News stories from Saturday June 24, 1978

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

President Carter warned that his hopes of reducing the federal budget deficit this year were threatened by several appropriations bills before Congress. The President was on a political trip that crisscrossed Texas. He met with black leaders in Houston and watched a huge training maneuver that the Army had cut back because of protests over its cost. [New York Times] The huge population bulge that came after World War II is now moving from the campus to the workplace. There may not be enough promotions or good jobs to go around in the next decade, according to a professor of economics at Harvard University. [New York Times] Crime is declining in most of the nation's largest cities, officials say. If the decline continues, as some authorities expect it to, it would encourage the renewal of central cities, where fear has been a major factor in the exodus of middle-class residents. [New York Times] Politicians were under surveillance by the police department in Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960's, according to recently found city documents. Initially directed at civil rights leaders, the surveillance was broadened under Eugene (Bull) Connor, the segregationist police commissioner, and once monitored a private conversation of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. [New York Times] Ronald Reagan, emphasizing his endorsement of major tax cuts, told a meeting of Republicans in Philadelphia "that tax reduction can actually end recession and create prosperity by broadening the base of the economy." He took credit for the success of California's Proposition 13 through his support of tax cuts while he was the state's Governor. [New York Times] A secure China serves American interests, in the view of the Carter administration according to United States officials. They say that the Peking regime shares strategic concerns with the United States and its allies. Thus, the officials have disclosed, the United States will be sympathetic to China's desire to purchase military equipment in Western Europe, and modern technology from the United States, Western Europe and Japan. [New York Times] Guerrillas killed 12 missionaries and their children at a mission school in Rhodesia. Seven adults and five children, all whites, were beaten and stabbed to death at the mission at Vumba near the Mozambique border. They were members of the Elim Church in England. The mission's 250 black students were unharmed. [New York Times] Yemen's President was killed by a bomb concealed in a diplomatic envoy's bag, the Iraqi press agency said. The envoy was also killed as he was about to hand President Ahmed Hussein al-Ghasami a message from the Southern Yemen leader, President Salem Robaye Ali. [New York Times] The Palestine Liberation Organization seems to be in better shape than it was before Israel invaded southern Lebanon to rout the P.L.O. guerrillas, according to Palestinian leaders and Western diplomats. They said that at the time of the invasion the P.L.O. morale and prospects appeared to be in decline. [New York Times]