News stories from Sunday June 22, 1975

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

President Ford's top economic adviser said that although the recession had bottomed out, unemployment would not decline until fall and then only slowly. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that June unemployment figures would show a decline from the 9.2 percent level of May, but primarily for complex statistical reasons. He said he expects the rate to decline by fall, and as the economy improves ''the decline in unemployment could be quite perceptible." [New York Times] Every six weeks or so, some of President Ford's closest acquaintances outside the White House assemble in the Cabinet Room to criticize his work. The "very blunt talk" to which seven of Mr. Ford's old friends have subjected him has been at the President's invitation. The President and his friends believe the talks are useful in staving off delusions of grandeur. [New York Times] Two Soviet astronauts began their 30th day in the orbiting space laboratory Salyut 4, setting a new Soviet space endurance record. The experiment has apparently been flawless, making up for the failure in April of a previous rocket crew to dock with the Salyut 4 station. [New York Times] With major gains in regional elections held a week ago, Italy's Communist party today outlined its proposals for bringing about "the necessary, economic, social and political changes," in a 2,000-word statement carried on the front page of the party newspaper L'Unita. The statement avoided specifics, but its scope indicated that the Communists, who won 32.4 percent of the vote in the elections, will expect to be consulted on matters at the national as well as the local level. [New York Times] Radio Uganda said that two British Army officers approached President Idi Amin "on their knees" in a successful appeal to him to stay the execution of a British citizen who had offended President Amin by describing him as a "village tyrant." President Amin said recently that he wanted the British to come to him on their knees. A personal letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Mr. Amin on behalf of Denis Cecil Hills, the radio said, persuaded Mr. Amin to stay the execution. [New York Times] The border region of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia has been described by a Thai border official as Thailand's "wild west," where outlaws roam and lynch law prevails. Officials are trying, as they have been for 20 years, to vanquish Communist terrorists from Malaysia, Thai Communists, Moslem separatists and roving bandits. Killings and kidnappings are frequent. [New York Times]