News stories from Saturday August 30, 1980
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Anderson-Lucey ticket offered voters a four-year program for running the government, and the independent candidates said it would require "a patriotism greater than party." Their platform postpones any reduction in personal income taxes until the federal budget has been balanced, proposes to fight inflation with a new system of voluntary labor-management wage-price guidelines, and calls for a broad range of new tax advantages for individuals and businesses. [New York Times]
- Polish workers won the right to strike and to organize self-governing unions free of Communist Party control under a preliminary agreement between the government and the strike committee at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. But strike leaders said later that the accord fell short of a final understanding and new discussions were scheduled for Sunday. [New York Times]
- Penalties for employers of illegal aliens and the use of identification cards for all workers if their privacy and civil rights are protected have been endorsed by Matt Garcia, President Carter's nominee for Commissioner of Immigration an Naturalization. A federal commission is considering the combination of employer penalties and some form of employee identification to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the United States. Some dissatisfication with Mr. Garcia's qualifications for the job were expressed at the confirmation hearing in Congress last week. Another hearing may be scheduled. [New York Times]
- Migration to the Western states has increased. Many of the people moving in from other regions are said to come from California cities, with half of the police officers in Cour d'Alene, Idaho, coming from the Los Angeles Police Department. The repopulation of Rocky Mountain rural areas, accelerated by the drive for new energy sources, has brought some problems of culture shock. [New York Times]
- Abscam jurors explained how they had decided that Representative Michael Myers of Pennsylvania and Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J. and two other defendants were guilty of bribery and conspiracy. The defendants said they planned to appeal the verdict. [New York Times]
- Changes in China's leadership and loosening of government controls on the economy are expected to he adopted at a 10-day session of the National People's Congress, China's highest legislative body, which opened in Peking. The resignations of Prime Minister Hua Guofeng, Deptuy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping and several other deputy prime ministers are expected to be announced at the meeting, which was described as historic. [New York Times]
- Nearly 300 blacks and people of Hispanic descent will be among 600 recruits who will be sworn in Tuesday by the New York City Police Department under a federal court hiring formula, according to people close to the hiring process. About 11,000 non-minority applicants who outscored some of the minority recruits in an examination were passed over, the sources said.
Tuesday's appointments will be bring to 1,015 the number of officers added to the Police Department since last November, and 338 of them are members of minority groups. That figure satisfies a hiring formula set July 31 by the Federal Court of Appeals, which upheld a lower court decison that invalidated the police examination as racially biased.
[New York Times]