News stories from Saturday November 5, 1977

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

President Carter's first veto was used against a bill that would have authorized $80 million for a controversial reactor on the Clinch River in Tennessee. Mr. Carter said in his veto message that approval of the experimental reactor -- which would be fueled by plutonium -- would "imperil the administration's policy against proliferation of nuclear weapons technology." [New York Times] Federal money is being used to pay municipal employees in major cities across the country and in some instances the aid is all that stands between financial survival and collapse. The government intended the aid to be short term emergency relief, mainly an economic stimulus, but it seems destined to become a permanent part of the national economy. [New York Times] A New York City police officer was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a Puerto Rican man who was beaten in a South Bronx station house where he was in custody. Officer Thomas Ryan faces up to four years in prison. This was the first conviction on record of a New York City police officer charged with the death of a suspect in custody. [New York Times] It was suspected by United States intelligence agencies that Israel might have obtained up to 200 pounds of uranium missing from a Pennsylvania factory in the mid-1960's and used it to produce nuclear weapons, according to classified documents written in 1976 and made public today in Washington. [New York Times] Reaction abroad to President Carter's postponement of his trip to four continents that had been scheduled for later this month provoked disappointment and resentment to understanding and official indifference. The postponement was said to be "a serious disappointment" in India where it aroused fear of a slowdown in the momentum toward improved relations. In France, another country that Mr. Carter was to visit, it was said that President Valery Giscard d'Estaing was likely to be particularly "put out." [New York Times] The Soviet Union declared a limited amnesty for prisoners, but apparently excluded political dissidents. The amnesty was ordered in honor of Monday's 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. [New York Times] As President Carter accused South Korea of impeding justice in the United States, sources in Washington disclosed that the House Ethics Committee had winnowed its list of suspects in the Korean investigation to about 50 sitting Congressmen. House investigators, after a long dispute with the Korean Embassy, are being given access to embassy bank records, the sources said, under an agreement reached between the committee and the embassy. [New York Times]