August 7, 1979

Dr. Elliott M. Gross, Connecticut's Chief Medical Examiner, has been offered the job of New York City's Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Koch, and he accepted late last week, according to city officials.

106 of 225 persons arrested for trespassing during Aug 5 protest at Indian Point, NY, nuclear power plant remain in jail, having refused to give their names (S)

Pres Carter, swearing in G William Miller as Treasury Secretary and Paul A Volcker as Federal Reserve chairman, vows to continue his economic policies as all 3 men give gloomy assessments of scope of problems facing US; policies include opposition to both tax cut and mandatory wage and price controls and stress fiscal and budgetary restraint; Carter designates Miller as Administration's chief economic spokesman; all 3 stress danger of inflation; Carter, in apparent attempt to link inflation to previous Administrations, says US has now experienced more than decade of persistent inflation; Carter, Miller, Volcker illus (L)

Article on efforts of marine archeologists to study remains of USS Monitor--long-lost Civil War ironclad recently found off Cape Hatteras, NC; vessel changed course of naval warfare on March 9, 1862 when it engaged Merrimac, Confederate ironclad, signaling end of age of wooden men-of-war and beginning of era of armored battleships; Monitor was sunk by icy waves later in year while attempting to round Diamond Shoals; drawings; illus (M)

Muzorewa welcomes 'positive elements' in new peace plan from Commonwealth; demands 'substantial clarification' of some points, but indicates outright opposition to only 1 provision-call for new round of British-supervised elections; there has been no official comment on plan from former Prime Min Smith's 28-seat white bloc in parliament; recent statement by Smith indicates that he might strongly resist call by Thatcher for lessening of power held by whites in Muzorewa's coalition Government; statements by Rev Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau noted (M)