Clearly worried about its survival, the Chrysler Corporation has reportedly decided to ask for freezes on employee wages and supplier prices as part of a $1.5 billion savings plan that it hopes will persuade the Government to authorize additional loan guarantees for the company.  

Chrysler to Ask Union And Suppliers to Help In Saving $1.5 Billion; Chrysler to Seek $1.5 Billion Savings $460 Million Worker Loss Cited Additional Loan Was Planned 

BRUSSELS, Dec. 12--The Atlantic alliance officially told the Soviet Union today that intervention in Poland would bring basic changes to the international situation and effectively destroy workable East-West relations.  

NATO WARNS SOVIET INVASION OF POLAND WOULD END DETENTE; STATEMENT UNDERLINES UNITY Ministers Say Military Intervention Would Fundamentally Change the Situation in Europe Emphasis on Unity Communique Reflects Harmony NATO Warns Soviet on Polish Crisis Mayor Projects Could Be Stopped Transition Causes No Problems Trudeau Urges Calm 

Fire Department officials knew that nylon rescue ropes were deficient five months before two firemen plunged to their deaths last June in Harlem at the end of a rope that snapped, New York City's Department of Investigation said yesterday.  

FIRE-ROPES INQUIRY CRITICIZES TOP AIDES; Says They Knew Lines Were Faulty Before Two Firefighters Died Rescue Ropes' Deficiency Was Known Before Deaths of Two Firefighters Morgenthau Is Given Report 

WARSAW, Dec. 12--Backing the Communist authorities, the Roman Catholic Church today condemned acts by political dissidents and extremists that "could raise the danger of a threat to the freedom and statehood of the fatherland."  

Poland's Bishops Warn Dissidents Of National Peril; They Ask 'Internal Peace' to Solidify Recent Gains A Need for 'Internal Peace' Dissident Is Cited BISHOPS OF POLAND CRITICIZE DISSIDENTS Attacks on Western Press 

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--"Hardright" conservatives made a frantic rearguard effort last weekend and early this week to try to block the selection of Donald T. Regan as prospective Secretary of the Treasury after learning that he had contributed to the political campaigns of liberal Democrats.  

Staunch Conservatives Opposed Choice of Regan for the Treasury; 'Hard Rightists' Upset Staunch Conservatives Took Stand Opposing Regan for Treasury Post Support for Regan Cited Fund-Raising for Eckhardt Irked at Merrill Lynch Action 

LONDON, Dec. 12--Armand Hammer, the industrialist and art collector, today bought the Leonardo da Vinci notebook "Of the Nature, Weight and Movement of Water" for $5,126,000, the highest price ever paid at auction for a manuscript.  

Leonardo Notebook Is Sold for $5 Million; Leonardo Codex Is Sold For 5 Million to Hammer Decision Defended 

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--The Senate passed and sent to President Carter today a three-year extension of the revenue-sharing program for distributing Federal money to cities and states.  

SENATORS APPROVE REVENUE SHARING; BILL GOES TO CARTER; RAISE FOR CONGRESS REVIVED Abortion Financing Is Final Snag in Effort to Provide Stopgap Funding for Government Attacked by Proxmire Senate Approves Extension of Revenue Sharing and Sends Bill to Carter Amendments Called Legislative Compromise on Public Service Jobs 

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 12--A year ago today, Maj. Gen. Chun Doo Hwan, then an unknown army officer, seized control of downtown Seoul. He then rose to command the South Korean Army and, with its backing, became President.  

After Chun's Quick Success, Bills Are Coming Due; Main Goals of Republic Martial Law to End Soon Need to Repeat Success Decline in Educational Standards Assumed Army Intelligence Post

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12 (AP)--Cuban exiles pressing for quick admittance to the United States said today that a sixday hunger strike had been met with discouraging silence by American officials here. They also said conditions in their refugee camp were deteriorating and that most of the hunger strikers were ill.  

Cubans in Camp in Lima Say U.S. Ignores Protest

A spokesman for anti-Government forces in Angola said today that the guerrillas had recently captured two Soviet airmen, and he displayed photographs of the captives as evidence.  

Angolan Rebels Report Capturing 2 Soviet Airmen; Soviet Antiarcraft Gun 

TOKYO, Dec. 12--Secretary of Defense Harold Brown urged Japan today to step up its military spending in the 1980's.  In his talks with Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and Defense Minister Joji Omura, Mr. Brown said that the "U.S. and NATO ...  

Brown Urges Japanese to Increase Military Spending; U.S. Wants Larger Increase Soviet Buildup Discussed Brown to Caution Seoul 

KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 12--A firefight, thought to be between two political parties contesting Uganda's national elections, erupted tonight in the capital and lasted about an hour and a half.  

Battle Erupts as Uganda Counts Votes; Battle Near Obote Headquarters Commonwealth Observer Group Had Support of Tanzania 

AVELLINO, Italy, Dec. 12 (Reuters)--The police arrested the doctor of a quake-devastated village today after finding him in possession of about $10,000 worth of medical supplies earmarked for victims of the earthquake. Dr. Angelo Maione, 60 years old, was charged with receiving stolen goods.  

Italy Arrests Quake-Area Doctor

PEKING, Dec. 12--Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow who is on trial for persecuting large numbers of Communist Party officials during the Cultural Revolution, was ordered to leave the courtroom today after she repeatedly interrupted a witness testifying against her, the official New China News Agency reported.  

Court Expels Mao's Widow For Interrupting a Witness; Cautioned by Judge 'Granddaughter Was Implicated' 'Revolutionary Act' at the Time

Around the World; Yugoslavs, at Madrid Talks, Offer Broad Arms Proposal Libyans Said to Join Attack On Rebels in Chad Capital Marcos Says He Will Lift Martial Law in Near Future 

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--Administration officials said today that they had received unofficial reports from Iran suggesting that progress was being made in the discussions on the release of the 52 American hostages.  

PROGRESS HINTED AT IN HOSTAGE DEALINGS; But U.S. Aides Stress the Ups and Downs of Crisis and Unofficial Nature of Latest Reports No Early End to Talks Cannot Meet All Conditions Effort to Embarrass Teheran 

PARIS, Dec. 12 (AP)--President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's favorable rating among his constituents has slipped from 44 to 40 percent since October, according to a poll published today in the newspaper France-Soir.  

Giscard d'Estaing Slips in Poll

BRUSSELS, Dec. 12 (Reuters)-- Following are excerpts from the text of the communique on Poland and other topics issued today at the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting here:  

Excerpts From Communique by NATO Ministers; Awaiting a Peaceful Overture German Restrictions Criticized A Commitment to Madrid Talks 

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WARSAW, Dec. 12--The Polish Communist Party is caught in a difficult squeeze between the demands of the workers' movement at home and the dictums of Communist power next door.  

Polish Party Squeezed Between Workers and Soviet; News Analysis Party's Formidable Problem Clear Right to Prosecute Critics 

WARSAW, Dec. 12 (AP)--The Foreign Ministry said today that Stephen H. Miller, the East European correspondent for The Associated Press, had been ordered to leave Poland.  

Poland Orders Reporter to Leave As Major Union Rally Approaches

ROSEAU, Dominica, Dec. 12 (UPI)-- Dominica's soldiers have gone on a work slowdown to protest poor living conditions and a lack of weapons, military sources said today.  

Troops in Dominica Said to Start Slowdown Over Living Conditions

WEST BERLIN, Dec. 12--The East Germans made conflicting statements about Poland today, saying they were convinced the neighboring country "can solve the existing difficulties," but also expressing "deepest concern" at the developments there.  

East German Signals On the Crisis in Poland Appear Contradictory; 'Crisis' in Poland Alleged 

WARSAW, Dec. 12 (AP)--Following are excerpts from a statement issued after a meeting today of the Polish episcopate, as translated by The Associated Press:  

December 13, 1980

Headlines from December 13, 1980

Chrysler to Ask Union And Suppliers to Help In Saving $1.5 Billion; Chrysler to Seek $1.5 Billion Savings $460 Million Worker Loss Cited Additional Loan Was Planned

FIRE-ROPES INQUIRY CRITICIZES TOP AIDES; Says They Knew Lines Were Faulty Before Two Firefighters Died Rescue Ropes' Deficiency Was Known Before Deaths of Two Firefighters Morgenthau Is Given Report

Poland's Bishops Warn Dissidents Of National Peril; They Ask 'Internal Peace' to Solidify Recent Gains A Need for 'Internal Peace' Dissident Is Cited BISHOPS OF POLAND CRITICIZE DISSIDENTS Attacks on Western Press

Staunch Conservatives Opposed Choice of Regan for the Treasury; 'Hard Rightists' Upset Staunch Conservatives Took Stand Opposing Regan for Treasury Post Support for Regan Cited Fund-Raising for Eckhardt Irked at Merrill Lynch Action

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