News stories from Sunday February 14, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Many colleges banked federal funds that should have been spent immediately, and they improperly earned a total of $219 million in interest, federal auditors charged in recommending that the government attempt to recover the interest. The largest amount, $535,000, was accumulated by Yale University. [New York Times]
- A voting rights march in Alabama that began Feb. 6 from the small town of Carrollton in the western part of the state to Montgomery, the capital, was strengthened when more than 1,000 people joined it. The several hundred marchers who started out from Carrollton had dwindled to fewer than 50. The marchers are demonstrating for the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was passed that year after the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, and to protest the voting fraud convictions of two civil rights activists. [New York Times]
- Broad support for President Reagan appears to be only moderately affected by the projected federal budget deficits that have been criticized by leaders of both parties, the media and spokesmen for the poor. A poll of public officials, newspaper editors, political activists and ordinary citizens in 18 cities indicated that many Americans still believe that the President will be able to solve the nation's economic problems. [New York Times]
- Auto union officials approved a tentative agreement with the Ford Motor Company that will result in wage and benefit concessions in return for assurances of increased job security for union members. The endorsement by the 26-member International Executive Board of the United Auto Workers is the first step toward ratification of a new contract. [New York Times]
- The entire federal wilderness system is under heavy pressure from oil, gas, coal, mining and timber interests seeking exploration leases from the government. A decision is expected soon from Forest Service officials whether to grant exploration rights to energy companies in a wilderness area in the Los Padres region of northern California, one of the areas under exploitation pressure. [New York Times]
- Nearly 200 Poles were arrested in Poznan, a city in western Poland, when they tried to hold a demonstration to protest martial law, the Warsaw radio said. In Warsaw, a series of symbolic protests urged by the Solidarity trade union failed to take place. [New York Times]
- Israel will oppose more arms sales to Jordan by the United States. Israel's cabinet secretary, Aryeh Naor, said that Israel "won't sit in silence" over the potential change in the Middle East balance of power in a response to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's announcement Saturday that he would recommend to President Reagan the sale of more arms to Jordan. [New York Times]
- Nationalization in France got under way as the Socialist government began an $8 billion takeover of a huge slice of the country's privately owned industry and banking. [New York Times]
- The main road to Hama was reopened, the Syrian authorities said, describing the 12th day of fighting between Sunni Moslems and army troops as a "mopping-up operation." The traditionally rebellious fundamentalist Moslem city was sealed off Feb. 2 when a government security force attempting to raid a suspected stronghold of the underground Moslem Brotherhood was killed. [New York Times]