News stories from Monday May 29, 1978
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A proposed property tax limit is worrying California officials. They are trying to work out a plan to deal with the chaos that is expected if the property tax limitation is adopted in the June 6 primary. [New York Times]
- An anti-abortion group got permission from a federal judge to march the Memorial Day parade sponsored by the American Legion Post in Manhasset, Long Island. The Post had wanted to bar the group, the North Shore Right to Life Committee, from marching on the ground that its constitution prohibits the Legion from participating in political activities. [New York Times]
- The 15-cent stamp became official. Post offices will provide a non-denominational orange stamp until a supply of the new stamps is ready. [New York Times]
- Court records show that the Chicago Medical School in recent years has solicited and accepted pledges of more than $10 million from parents and friends of students before they were admitted. [New York Times]
- Pontiac, Mich., is losing money trying to get its 80,600-seat sports stadium out of the red and into the black. When the Pontiac Silverdome opened three years ago in the automobile town of 82,000 it was hailed as the forerunner of Pontiac's economic revival. The stadium, the home of the Detroit Lions football team, has been in the red since its doors opened. [New York Times]
- China called the Soviet Union the "most dangerous source of a new world war" and warned Washington that a policy of appeasement would only bring war closer. Foreign Minister Huang Hua, speaking at the United Nations in the General Assembly's special session on disarmament, accused both Moscow and Washington of duplicity in preaching disarmament while expanding and perfecting their arms. [New York Times]
- Four of West Germany's most-wanted terrorists were captured in Yugoslavia, officials in Bonn announced. Two men and two women, all members of a group known as the Red Army Faction, were arrested, and one of the women is believed to have been in close touch with the murderers of Aldo Moro in Italy. [New York Times]
- Turkey's Prime Minister said he felt no threat to his country from the Soviet Union and would go to Moscow next month and probably sign "a political document" affirming each country's good will toward the other. The Prime Minister, Bulent Ecevit, in Washington to attend a NATO meeting, also stressed in an interview his disappointment over the unwillingness of Congress to lift its arms embargo against Turkey. [New York Times]
- Hanoi said it wanted to preserve its friendship with China, but charged that Peking was deliberately distorting a dispute over treatment of Chinese in Vietnam. The official message was in a strongly worded article in Vietnam's Communist Party newspaper, Nhan Dan. It once again denied that Vietnam had persecuted Chinese. [New York Times]
- Mohammed Hassanein Heykal is the most prominent of the 60 Egyptian newspapermen and writers under scrutiny in President Anwar Sadat's campaign against dissenters. He has been a journalist for 35 years and had been editor of the newspaper Al Ahram. He was removed in 1974 in a policy dispute with President Sadat. His presence in the group that might be facing investigation is taken as proof by other Egyptians that Mr. Sadat's campaign is real. [New York Times]