The familiar Nev. Year’s Kverituals are set U begin todaybuoyed b\ champagne, noise-makers and the strains of *‘AuldLang Syne.”MOSCOW (AP) The RussianSupreme Court has commuted the death sentences of two Jewsconvicted of treason in the Leningrad hijack plot, giving them l^vear labor camp sentences.Lator camp sentences giventhree other defendants were reduoad.WASHINGTON (AP) l'heslat k of legislation confrontingthe waning ('ongress dwindles, but major disputes over the SS'I program and Social Securi ty benefits continue.WASH INC. TON (AP) President Nixon s us»- of a pocketveto to kill a family doctor training bill is being challengedbv legislators who contend heoverstepped his constitutional bounds.MADRID (AP) Spaniardsturn to celebrating the NewNear after Generalissimo Francisco I ranco spares six Basquenationalists from execution \p preciation foi Franco'sciemcn c\ is voiced bv foreign leaderslkto\mm\ Nrlson{ (|||iom* ({ail I oarWAN!UNI, ION (AP) Wis consm I)emtK fats \N illiam Prox mire and Gav lord Nelson votedWednesday against a bill whichauthorizes $12!) million in railroad loan guarantees to help thebankrupt Penn Central Kailroad. The Senate approved themeasure f/ '£)