News stories from Sunday June 15, 1975

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

Vice President Rockefeller said that there had been allegations that President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy might have been involved in alleged assassination plots by the Central Intelligence Agency. He said that the commission he headed in its investigation of the C.I.A. had found no "conclusive information" of such involvement, no evidence "on the basis of which to draw conclusions," He said, however, that he thought it "fair to say that no major undertakings by the C.I.A. were done without either knowledge and/or approval of the White House." [New York Times] Misleading publicity fed into a depressed national labor market has enticed hordes of people, who cannot afford it, to become losers this summer in the great Alaska pipeline job sweepstakes. Many who go to Alaska are often financially overextended and find frustration and financial disaster instead of big-paying jobs. [New York Times] Since 1970, the nation's eight biggest metropolitan areas have had a sharp decline in the rate at which people are moving into them, a key measure of growth. Several demographers say that the decline is without precedent since the first census in 1790. [New York Times] Leonid Brezhnev said that his anticipated meeting with President Ford in the United States would take place after the formal conclusion of the European security talks, which are still going on in Geneva, Because a summer windup to the 35-nation conference has been made uncertain by last-minute differences between the East and West, Mr. Brezhnev indicated that he might defer his visit to the United States until late in the year. [New York Times] Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said today at the close of his consultations with top American officials that differences still had to he resolved before Egypt and Israel could begin another round of negotiations for a Sinai agreement. [New York Times] Three rockets were fired into the Israeli coastal resort of Nahariya, just 10 hours after a guerrilla attack on a frontier village left two Israelis dead and six wounded. In retaliation for the attack on the village, the Israeli Air Force bombed sites in southern Lebanon described as guerrilla bases. A military spokesman said that two Israelis had been slightly wounded in the rocket attack. [New York Times] A new kind of strategic weapon that could add greatly to the nuclear striking power of the United States as well as complicate attempts to curb the atomic arms race is being developed by the Defense Department. The weapon, a cruise missile, introduces an entirely new dimension to strategic warfare. But arms control specialists are beginning to raise the objection that the new missile is militarily unnecessary and a potentially unsettling development in the arms race. [New York Times] Six executives of European grain companies, seeking answers to their charges of adulteration and low quality in shipments from the United States, arrived in Washington to talk with federal officials and legislators. They said that it was only a coincidence that they arrived when a broad investigation into the handling, grading and weighing of grain was under way in major United States ports. One reason they said they had to go to Washington was that their complaints were routinely shrugged off by the Department of Agriculture. Bill Duncan of Ireland, a director of Unilever Ltd., said "a hell of lot of mistrust is building up." [New York Times]