News stories from Sunday May 9, 1976

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

Ronald Reagan, who has more delegate support than President Ford, has increased that lead by picking up 30 national convention votes from Oklahoma, Louisiana and Kansas over the weekend. Mr. Ford received 17 in Kansas, Missouri and Minnesota. Mr. Reagan now has 387 delegates committed to him, while Mr. Ford has 314, with 328 convention delegates still uncommitted. [New York Times] Gov. Jerry Brown of California tested his "new generation" campaign for president in New York and had a busy day. In a television interview he attacked Jimmy Carter, whom he is challenging in the Maryland primary on May 18, for doing one thing and saying another. "Where's the real Jimmy Carter," he asked. [New York Times] Although about 28,000 auto workers are still laid off because of recession cutbacks, thousands of others are caught in the paradox of working long overtime because improved economic conditions have stepped up production. The companies would rather pay overtime than recall full-time employees who may be laid off again if auto sales decline. "We don't want to build hopes of permanent employment," an executive said. "If the market goes to hell, we would have to lay them off again." [New York Times] Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago has proposed a city law that would not permit children under 18 years of age to see movies regarded as excessively violent. The proposal received strong support at three days of public hearings by the City Council. But the Chicago chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union believes that the bill is so broad that it could violate the First Amendment. David Goldberger, the chapter's legal director, said that Mayor Daley "struck an enormously sympathetic chord." [New York Times] Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Brendan Byrne of New Jersey and Hugh Carey of New York were among the governors of the original 13 states who went to Ireland for a Bicentennial party given by the Irish government, which is hoping for more American industrial investment in Ireland. Irish officials made no secret of their hope that the Governors' visit would yield economic dividends. [New York Times] Following a 10-hour meeting, the Israeli cabinet decided that the ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers now encamped at an army base in the heart of the West Bank must move to a new place, but the government deferred for several weeks the crucial question of where. The cabinet also called for intensified Israeli settlement on the West Bank, but did not specify where or when the new settlements would be established. [New York Times] In a speech at a synagogue outside Baltimore, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger seemed to respond in a conciliatory way to criticism that the administration was eroding traditional American support for Israel by its "even-handed" approach to the Middle East. He said that although peace negotiations must continue in the Middle East, the United States recognized that Israel faced serious "dilemmas and risks" in making further territorial concessions in return for less tangible Arab political moves. He sought to assure Israel and its American supporters that the administration was sympathetic to Israel's political, economic and military needs and would not impose a diplomatic solution. He made the speech at a dinner at the Chizuk Amuno Synagogue at which he received the Synagogue Brotherhood's "distinguished leadership award." [New York Times] Frank Zarb, the Federal Energy Administrator, said at a news conference in Teheran that the Iranian government had been holding talks with United States companies about bartering billions of dollars of Iranian oil for American products. Iran, which has been having cash flow problems, is understood to have been holding talks with General Dynamics, Northrop and Boeing. [New York Times]