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News stories from Monday July 5, 1976
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The nation's governors were told that state and local governments could be spared millions of dollars in welfare costs if the federal government would consolidate its public assistance programs, establish a national minimum welfare payment and require most welfare recipients to register for work. The recommendations were part of a report by a special welfare reform study group that was presented at the 68th National Governors' Conference in Hershey, Pa. The report urged the governors to join the associations of city and country governments in demanding that the Ford administration and Congress make sweeping changes in welfare programs by 1977. [New York Times]
- Jimmy Carter had a talk with Senator Edmund Muskie at his home in Plains, Ga., and said afterward that the Senator from Maine was well qualified to run for Vice President on the Carter ticket. But Mr. Carter stressed that his decision would be made next week only after meeting with four or more other prospects. He said that he and Mr. Muskie understood that the invitation to Plains "didn't put either of us under any obligation." Mr. Muskie said that he had a "rather strong impression" that Mr. Carter was committed to expanding the useful and broad role a vice president could have. [New York Times]
- The morning after New York City's Bicentennial festivities, the euphoria continued. Japanese seamen visited British ships, Scandinavians drank Irish beer on Eighth Avenue, and hundreds of thousands of visitors converged on the ships that played a big part in the Fourth of July celebration, jamming the waterfront where, anchored against the Manhattan skyline, the tall ships were still formidable.
While the ships of the International Naval Review and the picturesque high-masted sailing vessels of Operation Sail were on parade in New York Harbor, the Coast Guard kept a lookout for a one-man submarine that it feared might sabotage the day's events. The alert apparently had its origin in the efforts of George Kittredge, a retired Navy captain who built the $7,000 submarine, to find the man to whom it was sold in Maine last July but who reneged on payments. [New York Times]
- The visit to the United States this week of Queen Elizabeth II will be Britain's most important contribution to the Bicentennial celebration. The Queen will start her visit in Philadelphia tomorrow and will stop in New York on Friday. She will attend a state dinner at the White House on Wednesday, which will be televised. [New York Times]
- President Idi Amin of Uganda said that Uganda reserved the right to retaliate in whatever way it could to redress what he called the aggression against it in the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport. In the first full account from Uganda of what happened at Entebbe Saturday night, President Amin indicated that he became involved with the hijackers only at the moment they requested landing permission last week. He also charged that Kenya and "other neighboring states" had collaborated with Israel in the raid that freed the hostages. Much of black Africa reacted to the raid with public condemnation, but considerable private admiration for the Israeli commandos. [New York Times]
- A number of leading advocates of political change in Spain refused to serve in the cabinet of Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, the successor to Carlos Arias Navarro, who was dismissed by King Juan Carlos I last Thursday. Mr. Suarez was sworn in at the royal palace in Madrid. He was a Francoist official who was in charge of Spain's only legal political party, the National Movement. The flight of liberals from government service was led by Foreign Minister Jose Maria de Areilza and Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne. [New York Times]
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