News stories from Saturday October 23, 1976
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Jimmy Carter campaigned in New Jersey and Virginia, renewing his appeals to uncertain or apathetic voters to go to the polls on Nov. 2. The Democratic candidate called President Ford a "decent" man, but said he had continued the conservative policies of Republican Presidents. Mr. Carter then returned to Georgia to rest until a final campaign swing beginning on Tuesday. [New York Times]
- While President Ford appealed for Southern votes in Virginia and North and South Carolina, his advisers pinned his chances of winning on a $4 million radio and television campaign in the major industrial states. Campaign officials said Mr. Ford would build his itinerary in the last days before the election around 30-minute telecasts in five states, including New York. [New York Times]
- Jimmy Carter and Daniel Patrick Moynihan are running ahead of their Republican opponents, President Ford and Senator James Buckley, in New York state, according to a New York Times poll. The survey indicated, however, that Mr. Carter is doing better than Mr. Moynihan, who has lost about half of the 12-percentage point lead earlier surveys had given him. [New York Times]
- Indians in Maine may own two-thirds of the state and federal courts have ordered the federal government to sue the state on behalf of the Indians. The original suit by two Indian tribes maintains that their lands were sold in violation of a federal law passed in 1790. The legal actions have blocked the sale of millions of dollars of municipal bonds, halted the building of schools and hospitals and thrown state officials Into consternation. [New York Times]
- The possibility of casino gambling in New Jersey has prompted law enforcement officials to warn that Las Vegas-style casinos could spread along the East Coast, with their attendant crime problems. The officials contend that casinos would bring in loan sharks, prostitutes and organized crime. New Jersey's voters will decide on Nov. 2 whether casinos should be allowed In Atlantic City. [New York Times]
- Chinese television broadcast scenes of demonstrations by Chinese in Peking celebrating the downfall of the leftists. The broadcast, which was sent around the world, described the mood of the crowds as "jubilant" and told of similar demonstrations in other cities involving millions of Chinese. The demonstrations are expected to end with a rally today in Peking that may be addressed by Hua Kuo-feng, the new chairman. [New York Times]
- An insult may have shaken the conference that is supposedly framing a constitution for South-West Africa out of its lethargy. The remark was made by a leader of a white delegation about the non-white residents of the area controlled by South Africa that is due to become independent on Dec. 31, 1978. The insult has provoked the non-white delegations into taking action to force the conference into achieving some results. [New York Times]
- The Lebanese cease-fire was threatened by continued fighting in the southern part of the country between Israeli-armed Christians and Palestinian and Lebanese Moslems. The Lebanese-leftist alliance issued a statement that its forces would resume fighting in the rest of the country if the Christian offensive in the south was not halted. [New York Times]