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)