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AP NEWS DIGEST
Saturday PMs
 
    Here are the top stories in sight at this hour. The General Desk
supervisor is Ward Sims. He may be reached at 212-262-6093 if you
have urgent questions about the spot news report.
 
PRESIDENT FORD
 
    VAIL, Colo. - President Ford and his advisers are meeting amid a
''clash of ideas'' to devise a national energy policy. Federal
Reserve Chairman Burns joins the talks. Prenoon EST lead expected.
Wirephoto VAL1.
 
WASHINGTON
 
    Chairman Nedzi of the House CIA oversight panel says it's likely
the National Security Council has been aware of the agency's alleged
domestic activities. Will stand.
 
    The Watergate cover-up jury has heard allthe arguments and is
about to begin deliberations. Judge Sirica gives his instructions
Monday and then the jurors retire to ponder the case. Will stand.
 
    Predictions that the world is facing shortages of key raw materials
are wrong, a White House study says. Will stand.
    With a separate on U.S. import figures and an economic roundup.
 
NATIONAL
 
    NEW YORK - Amy Vanderbilt, whose syndicated columns shaped a
nation's etiquette, dies in a plunge from her second-story office in
the townhouse she occupied on Manhattan's socially desirable East
Side. Should stand. Wirephoto NY4.
 
    BOSTON - A U.S. District Court judge will decide Monday what
sanctions to impose on three members of the Boston School Committee
found in contempt of court for refusing to approve a new citywide
integration plan. Should stand.
 
    PITTSBURGH, Pa. - U.S. Steel Corp. says it will shut down an open
hearth shop at its Gary, Ind., works next week rather than pay a
$2,300-per-day fine for air pollution. Will stand.
 
INTERNATIONAL
 
    DARWIN - Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam flies in to view
cyclone devastation as officials raise the storm's official death
toll to 47. Australian and American planes evacuate thousands. May
stand.
 
    CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and War Minister
Abdel Ghany Gamasy leave for Moscow on urgent invitation from Soviet
party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev. May stand.
    
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