article on significance of Carter-Brezhnev summit; members of Brezhnev delegation noted; US Sen Gordon J Humphrey illus examining poster by Natl Conservative Political Action Committee critical of Sen George McGovern for alleged appeasement of USSR on SALT (M)

Moscow Is Warily Optimistic

WEEKENDER GUIDE

Federal Reserve Bank of NY reports record surge in money supply with M-1 up $6.9 billion in week ended June 6 and M-2 up $8 billion; graph (M)

Money Supply Up Sharply

Truckers' strike is reported to have spread to 37 states (M)

Food Shipments Snarled by Truck Stoppages in 37 States

LASZLO HELTAY came from London, Fred Hartmann from Munich, Federico Pallavicini from Paris and John Marsteller from Hone Kong.

Dance Joins Opera In Caramoor Kickoff

Energy Sec James Schlesinger criticizes American oil companies for decline in amount of oil being refined, but hails a rise in crude oil imports as hopeful sign for gasoline supply this summer; API reports that refinery utilization fell from 87% to 84.5% in latest week, although inventories of crude oil rose to 350.2 million bbls from 322.6 million the previous week; Energy Department to investigate; Charles J DiBona, API president, rejects notion that oil companies are withholding oil and contends that industry operations are subject to week-to-week fluctuations; DiBona illus (M)

SCHLESINGER CHIDES U.S. OIL COMPANIES ON DROP IN REFINING

Communist Party Deputy Chmn Li Xiannian reptdly says nation's economic modernization plan caused budget deficit of more than $6.5 billion last yr, plunging nation into ‘economic crisis’; Li also voices concern over high unemployment rate (M)

China Deficit Reported; Modernization Plan Cited

reports new loss of $129 million for fiscal year ended Feb 28; it is company's largest and 6th consecutive annual loss, and it raises paper deficit to about $368 million; new loss results from combination of subsidiary losses, reduced rentals, depreciation and reserves; Arlen is expected to offer certain of its prime real-estate properties to consortium of banks, headed by Citibank, with which it is currently negotiating to restructure its $350 million of corporate debt; company history noted; Arlen president Robert F Stewart comment (M)

Arlen Realty Shows Loss

Pres Carter arrives in Vienna with Mrs Carter and Amy; illus

Carter Holds ‘No Illusions’

Firemen, fighting blaze at Macy's, attempt to prevent news cameramen from filming them carrying out body of fireman killed in fire; TV soundman is kicked and firemen's helmets are hurled at TV crews; illus (S)

A FIREMAN IS KILLED IN BLAZE AT MACY'S

NYC Transit Authority figures show reported crime in subways rose during week of June 3 with sharpest increase during afternoon hours when additional police are not on duty; statistics show that crime between 2 AM and 4 PM also rose; agency spokesman says increase reflects stepped-up activity of youth released from school (M)

Reported Crimes in Subways Jumped in Afternoon Hours Last Week

Masters of Fantasy At Cooper‐Hewitt

Justice Department files civil antitrust suit challenging broadcast industry code that regulates and limits amount and format of advertising sold on TV; charges that code, established by National Assn of Broadcasters, has driven up advertising costs by restricting amount of TV time made available to advertisers; Kenneth C Anderson, chief of special regulated industries section of Justice Department's antitrust division, and broadcasters group president Vincent T Wasilewski and group's senior vice president and general counsel Erwin Krasnow comment (M)

U.S. Challenges TV Code's Limit On Commercials

confusion reported in drug industry over recall; cos participating in recall and drugs involved listed; Whitehall Laboratories reformulated sleeping-aid products, Quiet World and Sleep-Eez, last summer after FDA moved drugs containing methapyrilene into category considered not safe, not effective or not properly labeled; drawing (M)

Confusion on Sleep‐Drug Recall

BUSINESS Dgest

NJ Energy Comr Joel R Jacobson says he will subpoena records of 4 big oil refiners in state-Exxon, Chevron, Mobil and Texaco--unless they tell him promptly how full their storage tanks actually are; Exxon says information is proprietary and would not be meaningful to NJ, because gasoline refined and stored in NJ is distributed not just in NJ but in much of East; Jerry Ferrara (NJ Gasoline Retailers Assn) says sources within oil industry told him that tanks owned and leased by oil companies are full; latest API figures show decline in amount of gasoline stored in tanks in area (M)

Jersey Is Seeking To Measure Gas Held for Storage

News Summary

Consumer food prices and overall Mexican-American economic ties could be disturbed by Treasury Dept enforcement case involving $200 million in Mexican produce sold in US during cold weather; growers in Florida have petitioned Treasury under Antidumping Act to investigate Mexican vegetable sales to determine whether produce is being sold illegally in US at prices below cost of production; Treasury is leaning toward literal interpretation of statute, which could mean finding in favor of Florida growers; positions of Reprs Sam M Gibbons, L A Bafalis and other legislators and officials noted; illus; graph (L)

Mexican Farm Exports: A Question of Fair Trade

article on effects of truckers' protest on Montana's livestock industry (M)

Montana Feels the Protest Pinch

NYS Appeals Court rules that courts, as ‘matter of public policy’ should avoid making judgments in ‘educational malpractice’ suits; reaffirms, in unanimous decision, dismissal by lower courts of $5 million suit brought by Edward Donohue who said his LI school district allowed him to graduate from high school despite his beingdfunctionally illiterate (M)

State High Court Throws Out Suit By L.I. Illiterate

Civil Aeronautics Board administrative judge Richard J Murphy rules proposed acquisition of National Airlines by Eastern Air Lines would be unlawful because it would diminish domestic competition; Charles J Simons, Eastern's vice chairman and executive vice president, scores ruling and says carrier will press its case before full board (M)

Eastern Air Is Rebuffed On National

Article on work of students from State University College at Oneonta, NY, in cleaning and restoring murals in central jury room of NYS Supreme Court Building at 60 Centre Street, Manhattan; work is part of $180,000 renovation program for 3 Manhattan courthouses; illus (S)

Where Grime Never Pays

Because of trash&#8208;removal problems during the tugboat strike, alternateside parking regulations will be in effect today in Manhattan and Brooklyn only. No decision had been made yesterda v on tomorrow's regulations.

PARKING REGULATIONS

NYC Mayor Koch announces that 109 problem-ridden R-46 subway cars will be immediately withdrawn from service and that NYC has filed $112.3-million lawsuit for breach of contract and warranty against Rockwell International Corp and Pullman Inc, news conf; says city concludes that all undercarriages (trucks) on cars are unsatisfactory and will have to be replaced; says cars will be inspected over weekend of June 16 and may be back in service by June 18; MTA estimates that standard 4-minute headway between trains might be lengthened slightly; Stein charges it is ‘completely inadequate, if not negligent’ not to remove all 754 R-46 cars from system (M)

CITY TAKES 109 CARS OFF SUBWAY SERVICE AS ‘UNSATISFACTORY’

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June 15, 1979

Headlines from June 15, 1979

Moscow Is Warily Optimistic

WEEKENDER GUIDE

Money Supply Up Sharply

Food Shipments Snarled by Truck Stoppages in 37 States

Dance Joins Opera In Caramoor Kickoff

Billboard 200

Bad Girls

Breakfast In America

We Are Family

Rickie Lee Jones

Cheap Trick At Budokan

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 15, 1979