News stories from Saturday May 3, 1980
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- An attempt to salvage the Olympics was launched by Olympic committees in 18 Western European countries, as they appealed to all nations to participate in the Moscow Summer Games and issued a proposal for eliminating politics from them. [New York Times]
- Ronald Reagan apparently won a slim popular vote victory over George Bush in the Texas Republican presidential primary. Mr. Reagan also won at least 50 of 80 national convention delegates. President Carter swamped Senator Edward Kennedy in the nonbinding Democratic primary. [New York Times]
- A promise of $500 million for cities under acute fiscal stress, made by President Carter last March during his campaign for renomination in the New York primary, has emerged as a bill some governors see as "a joke" and that House Budget Committee Chairman Robert Giaimo calls "Jimmy Carter's New York primary amendment." [New York Times]
- The airlifting of Cuban refugees began, as federal disaster relief officials moved hundreds from overloaded facilities in Key West to a hastily set up relocation camp at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida's Panhandle. [New York Times]
- Michigan has the highest jobless rate in the nation with more than half a million men and women without work. Massive layoffs on the automobile assembly lines and in the rubber and steel plants that supply the automobile industry have caused unemployment to climb to 12.2 percent. [New York Times]
- A six-month strike by illegal aliens from Mexico and other Latin American countries has spotlighted what appears to be their widespread employment by manufacturers of recreational vehicles and mobile homes in southern California. [New York Times]
- Summer travel plans will be curbed by millions because of high gasoline prices and other economic problems. Many Americans say they are delaying plans, arranging for trips closer to home and preparing to reduce further or cancel plans if a new fuel shortage develops or the recession deepens. However, resorts a tankful or two away from major population centers are expected to fare well. [New York Times]
- Cubans find refuge in New Jersey with the help of thousands of families, many of whom fled Cuba more than a decade ago. The first of the new wave of refugees to arrive were among those released from the immigration center in Florida. They were greeted at centers organized to distribute food and clothing in several northern New Jersey communities. [New York Times]
- Israel expelled three Palestinians in retaliation for Friday's terrorist attack on Jewish settlers in Hebron which left five dead and 17 wounded. Two West Bank mayors and a Moslem religious leader were deported within hours after the ambush. The action, carried out under orders of Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, was taken as a sign of a toughening government line toward the occupied areas.
The three Palestinians were welcomed when they arrived in Beiruit following their expulsion from the West Bank. In a press conference, they called for "all-out revolution" in the occupied territories.
[New York Times]