News stories from Saturday December 27, 1980
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The 52 hostages would be held until all of Teheran's monetary claims against the United States were arbitrated, according to a new plan offered by Iran. The proposal calls for the immediate release of about $9 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
Photographs of 15 more hostages were released in Iran for showing on American television, raising to 41 the number of the captive Americans being shown in films since Christmas Eve. Officials in Iran told CBS News, which is pooling the film for American television, that the 11 hostages who did not appear in the films on Christmas Eve made their own choice not to, and that the eight hostages shown on film but did not speak also chose not to.
[New York Times] - President Carter broke a collar bone in a fall while cross-country skiing near Camp David, Md., the White House said. He was taken by helicopter to Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington for X-rays. He returned to Camp David. "He will be in a harness for the next six to eight weeks, a White House spokesman said. [New York Times]
- Choosing a cabinet was more difficult for President-elect Ronald Reagan and his aides had realized when they had to make choices that would please a wide range of his supporters. The way the Reagan cabinet is being put together is an indication of how the President-elect will run his administration, his aides say. He apparently intends to consult a wide range of acquaintances on issues, then to rely on a small circle of advisers to reach a concensus. [New York Times]
- Dozens of people were homeless and two persons died as flooding Pacific Northwest rivers washed away homes in the state of Washington and forced hundreds of people to flee. The two deaths occurred in Oregon. [New York Times]
- Controls on immigration may be assessed by the incoming Congress, with encouragement from the Reagan administration. In the past year, about half the country's population growth has been attributable to legal immigration, and, by most estimates, illegal entries have never been greater. [New York Times]
- Pursuing a career or raising a family is a choice facing female college students at a time when business and professional opportunities for women have never been greater, but many of them doubt that a career is more important than a family. In a study by Brown University of 3,000 students at major colleges, 77 percent of the women said that mothers should not work at all or work only part time until their children were 5 years old, and 84 percent of the male students agreed. [New York Times]
- A major attack on government troops by leftist guerrillas in the northern jungles of El Salvador was said by a military source to be an apparent attempt by the leftists to gain control of an area where a revolutionary government could be established. [New York Times]
- Emerging black-led trade unions in South Africa are quickly gaining political strength. The government, having conceded virtually all the trade union rights of whites to blacks in recognition of industry's increasing dependence on them, is now faced with a situation it has always feared: The unions are assuming, without having been granted it, the right to express the political grievances of their members. [New York Times]