News stories from Saturday March 28, 1981

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

Workers on welfare would be penalized by President Reagan's proposed budget cuts to a much greater degree than had originally been anticipated, an administration budget official has acknowledged. A University of Chicago study showed that the cuts would reduce the disposable income of workers on welfare in all 50 states by so much that such families would hardly be better off than those who depend entirely on public assistance. [New York Times] A new era in warfare will start with the launching next month of the space shuttle Columbia from Cape Kennedy, Pentagon officers and military strategists believe. Military planners say the launching will mark the start of military operations at altitudes at virtually any height imaginable. [New York Times] The C.I.A. found insufficient evidence to support charges by the administration that the Soviet Union is directly helping to foment international terrorism, according to congressional and administration sources. [New York Times] Talks between Solidarity and Polish government officials made some progress but there was no breakthrough that would prevent a general strike scheduled Tuesday to protest attacks by the police on members of the independent union movement. The atmosphere at the three-hour session in Warsaw was described as good. One of the crucial issues is that the government has not acknowledged that the police attacked unionists in Bydgoszcz. [New York Times] An appeals court ruled in favor of CBS and temporarily barred a federal judge in Newark from giving tapes and transcripts of interviews for a segment of the CBS television program "60 Minutes" to defense attorneys in a multimillion-dollar fraud trial. [New York Times] Booster clubs are now a key support of college sports during a period of rising costs and expanding programs. Although the colleges seek the subsidies from booster organizations and individ-ual boosters, the role of the booster is causing serious problems for college administrators and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for two reasons: the colleges risk turning over control of their sports programs to them and the boosters are becoming increasingly involved in questionable activities that have led to N.C.A.A. investigations. [New York Times] The political power of blacks in New York City is at its lowest point in a generation, mainly because there is no black leadership, black politicians and community leaders say. As the municipal election campaign approaches only one black is among the potential candidates for three citywide offices and the five borough presidencies. [New York Times]