March 15, 1980

The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted yesterday to end on May 1 most special half-fare programs on New York City's subways and buses and on the Conrail and Long Island Rail Road systems.

Allard K. Lowenstein, who led the 1968 movement to block the re-election of President Lyndon B. Johnson, was shot yesterday at his Rockefeller Center law office and died seven hours later.

WARSAW, March 14 Eighty-seven people, among them 22 boxers and officials of a United States amateur team, were killed today in the crash of a Polish jetliner crippled by engine trouble minutes before attempting a landing at Warsaw.

WASHINGTON, March 14--President Carter said tonight that the United States still intended to comply with the terms of the strategic arms treaty with the Soviet Union, but he left open the possibility that it might renounce the treaty on its own, even though it has pledged to abide by the treaty's terms so long as the Russians do.

WASHINGTON, March 14 Even the Carter Administration acknowledges that its new economic program is unlikely to have much visible effect on inflation in 1980.