News stories from Sunday March 28, 1976

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

Jimmy Carter appears to have obtained extraordinarily broad and diverse support from Democrats all over the country through his primary victories, according to a national poll by the New York Times and CBS News. The poll also tends to dispel doubts, at least in terms of the constituency Mr. Carter attracts and how they perceive him, that he is not in the mainstream of the party and to counter claims by his rivals that he cannot be elected. [New York Times] Representative Morris Udall of Arizona, declaring himself in an interview to he the most urban-oriented of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for President, proposed a series of federal programs to ease New York City's financial burdens and stem urban blight. Mr. Udall, who had campaigned in Congress for federal aid to New York, said, "It's simply critical that New York not go down the drain." The interview is the first of a series with the three candidates in the New York presidential primary who have delegates running in almost all of the 39 congressional districts. [New York Times] Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation burglarized the New York City offices of the Socialist Workers Party and its affiliated organizations at least 92 times from 1960 to 1966, according to F.B.I. reports that were obtained by the party in a long-running civil suit against the government. The reports contradict an assertion by the Justice Department that the party had never been the object of burglaries by federal agents.Peter Camejo, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, said that New York City officials "provided police protection for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's second-story men" in burglarizing his Trotskyite party's headquarters from 1960 to 1966. [New York Times] Hopes for an early cease-fire in the Lebanese civil war faded after the failure of meetings in Damascus between President Hafez al-Assad of Syria and Kamal Jumblat, the pivotal figure in the leftist-Moslem alliance in Lebanon. Leftist forces, who believe that they have the military advantage, increased their pressure on two fronts, provoking sharp fighting. [New York Times]