News stories from Saturday May 28, 1977
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Dutch officials are growing increasingly concerned about the health of the remaining hostages being held by South Moluccan extremists. Some of the 106 schoolchildren who were released when an infection swept through their school were said to have symptoms of meningitis. A pediatrician said that whatever the disease was, it was still spreading. The South Moluccan captors who remained in the school with four teachers after the children's release asked for antibiotics. [New York Times]
- Israel expressed concern to the United States that the drift of President Carter's most recent statements on the Middle East went beyond what any Israeli government could accept as the basis for negotiating an overall settlement. At a meeting with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Ambassador Simcha Dinitz discussed some problems Israel had with the President's interpretation of key Security Council resolutions and General Assembly resolutions, made 30 years ago, that have no binding effect. [New York Times]
- Arms limitations will be discussed at least twice in Geneva by mid-September by Secretary of State Vance and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, President Carter said. He spoke optimistically about previous talks between Mr. Vance and Mr. Gromyko and said, "I think we've got it back to the state where actually, seriously, we're trying to find some common ground to reach an agreement." [New York Times]
- Some degree of danger under the guise of recreation is wanted by a growing number of Americans who may be seeking psychic renewal, exercise or only thrills. This Memorial Day weekend, there will be risk-takers flying high in the sky, swimming deep under water, climbing to the top of a mountain, squirming through some subterranean passage or racing in every kind of motor-driven machine. [New York Times]
- Bruce Bliven, former editor of the New Republic, died Friday at the Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 87 years old. [New York Times]
- A suppressed episode from Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass" that was thought to have been lost or destroyed will be published this summer by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, which has headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. The episode involves Alice and an aging wasp. The proofs, preserved by Carroll, eventually passed into the hands of a private collector in New York who has lent them to the society. The wasp episode was omitted from the children's classic apparently because Sir John Tenniel, its illustrator, objected to drawing a wasp in a wig, something that he said was "altogether beyond the appliances of art." [New York Times]