September 8, 1979

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports producer prices, paced by increases in food and energy costs, increased 1.2% in August; National Assn of Manufacturers chief economist George Hagedorn says picture continues to be one of economic slowdown getting under way at rather slow pace; graphs on producer prices and key price indexes (M)

Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee to recommend National Health Institutes exempt from strict Federal guidelines 80-85% of current experimentation; would retain ban on potentially dangerous experiments but greatly cut paperwork on obtaining permission for most scientific work; com members Drs David Baltimore and Richard P Novick laud decision; Dr Richard Goldstein critical, urging further study (M)

Koch, dissatisfied with results of 6-month subway anticrime campaign, is expected to announce program changes during week of September 9; spokesman John Battenfield says decision will be based on study by Sturz; Garelik says arrest rate has significant effect on incidence of crime because so many subway criminals are repeat offenders; maintains that plainclothes and decoy officers, who have been eliminated during new program, deter certain types of crime; illus (M)

I A Richards, author and literary critic, dies on Sept 7 at age of 86; biog sketch; por (M)

Pres Carter, voicing concern over Soviet threat to current US fixed-base missiles, announces plant for $33 billion system for deploying 200 new mobile missiles in Western desert valleys; says deployment system, expected to be fully operational in '89, can survive surprise attack since mobility of missiles would enable them to elude Soviet assault; system described; diagram; Defense Sec Harold Brown illus (M)

Runcie illus with his wife and children

Economists regard Labor Dept report of rise in unemployment to an August total of 6,149,000 people as indication that American economy began sliding last spring into 7th recession since World War II (M)

analysis of discovery of Soviet troops holds situation is not so much a national security problem for Carter Administration as it is a domestic political one for a President who is seeking re-election and who is trying to gain Senate approval for new treaty with Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms (M)

Pres Carter warns Soviet Union that its relations with US would be adversely affected unless it respects US concern about Soviet troops in Cuba, TV statement; urges nation to remain calm as Administration deals with issue; does not explicitly demand withdrawal of Soviet troops but says that Administration would seek to negotiate diplomatic resolution; says US faces no immediate danger because troops are not an assault force; Sens Robert C Byrd and Jacob Javits back Carter; George H Bush, candidate for Republican nomination for Pres, denounces Carter; Sen Robert Dole says he will continue efforts to seek Sen vote to delay consideration of arms treaty until Soviet troops are removed from Cuba; Carter illus (L)

Americans have become increasingly interested in PLO following Andrew Young's resignation as US Amb to UN because of controversy over his unauthorized meeting with PLO official; Hasan A Abdel Rahman, director of information of PLO delegation at UN, comments; illus (M)

Israeli military authorities in occupied Gaza Strip arrest 70 alleged terrorists, including son of Dr Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian leftist who recently met with Foreign Min Dayan; suspects are members of As Saiqa, Syrian-dominated Palestinian faction, and Al Fatah (M)

US says that attack on Mozambique is ‘regretable at this time,’ just before London talks; US State Dept spokesman Hodding Carter 3d comments (S)