News stories from Sunday May 21, 1978
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Anti-Carter signs and slogans and chants of "Dump Carter Now!" dominated a Jewish solidarity rally at Battery Park in Manhattan at which some members of the crowd, angered by the sale of American warplanes to Arab nations, also booed a representative sent by the President. When Mayor Koch intervened to quiet the demonstrators, Robert Lifshutz, counsel to the President, proceeded with his speech. The rally was held on behalf of Soviet Jews. The police estimated that it drew 35,000 people. [New York Times]
- Exchanging ghettos for suburbs, some of Chicago's blacks are being given help to move under a program growing out of a Supreme Court decision two years ago. Awaiting lower income families, if they qualify, are privately owned apartments, many with dishwashers, air conditioning, carpeting and even swimming pools, and the government will help pay the rent. A similar exchange in other metropolitan areas is being considered by housing officials. [New York Times]
- Cancer research methods have been reconsidered by The National Cancer Institute, which is reversing its decade-long trend toward highly organized, meticulously planned research. Instead, the institute's director, Dr. Arthur Upton, said the researchers were returning to the view that cancer, as a grouping of diseases, represents one of the central and most complex puzzles of biology and that the research should be based on that concept. [New York Times]
- The United Presbyterian Church's leadership and future character are at stake in a struggle between the followers of the church's "thinking" tradition of intellectual and theological disciplines and some revivalistic elements in the church, At issue is whether a religion of reason, or the "head", can be maintained in a period when faith of the "heart" is in ascendency. [New York Times]
- Oblivion appears to be the destination of congressional investigations into Korean influence-buying. The inquiries have foundered in the last few weeks, and in separate actions the House and Senate cleared the way for a total of $1.6 billion in aid for South Korea despite Seoul's refusal to cooperate with the investigators. [New York Times]
- "Small gifts of cash" from friends and supporters, were used by Senator Herman Talmadge. the Georgia Democrat, to cover thousands of dollars in personal expenditures over the years, he said in an interview with the Washington Star. Commenting on the disclosure in his current divorce settlement proceedings that he wrote only one check to "cash" in the first seven years of this decade, he said that his Georgia backers had given him most of his "pocket money." [New York Times]
- Reports of brutality and raging violence were given by the last of 2,500 white residents of Kolwezi, the copper mining center of Zaire. Belgian pilots also told of a dispute with the French, saying that they had been denied the right to use French airspace on the way to Zaire. They also accused the French of closing runways to Belgian aircraft. Kolwezi was left desolate, and blacks were said to have been seen walking in silence toward villages in protected forest lands.
The first European refugees from Zaire arrived in Brussels grim and exhausted. They were met by emotional crowds of relatives and friends. Some were ill, others confused and many were in tatters. Some, near collapse, stumbled down airplane ramps at Zaventam Airport and had to be carried to medical stations.
[New York Times] - Andrew Young said that contrary to President Carter's concern, he did not believe that Mr. Carter was unduly restricted by congressionally imposed restraints in aiding Zaire and other friendly African countries. In a view opposite that of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President's national security adviser, Mr. Young also said that it was "ridiculous" to attach strategic significance to the presence of thousands of Cubans and lesser numbers of Soviet forces in Africa. [New York Times]
- Israel set June 13 for the final withdrawal of its forces from southern Lebanon. The cabinet authorized Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and chief of staff Gen. Rafael Eytan to meet with United Nations representatives to get assurances that Palestinian guerrillas would not be permitted to return to bases in southern Lebanon from which they have attacked Israel. [New York Times]