News stories from Saturday May 19, 1979
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Restrictions on the F.B.I will be proposed by the Carter administration when it sends a governing charter for the organization to Congress. The restrictions will be extensive, but not absolute, on the bureau's use of controversial investigative techniques. [New York Times]
- Decontrolled oil prices won't bring more oil, according to Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, who disagrees with President Carter's contention that decontrol will stimulate domestic oil production. [New York Times]
- United Airlines reached agreement with its striking machinists. The tentative agreement would end the longest strike in the history of United, the nation's largest air carrier. [New York Times]
- Uranium exposure has doomed miners in Red Rock, Ariz. to death and disease. Eight miners have died of lung cancer, and the survivors are developing pulmonary fibrosis, a painful, often fatal disease. The plight of the miners is symptomatic of a problem that extends well beyond the borders of Red Rock. [New York Times]
- President Carter is altering the trust arrangement under which his personal finances are handled, seeking to comply with the Federal Ethics and Government Law, which took effect last week. [New York Times]
- Six persons were killed when a plane crashed into a home in a populated area of Massapequa, Long Island, early today. The crash killed all four persons aboard the single-engine plane, and two others who were asleep in their home. [New York Times]
- "Negative trends" in the Middle East have prompted President Carter's newly appointed Middle East negotiator, Robert Strauss, to declare that he will personally take control of American involvement in the next round of talks between Egypt and Israel. [New York Times]
- Britain hopes to maintain a solid front with the United States on southern Africa, but it may be unable to do so. Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington is expected to deliver that message when he meets with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on Monday. [New York Times]
- Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders agreed to end a two-year deadlock and resume regular talks on the future of the divided Mediterranean Island of Cyprus, according to Secretary General Kurt Waldheim of the United Nations. [New York Times]
- Canada has no sure winner in its general election, according to the latest Gallup Poll. The elections are Tuesday, and the poll indicates the country may have a minority government. It showed Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Liberal Party even with Joe Clark and the Progressive Conservative Party. [New York Times]
- Suppressing their anger at Vietnam because of the mounting number of refugees it is discharging, non-Communist countries attempted to draw Hanoi into discussions of the problem. But officials found the attitude of Vietnam's representatives unencouraging. [New York Times]