December 24, 1979

Illus of Senator Jim Sasser, one of 3 Senators who traveled to Cambodia, with Carter Administration approval, to expedite delivery of aid, visiting refugee camp in Thailand

some of most powerful people in NYS politics were involved in behind‐the‐scenes efforts to influence selection of new Hunter College president; political media specialist David Garth favored Dr Robert S Hirschfield, former NYC Mayor Robert Wagner supported Dr Donna E Shalala; Hunter trustee Stuart Scheftel, who supported candidacy of Shalala, disputes Gov Carey aide Robert J Morgado contention that politics did not play role in selection of Shalala; Hunter Chancellor Dr Robert J Kibbee comments (M)

Four men were given summonses by police for disorderly conduct following a brawl in which several Boston players climbed into the stands and fought with fans after the Bruins’ 4‐3 victory over the Rangers last night at Madison Sauare Garden.

Article on improved trade ties between Libya and Italy; 18,000 Italian workers have returned to Libya almost 10 years after el‐Qaddafi nationalized all properties owned by Italian bourgeoisie and forced them to leave Libya; Italian consortium has just won $130 million Government contract; Italy's exports to Libya jumped from $1 billion in '75 to about $1.2 billion in '77 and this year Italians expect figure to rise to $1.4 billion; Libya supplies 20% of Italy's fuel; it has agreed to increase oil exports to Italy by 4 million tons a year for next 5 years; graph compares Italian exports to Libya, '71‐78; map (M)

Article on distribution of year‐end bonuses at Wall Street brokerage firms; holds that although there is wide belief that year‐end bonus is thing of past, bonuses persist through much of industry, and some are bigger than ever; says really big money goes to income producers, though many low‐level employees still get bonuses too; adds that major change is that identity of recipients and amount each gets are often more secret than before; practice of distributing bonuses at NY and American Stock Exchanges and at individual brokerage firms noted (M)