News stories from Sunday October 5, 1980

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

Iraq resumed its war against Iran, as military officials announced that a cease-fire proclaimed earlier by Iraq had been violated by the Iranians. A communique said Iraqi forces began observing the truce at dawn yesterday, but returned to fighting several hours later in the port city of Khurramshahr. Iran has not indicated a willingness to accept a cease-fire until Iraqi troops withdraw from its territory. In an unconfirmed report, Teheran radio said a Soviet offer of military aid to Iran had been rejected. [New York Times] The Saudis will get more military aid, in the form of additional radar and communications equipment and military personnel, according to Harold Brown, the Secretary of Defense. This will supplement the radar aircraft previously sent to Saudi Arabia since the outbreak of the war between Iran and Iraq. If the planes are attacked, he said, American air and naval forces will defend them. [New York Times] The Coast Guard rescued 20 persons lost Saturday night in a drifting lifeboat after hundreds had been forced by fire to abandon a cruise ship in the stormy Gulf of Alaska. Most of the 523 passengers on the Dutch liner Prinsendam were elderly Americans. It is believed that all aboard had been accounted for. [New York Times] Ronald Reagan is more than a millionaire, though the exact scope of his wealth is difficult to determine. Neither he nor his designated financial spokesman will give a public estimate of his worth. However, his holdings, which include a 688 acre ranch, are considerably greater than those reported by Jimmy Carter earlier this year. [New York Times] Mr. Reagan is gaining support among disaffected Democrats in traditionally Democratic Hudson County, the anchor of party organizations at the county level in New Jersey. Both Mr. Reagan and President Carter regard a victory in the state, which has 17 electoral votes, as crucial. [New York Times] The Supreme Court term opens Monday with a 74-case docket that includes another challenge to an affirmative action program, as well as cases dealing with school integration, abortion and the scope of the First Amendment. The Court is also expected to accept the federal government's appeal from a decision that declared the males-only draft to be unconstitutional. [New York Times] San Diego is shedding its image as it embarks upon several projects that are aimed at revitalizing the downtown area of what has been long thought of as a Navy town. Among them is a $86 million transit system, the first all-trolley urban transportation system to be constructed in the United States in 30 years. But the city's growth has brought its own problems. [New York Times] Jacob Javits is a "serious" candidate, he said amid widespread speculation on how much effort he intended to put into a re-election campaign. The 76-year-old Senator, who has done almost no campaigning since he lost the Republican primary last month, nevertheless said he hoped to appeal to the voters as "the moderate" in a race that includes Alfonse D'Amato and Elizabeth Holtzman. [New York Times] A massacre of white settlers in Brazil, the second in less than a month, claimed the lives of 20 persons, including five women and three children. According to a leader of the 200,000 descendants of the six million Indians who once inhabited the country, the killings will continue so long as the settlers trespass on Indian land. [New York Times] Edmund Muskie wants changes in the management of foreign policy if he is to remain as Secretary of State in a second Carter administration, according to aides. They said he will seek to stem the growth of the National Security Council and limit the role of the national security adviser to one of coordinating, rather than of advocating and initiating policy. [New York Times] Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government won in national elections held in West Germany. Preliminary official results show that the coalition government of Social Democrats and Free Democrats, which has governed for the past four years with a 10-seat majority, increased its advantage to 45 seats. [New York Times] In Portugal's legislative elections, Prime Minister Francisco Sa Carneiro's conservative Democratic Alliance seemed headed toward victory. This confirms a shift to the right six years after left-wing military men toppled Western Europe's oldest dictatorship. With early results in, the government coalition was running 2.5 percentage points above its performance in voting last December. [New York Times]