News stories from Sunday September 24, 1978
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- After an eight-hour cabinet session, the Israeli government approved the Camp David Middle East agreements. including the framework for a comprehensive settlement and a pledge to dismantle a string of Jewish settlements in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has made the removal of the Sinai settlements a non-negotiable prerequisite for the signing of a separate peace treaty with Israel. The Israeli parliament is to vote on the accords later this week. [Chicago Tribune]
- President Carter said that the Camp David summit involved some of his most pleasant and most unpleasant moments, and a new national survey indicates his popularity is soaring in the wake of the Middle East talks. For the first time since he joined the First Baptist Church of Washington, Carter received a standing ovation from the 150 persons attending bible class, which he taught. [Chicago Tribune]
- Allan Bakke, whose name has become a symbol of the conflict over equal opportunity for minorities, begins classes Monday at the University of California Medical School, five years after he first applied for admission. Bakke, a 38-year-old white engineer, is being admitted to the medical school at Davis under the United States Supreme Court order in June that struck down the school's preferential admissions program for minorities. [Chicago Tribune]
- Former President Gerald Ford will be in the Chicago area Thursday campaign for two Republican congressional candidates. Ford will make appearances for John Porter, who is running in the north suburban 10th District, and for Bob Dunne, a candidate in the south suburban 3rd District. [Chicago Tribune]
- Evangelist Billy Graham escaped untouched from a barrage of fruit and cream cakes hurled at hint at a revival meeting in a soccer stadium is Oslo, Norway. The day before, he was hit in the face by a rotten tomato. The American evangelist is making a Scandinavian tour. [Chicago Tribune]
- An article in New York Magazine says the Central Intelligence Agency recently circulated fake documents to top United States officials to determine whether foreign agents have penetrated the high echelons of the intelligence community. It said the test revealed that there have been substantial security leaks by high-ranking officials to the Russians in the last two years. [Chicago Tribune]
- Secretary of State Cyrus Vance completed his five-day Middle East tour by meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad and flew home without gaining the Arab support he sought for the Camp David peace accords. Just before his departure from Damascus airport, Vance said his five-hour meeting with Assad had been "frank and exhaustive." He said he agrees with Assad that dialog between the United States and Syria should continue because of the "shared hope of accomplishing a just peace in the area." [Chicago Tribune]
- In Dormund, West Germany, police surprised three suspected Baader-Meinhof terrorists who were taking target practice in the woods, wounding and capturing two of them in a gun battle in which one officer was killed. The third suspect fled with the dead policeman's submachine gun, police said. [Chicago Tribune]
- Rhodesian troops destroyed 25 black nationalist guerrilla bases located up to 40 miles within Mozambique in their latest cross-border strike, the military reported. It also said the Rhodesians clashed with Mozambique troops. The military command bulletin made no mention of casualties on either side in the operation, which began before dawn last Wednesday and ended Saturday when the raiders withdrew. [Chicago Tribune]
- The executive director of the Congress of Racial Equality [C.O.R.E.] says critics who are trying to oust him are traitors to the civil rights group and that he doesn't mind his foes comparing him to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Roy Innis, who has directed C.O.R.E. since 1958, said Amin "is a very dynamic leader." [Chicago Tribune]
- An auto accident drove a one-inch-thick, eight-foot-long section of wooden fencing through the chest of a young man, and doctors said today that the victim will live. David Rich, 22, of Warrenton, Va., was reported in serious but stable condition at Washington Hospital Center. [Chicago Tribune]
- Actor Robert Vaughn is a political activist -- albeit a low-key one -- even in his choice of roles. Vaughn, who predated even Jane Fonda in his opposition to the Vietnam war and once considered running for the U.S. Senate on an antiwar ticket, has played Harry Truman in a television special and Franklin D. Roosevelt in a one-man show. Currently, he is portraying Woodrow Wilson in NBC's "Backstairs at the White House." "Playing U. S. presidents gives you a chance to research them thoroughly and make them real human beings," he told Los Angeles magazine. Vaughn says he'd like to try playing Richard Nixon and would jump at the chance to portray Winston Churchill, "although it would require me to beef up my middle." [Chicago Tribune]