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Ted parries critics of his attack on the shah dy also said that both the Presidenc and United Nations Ambassador Donald McHenry had alluded to Iran's grievances against the shah. A rap at Reagan "Why is it (politically responsible) to be silent when there was a realistic possibility of an administration taking a step which could have profound implications on our national security interests in the (Persian) gulf area?" Kennedy asked, referring to administration consideration of a plan to grant asylum to the shah. Kennedy explained that his criticism of the shah was directed more at a comment by Republican Ronald Regan than anything said by President Carter. Reagan, the front-runner for his party's presidental nod, had said he would offer asylum to the shah. "Is Mr.

Reagan's comment that we should grant asylum that more or less responsible than a commentof mine?" Kennedy asked. "It seems to me the judgment is what is in the long-term national By HARRISON RAINIE Of The News Washington Bureau Des Moines, Iowa Sen. Edward Kennedy ended the first month of his presidential campaign yesterday by defending his public criticism of the deposed Shah of Iran and charging that discussion of his comments had been "blown, out of proportion." Campaigning in Iowa, Kennedy was asked about Iran when he appeared on a radio hookup with 19 radio stations across the state. He said that his position had been distorted and misrepresented because people had focused on his comments on the shah rather than on his assertion that the 50 Americans held hostage in the United States Embassy in Tehran must be freed. Asked if it was the right time to speak out, he responded: "In a democratic society, members of the Senate or Congress should not be muzzled." Kenne security interests of the United States in the Persian Gulf.

I don't yield to Mr. Reagan or to anyone else in my strong commitment to the national security interests in the gulf." Kennedy said that he believed his comments against the shah might have "enhanced the security" of the hostages, rather than endangered them as has been charged by some. Comment haunts him Kennedy has been plagued by his comments on the shah since he made them last Sunday in San Francisco. He has been accused by candidates of both parties of violating the informal political moratorium on the Iranian crisis, making the President's job of trying to obtain the release of the hostages that much harder. His current campaign swing through Iowa and Nebraska provided a good sampling of just how much controversy his remarks had provoked the question was raised at nearly every stop.

New fed gas ration plan cut use Si By JEROME CAHILL Washington (News Bureau) A revised standby gasoline rationing plan that could require the typical motorist to cut back gasoline consumption by about 25 in the event of a severe oil shortage was made public yesterday by the Department of Energy. Officials said the new plan would allocate scarce gasoline on the basis of past consumption patterns in each of the states and would provide for a greater degree of flexibility in handling special problems than the plan rejected by Congress last spring. Specific allotments for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and those for other states, will not be known until the plan actually goes into effect and the extent of the nationwide gasoline shortage is known. But if the shortage is 20 of current consumption, officials said, the "average motorist" using a car for everyday purposes such as trips to the store, work and school would receive a basic monthly ration of about 44 gallons a reduction of about 25 from the average of 60 gallons a month currently consumed by each of the nation's 106 million cars and 24 million trucks. Douglas Robinson, acting administrator of the department's Economic Regulatory Administration, emphasized that -J actual allotments in particular states might vary as much as 25 from the average.

Those states with higher-than-average gasoline consumption might get as much as 55 gallons a month per motorist, while those states where there is less consumption would receive smaller allotments, he indicated. In addition to the basic monthly gasoline ration which would be alloted on the basis of registered vehicles special gasoline reserves would be set up by the federal and state governments for public purposes and hardship cases. Business-owned vehicles Initially, businesses would receive their gasoline shares based on the number of vehicles they operate, but later their rations would be determined by past patterns of gasoline consumption, the so-called "historical use" concept that Congress mandated after turning down the administration's original rationing scheme. Robinson emphasized that the plan unveiled yesterday was only a proposal and could be revised as a result of public hearings and consultations with Congress before President Carter submits the plan in final form to Congress on Feb. 1.

At that point, Congress will have 30 days to review the plan. It would be considered approved unless both the House and Senate vote it down. But the plan would not be implemented unless Carter found a 20 shortage of gasoline faces the nation, and his move to ration was not blocked by either house. Robinson said the rationing system would cost $2 billion a year and would require 3,000 to 5,000 federal officials and thousands of state and local officials to administer. A special 2-cent-a gallon gasoline tax would be imposed to pay for the cost of the system, he said.

The new rationing scheme would involve the distribution of coupons entitling the owners of registered vehicles to purchase gas. Persons not needing their gasoline ration would be free to sell their coupons to others in a so-called "white market" at about $1.50 a gallon in addition to the actual cost of gasoline. Alan AaronsonDaily News Accident out of 19th century Medical team works on woman run over by horse-dawn cab on Lexington Ave. at 61st St. last evening.

Police were unable to determine exactly how accident happened. Woman was taken to Lennox Hill Hospital with injuries believed to be serious. City Jobless rate inches up to 3.2 and winter would see large-scale unemployment as a sign of a national recession. In fact, New York State reported 7.6 million persons working in November, the highest number in history, despite a continued erosion of population in the state and city. There was an increase of 188,000 in the number of jobs.

The number of the state's unemployed stood at 556,000, down from 560,000 in November 1978. New York City's seasonally unadjusted rate moved upward to 8.2 from 8 in October. Nationally, the size of the work force in November also set a record 97.5 million Americans working. In Washington, political observers were saying that the unexpectedly strong job picture should make it politically easier for the Carter administration to concentrate on its effort to control inflation, now running at 13 a year. By OWEN MORITZ New York City's jobless rate inched up to 8.2 last month, New York State's fell slightly to 6.9, and both figures remain above the national rate of 5.8, the U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday. But the significance of the figures here as nationally continues to remain in the number of people working, in spite of projections by economists that the fall rges definition of Jew include the father their child as a Jew, Rabbi Schindler said, is a "way to make certain that our grandchildren will be Jews, that they will remain a part of our community and share the destiny of this people Israel." But before the law is changed, he said, the matter must be studied carefully by the rabbis and leaders of the Reform movement and, "if possible, also the Conservative movement By all means, let us join hands in this." But Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of the Conservative movement, said the issue was raised last January at a convention in Los Angeles when it was "pretty clear that there was little support for it, practically none." In fact, he said, the issue did not even get the three votes necessary to bring it up for discussion before the 25-member Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, the group's policy-making body. By STEWART AIN In a dramatic break with traditional Judaism, the leader of the Reform movement proposed last night that the definition of a Jew be broadened to include the child of a Jewish father or mother, rather than restricting it to an offspring of a Jewish mother. The leader, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, told 3,000 delegates at the group's 55th General Assembly in Toronto that the preent definition of a Jew is "nonsensical, absurd." "Surely the father counts for something when we affix his child's religious identity," Rabbi Schindler said.

The Jewish law that defines a Jew as a child born of a Jewish mother was developed to deal with a set of circumstances that no longer apply, he suggested. It is based on the principle that the mother is primarily responsible for her child's upbringing and that there is never any doubt over who the mother is. But, Rabbi Schindler said, that law was established when the society was polygamous and the children of the various wives lived with their mothers. In addition, the persecution of Jews that saw Jewish women raped, thus casting into doubt the father's identity, is "no longer rampant," he said. Intermarriage rate "What we do or fail to do will affect us profoundly," he said.

"Remember that the intermarriage rate is approaching 40 and that the preponderant majority of such marriages involves Jewish men. Their right to determine the religious character of their children must also be secured." Changing the law for parents who wish to raise.