Robert F. Wagner Jr. had been there before.He was there in 1949, when his father was sworn in as Manhattan Borough President and his brother Duncan nearly bashed Mayor William O'Dwyer in the head with a window pole during the ceremonies.

Deputy Mayor Wagner Treads Familiar Path at City Hall

Interior Sec Cecil Andrus endorses proposal of Northern Tier Pipeline Co as best of 4 competing proposals to move excess Alaskan crude oil eastward from West Coast; $1.2 billion proposal calls for construction of 1,491‐mile pipeline from Port Angeles, Wash, to Clearbrook, Minn, where it would connect with existing pipelines to bring 709,000 bbls of oil a day to Northern Plains and upper Middle West; Andrus adds that line would be capable of moving crude oil found in region, including Overthrust Belt in Rocky Mountains, and that it would provide greatest economic advantage since it lies entirely within US; says it also has best prospects for financing (M)

Northern Tier Oil Line Is Endorsed by Andrus

GB issues ultimatum to Patriotic Front guerrillas to adopt British draft of constitution or leave talks; Foreign Sec Lord Carrington voices optimism but chances remain slim that compromise can be reached that is acceptable to both sides; concedes it will be more difficult to bring about end to war without guerrilla representation at conference; appeals to Patriotic Front to accept draft constitution and to keep on talking; acknowledges issue of white‐owned farmland is central issue; repeats Brit offer of financial assistance in post‐independence rural development, including unspecified amount of money to compensate whites for land that is seized; says US backs draft constitution; US reportedly has indicated willingness to offer financial assistance; Nkomo comments (M)

RHODESIA REBELS GET BRITISH ULTIMATUM

rates on Treasury bills soar to new record highs above 11 1/2%; average discount rate on 13‐week bills reaches 11.836% and rate on 26‐week bills climbs to 11.716% graphs of average weekly discount rates on 3‐month and 6‐month Treasury bills, May‐Oct '79 (M)

Treasury Bill Rates Soar Above 11½%

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4 new synthetic drugs promise to improve significantly treatment of chronic and severe pain, as well as offering patients some path to safety; are fruit of 25 years of development, and they combine pain‐killing potency of conventional narcotics with reduced side effects and lack of potential for abuse, although there are indications that they have psychological side effects; 2 of drugs — butorphanol (marketed as Stadol by Bristol Laboratories) and nalbuphine (marketed as Nubain by Endo Laboratories) — have been approved by FDA; other 2 — buprenorphine (trade name Temgesic, being developed by Eaton Laboratories) and propiram (trade name Dirame, being developed by Schering‐Plough Inc) — are still in testing and evaluation stages; Drs Ronald R Jasinski (Addiction Research Center, Baltimore), Solomon H Snyder (Johns Hopkins) and Ray W Houde (Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Institute) comment (L)

New Drugs Offer Help for Severe Pain

Federal Reserve chairman Paul A Volcker tells Senate Banking Committee that as long as money and credit remain moderate, Federal Reserve will accept drop in interest rates as result of recession; says current high rates could decline quickly, reiterates that Fed's recent credit‐tightening moves did not include reducing targets for money and credit growth; stresses that Fed will continue to maintain moderate growth (M)

Volcker Says Rates Might Fall

BUSINESS Digest .

Nobel Prize in physics is won by Steven Weinberg and Sheldon L Glashow (Harvard Univ) and Abdus Salam, Pakistani who works at univs in London and Trieste; winners are honored for complementary research on theory known as Weinberg‐Salam Theory of Weak Interference, regarded as major step toward goal of unified field theory; Weinberg‐Salam theory unifies theoretically the interactions of electromagnetism with weak force which causes radioactive decay in certain atomic nuclei; chart shows theory of weak force (L)

Americans at Harvard and Purdue Win — German and Pakistani Cited

Reldon escapes from 3d‐floor courtroom by immobilizing guard with Chemical Mace, leaping 35 feet from window ledge and stealing car from nearby parking lot; Reldan is recaptured in Tuxedo, NY, after car he is driving crashes into ditch during police chase; Bergen County, NJ, Sheriff Joseph F Job comments on escape; Reldan, remanded without bail to Rockland County (NY) Jail, is fighting extradition back to NJ; illus (M)

A Murder Defendant Escapes From Court

Vocational Education Study conducted by National Institute of Education, HEW Department, suggests that high school vocational programs are operating largely on blind faith and that connection between what is taught and earning a livelihood is highly questionable; Research Information Center vice president John Walsh, report contributor, says evidence on effectiveness of vocational education mandated by Vocational Education Act is at best ambiguous and at worst nonexistent; Federal Government currently provides $650 million annually for vocational education; matching funds from states bring total contributions to $5 billion annually; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof Lester C Thurow and Education for Occupational and Adult Education Commissioner Dan B Dunham comment (M)

EDUCATION U.S. Study Assails Vocational Courses

NYS Senate majority leader Warren M Anderson says he will call Senate into session on Nov 8 to act on Republican program to deal with higher heating oil costs; plan would repeal state sales tax on residential energy and let residents stretch out their winter oil bills over entire year; Gov Carey says program is neither workable, constitutional nor fiscally responsible; Anderson por (M)

Anderson Says He'll Call A Session on Cost of Fuel

Walter Sullivan article on unification hypothesis developed by Drs Weinberg, Glashow and Salam, winners of Nobel Prize in physics (M)

1967 Theory Says 2 Basic Forces Are Part of the Same Phenomenon

Bitter and expensive rate war has broken out in $2.5 billion rent‐a‐car industry since Hertz cut rates 33% on Labor Day; Avis retaliated with rates a shade lower than Hertz's; Budget Rent a Car followed Hertz's price‐cuting example and National joined fracus with even lower rates; Budget pres Martin Belzberg, Hertz pres Frank A Olsen and Avis vice pres Frank J LoNano comment; chart compares discount rates of leading companies (M)

Rate War Grips Rent‐a‐Cars

Article on Brooklyn Heights notes large number of brownstones and former hotels are being converted into cooperative apartments; illus (L)

Co‐ops Leading Latest Renaissance in Brooklyn

Gen Carlos Humberto Romero is deposed as president and will be replaced by civilian‐military junta; Col Adolfo Arnoldo Majano and Col Jaime Abdul Gutierrez will exercise power until junta is formed; armed forces appeal to extremists of left and right to lay down their arms in return for role in Government; are said to have been unhappy with Romero's policy of avoiding clashes with extremists whenever possible; map (M)

SALVADOR MILITARY DEPOSES PRESIDENT TO ‘RESTORE ORDER’

10 or more NYC marshals and auctioneers face Federal criminal charges stemming from 3‐year investigation of auction‐rigging practices; inquiry has been conducted jointly by NYC Department of Investigation and Office of US Attorney for Eastern District of NY; Stanley N Lupkin, City Investigation Commissioner, and Edward R Korman, US Atty for Eastern District, decline to comment; scope of investigation was indicated publicly in August by Chief Judge Jacob Mishler after he presided at trial of auctioneer Allen Kanovsky (S)

City Marshals Said to Face Charges In Investigation of Auction‐Rigging

American Airlines, in summary paper tent to National Transportation Safety Board insisting that Chicago crash was caused by ‘design deficiencies,’ says it is committed to ‘extensive structural and system changes on its thirty DC‐10's; says that it has asked McDonnell Douglas Corp, craft manufacturer, to make list of modifications and that McDonnell has agreed to make them; officials of both companies disagree over which changes will finally be made and who would bear cost, which could total $500,000 a plane; at slake in resolution of responsibility for accident are costs of craft modification and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage settlements to be paid to estates of crash victims (M)

American Says It is Committed To Alter DC‐10

Daniel Adams, after studying fossil skeletons found in cave in western Wyoming, concludes that cheetahs, now endangered species living only in Africa, once roamed North American plains; study suggests that species originated in North America and that cheetah and mountain lion are more closely related to each other than to any other living feline; Adams's research outlined; illus; drawings (M)

Tracking Cheetahs In North America

elects W Michael Blumenthal to vice chairman post; will replace chairman Paul S Mirabito at end of 1980; company elevates DuRay E Stromback to president and chief operating officer; Shearson Hayden Stone Inc vice president John J McManus comments; Blumenthal comments; por (M)

Blumenthal Is in Line To Head Burroughs

Earthquake registering 6.4 on Richter scale shakes wide area of southern California and northern Mexico on Oct 15, injuring at least 70 persons and causing extensive damage along 150‐mile stretch of United States‐Mexican border; tremor is felt as far away at Los Angeles and Phoenix, but most of damage occurs in Imperial and Mexicali valleys; map; illus (M)

Powerful Quake at Mexican Border Rocks Much of Southern California

Richard V Adams, executive vice president of Chemical Bank's bond trading and investment activities, is dismissed after bank reports $8.8 million 3d quarter loss on bond trading; banking anaylsts say main reason for his departure was disagreement over way bank should approach its trading and investment activities; bond traders say Adams was optimistic that inflation would be controlled and interest rates would decline; Morgan Stark, who will succeed Adams, says bank will keep its trading position at a minimum (S)

Chemical Dismisses Bond Head

Iran and Libya raise crude oil prices by more than 10%, piercing OPEC price ceiling and raising likelihood of general OPEC increase; graph shows their estimated average official prices '77 to present (M)

IRAN AND LIBYA LIFT PRICES OF CRUDE OIL BY MORE THAN 10%

Article on current theories of the universe queries whether scientific analyses and observations of past 50 years could be wrong; notes confidence of some scientists, which had not been seriously challenged for past decade, has been shaken by new findings; notes astronomers are taking hard, new look at so‐called 'red shift' — subtle change light undergoes as it travels to earth from distant reaches of universe; red shift effect is main tool used by scientists over years to estimate size, age and general structure of the universe as well as probable nature of its birth and eventual fate; diagram (M)

Cosmic Measurement:; Is the Yardstick Is the Yardstick of the Universe in Error? Red Shift Reveals Distance Anomalies in Deep Space Discovery of Quasars Different Shifts of Galaxies

Johan Collett Müller Borgen was a Norwegian writer, journalist and critic. His best-known work is the novel Lillelord for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1955. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.

October 16, 1979

Headlines from October 16, 1979

Deputy Mayor Wagner Treads Familiar Path at City Hall

Northern Tier Oil Line Is Endorsed by Andrus

RHODESIA REBELS GET BRITISH ULTIMATUM

Treasury Bill Rates Soar Above 11½%

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Billboard 200

In Through The Out Door

Get The Knack

Slow Train Coming

Midnight Magic

Off The Wall

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 16, 1979