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Kennedy lead diminishes NEW YORK (API- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who had a 2-to-1 lead in popularity over President Carter in public opinion polls this summer, now holds a lead of just 10 percentage points over Carter, Time magazine says. A poll of 1027 voters conducted Oct. 23-25 by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White shows Kennedy, (D-Mass.) ahead of Carter 49 percent to 39 percent in popularity, the magazine says in its current edition. Kennedy is expected to formally announce his candidacy for the 1980 Democratic nomination for president on Wednesday. The poll also shows that although Carter trailed Republican presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan by four percent in August, the president has pulled ahead and leads Reagan by 45 percent to 41 percent. Time also says Carter has widened his earlier lead over Texan John Connally to 13 percentage points. However, the poll says Kennedy continues to hold an even wider advantage over both Republicans. GOP candidates pitted against each other showed Reagan gaining 42 percent of the popularity votes while Connally got 17 percent. Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee got 16 percent, and George Bush of Texas got 6. The poll found that 76 percent said ‘yes’ to the statement, “It is time to forget Chappaquiddick and judge Kennedy by what he has done since then.” However, Time said, 46 percent now judge Kennedy as ■“too liberal” as compared with 38 percent a year ago.
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Police actions at anti-Klan rally to be investigated
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - The FBI looked for possible civil rights violations and the mayor promised an internal inquiry on police handling of an anti-Klan rally that ended with four dead and 10 wounded. But civil rights groups have demanded an outside investigation of police actions. Two more suspects were arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the shooting at a “Death to the Klan” rally Saturday. Twelve persons were arrested shortly after the shooting and were each charged with four counts of first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. First degree murder carries a possible death sentence in North Carolina. The 14 men, all from nearby communities, were being held without bail pending a preliminary hearing today. Police said some of the suspects had declared they were members of the Ku Klux Klan, but local Klan leaders denied their factions had anything to
Catholic Church attempts to mediate between factions
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) The Roman Catholic Church says it is trying to mediate between Bolivia’s new military president and representatives of Congress as opposition to Col. Alberto Natusch’s coup continues. . “The theme of the mediation
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do with the shootings. At least one suspect said he was a leader of the National Socialist Party of America, the Nazis. The agent in charge of the FBl’s Greensboro office, Andrew Pelczar, said the bureau was trying to determine whether there were any civil rights violations. FBI Director William Webster “has taken a very personal interest in this case,” he said. The most seriously injured among the wounded was Paul Carl Bermanzohn, leader of the anti-Klan communist Workers Viewpoint Organization. Bermanzohn, 30, was in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery. Three others remained hospitalized. Bermanzohn’s group confronted Klansmen in August at a Klan rally in China Grove, south of Greensboro. There was shouting and a brandishing of weapons on both sides but no shots were fired and no one was injured. Greensboro Mayor Jim Melvin and City Manager Tom Osborne defended police actions at a news conference, but said
is that power should be turned over to the Congress and that it should be that body that elects a new president,” said Auxiliary Bishop Genaro Prata after meeting Sunday with representatives of both sides. Congress, which was elected in July after 10 years of military rule, was dissolved by Natusch after he ousted President Walter Guevara on Thursday. None of the major political parties has indicated support for the new strong man, and a crippling general strike, now in its fifth day, has been joined by the national businessmen’s group. Informed sources said opposition to the coup had spread to Cochabamba, Bolivia’s third largest city, where the police declared themselves opposed to Natusch.
questions about a police response must await an internal investigation. Police Chief William Swing said his men did all they could to handle the situation when carloads of whites, some armed with automatic weapons, drove into the rally site at a predominantly black public housing project. Gunfire broke out after words were exchanged between the two groups. All the victims were from among the 100 participants at the rally, authorities said. Swing conceded that police knew suspicious vehicles were heading toward the crowd. He said at the time of the shootings the nearest officers were a block away. Police arrested the 12 men who are facing murder charges about a block from the scene of the shooting, and officers confiscated a yellow Ford van which contained an array of weapons. But officials were unable to explain how two other cars believed to have been carrying gunmen slipped out of the area.
While the church was trying to bring peace, the new government declared martial law, ordered press censorship and sent two air force jets screaming over San Francisco Plaza in downtown La Paz with guns blazing, scattering students and workers protesting the coup. No casualties were reported, and witnesses said it appeared the jets were firing into the air rather than into the crowd. But shortly after fighting broke out in the downtown area between troops and demonstrators. Red Cross officials said two persons were treated for gunshot wounds. The Red Cross reported at least 20 persons killed and 40 wounded Saturday night when troops for five hours attacked opponents of the coup building barricades in the streets of La Paz. In a television address, Natusch, a 47-year-old rightist, accused “anti-democratic and anti-social sectors” of trying to “change our way of life for a totalitarian and anti-national version.”
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Iranian students occupy U.S. Embassy second day
By The Associated Press Iranian students occupied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for the second day today, holding more than 50 hostages and demanding that the U.S. government hand over the exiled shah for trial. A spokesman for the students said they would hold the embassy and the hostages until the United States evicted the former ruler, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, from the New York hospital where he is being treated for cancer and sent him back to Tehran. The State Department said the Iranian government had given assurances it would do its best “to resolve the matter satisfactorily.” But the students had the apparent support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian revolution, and Khomeini’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards vowed to support them “to the last drop of their blood.” In New York, meanwhile, 40 Moslem students unfurled a 100foot banner reading “Shah must be tried & punished” from the crown of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor Sunday, and
Task force report says Accident's implications avoided by Edison Co., NRC
By DAVID BURNHAM c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - A task force report of the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island has concluded that both the company that operated the reactor and the federal agency that regulated it decided in the first days of the accident “that bad news was not something the public ought to hear.” The critical report by the Commission Task Force on the Public’s Right to Information further said that statements issued by Metropolitan Edison Co. and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicated a “conscious decision on their parts to impart only available evidence and to avoid discussing its implications.” The report, which was not made public last Tuesday when the commission submitted its overall study to President Car-
Changes in Mideast policy advised
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - A panel of prominent Americans has recommended that the United States modify its policies and conduct “informal contacts” with the Palestine Liberation Organization as a way of influencing Palestinian views. The report said the United States “should be prepared to face the Palestine question frankly and courageously,” but said it was not yet the proper time to invite the PLO into “active negotiations.” “The mutual nonrecognition between the PLO and Israel, however, should not rule out informal contacts between the United States and the PLO with the purpose of ascertaining the
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DR. JOHN G. KEMENY Headed commission ter, was one of a number of separate analyses placed in the National Archives. In another development, the NRC has asked its staff to develop a policy paper stating that the existing de facto moratorium on new operating and construction permits will
latter’s views and modifying them,” it said. The report was issued Sunday by a special Middle East working group of the Atlantic Council, a nongovernmental organization, that regularly issues reports and recommendations on international issues. The working group’s chairman is Lt. Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, commandant of the United States Military Academy, and the vice chairman is Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser to President Ford. The panel includes 10 former ambassadors to the countries in the Middle East and former officials such as Joseph J. Sisco, who was under secretary of state for political affairs in the
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seven of them chained themselves inside the statue. Liberty Island was closed to the public; more than 1,000 tourists were evacuated, and after nearly three hours the seven chained demonstrators were cut loose and arrested. The Tehran mob of 200 to 300 young Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy compound about noon Sunday and overpowered U.S. Marine guards who tried to drive them off with tear gas, Radio Tehran reported. Meanwhile, thousands of other Iranians demonstrated outside the compound, shouting anti-American slogans. Radio Tehran said as many as 100 hostages were being held., but the State Department estimated the number at 59, and £ spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said he believed there were about 35 Americans and seven or eight Iranians. * ♦ The State Department said the Iranian government assured it the hostages were “safe and well.” Radio Tehran said thjj* Marines and other “mercenaries” were safe and “no violent acj* tion has been taken against them.” >
have to continue for at least another few months while the commission safety experts assure themselves that the short term improvements indicated by the Three Mile accident are incorporated in the nation’s existing reactors. The commission is scheduled to discuss this and other questions about national nuclear policy at a hearing Monday before the House Commerce subcommittee on energy and power. But the NRC policy ulitmately may be decided by Congress and not the five members of the Commission. The Hoiuse Rules Committee has cleared for consideration within the next few weeks a $373 million authorization bill for the NRC and an amendment offered by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., to halt the construction of new reactors until March 31, 1980. The Senate, meanwhile, already has approved its version of the NRC
Nixon and Ford administrations. The report was drafted by John C. Campbell, former director of studies of the Council on Foreign Relations. Much of the report focues on problems of oil and security in the region, but probably its most controversial point deals with the Middle East diplomacy. It said that the Arab-Israeli conflict was “central to the evolution of the entire Middle East and to American and Western interests there.” It said that the United States should devote “its best efforts to guiding the current negotiations with Egypt and Israel toward a real autonomy and self-determination for the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Reconciliation with Park's foes begun
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea’s major opposition party met today to call for democratic reforms and free elections as the government took a first step toward reconciliation with the foes of the late President Park Chung-hee. Members of Park’s Democratic Republican Party voted today, after reconvening the National Assembly, not to accept the resignations 69 opposition members submitted three weeks ago. There were indications the opposition legislators would return to the assembly to press for a return to democracy. Leaders of the New Democratic Party, which topped Park’s party in the popular vote in the 1978 election, met today to formulate a platform, and one member. Assemblyman Chung Dae-chul, told reporters: “We don’t have to stay out of the Assembly any longer since the political situation is completely changed by the death of President Park.” Park was assassinated by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency on Oct. 26.
authorization bill that a provision prohibiting thg issuance of any new operating permits until the state whewj the reactor is located has w approval of its emergency plai£ % Last week, the President*!* Commission, headed by Dr' John G. Kemeny, president of Dartmouth College, record mended that no new con.struction or operating permits be granted until state emergency plans are approved. How Carter will respond to this and other commission recommendatins is not yet known. The report by the Information Task Force said the decision hy Metropolitan Edison and the NRC to avoid discussing the implications of the accident “prevailed even though people conversant with the reactor were aware by Thursday, at the latest, that core damage was extensive.” the accident began Wednesday, March 28.
Currently, as part of an agreement with Israel, the United States refuses to have any contacts, informal or formal, with the PLO and has ruled out any talks until the PLO formally accepts Israel’s existence by recognizing the validity of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 of 1967 and 338 of 1973 and also renounces terrorism. Andrew Young was forced to resign as United Nations representative for holding an unauthorized “contact” with the PLO that he misrepresented to Washington. The United States supports the right of the Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip to participate in determining their future.
The 66 New Democrats in the Assembly and three members from the Democratic Unification Party resigned Oct. 13 because Kim Young-sam, the leader of the New Democratic Party, was expelled from the assembly for criticizing Park. Chung said the New Democrats “are in agreement that our strategy will be to amend the constitution before 90 days, through the Congress or by the acting president, then hold a national referendum. I’m sure we would win a new election without any serious difficulty..” Informed political sources said the government party wants the new president chosen In accordance with the present constitution, which Park rewrote in 1972 to insure his continuance in office. It provides for the election by an electoral college which is now made up of Park supporters. The Democratic Unification Party called on Acting President Choi Kyu-hah to release former President Yun Po-sun and former presidential candidate Kim Dae-jung.