News stories from Saturday June 28, 1980

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

The Shah of Iran had a relapse and was taken to an Egyptian military hospital, where he is in "very serious condition," President Anwar Sadat announced. The Shah, who has cancer, was recently further weakened by pneumonia. [New York Times] Clandestine broadcasts to Iran by the United States government aimed at undermining the clerical rule of Ayatollah Khomeini are originating in Egypt, administration officials said. The broadcasts, in Persian, apparently were begun in May with the help of the C.I.A. [New York Times] The Senate approved $16.2 billion in supplemental appropriations for the current fiscal year, after reducing proposed expenditures to stay within the budget ceiling of $572.6 billion for the fiscal year 1980. The House's approved $16.1 billion in supplemental appropriations last week. Included in the Senate package was $58 million in additional funds for a controversial 449-mile Southern waterway. [New York Times] The release of krypton was suspended at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania four minutes after the venting of the radioactive gas had begun when radiation monitors signaled -- apparently falsely -- an unexpectedly excessive level of the gas. Despite the insistence of government officials that the gas's release over a 30-day period would be harmless, many families have left the Three Mile Island area. [New York Times] Miami is straining its resources to care for the 60,000 Cuban refugees who have arrived since last April. Few officials doubt that eventually the newcomers will be absorbed, but it is agreed that Miami and surrounding Dade County need all kinds of help. The major needs are jobs, housing and aid to a school district that faces a crisis of "almost indescribable proportions," an official said. [New York Times] Many blacks say they are leaderless despite the efforts of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other similar organizations. They believe that the leaders of these organizations are unwilling to raise their voices against social and economic discrimination for fear of alienating the white business community that provides them with financial support, and they accuse the leaders of failing to deal with problems such as unemployment, inflation and attacks on affirmative action programs. [New York Times] The disruption of food supplies to Cambodians across Thailand's border following the Vietnam's attack on Thailand last week was "potentially explosive," Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said following a meeting with five Southeast Asian foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He saw "the possibility that in the next few days the problems of feeding people may escalate, even in dangerous ways." [New York Times] Helen Gahagan Douglas died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 79 years old. She had been an actress before she entered California politics and became a United States Representative. Her defeat by Richard M. Nixon in a bitter fight for a Senate seat launched him into national prominence. [New York Times]