News stories from Saturday June 4, 1977
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Many of the cadets ousted in the cheating scandal last year at the United States Military Academy at West Point will return this month. They have changed and so has the Academy. About two-thirds of the 151 cadets who left under an Army leniency offer will resume their training after an absence of six months to a year in which they undertook broadly supervised but self-selected work or study. [New York Times]
- Breaking a long silence, a former director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency has identified Tongsun Park as a K.C.I.A. agent who spent millions of dollars on an allegedly illegal scheme to influence American policy on Korea. The statement by Kim Hyung Wook contradicts repeated denials from the South Korean government that Mr. Park was working for the K.C.I.A., and is the first positive identification of Mr. Park as a foreign agent, which is crucial to the federal and congressional investigations into Mr. Park's activities. [New York Times]
- The children of the white middle class that fled to the suburbs a generation ago are returning to reclaim the inner city from the black and poor. It is happening in major cities throughout the East - -in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. This "resettlement," an ironic reversal of the block-busting that turned the cities black in recent years, is bringing both enormous benefits and problems to the cities. [New York Times]
- An unsuccessful attempt to oust the current leader of the Joseph Colombo crime "family" has sent the family's underboss into hiding, law enforcement officials and underworld informants say. The sources said the underboss, Anthony Abbatemarco, fled when one of his allies in the revolt, Salvatore Albanese, disappeared after going to a "conciliation" meeting with supporters of Thomas DiBella, the family's leader. Mr. Albanese has not been seen for almost a month. His friends believe he was murdered. [New York Times]
- Uganda's Minister of Health, Henry Kyemba, has defected and is seeking refuge in Britain, a Home Office spokesman said in London. The London Sunday Times published what it said was Mr. Kyemba's full account of murders carried out in Uganda under President Idi Amin. The newspaper article included Mr. Kyemba's account of the death, attributed to President Amin's "lust for vengeance," of Dora Bloch, a British-Israeli woman who disappeared in Uganda after the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe Airport last July. Archbishop Johan Luwuum and two cabinet ministers who died last Feb. 16 "had been shot at very close range," the account said. [New York Times]
- Mediators chosen from the South Moluccan community in the Netherlands began negotiations with the South Moluccan extremists who have been holding nearly 60 hostages in the Assen area. Mrs. Josine Soumokil, widow of South Moluccan nationalist leader who was executed in Indonesia in 1966, and Dr. Hassan Tan, a physician who has had a practice in Assen, had three hours of initial talks with the extremists and then sent word they were staying for dinner. [New York Times]
- The man who directed the Likud alliance's successful campaign in the Israeli election expressed concern on behalf of other Likud members at the worried reaction abroad to his party's victory, especially in the United States. Ezer Weizman, a former commander in the Israeli Air Force, said that Likud members are not "superhawks." He was critical of the more "dovish" Labor Party which, he said, in 29 years of unbroken rule, "ran through about five wars." [New York Times]