LAST September, an apparent case of child abuse was reported to the Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Yonkers. According  to an anonymous caller, a woman had been seen choking one of her four children on the front porch of her house in a southern Westchester city at approximately 1:30 A.M.  

2 County Child-Abuse Agencies Dispute Roles; Controversy Surrounds 2 Child Agencies 

WHEN a muffled boom reverberated and windows rattled in a 50-mile radius of North Jersey on Jan. 25, it was another reminder to the neighbors that Picatinny Arsenal was still there.  

Arsenal Plans A Big 'Blast' On Its Birthday; Picatinny Planning Big Birthday 'Blast' 

A GROWING interest in obtaining cable television service on the part of Nassau's villages may be accompanied by a  phenomenon new to the county-- competition for business among several cable companies.  

Cable TV Franchises Draw Competition; Cable TV Franchises Draw Competition 

Petrochemical companies have quietly tested thousands of American workers to determine if any of the genes they were born with are what industry doctors call "defective," making the employees especially vulnerable to certain chemicals in the workplace. The process is called genetic screening.  

Genetic Tests by Industry Raise Questions on Rights of Workers; The Genetic Barrier Job Benefit or Job Bias? Genetic Screening by Industry Raises Basic Questions of the Rights of Workers Hard Evidence Lacking Thousands of Workers Tested Confusing Federal Mandate Disorders in Many Groups 'Do Tests Because We Can' 'A Lot of Victim-Blaming Recent Rise of Chemicals Stress on Clean Workplace Industry Motives Questioned Complaints Against Companies Sterilization as Policy Focus on Lead Effects on Women

INFLATION. For years it crept along silently like a cat, barely noticed. Then it changed shape and grew bolder, but remained more or less friendly.  

Inflation at 13.3%: What Is This Rapacious Thing?; Inflation: What is This Monster That Devours Paychecks? How It Happened Two Views on Inflation Measurement Problem Battling Ignorance The Jobs Target Changing Perceptions What Remedies Exist? 

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Platts of St. Joseph, Mich., have made known the engagement of their daughter, Polly Wynne Platts, to William Stuart Aldrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steere Aldrich of New York, Providence. R.I., and Nonquitt, Mass.  

Polly Platts Plans a May Bridal

Major News; In Summary Except for Defense Spending, Carter Pinches Pennies Run to Daylight From Iran Hideout 

Palm Springs has become famous as the place to which the hard-working (or recently hard-working) rich go to be idle.  

Palm Springs: All Activity Is Optional; Palm Springs, Where Any or All Activity Is Optional If You Go ... 

BACK in May of 1976, just after Julius Erving had helped the New York Nets win their second American Basketball Association championship, Dave DeBusschere was asked whether the star could perform his soaring leaps and twisting  drives in the more established National Basketball Association.  

Julius Erving Is Finally Getting His Old A.B.A. Act Together; Erving Finally Getting His Old A.B.A. Act Together 

BOSTON, Feb. 2--Dwight Westleigh made sure the fire in his new wood-burning stove was out before he and his six young children went upstairs to bed last Dec. 14.  

Fire Death Rise Laid to Increase In Wood Stoves; Blaze Killed 4 Children Rise in Fatal Fires Is Linked to Use of Wood Stoves Installation Standards Studied 

WASHINGTON--President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia Democrat who sometimes wraps himself in populist rhetoric, says the country cannot afford a tax cut in fiscal 1981 because inflation is high and it is more important to cut the budget deficit.  

Takes, Debt and Mr. Jones; He Would Cut Taxes--and Spending

TEHERAN, Iran, Feb. 2--Militant students holding the American hostages inside the United States Embassy said tonight that they had invited 50 Americans to come to Teheran this week to examine evidence of the deposed Shah's alleged crimes.  

Militants Holding Hostages Invite 50 Americans to Investigate Shah; Students Call for Demonstrations Militants Holding Hostages Invite 50 Americans to Investigate Shah Hostage Compromise Reported Delegation to Leave for Teheran 

TRENTON WHEN Governor Byrne presented his $5.1 billion state budget to the Legislature last week, he said that $210 million more in additional revenue would be necessary to  balance it, and he gave the Legislature the choice of passing new taxes or cutting the budget.  

The Budget: Is It Really Off Balance?; State Budget: Is It Off Balance?

DETECTIVES attempting to reconstruct the shadowy past of a 22-year-old woman who, along with another woman, was decapitated  in a midtown Manhattan motel in December have established that she gave birth in a Trenton hospital in October 1978 and had apparently spent considerable time in the state capital and Atlantic City between then and the day she was murdered.  

Who Were The Women In Room 417?; Room 417: Who Were the Women? 

THE Riviera in the late twenties was a haven for successful English and American writers, and  almost an English-speaking enclave. Beaulieu had an avenue Edith Cavell, Nice had a Scotch Tea ...  

SELECTION; Chez Somerset Maugham Maugham

LONDON Graham Greene has always  had a sense of timing. It came from the three years he spent as a sub-editor on The Times of London  preparing short news stories for an inside page and being promised upon his resignation that should he stay, he might one day edit the famous correspondence columns.  

Graham Greene Conjures A Timely Spy Film; Graham Greene's Timely Spy Film 

High public officials, including a United States Senator and seven Representatives, have been subjects of a twoyear undercover operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which agents posed as businessmen and Arab sheiks willing to pay bribes, according to law-enforcement authorities.  

High Officials Are Termed Subjects Of a Bribery Investigation by F.B.I.; 2-Year Inquiry Used Agents Who Posed as Sheiks-- Senator Williams and 7 in House Are Named Lawmakers Are Named Senator and 7 Representatives Termed Subjects of F.B.I.'s Bribery Investigation Informer Helps Start Operation An Accord on Land Purchase Military Contracts Mentioned $50,000 in Briefcase

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 2-- Pressed by African nations, the Security Council today called on Britain to halt practices allegedly favoring Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa and discriminating against the Patriotic Front guerrilla organization in the Rhodesian elections.  

U.N. WARNS BRITAIN ON RHODESIA VOTING; Council, 14-0, Says London Seems to Be Favoring Muzorewa Vote Follows 3 Days of Debate U.N. Council Bids Britain Insure a Fair Rhodesia Vote 

ARE the residential communities of Westchester and Fairfield counties in danger of being overrun by a bland, cor  porate-led uniformity of values and lifestyles that could eradicate freewheeling American individualism, ethnic diversity and political outspokenness?  

The Corporate Flood Tide: Is It a Danger?; A Corporate Goal: Loyal 'Eunuchs' 

Abraham Hirschfeld, whose midtown Manhattan sports club has been met by community opposition at virtually every step, is now formally proposing to build a 30-story apartment tower over the still unfinished club.  

A 30-Story Tower Over Tennis Club Is Proposed; Tower Is Proposed Over Tennis Club 

Hundreds of rioting inmates seized the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe before dawn yesterday and took 11 or 12 guards as hostages. Some prisoners who later surrendered told authorities that 10 to 15 inmates had been slain inside the prison and that others had been tortured or mutilated in reprisals by fellow convicts.  

10 REPORTED KILLED AFTER INMATES SEIZE NEW MEXICO PRISON; 11 GUARDS HELD AS HOSTAGES 200 Officers Surround Facility-- Rebels Vow to Slay Captives Unless Demands Are Met Negotiations Stalemated 10 REPORTED KILLED IN PRISON REBELLION Fires Set by Inmates A.C.L.U. Filed Lawsuit 3 Injured Guards Released 

DETROIT, Feb. 2--Like many Americans, Lou and Pat Cerre see matters of war and peace from the perspective of the in-between generation of the 1950's.  

Crises Pose Harsh Questions for Americans; Foreign Crises Pose Harsh Questions for Americans Draft Registration Favored Russians Are Distrusted Troubles Seen as Comeuppance Shift by an Antiwar Activist 'Realty in Our Interest' 

WASHINGTON--Unlike some of his predecessors, Secretary of Defense Harold R. Brown hardly fits the description of a gung-ho hawk. A careful, sober-minded technocrat, Mr. Brown, in his three years of running the nation's defense establishment, has avoided trying to win support for new military programs by engaging in excessive rhetoric about the growing Soviet threat.  

Loading For Bear; 'One-and-a-Half War' Strategy Now Means Just What It Says Money Is a Critical Obstacle 

Marriage Announcement 5 -- No Title

Living by himself in a 12-room parsonage was not the Rev. Donald Steinle's notion of an ideal existence. What he really wanted was a smaller place better suited to his bachelor status-- "something that would give me more personal privacy and some equity for the future."  

February 3, 1980

Headlines from February 3, 1980

2 County Child-Abuse Agencies Dispute Roles; Controversy Surrounds 2 Child Agencies

Arsenal Plans A Big 'Blast' On Its Birthday; Picatinny Planning Big Birthday 'Blast'

Cable TV Franchises Draw Competition; Cable TV Franchises Draw Competition

Inflation at 13.3%: What Is This Rapacious Thing?; Inflation: What is This Monster That Devours Paychecks? How It Happened Two Views on Inflation Measurement Problem Battling Ignorance The Jobs Target Changing Perceptions What Remedies Exist?

Billboard 200

The Wall

The Long Run

Damn The Torpedoes

Off The Wall

Kenny

Historical Context for February 3, 1980