News stories from Sunday July 16, 1978
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Carter cabinet's first departure may be Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, who faced severe criticism for some decisions early in his term. He is likely to leave by the end of the year, according to government and industry sources, although he told an interviewer: "I still enjoy my job." Mr. Adams has had difficulty getting his programs through Congress and has been excluded from the President's inner circle of advisers on fiscal and energy policies related to transportation. [New York Times]
- An F.B.I. informant was linked to a series of violent racial incidents, according to renewed investigations into the activities of Gary Rowe, the bureau's chief paid informer within the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in the early 1960's. F.B.I. pay records introduced in a trial in which Mr. Rowe testified showed that he was paid over $12,000 from 1960 to 1965 for the undercover activities now being investigated by the Justice Department. [New York Times]
- Mexican-Americans marched in Plainview, Tex., to protest what they termed police brutality and the refusal of the Justice Department to bring federal charges against a number of police officers accused of abusing Hispanic Americans. The march, which drew 700 demonstrators, came after the Justice Department declined to prosecute a Dallas policeman who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy five years ago. [New York Times]
- President Carter reaffirmed his commitment to reduce the United States' dependence on imported oil and to strengthen the dollar in response to pledges by West Germany and Japan to stimulate their economies, as leaders of the world's leading industrialized nations opened their fourth annual economic summit meeting in Bonn. The participants said that they were optimistic that they would be able to announce a plan for restoring prosperity to the world when their meeting ends tomorrow. [New York Times]
- Israelis debated the propriety of Defense Minister Ezer Weizman's meeting in Austria last week with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, as well as Mr. Sadat's meeting with Shimon Peres, the leader of the opposition Labor Party. The cabinet's deferral of debate on the substance of Mr. Sadat's proposals reflected Prime Minister Menachem Begin's irritation at having been consistently bypassed by Mr. Sadat. [New York Times]
- Moscow will aid in fighting terrorism, according to an authoritative source in Bonn who said that Leonid Brezhnev appears to have tacitly accepted the idea that the Soviet bloc should assist Western countries in their efforts to capture terrorists who seek refuge in Eastern Europe. It was now confirmed that Bulgaria "acted in accordance with Moscow" in deciding last month to turn over four suspected West German terrorists to Bonn, the source said. [New York Times]
- A British castle will be the site of talks on the Mideast. Fearing attacks from Palestinian organizations, Britain persuaded the United States, Egypt and Israel to move their foreign ministers' meeting to Leeds castle, 45 miles southeast of London. [New York Times]
- Moscow's case in the trial of Anatoly Sharansky shows that the Soviet government's case was based on a condemnation of activities that previously were a normal part of the Jewish emigration movement's effort to publicize its point of view, activities for which numerous other dissidents have not been punished. [New York Times]