News stories from Saturday January 13, 1979
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A long battle is expected in Congress over next year's anti-inflation budget, on which President Carter has staked so much of his future. His austerity budget, running against political tradition, will cut billions of dollars from social programs and risks bringing about a recession. "The President is walking across a minefield," said Representative John Brademas, the House Democratic Whip. [New York Times]
- Bella Abzug threatened President Carter with political retaliation for having summarily dismissed her as co-chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Women after a White House meeting Friday. She said that she had been called a liar by a presidential counsel. Twenty-three of the 39 members of the committee resigned to show support for Mrs. Abzug. [New York Times]
- Schools and crime rates and other non-economic factors are more important in the decisions of corporations to expand or move to large cities than financial factors like tax rates or labor costs, a congressional staff survey has found. [New York Times]
- A regency council dominated by persons considered loyal to the Shah was announced in Iran by Prime Minister Shahpur Bakhtiar to carry out the Shah's duties after he leaves the country. Meanwhile, thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched peacefully from Teheran University down the capital's main street. A crowd at the university listened to a message from Ayatollah Khomeini, the exiled Moslem leader, denouncing Mr. Bakhtiar and proclaiming the formation of a provisional Islamic Council. [New York Times]
- The U.S. announced a new effort, after consultations with Israel and Egypt, toward concluding the treaty negotiations between the two countries. Alfred Atherton, special negotiator for the Middle East, will initiate the new talks in the two countries, flying first to Israel on Tuesday. Later, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and senior Israeli and Egyptian officials will meet in Washington. [New York Times]
- Vietnamese troops were reported to have seized Sisophom, an important road-junction town in Cambodia 25 miles from the Thailand border, and completed the conquest of Siem Reap, a city near the Angkor temple complex. Bitter fighting continued in many other regions, and Western analysts reported that a Vietnamese armored column was advancing along the main road from Phnom Penh to Thailand and threatening Battambang, Cambodia's second-largest city. [New York Times]