October 27, 1979

Businessman Bernard Taple persuades deposed Central African Emperor Bokassa to sell him his vast properties in France; offers proceeds from their resale--estimated at $12 million--to UNICEF; UNICEF executive director Henry R Labouisse comments; Taple, Bokassa and Labouisse pors; illus (M)

Park shot to death during reported dispute between Korean CIA Dir Kim Jae Kyu and chief bodyguard; illus (M)

Repr Reuss urges Federal Reserve to act to bring down interest rates (S)

career sketch and profile (M)

Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co admits it supplied NY Federal Reserve Bank with erroneous data that led to major distortions in money supply reports; blames use of new reporting form; banks, securities firms and individuals express bitterness that their bond-market losses stemmed from error; many blame Federal Reserve for not catching mistake earlier and for not having warned markets as soon as it began getting hints that money supply figures were distorted; HR Banking Com chmn Henry S Reuss scores Reserve error; sets hearing (M)

Metropolitan Edison says decontamination is removing enough radioactivity from water at damaged 3 Mile Island nuclear plant to allow water to be safety discharged; has no immediate plans for discharge (S)

US orders its armed forced in South Korea to higher state of alert and warns that it will react strongly to any external attempt to exploit uncertain situation in wake of Pres Park's murder; Defense Department orders stepped-up surveillance of North Korea and of border between North and South Korea to detect any troop movements; officials indicate that no troop activity has been reported; State Department holds developments are internal issue; illus of Pres Carter meeting with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and State Sec Vance (M)

US Sec of State Vance says evidence of nuclear explosion in southern hemisphere is so inconclusive that it is impossible to state categorically that South Africa or any other country actually detonated an atomic device (M)

Carter joins Sasser, Baucus and Danforth in appeal to Government to permit truck convoy, press conference; statement comes after radio broadcast from Phnom Penh says ruling Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Council ‘vigorously rejected’ plan; Senators emphasize that UN and Red Cross agreed that only truck convoys could cope with famine; Baucus discounts suggestion that US mount Air Force cargo airlift with or without permission of Cambodia, noting that many people are too weak to walk any distance to get to air drops and that food might be picked up by Vietnamese soldiers in Cambodia; group of religious and relief leaders has urged Carter and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to arrange airlift in which US and USSR would be asked to pool planes and logistical resources; Senators recount scene in Phnom Penh, Carter designates Commissioner for Refugees Dick Clark to coordinate Government's relief effort; maps (M)

3-judge Spanish tribunal postpones indefinitely abortion trial of 11 women after protests by feminists across country; tribunal attributes postponement to fact that 2 of defendants were not present, but defense attorneys say suspension was granted to avoid further demonstrations (S)

Thai Prime Min Kriangsak Chamanand calls on UN to send inspection team to Thai-Cambodian border as heavy fighting is reported 15 miles inside Cambodia; denies Vietnamese charge that Thailand is supporting guerrillas (S)

President Carter, in letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert C Byrd, pledges to proceed with development and deployment of cruise missiles suitable for use in Europe; tone of letter indicates there is little likelihood that program could be traded away for Soviet concessions in future negotiations on another nuclear arms treaty (M)