November 6, 1979

Mayor Koch is hit in eye and pelted with eggs on Nov 5 as he rises to address visitors at American Public Health Assn convention, Hilton Hotel, NYC; assailants, who were protesting Koch's plan to close some city hospitals, identified as Drs Nayvin Gordon and Charles E Wright and Gordon's wife, Linda; they are reportedly members of Health Committee Against Racism, branch of International Committee Against Racism, which has been in alliance with Progressive Labor Party, a dissident Communist group that figured in pelting of Koch with tomatoes last Feb; Koch presses charges against assailants, who are charged with assault, disorderly conduct and harassment; illus (L)

US rejects Iranian students demand that deposed Shah be turned over to Iran as price for release of 60 Americans being held in Teheran embassy; White House and State Dept officials say Shah is in NYC solely for medical treatment; expect Bazargan's Govt to help in freeing hostages; say Bazargan Govt is limited in its ability to control students; say US charge d'affaires L Bruce Laingen was not taken hostage; Foreign Min Ibrahim Yazdi promises to gain release of Americans; Ayatollah Khomeini followers also seize US consulates in Tabriz and Shiraz, but no Americans are directly affected; illustration of Iranian charge d'affaires Ali Agah explaining conditions to be met for release of hostages (M)

Article on listening seminars at Sperry Corporation's 5 divisions aimed at training personnel and management employees in communications skills; corporation has committed more than $4 million in prime-time television and print advertising in yearlong campaign to build image as good listener and is diverting thousands of man-hours to classroom training on listening skills; Center for Organization Development communications consultant Jerry Fisher notes Sperry is in forefront in offering communications training to employees; company chairman and chief executive J Paul Lyet comments; seminar illus (M)

The Economy

Several dozen American colleges and occupational schools, aware that postsecondary education is being increasingly viewed as consumer purchase, seek to prepare catalogues that offer student-consumers better information to spare both buyer and seller wasted funds and hard feelings later (L)