News stories from Sunday March 10, 1974
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Patricia Hearst, who was kidnapped Feb. 4 in Oakland, Calif., asserted in a tape-recorded message to her parents that not enough was being done to bring about her release. She spoke for 11 minutes on the tape that was left in the women's restroom of a San Francisco restaurant. The tape contained a statement from the professed kidnappers, the group that calls itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. [New York Times]
- A meeting of Arab oil ministers scheduled in Cairo today to discuss the removal of the Arab oil embargo against the United States was postponed and is now expected to take place Wednesday in Tripoli. Representatives of only six of the nine Arab countries that imposed the embargo arrived in Cairo for the meeting. They decided that nothing could be done without the other three -- Algeria, Libya and Syria. These countries apparently oppose the removal of the embargo without more evidence of progress on Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. [New York Times]
- The White House and the Environmental Protection Agency have collided over administration proposals for a drastic revision of the 1970 Clean Air Act. Sources said Russell Train, administrator of the E.P.A., firmly opposed several of the amendments to the act desired by the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Energy Office and the White House Domestic Council. Consequently, the timetable for the act's revisions has been set back while the White House decides to yield or force the issue and possibly Mr. Train's resignation. [New York Times]
- The Pennsylvania Crime Commission has concluded in a 1,404-page report that police corruption in Philadelphia is "ongoing, widespread, systematic and occurring at all levels of the police department." The commission has accused the police and the administration of Mayor Frank Rizzo of actively attempting to block its investigation, begun 18 months ago, by such action as arresting state troopers serving as agents of the crime commission and of failing to act when presented with concrete evidence of graft. [New York Times]
- Premier Golda Meir of Israel and her new cabinet took the oath of office in Parliament after having received a vote of confidence. The new government is a coalition of the same parties that made up the previous administration, which has been serving in a caretaker capacity since the general election on Dec. 31. The coalition's components are Mrs. Meir's Labor alignment, the National Religious party and the Independent Liberals, holding a total of 68 seats. [New York Times]
- A private report by international economists has concluded that India faces an economic crisis marked by critical food shortages in the next few years. The carefully worded report by the World Bank, circulated in Washington and New Delhi, says that India must import at least 10 million tons of grain in the next five years, that she will need $12 billion in aid over that period -- far more than the government had predicted -- and that assistance from oil-producing nations is crucial. [New York Times]