News stories from Saturday May 10, 1975
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. made public his final school desegregation plan for racially troubled Boston, requiring the busing of 21,000 students, 12,000 of them in the elementary grades. Scheduled to take effect this fall, the plan calls for the busing of 4,000 more students than Judge Garrity's current interim program. [New York Times]
- The country may be in the depths of the worst recession since World War II, but a lot of Americans are still having fun. Interviews around the country indicate that most people -- though worried about their jobs, high prices and, to some extent, about the nation's economic future -- are still spending their money and their time on recreation. [New York Times]
- The Central Intelligence Agency's use of the Howard Hughes organization to disguise its recovery of a sunken Soviet submarine was the most recent example of a long-standing practice in which dozens and perhaps scores of American companies have lent their names and reputation -- usually for a price -- to shield the C.I.A.'s covert activities abroad. These relationships between the C.I.A. and American-based multinational corporations, known as "commercial-over agreements," have put career C.I.A. officers in the overseas offices of companies that range from some of the world's largest to others, unknown to the general public. [New York Times]
- Secretary of the Treasury William Simon announced that the federal government would not rescue New York City from its financial crisis. The announcement said that Mayor Beame and Governor Carey were informed of the decision and had been granted a request to see President Ford Tuesday. There was no hint that this decision was likely to be changed. [New York Times]
- United States officials disclosed today that the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, which is meeting in Washington, is nearing agreement on a formula that will lead to the lifting of the trade embargo against Cuba sometime this summer. Secretary of State Kissinger said, "We're coming to some understanding of how to proceed, and the United States was in accord with that procedure." He made it clear that he did not expect concrete action to lift the embargo at the current meeting. [New York Times]
- The military authorities on Guam were ordered to halt until further notice all transportation of South Vietnamese refugees to the continental United States. The order came from the Interagency Indochina Task Force, of which L. Dean Brown is chairman. The State Department, which is a member along with the Defense, Justice and other agencies, said in Washington, "Because of limited funding availabilities, we are slowing the airlift of refugees now on Guam and Wake to reception centers in the United States." The order was announced 36 hours before the scheduled arrival on Guam of an additional 20,000 refugees. The halt touched off considerable concern for the sanitary and health situation on the island. [New York Times]
- Charges that eight years of corrupt control of South Vietnam made President Nguyen Van Thieu one of the world's richest men provoked sharp controversy among Saigon officials arriving in this country, and brought a denial of the charges by a former aide of Mr. Thieu. The accusations were made by Nguyen Van Ngai, who was minister of rural development under Mr. Thieu until he was ousted last year, and who is a refugee at Camp Pendleton, Calif. "Without doubt, he is a billionaire," Mr. Ngai said in an interview when he arrived at the camp. This was denied at another refugee center at Fort Chaffee, Ark., by Gen. Dan Van Qeang, who was Mr. Thieu's special assistant for intelligence and military affairs. [New York Times]
- Premier Souvanna Phouma of Laos worked desperately to stave off the collapse of the fragile coalition government after a series of cabinet resignations brought to a climax a week of renewed military conflict -- demonstrations and assassinations. The next several days are expected to be critical to the survival of the coalition between the right wing and the Communist-led Pathet Lao. The Premier announced that he had received the resignations of the Defense and Finance Ministers and two deputy ministers, but had not yet acted on them. [New York Times]
- Concerned over recent Communist victories in Indochina, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans attended a rally in Seoul in support of President Park Chung Hee's call for increased preparedness against possible aggression from North Korea. A five-point resolution adopted at the rally, in which some opposition politicians took part, called on the United States to honor its defense commitment to South Korea. [New York Times]