News stories from Tuesday November 2, 1976

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Jimmy Carter won the nation's Bicentennial presidential election, narrowly defeating President Ford. Mr. Carter swept his native South and added enough Northern industrial states to give him an electoral vote majority. He was the first man from the Deep South to be elected president in a century and a quarter. [New York Times] The congressional elections dealt defeat to at least eight incumbent Senators without greatly changing the party makeup in the new Senate. In the House races, where results were coming in more slowly, there also was no evidence of much shift in the Democratic majority. [New York Times] Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former ambassador to the United Nations, won the election for the U.S. Senate as the first Democrat from New York since the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The Republican-Conservative incumbent, James Buckley, conceded defeat at 10.50 P.M. [New York Times] In Pennsylvania, Representative John Heinz III, a Republican who is heir to the Heinz fortune, narrowly won the seat of the retiring Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott. He defeated Representative William Green, a Democrat, who conceded. [New York Times] Atlantic City residents celebrated a victory in the New Jersey vote to permit Las Vegas-style casinos in the resort city. The pro-casino forces established an early strong lead. [New York Times] In Connecticut, Lowell Weicker, a Republican, held his United States Senate seat, easily defeating his Democratic challenger, Gloria Schaffer, and running well ahead of President Ford, whose contest with Mr. Carter was much closer. [New York Times] Higher crude oil prices are widely predicted as the outcome of the Dec. 15 meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Guesses range from under 10 percent to as high as 25 percent. The impact of the increase, unlike the 1973-74 quadrupling of prices that brought on worldwide recession, is not expected to destroy the recovery. [New York Times] Concorde production will be suspended, Britain and France agreed, with fewer than a dozen of the supersonic airliners sold of the hundreds planned. Five more will be built but none after that unless more orders come in soon. Future joint projects will concentrate on subsonic aircraft with a better chance of making money. [New York Times] The Supreme Court deadlocked, 4 to 4, with one abstention, in a major case that would have decided how far an employer must go toward accommodating his employees' religious scruples against, for example, working on the Sabbath. The effect is to leave the lower court's decision in effect but no Supreme Court precedent is set. [New York Times] A sharp dissent from a 5-to-4 decision by the United States Supreme Court in a complicated tax case was delivered angrily by Associate Justice Harry Blackmun. Noting that the government had appealed the contrary analysis by the tax court, he said the Supreme Court should have deferred to the tax court in such a specialized case. [New York Times] The Gulf Oil Corporation denied in Washington the assertion of Tongsun Park, a South Korean businessman, that it paid him $1 million a month. Federal investigators looking into charges that Mr. Park tried to influence the American government on behalf of South Korea thus face a discrepancy. [New York Times] India's lower house passed constitutional amendments tending to give permanence to the authoritarian course adopted last year by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The vote was 366 to 4, with most opposition members boycotting the tally and some of them in jail. One of them called the changes a codification of the emergency powers concentrated in Mrs. Gandhi's hands. [New York Times] The Rhodesia talks in Geneva remained stalled as the white government delegation and black leaders disagreed about a date for black majority rule, but another meeting was set for tomorrow. A tense Prime Minister Ian Smith warned he would leave the talks until the other participants in the meeting have "come to their senses." [New York Times] Armed forces In Burundi deposed President Michel Micombero without violence, according to an official broadcast from the capital. He had ruled since a coup in November 1968. [New York Times]