MARGARET THATCHER ASSUMES HER OFFICE AS PRIME MINISTER

GM's Terex division, which makes heavy‐duty vehicles for mining industry, is very close to concluding pioneering contract with Peking to build joint‐venture factor in China (S)

U.S.‐Chinese Business Deals Lag As Peking Reviews Growth Plan

Tentative settlement reached in school‐bus drivers strike; pact preserves job security for some striking drivers and matrons (M)

Bus Drivers Get A Tentative Pact In School Strike

Carter Administration officials say they expect no immediate changes in foreign policy under new British govt and that they will be in communication to arrange high‐level talks on range of issues, including key problem of finding common approach on Rhodesia and its newly elected govt; Pres Carter, who congratulated Prime Min Margaret Thatcher by telephone, says State Sec Cyrus Vance will communicate with new Foreign Sec as soon as one is appointed, and will discuss ways of coordinating policies, State Dept is confident that both nations will continue to work closely on most issues (M)

U.S. Sees Little Foreign Policy Shift Under the New British Government

Sen Lloyd Bentsen, citing BLS statistics showing 5.8% unemployment rate for Apr, compared with 5.7% for Mar, says ‘only question remaining is whether rept signals start of long slide into recession’; BLS Acting Comr Dr Jane Norwood cautions against drawing any long‐range conclusions; graph (M)

U.S. AGENCY REPORTS RISE IN JOBHOLDERS HALTED LAST MONTH

Comment on purchase of UN stamps honoring International Year of the Child (S)

U.N. Stormed by Stamp Buyers; Some Turn Philately Into Cash

California Gov Edmund Brown proposes that gasoline dealers be fined or jailed for topping off gas tanks more than half full; also proposes system of gasoline allocation in which cars with even‐numbered license plates will be able to buy gasoline only on even‐numbered days of month and the others only on odd‐numbered days; Pres Carter hails plan; oil industry officials say gasoline demand in California has been growing nearly twice as fast as elsewhere in nation (M)

GOV. BROWN OFFERS EMERGENCY GAS PLAN

Question of Prime Min Smith's role in new Muzorewa Govt and how much power Smith and white bureaucracy will cede to Smith discussed; number of blacks have expressed admiration for Smith and regret that he is on way out; support for Smith was strongest in tribal areas, whose 4 million residents have been less affected by discriminatory racial laws than 1 million blacks in urban areas; illus (L)

Smith Role in New Regime Is Big Question in Rhodesia

Lebanese leaders are striving to find political solution to problems plaguing nation since ’75‐76 civil war; Pres Elias Sarkis plan for ‘national reconciliation’ involves effort to persuade UN to move its peacekeeping forces into area bordering Israel, currently controlled by Christian militia forces; calls for freezing of armed operations against Israel by Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon, redeploying of Syrian forces away from Beirut area and formation of new government representing nation's diverse factions; plan has been submitted ot Syrian Foreign Min Abdel Halim Khaddam; Prime Min Selim al‐Hoss says his Cabinet will resign to make way for regular political government (S)

Lebanese Draw Up a New Program To Seek Reconciliation of Factions

3 black guerrillas, reportedly African National Congress members, storm police station and set building on fire, Soweto; 1 black officer is killed (S)

Guerrillas Attack Police in Soweto

Carter Administration suffers setback when Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes to lend Turkey money instead of providing outright grant; Administration had sought authorization to grant Turkey $50 million for arms purchases, as initial part of $150 million aid package; Com votes to provide $50 million as a loan; committe, as concession to warnings by State and Defense Dept officials that Turkey is already struggling under total foreign debt of $17.7 billion, specifies that Turkey would be given 30 years to repay, and 10 years of grace on principal of new loans (M)

Senate Group Blocks Aid Grant to Turkey; Backs a Loan Instead

Article on plight of 200 sick and starving Cambodian refugees in Ban Laem, Thailand, mostly women and children, who will be forced by Thai officials to return to Cambodia and almost certain death at hands of Pol Pot loyalists; official Thai policy is that no one will be sent back to Cambodia against his will, but in fact Cambodians are being refused asylum; residents of Ban Laem, themselves living at subsistence level, have nothing to offer Cambodians in way of food or medical treatment; illus (M)

200 Starving Cambodians Facing Expulsion by Thailand and Death

Malaysian Air Force F‐5 fighter crashes 120 miles east of Kuala Lumpur killing 1 of 2 crewmen (S)

Malaysian Military Jet Crashes

Egyptian Foreign Ministry proposes Islamic summit conference to discuss ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem's Arab sector (M)

Egypt Suggests Islamic Leaders Meet on Jerusalem

Number of Soviet Jews allowed to emigrate in April put at 5,000, setting record for 2d consecutive month; increase seen reflecting Soviet efforts to win most‐favored‐nation trade status from US (M)

About 5,000 Soviet Jews Emigrate In April, Setting 2d Straight Record

article on May 6 national elections; sees economic problems tempting many Austrians to vote for Conservatives; possibility of ouster of Socialist Chancellor Bruno Kreisky discussed (M)

Economic Issues Are Tempting Austrians to Vote for Conservatives

Israel says Camp David accords did not obligate it to withdraw from occupied regions (S)

World News Briefs

One of 1st acts of new Prime Min Maragret Thatcher will be slash in top rates of personal income tax to 50% to 60% from 83%; loss to Govt is expected to be small since few people fall into highest bracket (M)

Reins on New Prime Minister

European diplomats in Brussels say that Conservative Party's victory in Britain is likely to lead to shift in political relations within Western Europe that would have important implications for US; diplomats and officials, after nearly 5 years during which Britain's relations with its European partners have grown strained, expect that Prime Min Margaret Thatcher's Govt will try to play more active role in continent's affairs; speculation on Thatcher Govt's role in EEC discussed (M)

Election Expected to Change British Ties to Continent

police end 3‐day strike after city agrees to maintain past health insurance coverage (S)

Around the Nation

Pres Carter, visiting San Francisco, attends Opera House benefit for family of late Mayor George Moscone (S)

Californians Doubt Presidential Visit Can Hurt Brown

reject UMW, 110 to 0, opting instead for Justus Employees Assn, which was formed last year by employees hired by Stearns after strike began at plant 3 years ago; 60 striking UMW members eligible to vote did not take part in election; Rev Jerry Conroy, who supports strike, says formal objection to election will be made to NLRB (M)

Mine Union in Kentucky Strike Rejected in Election

FLASH FLOODS HIT TENNESSEE: In Nashville, vehi cles were pushed off road by rising waters of Mill Creek after up to seven Inches of rain fell yesterday. High winds accompanied the driving rain that lashed central Tennessee, washing out roads and bridges and forcing more than 1,600 persons in four counties to flee their homes.

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Gov Carlos Romero Barcelo, under pressure from Puerto Rican press and rival political parties, denounces reports seeking to link his office with cover‐up of events that led to deaths on July 25 of Arnaldo Dario Rosado and Carlos Soto, TV address (M)

COVER‐UP TIE DENIED BY ROMERO BARCELO

Cadillac recalls 372,000 ’77‐78 cars to fix faulty accelerator pedals linked to accidents in which 3 persons died and 46 were injured (S)

372,000 Cadillacs Are Recalled

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May 5, 1979

Headlines from May 5, 1979

MARGARET THATCHER ASSUMES HER OFFICE AS PRIME MINISTER

U.S.‐Chinese Business Deals Lag As Peking Reviews Growth Plan

Bus Drivers Get A Tentative Pact In School Strike

U.S. Sees Little Foreign Policy Shift Under the New British Government

U.S. AGENCY REPORTS RISE IN JOBHOLDERS HALTED LAST MONTH

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