August 4, 1979

Mayor Koch intends to name City Planning Commission Chmn Robert F Wagner Jr as Deputy Mayor; Badillo describes his 18 months of service with Koch administration as 'the most difficult and painful period of my life'; Wagner por; Badillo illus (M)

30 attempts at banning reporters from criminal proceedings have resulted from recent US Sup Ct ruling that press and public have no constitutional right of access to pretrial hearings; judges have closed courtrooms in 18 of these cases; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reports that motions to close courtrooms are increasing and being granted more frequently; indicates motions to seal criminal proceedings are expanding to include all aspects of trial proceedings, from arrest hearings to sentencing; notes prosecutors are not opposing defense attorneys' motions to close hearings and are sometimes joining motions (M)

China has nearly completed series of agreements with foreign oil companies for comprehensive seismic surveys of what are believed to be its vast offshore oil reserves; at least 10 American oil companies are known to have signed contracts with Peking over last few months for surveys; areas assigned to American concerns are largely in South China Sea; latest deal was concluded in July by group of 4 oil companies-Standard Oil Co, Cities Service Co, Pennzoil Co and Union Oil Co of California-for work in Gulf of Tonkin in waters that may be contested by Vietnam; China has said that after seismic data are processed, it will invite bids for 2d stage of exploration and development in mid-1981; map of sites of exploration (M)

UAW pres Douglas A Fraser says union has rejected Chrysler's appeal for 2-year freeze on wages and benefits (M)

Vice President Mondale assails Congress for beginning its Aug recess without making 'adequate progress' on Pres Carter's energy legislation; says proposed Energy Mobilization Board is threatened (M)

Jimmy Bell robs branch at 39th Street and Broadway of $7,500; is wounded; shoots civilian and PtlI John Snidersich; illus (M)

British Prime Min Thatcher hints that her Government will not recognize Zimbabwe Rhodesia or lift sanctions unless its Constitution is amended, speech, Commonwealth of Nations conference, Lusaka; says she will soon call for cease-fire between Patriotic Front guerrillas and Salisbury's security forces and ask all parties to move toward settlement; terms 'valid criticism' view that Constitution under which Muzorewa came to power 'was defective in certain important respects'; Nigerian Comr Henry E O Adefope presses Thatcher to come up with concrete proposals (M)

Article on 0.1% increase to 5.7% in July unemployment rate holds statistically insignificant increase comes as Carter Administration policymakers brace for relatively steep recession; Labor Statistics Comr Janet L Norwood says economic slowdown is demonstrated by higher unemployment rates in manufacturing sector of economy (M)

Tens of thousands of chanting Nicaraguans march through streets of Managua, Nicaragua, in show of support for new Sandinist Government; Government officials meet with aid mission from Inter-American Development Bank in effort to get funds to rebuild economy; Government announces that bank's Venezuelan trust fund was given $20 million for emergency reconstruction; bank reportedly has agreed to commit up to $500 million for individual redevelopment projects over next 3 years; junta leader Carlos Nunez Tejas comments (M)

Article in series on Europeans' vacation destinations; thousands make summer trek to North Cape, Norway, remote and desolate tip of land which is northernmost point on continent; illus; map (M)

Members of US Presidential Commission on the Holocaust pay tribute at Babi Yar monument in Kiev, where 70,000 Jews were slain by Nazis in 1941; ceremony illus; visitors voice shock that Jews are not mentioned on plaque to Russian victims; chairman Elie Wiesel, Bayard Rustin, others join in tribute; Wiesel lauds official USSR cooperation with group's mission, gathering data for US memorial (M)

UN Deputy High Comr for Refugees Dale de Haan says refugees continue to die because they are being denied asylum, despite recent international conference designed to bring them aid; expresses 'grave concern' over repeated violations of 'sacred principle' of nonrejection of refugees by country they first reach in search of asylum; says statement is directed at Malaysia; Malaysian authorities continue to bar boat people from landing; de Haan says office will discuss problem with individual governments (S)