News stories from Sunday September 7, 1975

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

As hundreds of Boston policemen involved in a contract dispute called in sick, 600 National Guardsmen were moved into the city on the eve of the citywide court-ordered school busing program that is bitterly opposed by many white parents. The sudden epidemic of "blue flu" upset elaborate public safety plans made by city, state and federal officials. During the day an antibusing rally, in which an estimated 6,000 persons participated, was held in front of Boston's City Hall. [New York Times] Although the battle over school desegregation has shifted from the South to the North, subtle new forms of discrimination threaten the progress made in the South since the integration struggle began 18 years ago at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Schools in the South began the fall term with notable calm, and with only about half of the black students still in predominantly black schools. But beneath the outward calm, there were signs that the forces of segregation were hard at work. [New York Times] Republican party leaders voted unanimously to hold the 1976 Republican convention in Kansas City, Mo. The seven-member site selection committee's closed meeting took more than 314 hours, because of spirited lobbying for Kansas City and the two other contenders, Miami Beach and Cleveland. The site committee's choice is expected to be ratified by the full National Committee. [New York Times] Under California's unusual labor law, which went into effect the week before last, all existing labor contracts affecting the state's 250,000 farm workers can be challenged if a majority of workers on a farm petition for election at harvest time. The state's two principal farm labor representatives, the United Farm Workers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are now locked in a struggle in dozens of union elections, and the outcome may give one union future dominance and banish the other. [New York Times] Warren Anderson, the majority leader in the New York state Senate and the most powerful Republican in the state government, will be in Washington today to ask the Ford administration to provide federal insurance for certain kinds of municipal borrowing. He will then return to Albany to try to pass a state program that will help save New York City from default. [New York Times] Following the signing of the agreement on Sinai between Israel and Egypt, Israel is about to increase her purchases of weapons and heavy military equipment from the United States. Israeli government sources said over the weekend that the United States had ended its ban on long-term arms sales to Israel, imposed when American efforts to negotiate a Sinai accord failed last March. It is expected that the purchases will total $2.2 billion. Among the purchases will be F-15 fighter planes and hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers to defend the Sinai plain east of the Mitla and Gidi passes, from which Israel has agreed to withdraw. [New York Times] An underground resistance movement against the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India, which was widely expected after Mrs. Gandhi declared a state of emergency two months ago has not developed. It appears that Mrs. Gandhi's government has much more support than had been foreseen. A disappointed opponent of the government, who had hoped for more signs of resistance said "Much as I hate to admit it, the state of emergency is popular." [New York Times]