News stories from Sunday September 9, 1979
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Reversal of an immigration ruling that approves using illegally obtained evidence in deportation cases is being sought from Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti by the American Civil Liberties Union. The group's general counsel, David Carliner, maintains that the 4 to 1 decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals "goes to the very fundamental protection of privacy within the homes of all persons living in the United States." It intervened on behalf of a Mexican woman in a deportation case. [New York Times]
- Farm workers sense a victory in their long strike against California growers. Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers of America has been striking for wage increases in California's Imperial Valley since January. The growers acknowledge that when the strike ends, the new minimum hourly wage for unionized farm workers probably will be $5, a total annual increase of 35 percent. But if that goal is indeed achieved, it will have been through a contract gain by an old rival of the farm workers union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [New York Times]
- Campaigning for the primary in New Hampshire was begun by Gov. Jerry Brown of California. He attended the Hillsboro County Democratic picnic and received his warmest response when he complained of lost jobs, high energy prices and the menace of nuclear power, but many people there wore Kennedy buttons. Lillian Carter, President Carter's mother, also attended the picnic. [New York Times]
- Soviet recall of its troops in Cuba was demanded by Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who said that Soviet-American relations were now "riding at stake" over the issue. Mr. Church, Democrat of Idaho, added that an insufficient response by the administration to the presence of the troops in Cuba would invite "further adventurism" by the Soviet Union in Latin America and other areas. [New York Times]
- Delegates were uncompromising as they arrived in London for the constitutional conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia, sponsored by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in what is widely regarded as the last opportunity to achieve a peaceful solution to the guerrilla war against the Salisbury government. Robert Mugabe, one the two leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, set the tone for those opposed to the Salisbury regime by describing Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa as "irrelevant." [New York Times]
- Fidel Castro pledged not to use his new position as coordinator of the 95-nation movement of nations professing nonalignment to advance his own political views as the meeting of third world nations ended in Havana. The third world leaders reaffirmed their nonalignment with great powers. [New York Times]
- An economic boom in Chile is coming, according to its military leaders and their free-market economic advisers. The regime of President Augusto Pinochet expects the new prosperity to reduce unemployment, now widespread, increase the regime's consumer constituency and insure an extended period of military rule without elections. But the political and labor opposition has called on the Pinochet government to set a timetable for the restoration of democracy. [New York Times]
- Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, an Iranian religious leader who was a key figure in the revolution that overthrew the regime of Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi this year, died, the Pars press agency reported. Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, one of Ayatollah Taleghani's closest friends, ordered three days of national mourning. [New York Times]