News stories from Sunday February 10, 1980
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- American visitors in Teheran met with the hostages' captors for four hours but were not permitted to see the hostages at the American Embassy. The group of 49 Americans was invited to Teheran by the militants. [New York Times]
- Plans for the Moscow Olympics will apparently continue to be made by the International Olympic Committee, despite increased pressure from the State Department that has further strained relations between Washington and the international sports body. [New York Times]
- President Carter defeated Senator Edward Kennedy in the Maine caucuses by a modest margin, and Gov. Jerry Brown of California was third. A turnout of about 15 percent of the state's registered Democrats, about five times as many as in 1976, failed to produce the Carter landslide observers had expected. With four-fifths of the vote counted, Mr. Carter led 46 percent to 40 percent.
Special interests are giving far more to the preconvention campaigns of the presidential candidates than they did in the 1976 campaign, where their financial support was only minor. Their chief beneficiary so far has been President Carter.
[New York Times] - Prospects for a recession are fading, according to a growing number of private economists. After 18 months of almost universal forecasts of an impending recession, they now expect the economy to continue advancing, or at least to limp ahead, into 1981.
Congress appears to favor a tax cut this year, but the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, which could make tax relief possible, have been unwilling to challenge President Carter, who opposes a tax cut on the ground that it would worsen inflation. Representative James Jones of Oklahoma, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, believes that under political and economic pressures in an election year President Carter will eventually recommend tax relief.
[New York Times] - Chicago's striking teachers approved a compromise agreement to end their two-week walkout. The agreement with the Board of Education would restore 300 teaching jobs and 200 teacher aide jobs that had been scheduled to be eliminated to save money. The agreement cleared the way for classes to resume tomorrow. [New York Times]
- A Soviet plane made an unauthorized landing at Kennedy International Airport, the second Soviet jetliner in a week to have ignored instructions to land at Dulles International Airport in Washington. [New York Times]
- A slowdown in the mechanization of harvesting systems in California, where it threatens the jobs of Mexican-American farm workers, has followed unexpectedly strong support from the Carter administration. [New York Times]
- Assassins failed again to kill Robert Mugabe, the Rhodesian guerrilla leader, who survived a second assassination attempt. Mr. Mugabe was not hurt when an 80-pound bomb exploded near the car that was taking him to the airport in Fort Victoria. [New York Times]
- Jewish resettlement in Hebron, an Israeli-occupied Arab city, where the last Jewish community was destroyed in 1929 in Arab rioting, was approved in principle by Israel's cabinet. The decision, which still must be officially authorized, would mark a dramatic departure from Israel's practice of limiting Jewish settlement on the West Bank to vacant rural land. It followed a demand by members of the government for a "Zionist response" to the recent killing of a Jewish student in Hebron. A faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization claimed reponsibility for the murder. [New York Times]
- Kidney and digestive disorders have followed the amputation last month of President Tito's left leg. The Yugoslav leader's physicians said his recovery "has been slowed down" by the new complications. [New York Times]