News stories from Sunday July 11, 1976

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

In a television interview on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter said that he planned no surprises and that he would choose a vice-presidential nominee from a group of seven nationally prominent prospects, all of whom are members of Congress. Four days of harmony were expected at the convention. [New York Times] Jimmy Carter and a group of leading women Democrats were unable to reach agreement on a specific proposal for expanding the participation of women in the party's 1980 convention. Mr. Carter said that he could not accept the language of the proposed rule that the women had brought to the meeting and he made arrangements for another meeting today and expressed confidence that an acceptable compromise would then be worked out. [New York Times] Ten thousand people seeking to persuade the Democratic National Convention to take a stand against abortion held a rally in Central Park's Sheep Meadow and then marched two miles down to the Madison Square Garden. The principal speaker at the March for Life was Ellen McCormack, a 49-year-old housewife of Merrick, Long Island,, who has campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 18 primaries. She will make another attempt to get the nomination at the convention. About 700 advocates of rights for homosexuals also marched up from Washington Square to the Madison Square Garden area, demanding the repeal of anti-sodomy laws. [New York Times] Canada apparently has won its political dispute with the International Olympic Committee over Taiwan's insistence on participating in the Olympic Games as the Republic of China. At an emotional news conference in Montreal, Lawrence Ting, chief of the Taiwanese delegation, said that the I.O.C. had "lost the battle" to allow Taiwan to enter the games. Lord Killanin, president of the I.O.C., Mr. Ting said, told him that he would recommend to the I.O.C.'s board acceptance of the Canadian government's terms. [New York Times] The leaders of the besieged Palestinian and leftist troops in Lebanon sent urgent appeals for help to Arab countries as right-wing Lebanese forces advanced toward Tripoli and pressed their offensive in Beirut. The leftist-controlled radio said that Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had telephoned President Houari Boumediene of Algeria and Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, saying that the situation was deteriorating fast. [New York Times] President Idi Amin of Uganda apparently is disillusioned with pro-Palestinian terrorism. He telephoned a friend in Israel this weekend and said that he was "finished with the terrorists" and that "they caused me a lot of trouble." The friend was Col. Baruch Bar-Lev, now retired, who headed a military mission in Kampala before Uganda broke diplomatic relations with Israel. The conversation was reported in an Israeli newspaper and was later confirmed by the colonel, who said that President Amin had asked him to relay his decision to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Mr. Amin also asked whether Israel could send spare parts for the tanks, trucks, halftracks and mortars that Israel had supplied when the two nations were friendly. [New York Times]