March 17, 1980

WASHINGTON, March 16--Breaking with tradition, leaders of organized labor are supporting--and indeed have helped to shape--a new type of national economic policy that says that working people must accept some loss of real income to help stop inflation.

LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 16--Alan Minter, a 27-year-old "cobblestone fighter" from England, won the only undisputed boxing championship of the world today with a hotly disputed split decision over Vito Antuofermo in a rough but far less-sanguine middleweight bout than had been expected.

WASHINGTON, March 16--Japan's increasing penetration of the American automobile market has long troubled the United Automobile Workers union and is starting to stir protectionist reactions in Congress.

WASHINGTON, March 16--Senator Edward M. Kennedy said today that he would stay in the Democratic Presidential race even if he lost in the Illinois and New York primaries Tuesday and next week.

Nearly three years ago, Allard K. Lowenstein described his friend and protege Dennis Sweeney--the man accused of murdering him in his law office here last Friday--as a tragic figure who had been "permanently damaged" by the ideological stuggles of movement politics in the 1960's.

SAN JUAN, P.R., March 16--President Carter edged out Senator Edward M. Kennedy in today's Democratic Presidential primary and apparently gathered 21 of the island's 41 national convention delegates.

WILMINGTON, Del.--They are injecting trees to squeeze more raw material out of the stumps at Hercules Inc. Gases that used to be vented through stacks at the chemical plants are now trapped and used. Lines of business that were heavily dependent on petroleum-based feedstocks have been cut back.

PEKING, March 16--In a highly unusual move, Deng Xiaoping, China's most powerful leader, plans to give up his, post as senior Deputy Prime Minister late this summer, a ranking Chinese leader has disclosed, evidently as part of a program to install a stable team of successors.

From New York City, the financial capital of the nation, great sums of money pour forth daily to underwrite economic growth across the country and around the world.

WASHINGTON, March 14--Of the 41 Democratic Senators who have not announced support for President Carter or Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York may be the one whose endorsement is most sought after, especially as the March 25 New York primary approaches.

During a dinner party last Friday night at the Park Avenue home of Donald R. Sloan, deputy chairman of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Co., a television set was wheeled into the dining room so the assembled guests could watch President Carter's evening press conference.