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Date: 09 May 1972
London Observer correspondent M Meredith reptdly arrested at Kampala, Uganda; Meredith, in Uganda to int Pres Amin, told friends that govt officials had intercepted story he wrote earlier speculating on outcome of inquiry into disappearance of 2 Amers last July
Date: 09 May 1972
Freetown, Sierra Leone, police arrest L Heinzerling (AP) on May 7 for lack of credentials while he is reporting on reception for Cuban Premier Castro; release him after detaining him overnight; Heinzerling says he did not have time to obtain papers
Date: 09 May 1972
NY Times vp J H Mortimer sworn in May 8 by Mayor Lindsay as member of NYC Office of Collective Bargaining; replaces former Deputy Mayor Costello as one of 2 city reprs on 7-man bd; bd serves without pay
Date: 09 May 1972
By CLARE M. RECKERT
Continental Telephone signs formal agreement to acquire Tidewater Telephone for about $29-million
Date: 09 May 1972
Sen Javits discloses on May 8 that HEW Dept Sec Richardson has ordered rept by June 1 on whether NYC is violating '64 Civil Rights Act by failing to provide sufficient programs for Puerto Rican and other non-English speaking pupils; Javits had written lr to Richardson on Apr 14 holding that investigations by US Civil Rights Comm show many non-English-speaking pupils in city schools do not have effective participation in bilingual programs; lr recalled May '70 memorandum by HEW Dept civil rights dir J S Pottinger to school dists with more than 5% minority group children; Bronx Boro Pres Abrams recommends including in forthcoming city budget $11.9-million that was sought by NYC Educ Bd for such programs, but deleted by Mayor Lindsay in current budget squeeze, news conf
Date: 09 May 1972
Natl Arts Endowment on May 8 makes 69 grants totaling $1,190,579 (including $186,078 in private funds) to orgns in 23 states, DC and VII to attack problems of museum preservation and conservation, such as air conditioning, security measures and humidity control; chmn N Hanks comments at news conf at close of endowment meeting; some orgns listed
Date: 08 May 1972
Special to The New York Times
domestic steel producers are pleased that Eur and Japanese steel mills have agreed to voluntary cut in quota of exports to US and that steel imports in Mar were down from Feb; Iron Age magazine repts rising hopes that foreign mills will exercise voluntary restraint
Date: 09 May 1972
By JAMES J. NAGLE
James NAGLE
Date: 09 May 1972
By JOSEPH B. TREASTERSpecial to The New York Times
comment on Lt Gen Ngo Quang Troung as head of command in embattled northern mil region of S Vietnam; career sketch; illus