June 8, 1985

Two confidential documents, one of them describing Navy contingency plans for Middle East hostilities, were found in the home of California man accused of participating in a Soviet spy ring, the authorities said today. They said the other document gave directions for the handling of secret Navy messages at the Alameda Naval Air Station, the California base where the suspect once served as a communications officer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation made the assertions at a bail hearing in San Francisco for the suspect, Jerry A. Whitworth, a 45-year-old retired Navy radioman. It was not immediately clear what kind of contingency plans the document described.

The Labor Department today provided its first detailed look at how far the nation's economy has shifted away from manufacturing jobs since the recession. The study, by the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed what experts described as a restructuring of the job market. Since January 1980, the report said, 2.3 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared. In the same period, the department has said, jobs that supply services rather than products have boomed. The study was requested by members of Congress concerned about a lack of data on the cost in manufacturing jobs from the shift toward services. a shift that private experts have documented since the economic recovery.

The Senate today approved an amendment that would bar the use of Federal funds for activities against the Nicaraguan Government that violate international law or the Charter of the Organization of American States. But in a last-minute compromise, a phrase was added permitting such activities if they are specifically authorized by American law. The amendment was added by voice vote to a bill detailing State Department programs for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Final action on the State Department legislation was put off until next week.

In mid-1981, at the end of the last severe water shortage in New Jersey, state officials said they had a plan in place to prevent similar crises through the next century. The strategy called for completing three major pipeline projects by this year to bring new supplies to northeastern New Jersey areas with reservoirs prone to shortages. Money for the work was to come from a $350 million bond issue overwhelmingly approved by voters in November 1981. But not much has gone according to script. Two of the pipeline projects have been scrapped and the third is only partly finished. In addition, only a fraction of the bonds - $38.8 million worth - have been sold.

The son of Josef Mengele, the long-sought Auschwitz death camp doctor, apparently visited the man whose body was exhumed here Thursday, the Brazilian police said today. The police have said the body may be Dr. Mengele's. The federal police chief here, Romeu Tuma, told reporters that a photograph of Dr. Mengele's son, Rolf, had been found in the home of an Austrian couple. The couple have told the police that they sheltered Dr. Mengele in the 1970's and that he drowned in 1979 and was buried under a different name.