News stories from Saturday November 3, 1979

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

George Bush went to Maine and upset Senator Howard Baker Jr.'s apparently well-prepared effort to score the first victory of his presidential campaign. Mr. Bush, former Director of Central Intelligence, used rousing oratory and won a straw poll at an informal Republican convention in Portland, which was attended by all but one of the Republican presidential hopefuls. Meanwhile, other Republicans stepped up campaigning for the state elections on Tuesday. [New York Times] Four persons were killed in Greensboro, N.C., in a gunfight that started when about a dozen men fired on demonstrators preparing for an anti-Ku Klux Klan march. [New York Times] The search for Joanne Chesimard was joined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation when the New Jersey state police told federal authorities they believed "that she's out of the state." Miss Chesimard, who escaped Friday from a high-security section of a women's prison in Clinton, N.J., with the aid of three men pretending to be visitors, was serving a life sentence for murdering a state trooper. [New York Times] Bomb-grade nuclear materials will proliferate unavoidably with the enormous expansion in the number of nuclear-power plants in the industrialized and developing countries in the next 20 years, according to an international study group. The study by five international organizations and 66 nations, including the United States, which is the principal sponsor, is said by experts to be the most exhaustive examination ever attempted of the security risks implicit in the spread of nuclear power. [New York Times] An Irishman arrested in Philadelphia on suspicion of being an illegal alien turned out be a bomb expert for the Irish Republican Army. The suspect, Michael O'Rourke, escaped from a Dublin prison three years ago, and is wanted in Ireland for questioning in the 1976 bomb slayings of the British Ambassador and a policeman. [New York Times] U.S. commitments to South Korea were reaffirmed by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who attended the state funeral of President Park Chung Hee, and also conferred with Acting President Choi Kyu Hah and Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin. [New York Times] A tangled plot centering on eight giant planes bought by Libya from the United States but impounded by the State Department because of Libyan support of terrorists is under investigation by the Justice Department. The department is looking into an alleged bribery plot to get the planes out of the country reportedly involving Robert Vesco, the indicted financier. [New York Times] Bolivia's new leader reportedly was under pressure by military leaders to step down. Col. Alberto Busch, who led last Thursday's coup, has been secluded in the presidential palace with chiefs of the armed forces, who were said to have proposed two sharply differing alternatives: installation of a more radical right-wing regime, sought by a faction led by a former President, Gen. Hugo Suarez, or restoration of power to Congress, proposed by another faction led by Gen. David Arancibia, Commander in Chief of the Bolivian Armed Forces. [New York Times]