NEW HAVEN THE Yale Center for British Art,  having dealt with country houses from the 17th to 19th centuries, now turns its atten  tion to the people who lived in them.  

English Portraits On View at Yale; ART 

Cephus Miles, the hero of Samm-Art Williams's exult  ant new play, "Home," at the Negro Ensemble Company, is an undereducated  black North Carolina farmer, who is happy to remain in his homeland. Stephen Hurt, the hero of Peter Parnell's buoyant new comedy, ...  

STAGE VIEW; The Return to Romance STAGE VIEW The Return To Romance

GARDEN CITY WANTED: People with a special concern for the environment to be trained to conduct small groups of  children through woods, ponds and stream area of Long Island science museum. Hours: flexible; salary: the satisfaction of opening new worlds to youngsters.  

Agencies Feel Pinch as Volunteers Decline; Volunteers Decline; Agencies Feel Pinch

Feelings of shock, sadness and disappointment were expressed yesterday by United States Olympic athletes and officials in response to President Carter's speech Friday night that warned of the possibility of an American withdrawal from the 1980 Moscow Olympics.  

Officials Decry Idea Of Olympic Boycott; Officials Decry Idea Of Olympic Boycott Precedents for Olympic Boycott Implied Message? 

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--Under orders from President Carter, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall has tightened the regulations for unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless in a way that will deny some of them extended benefits. The move is designed to save the Government hundreds of millions of dollars in 1980 and 1981.  

President Slashing Jobless Benefits To Increase Housing Aid in Budget; A Mild Recession Through Spring Foreseen Under Plan for '81 Spending Opposition From A.F.L.-C.I.O. Inflation Restraint Considered PRESIDENT SLASHING BENEFITS TO JOBLESS

WHITE PLAINS TWO and a half years ago, when  the White Plains Board of Education announced its intent to reorganize the entire school  district and close three elementary schools, public outrage reverberated through the city.  

Educators Learning How to Shut Schools; Educators Learning How to Shut Schools

WASHINGTON--Next month, when television and radio coverage of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid is flashed around the world, few outside the communications industry will be aware that the facilities of the Communications Satellite Corporation did the job.  

Comsat Auditions for Television; Comsat Auditions For Television 

We usually take winter vacations to stretch muscles gone slack from indoor living, but this year we had a winter holiday in Colonial Williamsburg and what we stretched there was our minds.  

Williamsburg In Winter; A Mind-Stretching Holiday in Wintertime Williamsburg If You Go

WASHINGTON PERHAPS as early as next month, Amtrak expects delivery of the first of 47 stubby, but powerful, Swedish-de  signed electric locomotives that will operate at up to 120 miles an hour and ...  

Amtrak Pressing 'Corridor' Work; Amtrak Pressing Work on 'Corridor'

COMMACK  FLEA markets, those agglomerations of plain, pipe-rack and cutrate merchandising counters and stalls, are springing up in more  areas on the Island and are beginning to challenge traditional retailers, large and small, for shoppers' dollars.  

Flea Markets Challenge Stores; Flea Markets Challenge Stores 

WASHINGTON PERHAPS as early as February Amtrak expects delivery of the first of 47 stubby but powerful little Swedish-de  signed electric locomotives that will operate at speeds up to 120 miles an hour as the future workhorses of the ...  

A Smoother Road For Train Riders; Rail Improvements Begun in Northeast 

The first snowstorm of the year swept over the New York metropolitan area yesterday, dropping two to four inches in the city and up to six inches in southern New Jersey. But the storm was not as severe as some forecasters had predicted, and it caused few problems on an otherwise quiet winter weekend.  

First Snowfall of Year Brings Few Problems to the City; Storm Veers Out to Sea Parking Regulations Suspended 

The watchword in 1980 is uncertainty. Until politics and oil reveal their course, there is no calling the economy. That is no evasion of the necessity of  forecasting, but an unavoidable recognition that America's economic health will flow, for better or worse, not only from the powerful economic currents already in motion but also from political decisions still to come.  

Politics and Oil Dominate '80 Outlook; OUTLOOK Politics, Oil Dominate Outlook OUTLOOK Politics, Oil Dominate Outlook 

PARIS--Two crises, in neighboring countries involving a sensitive strategic region, have sharply renewed questions of whether the world is heading toward a return to the bipolar politics of cold war, or toward a series of disorderly upheavals beyond the capacity of superpowers to restrain. There is contradiction as well as conflict in the situation.  

Quick Freeze; Rumble From Kabul Echoes Down a Long, Dark Tunnel 

RICHARD SMITH is one of the one in five 17-year-olds in the United States regarded as  functionally illiterate--a nebulous phrase that means anything from the inability to read any words at all to having problems with speed and ...  

...But Many Students Continue To Be Hobbled by Illiteracy; Illiteracy Hobbles Many Teen-Agers 

BALTIMORE--The roof leaked and the walls threatened to cave in. No one but derelicts had occupied the building since it was gutted by fires in the 1968 race riots.  

Far $100 Down 'Shopsteaders' Get a Building; Paying $100 Down, They Get a Building 

LOS ANGELES--In Hollywood, Marvin M. Mitchelson has almost as many adoring admirers as enemies. Almost exactly as many. Most of his admirers are women. Most of the enemies are their former husbands. "I get just enough threats to amuse me," says  the silver-haired 50-year-old lawyer.  

Divorce Mitchelson Style; SPOTLIGHT Divorce California Style 

DES MOINES, Jan. 5--Six Republican Presidential candidates bid for support in Iowa's precinct caucuses tonight in a televised forum that stressed attacks on the Carter Administration's foreign policy, military posture, curtailment of grain shipments and Federal deficits.  

6 in G.O.P. Assail Carter at Forum; Six Republicans, at a Forum in Iowa, Press Attacks on President Carter Soviet Arms Assessed Trade Embargo Suggested Sacrifice Called Necessary 

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--The United States said today that the punitive steps announced by President Carter last night in response to the Soviet military moves in Afghanistan "should not be considered the final word" and that additional measures were under active review.  

U.S. WARNS OF NEW RESPONSES TO SOVIET OVER AFGHANISTAN AS MOSCOW DEFENDS ITS ROLE; 'NOT THE FINAL WORD' Added Steps Could Involve Cuts in Embassy Staffs and in Bank Credits 'Other Matters Under Review' NEW U.S. RESPONSE TO SOVIET WEIGHED Reviewing Export Licenses Intensive Talks Taking Place 'Make Them Think Twice' Moscow Didn't Get Advance Word 'One-Time' Exemption Likely Door Open to Restoring Relations 

MOSCOW, Jan. 5--The Soviet Union accused President Carter today of a "flagrant violation" of American commitments to the Soviet Union and of reviving cold war measures.  

Soviet Charges Carter Reprisals Revive the Spirit of the Cold War; SOVIET SAYS CARTER REVIVES COLD WAR Tass Complains of Slander Tass Sees 'Fierce Reaction' 

YONKERS  WESTCHESTER construction executive will tangle with Conrail again tomorrow in Yorkers City Court as he tries  to get the railroad to pay him more rent by threatening to evict it from a building it says it needs to keep the trains running on the Hudson Division.  

New Landlord Takes On Conrail; A New Landlord Takes on Conrail 

SALISBURY, Rhodesia, Jan. 5--The number of men at cease-fire holding points in the Rhodesian bushland increased dramatically today, with at least 17,300 now at the camps.  

TRUCE REGISTRATION BY RHODESIA REBELS SHOWS FINAL SURGE; But Salisbury Aides Charge Some of 17,000 Who Have Reported Are Guerrilla Substitutes British React Cautiously Rhodesian Rebels' Truce Reporting Shows Final Surge Border Crossings Charged 

It began as a bleacher-throated rumble in Yankee Stadium and crescendoed into Madison Square Garden as the battle cry of the sophisticated sports fan.  

N.F.L. Playoffs Spell DEEEEE-Fense; Defensive Personalities Conference Title Games Spell DEEEE-Fense Hitting Before Technique Lambert the Inspiration Defensive Plenitude Forcing the Punt Non-Blitzers

The Knicks continued a recent pattern--dominating opponents early in the game--as they scored 64 points in the first half and went on to defeat the Chicago Bulls, 129-117, last night at Madison Square Garden. It was the Knicks' fifth straight victory, their longest winning streak of the National Basketball Association season.  

Knicks Set Back Bulls by 124-117; Knight: 16 in First Quarter Knicks Topple Bulls By 124-117; Knight: 34 Bucks 99, Cavaliers 98 Kings 112, Hawks 107 Knicks Box Score 

WHEN the state's lawmakers were about to pass a law at the last session of the Legislature establish  ing binding arbitration in teachers' contracts, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education warned that it would challenge such a law by Jan. 1.  

January 6, 1980

Headlines from January 6, 1980

English Portraits On View at Yale; ART

STAGE VIEW; The Return to Romance STAGE VIEW The Return To Romance

Agencies Feel Pinch as Volunteers Decline; Volunteers Decline; Agencies Feel Pinch

Officials Decry Idea Of Olympic Boycott; Officials Decry Idea Of Olympic Boycott Precedents for Olympic Boycott Implied Message?

President Slashing Jobless Benefits To Increase Housing Aid in Budget; A Mild Recession Through Spring Foreseen Under Plan for '81 Spending Opposition From A.F.L.-C.I.O. Inflation Restraint Considered PRESIDENT SLASHING BENEFITS TO JOBLESS

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