News stories from Monday May 26, 1975
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Ford will go on national television tomorrow night and is expected to announce new executive actions to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. The White House said that Mr. Ford had asked for television time at 8:30 P.M. and would announce "decisions" on an energy program "in the absence of congressional action." [New York Times]
- Since war was declared on cancer by Congress and the President of the United States three and a half years ago, a backlash has developed, according to some critics, more from the political than the scientific aspects of the effort. Critics have cited the steady climb of cancer deaths as proof that little, if any, progress has been made despite the more than $1.7 billion spent since the National Cancer Act was passed in 1971. [New York Times]
- The two astronauts aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 18 docked in pitch darkness with orbiting space station Salyut 4 late Sunday night, Moscow time, boarded it and went promptly to work on research begun by the crew that had occupied the station in January and February, and who had set the Soviet record of thirty days in space. [New York Times]
- Buoyed by recent demonstrations of congressional support, Israel has decided to ignore the Ford administration's repeated requests that it come up with new negotiating proposals before the meeting between President Ford and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Salzburg next Sunday. Senior Israeli officials said their country wanted Egypt to make the first concession, and cited a display of support for Israel by 76 United States Senators. [New York Times]
- Many large cities, like New York, are in financial trouble, but much less seriously. Interviews with experts on municipal finance and an examination of municipal budgets indicate there are two principal reasons for this: Most other cities faced with a dramatically widening gap between expenses and income made major cutbacks in city payrolls or raised taxes or did both, No other city has relied as heavily as New York on extremely short-term borrowing, particularly in the form of anticipation securities. [New York Times]
- Lebanon's military cabinet resigned today after three days of continuing fighting between Christian nationalists of the Phalangist party and armed Moslems, including Palestinian guerrillas. President Suleiman Frenjieh asked the cabinet headed by Nurredin Rifai, a 76-year-old retired brigadier general, to continue in a caretaker capacity until a cabinet with parliamentary support, including that of the Moslems, can be formed. [New York Times]
- The foreign ministers of the nine European Common Market countries agreed in Dublin to intensify their trade and aid relations with Portugal as long as such a step seemed helpful in maintaining democracy there, Foreign Minister Garret FitzGerald of Ireland said that it had been agreed that he should sound out Portuguese leaders on such aid during his visit to Lisbon next week. The European approach contrasted sharply with the recent tough line taken by the United States toward the leftward drift in Portugal. [New York Times]