News stories from Sunday April 4, 1976
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan campaigned exuberantly in upstate New York on behalf of the presidential candidacy of Senator Henry Jackson and tested his own potential as a candidate. Wherever he stopped he was urged to seek the Democratic nomination for Senator. He kept saying, "I'm here for Henry Jackson," and quickly changed the subject. But he also made the careful moves of a man thinking seriously about a campaign of his own. [New York Times]
- President Anwar Sadat of Egypt said in Paris that he had canceled the Soviet navy's rights to use Egyptian ports and that he believed Moscow might be planning to establish bases in Libya. He disclosed this among other things at a meeting with Egyptian students and other Egyptians living in Paris, and later at a news conference. Mr. Sadat said that Libya had ordered $11 billion in arms from the Soviet Union and said that the accumulation of arms already stocked in Libya was "impressive." He said that Egypt was now turning to France, among other countries, to build its own arms industry, and that Egypt had asked the United States for other weapons besides the six transport planes whose delivery is now being debated in Congress. [New York Times]
- Kamal Jumblat, the leader of the Lebanese left, accused Syrian troops of occupying Lebanese ports in what he implied was an effort to keep arms and munitions from reaching his forces. Mr. Jumblat has been sharply at odds with Syria over a political solution of the Lebanese civil war. He said that regular Syrian troops disguised in uniforms of the Saiqa commando organization, which is run by Damascus, had moved into the ports. [New York Times]
- Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj of Thailand lost his office when he was defeated for re-election to the National Assembly in the second general election in little more than a year. Early returns indicated that the opposition Democratic Party, led by Mr. Kukrit's brother, Seni Pramoj, had won all 28 Assembly seats in Bangkok and was gaining in country districts. [New York Times]
- The Social Democratic Party of West Germany, the party of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, was defeated in a state election in Baden-Wurttemberg, the last test of voter sentiment before the national elections on Oct. 3. The Christian Democratic Union, which ran an aggressively conservative campaign, received 56.7 percent of the vote, A gain of 3.8 percentage points over the 1972 election, and increased its majority with the control of 71 of the 120 seats in the state Parliament in Stuttgart. The Social Democrats received 33.3 percent of the vote, a decline of 4.4 percentage points from the previous election. [New York Times]