News stories from Sunday August 29, 1982

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

Social Security's financial problems should be dealt with a special session of Congress after the November elections, Senator Bob Dole, chairman of the Finance Committee, said. He suggests a combination of payroll tax increases and reduced benefits for future retirees. [New York Times] Citizen neighborhood patrols have grown rapidly and now have more than 5 million members in cities across the country. They are gaining wide recognition from police and other authorities as a highly effective anti-crime force. "They give us more eyes and ears," a Pennsylvania police officer said. [New York Times] Crowds in Atlantic City's casinos are larger than ever and are pulling its gambling industry back from a losing season. The resort shows promise of becoming the nation's gambling capital. The recession, which has slowed growth in Las Vegas for the first time in 25 years, seems to have been good for Atlantic City, bringing in vacationers who are loath to pay the air fare to Nevada. July was the best month since the casinos were established in Atlantic City four years ago. Total revenues for the month were $159.2 million. [New York Times] Frederick Richmond's resignation from the House of Representatives last Wednesday followed weeks of negotiations marked by differences between Justice Department officials in Washington and Brooklyn and a dispute over a last-minute House Ethics Committee inquiry, according to persons close to the case. Authorities and one of Mr. Richmond's lawyers said it had been arranged early in August for the Brooklyn Congressman to resign his House seat and plead guilty to a single charge of filing a false income tax statement. "It was an attractive deal," Mr. Richmond's lawyer said. But the agreement collapsed, it was said, after officials in Washington objected that it seemed too favorable to the Congressman. [New York Times] A "real disaster" in the Middle East was predicted by King Hussein of Jordan unless some movement was made soon toward a solution of the Palestinian problem and a just and durable peace. The King said he would consider any new American peace initiative that went beyond the Camp David accords. [New York Times] A convoy two miles long carried more than 1,200 Palestinian guerrillas from Beirut to the Syrian border, where they received an uproarious welcome from throngs of relatives and friends. On its journey to Syria the convoy passed about 50 Beirut-bound Syrian army trucks and armored personnel carriers that will be used in the evacuation of Syrian troops from Beirut, probably tomorrow. [New York Times] 1,704 more guerrillas left west Beirut. An Israeli spokesman said that the withdrawal of the P.L.O. fighters was proceeding at a quicker pace than had been expected when it began nine days ago. He said that about 8,700 guerrillas have left Lebanon, leaving less than half of the total now estimated by Israel still to leave. [New York Times] Violations of martial law "will not be tolerated," Gen. Wojciech Jarulzelski warned in an appeal to Poles to avoid "excesses and demonstrations" two days before national protests called by underground Solidarity leaders are to take place. [New York Times] A British round-the-world expedition that went by of the North and South Poles ended with the arrival in London of the expedition's flagship, the Benjamin Bowring, and the expedition's leaders, Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes and Charles Burton. The adventurers, who set out in September 1979, were greeted by Prince Charles, who had called the expedition "gloriously, refreshingly mad." [New York Times]