News stories from Saturday November 6, 1976
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President-elect Jimmy Carter said that President Ford had used the element of fear against him so successfully that he would have lost the election without the exposure he gained in their three televised debates. Speaking with reporters before he began a vacation on the Georgia island of St. Simons, Mr. Carter pledged to democratize the White House unfettered by special interests. [New York Times]
- Revival of the economy is being studied by aides of Jimmy Carter and key members of Congress. They are examining independently what can be done quickly to accelerate government spending to create new jobs if they still believe in January that this is needed. They have decided that such a speedup is feasible, and they are focusing on spotting specific job creation programs that might be funded speedily and ways of carrying out such a plan. [New York Times]
- The successor to Roy Wilkins as executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. will be Benjamin Hooks, the first black member of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Hooks, a 51-year-old lawyer and minister, was chosen unanimously by the board of the civil rights organization. [New York Times]
- The vaccination program against swine flu is lagging, causing some experts to doubt that the delayed effort can achieve its goal of protecting most adult Americans before the upcoming flu season. One-third of the way through its planned span, less than 10 percent of those the national program was intended to reach have been inoculated. The head of the New York City program called the turnout poor. [New York Times]
- Guerrilla warfare in Rhodesia was endorsed by leaders of neighboring black countries. After meeting in Dar es Salaam, the black presidents called this the only way for the territory's African nationalists to gain independence under black majority rule. Denouncing Rhodesian raids against guerrilla camps in Mozambique, the leaders urged Socialist and other countries to aid the guerrillas and branded efforts for a peaceful solution an imperialist plot. [New York Times]
- An explosion of buried atomic wastes caused the death of hundreds of Soviet citizens and radiation illness for thousands, according to an exiled Soviet scientist. Dr. Zhores Medvedev, a biochemist now living in England, said that the disaster occurred in the Ural Mountains in 1958. [New York Times]