News stories from Saturday November 27, 1976

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

Cooperation by Congress will probably be pivotal to the success of President-elect Carter's plans to reorganize the government and reshape the nation's social policy. Since a Democrat last held the White House, Congress has generally become much more independent and assertive and more intent on influencing policies. The new President will have large Democratic majorities in both chambers, but Congress after Watergate has developed a penchant for challenging a President. [New York Times] Government and oil officials believe that the oil industry will seek to ship oil from the forthcoming Alaskan pipeline to Japan, contending that West Coast demand will be insufficient. The right to do so would require approval by Congress and the President. Some government and industry sources privately challenge predictions that there will be a big West Coast surplus. [New York Times] Pornography and commercial sex, which burgeoned across the country in the last decade, are facing increasing attack. Encouraged by the Supreme Court's upholding of Detroit zoning laws to limit sex-related establishments, a number of communities have enacted similar laws and many others, including New York City, are considering doing so. [New York Times] A new Mideast peace conference in Geneva, patterned on the European security conference in Helsinki in 1975, was urged by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. His appeal was made at the Geneva conference of Socialist parties. It seemed to be a reply to remarks by Egypt's President, Anwar Sadat, that he was ready to end hostilities with Israel if the Israelis withdrew from all lands occupied in the 1967 war. [New York Times] Angola's Marxist government, now one year in power, is still beset by guerrilla warfare and a disabled economy. Food is in short supply, factories are operating at very limited capacity and the country's transport system has nearly halted. On the other hand, oil is again flowing and the government now securely controls most of the country with the aid of Cuban troops. [New York Times] Purged in the Cultural Revolution and again earlier this year, Teng Hsiao-ping, former senior Chinese leader, seems likely to make a political comeback according to analysts in Hong Kong. They cite evidence that criticism of him as an alleged rightist has been halted. [New York Times]