WA!HINGTO \ lVa hi11gto11 !he firs/ 1111 eiling of a proposed tzalio11wid rail passe11g r system. This Ille brain child of TJie !!ati_gn , al Railroall Passe11ger Corpora- t i o n - o I lz e r w i e n:a k tz o w a a s R a il pa x = .W::c:it-..u- ~ ~ l r f f t t ~ by Congress last year. " Tlte new plan calli,ig for a rail t1elwork - linking a h11ndred and fourteen cities - or eiglily-five percent of /lie nation's major metropolitan a1~eas. Railpax chairman David Kendall eaying: "We believe ~ lliis new program will succeed - becattse it ttnifie~ for the first lime all the operations of a national railroad passenger service." 1 Bui the ne111 plan is already drawing - ho111ls of anguish. In parl, because it would drop about half of the trains now running - and virti,.ally eliminate almost all local service. It also by-passes completely I he city O f cl eve land - "'hi ch L }i, ~ called i ls elf) . )) up to no 111 , "the bes/ location iti Ille nation. WHITE HO SE Tit Whit Hou - Pre id e ti I Ni x o 11 i u. e d I o d aJ hi a1111ua/ r Port on ju enile delinquenc • Slating that the probl m of crime among young p ople - i parlicu/arl) acute in non-while city gl1ellos; addi,zg Iha/ lite entire life pallern of such ar a mu I be changed - if the problem is ever lo be solved. The President, there/ore, pl edging I he development - of a new national strategy; including first and foremost, a ma:;sive crime prevention effort - .. .. . . , . •I • . , . . . lo be ~oupled wilh community based treatment centers. "The urgent need to reduce crime among urban non-u:hile youth - is obvious" - said the President; and it will require - said he - "a lolal effort toward changing their demoralizi,ig conditions - the unequal opportunity and discrimination they confront b . . . - µ ~ i - and the overcrowding and decay of Ille ur an #2 • • • n }.. A 1111,ich most of /hem live." LAOS !11 lh fighling in Laos - f S _ cores o . . warplan s ro<11' » d lo lite a/lack today. Bla ling away q- ~ Nor/It Vi /,iame lanks ,.. allem(>liltg lo cul off 1/te withdrawal of South l ietnamese forces. Tile ground lo air baltle - lea - ving al least nine tanks destroyed and a I en I It d a m aged. Mililar,y sources adding /Ital lite U.S. mission al this poi,zl - is lo make sure that vilal Highway Nine remains open; "so t:IIFI South Vietnamese troops - CJ!1l gel out. " PENTA GO H '1 ' al hom - /he Penlago11 wa callitzg t ll e Lao opera/ ion an unqitalifi ed success. Cont ending tllal /It flow of Cotnmttnisl supplies along tile Ho Chi Minh Trail - Ila been cul lo barel twenty percent of last ar' l el· which means - we are told - the ~ . '- North Vie/name e "cerbinly will not be able lo make - file logistical effort planned di,ring this dry season." A spokesman adding Iha/ in spite of certain specific setbacks - South Vietnamese forces "have won the overall bat/le so far." BELFAST --- ---- - l11 No1-·/t, r11 /y land - ft, lee/ion of a new P remi r i · schedul d for tomorrow; ns a result of which - Brili h troops u,e,--e were Jli•,sd 011 full alert toniglzt. This in keeping will, a pledge from Bilish Prime Minister ' Edward Heall, - to "maintain law and order a n d ~ out ••••cf ,. l errori s pi. ~~e~ Belfast's;•· gie1 bookmaker ~ . , Brian Fatllkner a five lo one aJ:shn, to win the Premiership. Brian Fatllkner - a moderate. ~ chief opponent, o-f l •111!•~ right winger William Craig. ST. MORITZ l .,, l I, e S w i s A l p - a l a k i r tt n ,i ea r SI . Mori/ z - an all m Pl I oda y Io clear away an o erhanglng n o . f ~ i l l l a group of five workmen - firi11g a · rocket into the midst of ~ .. Onl y trouble ii worked too well. The rocket selling off an avalanche llf that buried all five· and by the lime help ar1•ived - two were already dead. Thls - and another death in . France - raising to eight the number killed In Alpine avalanches - in ~ the past three days. TEFELM!N F LLOW ST. MORITZ t11 tiay ~ lh ii llag of Te/elm.in i11 New Gu.inea; killi1ig al leas/ twe11/ - including 011 American cou.ple and /heir llllo children. The husband and falhe1 ' - Waller Steinkraus of Sheboygan, Wisconsin - a li11guislic expert 11Jho had b e e 11 s I tt d y in g I h e l o ca l t on gu e . WALL STllEET F r o III I It e New Y ork St o ck E x c /ia n g e - a profil of lh e nverng A»E ric an i11 es/or ; who i aid , . I o ha v e a I I 1 1 d e d c ol l e g e - e arn 1f" a b o u I I hi r I e e Ii I I, o u; and a ear - bu y s mostl big board stock - and now holds mor e than se e nl y percent of all stock and mutual sliares. W e are also /old Iha/ the total number of U.S. shar e holders - as of January 1 - was a record t hi r I y - one p~/:: - :;;;,i:;. --~ .1,t;rf;_a ~ of "shares in America." F ro m i a re po r t '"6lllly that th e world's bi gges t fe ' rri wh ee l - w i ll oon b e c le b r alin g its - - seve n/ 3-fi fth anni er sa ry. This th e Riesenrad·lilerally, ,, - - "gi ant wh ee l" ~ ~ I t s t I d d d A~ Oll1 ' S WO u,n re an . eighteen feel abo v e th e s u ,·r oundin g cou.n/r y s id e . On a cl ar day - ~ t!Vv\ ' - ~ - $> all lhe way lo Hungary and,.._Czechoslo v akia. - y ou can se e You ma y re c all, the Riesenrad figured prominently - in tile Nineteen Forty-Eight s p y ~ "Tl,e Third Man"; which has since become - a film classic. Indeed, llie visitors keep arr i ving from all over /he globe - asking wher~he spies1tFfl=F. In line with this, Austria's foreign ministry reporiJ• there ~ . , about fifh thou~nd foreign 0 - ,.i< ~ -- ( ).(J._ __ _ 90 (>-0-0 ~ ~ ~"-~~ ~ !:;.c>-c,-l>? l.t.1"atllf~ agents o p e r a / ~ of Vienna ; ~ as far as anybody knows - no/ o ne has ever ri,den /he Riesenrad. LONDO Th Time of Lo11dot1 - Britain's mo / e 11 e ,, a I d n w Pa P er - I he u b j c I of a growing conl'l'o 'I'S) loda · y · and all becaus e of a Times firs/ la s I t ee k - i I ' s Ji rs I f u l l page nude adv er Ii s em en I . This an ad fo1' a company Iha/ /urns ottl diel /kl?_ a-I foods, among other things. - nwd IT asks: "What's a nice I\ girl like you doing i11 a firm like this?" And now Times readers - are asking essentially the same question. One lei/er lo /he editor demanding, in effect: ~•••••*• tll■ .. S I •~ "/ s t hi s I h e T i m e s - or i s Iii i s P la y boy • " ~ Ano/her suggesting that only "topless people" •"&lilf continue lo take the Times." ~~ :S- R ~ , si:cHt- = 1' le Lt er call~ the nude a "delightful picture." The w r ~ "I hope /his A 7f.d- has the same effect on fhe Times circulation ~ it had on mine."