News stories from Sunday June 8, 1980

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

Ramsey Clark, if prosecuted, says a defense of his trip to Teheran would be based on what he says are inherent constitutional rights to travel, to assemble and to speak. Mr. Clark, a former Attorney General, was interviewed in Paris during a stopover on his way home from Teheran, where he and other Americans had participated in a conference on United States "intervention in Iran." Secretary of State Edmund Muskie suggested that the 10 would be treated leniently. [New York Times] OPEC will again attempt to set a single base price for oil at a meeting of members of the 13-nation organization in Algiers, where the easing of some of the strains in the cartel will also be considered. As they were gathering for the meeting, the oil ministers expressed sharply different views. The door was left open for a compromise that would include a sharp price increase. [New York Times] John Anderson's religious position is creating a dilemma for his campaign advisers. He is playing down his once-conspicuous role in evangelical affairs in his independent campaign for the presidency and espouses causes that could alienate evangelicals. The Illinois Representative formerly backed legislation that could antagonize non-Christians and liberals. He says sectarian religion has no place in partisan politics. [New York Times] The Hare Krishna sect in California has been under increased police scrutiny since the authorities discovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition at a Krishna ranch near Ukiah last March. Two months later, the Berkeley police found a Krishna-owned warehouse in El Cerrito containing casings, powder and slugs for making 50,000 rounds of ammunition. In addition, owners of property near a Krishna retreat in Moundsville, W. Va. have reported that the sect has been storing weapons and conducting target practice in the woods. [New York Times] A delay in the strike deadline of New York City's uniformed workers from July 1 until the start of the Democratic National Convention in the city in mid-August will be considered tomorrow at a meeting of a coalition of the uniformed services' unions. The delay has been proposed by Philip Caruso, the new president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the coalition's largest union. [New York Times] Henry Miller, author of novels known for their presumed lasciviousness, and flabbergaster of the bourgeoisie, died Saturday at his home in California at the age of 88. [New York Times] Adaptation of gene-splicing techniques by industry is proceeding so rapidly that specialists expect the first tests in humans of potential medical products within a year, far ahead of the five or 10 years that had been predicted. Human insulin produced by genetically engineered bacteria obtained through gene-splicing, the popular term for recombinant DNA techniques, will be tested soon in humans. [New York Times] Italy's Communists hope to reverse a two-year-old trend against them in regional and municipal elections that conclude today. They are shaky in Naples, one of their strongholds, but are expected to continue their control of Milan, Turin and Venice, which they won five years ago. The election may also decide whether the government of Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga will survive. [New York Times] Renewal of the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza was sought by President Carter in a letter to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, which suggested a formula for the resumption of the negotiations, stalled since early May. [New York Times]