News stories from Sunday June 25, 1978

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

The A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s biggest union will confront the nation's hottest political issue -- the tax revolt -- at its convention starting tomorrow in Las Vegas. The one million members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have a big stake in the tax revolt, which could curtail pay and lead to layoffs. [New York Times] California's Proposition 13 has accelerated efforts in other states to place constitutional limits on government spending. "For the first time there's a feeling that taxpayers can do something," said Anthony Logalbo, director of the League of Cities and Towns in Massachusetts, where the legislature is debating a constitutional tax limit. Reformers in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Maryland are also pushing for a ceiling on taxes. [New York Times] Nevada wants 1,000 square miles of California and has gone to the Supreme Court in an attempt to get it. What the Court decides, some lawyers say, might affect the boundaries of all the Western states. At issue is the precise location of the California-Nevada line between Lake Tahoe and the Oregon border. [New York Times] About 20,000 people visited the meeting ground of demonstrators opposing nuclear power in Seabrook, N.H., where speeches and exhibits purported to show the dangers of nuclear-generated power. State officials provided the 18-acre tract, a former town dump, to prevent a repetition of the mass arrests that followed the demonstrators' illegal occupation last year of the nuclear power plant's site. [New York Times] Egypt's latest peace proposal was rejected by Israel before it received formal notification of its terms. The cabinet had heard about the terms through Cairo radio reports. Under the proposal, Jordan would resume control of the West Bank and Egypt of the Gaza Strip while they help work out security guarantees for Israel as well as some autonomy for the Palestinians. [New York Times] Prime Minister Menachem Begin is in "good physical condition," except for a mild case of diabetes, his physician said in response to persistent reports that Mr. Begin's health was failing. Dr. Mervyn Gotsman discussed the Prime Minister's health at a news conference. [New York Times] Leonid Brezhnev charged the Carter administration with pursuing "a short-sighted and dangerous policy" of trying "to play the Chinese card" against the Soviet Union, and said "its architects may bitterly regret it." [New York Times] Southern Yemen denied that it had been involved in the assassination of Yemen's President, Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi, who was killed Saturday by a bomb in a diplomatic bag carried by an envoy from Southern Yemen's President, Salem Robaye Ali. Arab diplomatic sources in Beirut believe that Yemeni exiles in Aden were responsible for Mr. Ghashmi's slaying. His predecessor, Col. Ibrahim al-Hamdi, also was murdered nine months ago. [New York Times] Lebanese are waiting for their country to explode again, but in clashes instead of another civil war. A vendetta has begun among the chieftains of the important Maronite Catholic community in the mountains in central Lebanon. In the south, Christians, Palestinians, Israelis and a polyglot United Nations peacekeeping force are maneuvering with guns ready. [New York Times] Terrorists from 14 countries have connections with the international operations of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, according to United States intelligence agencies, whose information came from foreign intelligence sources. More West German terrorists have cooperated with the Palestinians than those of any other country, an American intelligence official said. [New York Times]