indicate that US is confronted with any kind of recession (S)

Article on $7 million conversion of former Roman Catholic chapel at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, into computer center; illus (M)

Article on ROLM Corp, co-founded by M Kenneth Oshman, which is leader in market for specialized telephone equipment; Oshman comments on company's shift in '72 from computer business to telephone business; although Bell System is beginning to offer competing features, ROLM contends that it is at least 1 year ahead technically; phone equipment now represents 70% of ROLM sales, which surged from $64 million in '74 to $36.1 million in '78; Jack Berdell of Montgomery Securities comments; graph of telephone connection powers in ROLM's growth; illus of Oshman (M)

Americans, led by Citicorp Credit Inc, are offering convenient, cheap consumer credit to middle-class Japanese; Citicorp Credit pres Lawrence R Roessel comments; other Amer cos in field are are Security Pacific National Bank and Avco Financial Services Inc; Citicorp charges maximum yrly interest of 19.7%, compared with average annual rate of 80% charged by 'sarakin,' or salary-man loan co; Tatsuo Nakamura, president of Security Pacific's operations in Japan, comments; Roessel illus (M)

Penna health authorities report that only 4,000 of 12,000 Amish in Lancaster County, Pa, have accepted polio vaccine, despite fact immunization it necessary to control polio outbreak; 21 emergency clinics were opened this weekend in effort to reach non-Amish population, although authorities insist that non-Amish face no great danger from disease; illus (L)

Koch adm privately promises at least $20 million more for NYC schools as adm begins crucial budget talks with Estimate Bd and City Council (S)

Shrinkage in nation's inventory of rental apartments has begun to impede ability of Americans to choose between renting and buying to meet their housing needs; shrinkage has been caused by falling production of new rental units, abandonment and foreclosure of older apartments and conversion of desirable rental units to condominiums or cooperatives (M)