August 7, 1980

President Carter, making a quick trip to New York City one week before he expects to return as his party's Presidential nominee, yesterday assailed Ronald Reagan's proposed tax cuts as "sugar-coated poison" and announced that he would offer his own "economic renewal program" in the next few weeks.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 6--A hurricane, already blamed for 68 deaths in its surge across the Caribbean, headed toward the Gulf of Mexico tonight. It raked Jamaica with 100-mile-an-hour winds and torrential rain, then roared past the Cayman Islands toward western Cuba.

The streets of New York City are dirtier than at anytime in recent memory. Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, the wholesale flower market, the theater district, the garment center, Wall Street, Times Square--some of Manhattan's biggest names are dirty.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6--Senator Edward M. Kennedy, resisting appeals that he unequivocally pledge support for whoever is the party's Presidential nominee, today disclosed plans to break political tradition by addressing next Tuesday's convention debate on the economic planks of the Democratic platform.

LENOX, Mass. FEW problems in historic preser vation are more difficult than those posed by a great country estate, the huge house and grounds that were assembled for an age in which labor was cheap and entertaining was lavish.