November 1, 1979

Bundesbank (West Germany) raises key interest rates for 4th time this year, move which West German Government apparently opposed for fear it might hurt dollar and undermine Federal Reserve Board's antiinflation policy; Bundesbank president Otmar Emminger insists rate increases will have no major impact on dollar (M)

DC-10 jetliner, en route from Los Angeles with 90 persons aboard, crashes on landing at Mexico City Airport, killing 74, including 3 persons on ground; preliminary investigation indicates pilot landed on wrong runway, which was closed for repairs; plane carried 35 Americans, 6 of whom are among 19 hospitalized survivors; ABC News reports dead include producer Ken Luckoff; investigators from FAA, National Transportation Safety Board, McDonnell Douglas Corp and General Electric Co begin probe; dead include Captain Charles Gilbert and First Officer Ernest Reichel; wreckage illus; survivor Pandora Drickensen illus; diagram of runways (M)

Legislative negotiators are close to agreement on measure to finance new headquarters for American Stock Exchange; new and more spacious headquarters are to become centerpiece of commercial zone to be created in Battery Park City (S)

President's Commission on the Accident at 3 Mile Island wins bipartisan support in Congress for its central conclusion that fundamental changes are required if risks of nuclear power 'are to be kept within tolerable limits'; there is less agreement on which remedies are required and who should administer them; Sens Gary Hart, Alan K Simpson, Peter V Domenici and Repr Morris K Udall praise report; Hart opposes recommendation that Nuclear Regulatory Commission be replaced by agency in executive branch headed by single manager; Repr Edward Markey says report is flawed because it does not recommend moratorium on construction of new reactors; illustration of commission head John G Kemeny, Columbia University Prof Paul A Marks and Cora B Marritt at hearing (M)

South Korean and Western sources disclose that Kim Jae Kyu tried to draw Army Chief of Staff Gen Chung Seung Hwa into plot following assassination; instead, Gen Chung ordered arrest of intelligence chief after intense battle of wills that lasted several hours and has since emerged as martial law commander and most powerful figure in immediate aftermath of assassination; portraits of Gen Chung and Kim (M)