December 6, 1980

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5--The United States suspended new military and economic aid to El Salvador today pending clarification of the role of Salvadoran security forces in the killing of three American nuns and a lay missionary.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5--The death rate among American adolescents and young adults is rising sharply at a time when improved health care has steadily reduced mortality among all other Americans.

Concern over the likelihood of a recession next year increased yesterday as the nation's larger banks, responding to the Federal Reserve's stringent monetary policy, raised their prime lending rates to 19 percent from 18 percent.

MOSCOW, Dec. 5--The leaders of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies held a surprise meeting here to discuss the problems in Poland and expressed confidence tonight that the Poles would overcome their crisis and that the workers would "assure the country's development along the socialist path."

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5--Congressional and White House negotiators sought today to work out compromises on two civil rights measures as Congress reluctantly canceled its scheduled adjournment and agreed to continue meeting next week.