News stories from Sunday September 14, 1980
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Discussion of the hostage issue began in the Iranian Parliament today with the Foreign Affairs Commission recommending that the legislature openly debate the issue of what should be done with the 52 Americans. A commission spokesman told Parliament that since 'the hostage-taking is connected with the whole revolution" and that "there are some attempts to create an artificial atmosphere" a public session is the best place for the problems to be discussed. [New York Times]
- Tim Kraft will step down as President Carter's national campaign manager following the announcement that he was under investigation for alleged use of cocaine. Mr. Kraft, who was a senior White House aide before taking the campaign job, said he was taking a "leave of absence" to "avoid political exploitation of the false charges against me." He said he had "categoricaly denied" using cocaine in an interview last month with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [New York Times]
- John Anderson campaigned' in San Francisco and predicted that President Carter "cannot win either New York or California," whose total of 86 electoral votes is almost a third of the necessary majority a candidate must have in the Electoral College. "Increasingly, it is apparent to the electorate that the choice in November will be between Ronald Reagan and John Anderson," the independent candidate said at a news conference. [New York Times]
- Federal mandates are proliferating, to the dismay of mayors, governors and county officials, who complain that they are draining their treasuries and disrupting their priorities. The complaints are supported by recent findings that the cost of complying with the mandates has risen so rapidly that it now absorbs a substantial part of the money received under various federal programs. As a result, Congress is considering legislation to restrain the number and nature of congressional mandates and to require estimates of the costs of those to be imposed on federal aid recipients. [New York Times]
- A proposed new Cadillac plant would uproot a large neighborhood in Detroit but make use of a huge abandoned automobile factory. In an effort to save jobs and persuade General Motors from moving its Cadillac operations elsewhere, the city proposes to acquire and raze several hundred homes and commercial buildings on a 345 acre site and combine it with the old Dodge Main property in Hamtramck to provide a tract for the new $500 million plant. General Motors would be offered the land at a bargain price, along with tax concessions. [New York Times]
- The Arab-Israeli dispute is expected to be the principal issue at the 35th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts tomorrow. Almost all of the delegates of the 154 nations are expected to criticize what they regard as Israel's aggressive behavior and stubborn refusal to come to terms with the Palestinians Arabs. Syria and other Arab nations have talked of expelling Israel from the General Assembly. [New York Times]
- Egypt's terms for resuming talks with Israel on Palestinian autonomy are almost ready to be presented to the United States, which will participate in the negotiations. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Ghali, flew to New York with a position paper to see Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, who is in the United States for medical treatment, before the terms are sent on to Washington. [New York Times]
- Turkey's right-wing leader came out hiding and surrendered to the country's new military leaders, and he might be put on trial. Alpaslan Turkes, a former colonel, headed the National Movement Party, the major rightist force in the bombings and killings that took thousands of lives in the last three years. The military rulers also have in custody Necmettin Erbakan, the leader of the National Salvation Party, a Moslem fundamentalist group. [New York Times]