April 16, 1980

WASHINGTON, April 15--A Senate bill to ease entry into the trucking industry and promote competition swept to an easy victory, today, despite opposition from major truckers and the teamsters' union.

WASHINGTON, April 15 The head of the Federal agency that regulates commodity trading testified today that the recent collapse of silver prices had placed "the nation's financial fabric in danger."

MAHWAH, N.J., April 15 The Ford Motor Company's decision to close its assembly plant here in mid-June will throw 3,732 employees out of work and cut off a payroll that totaled $85 million last year. The economic impact is expected to be felt in a wide area of the metropolitan region.

WASHINGTON, April 15 The Supreme Court expanded the constitutional protection against arrests without a warrant today, ruling 6 to 3 that the police need a warrant before entering a suspect's home to make a routine arrest.

BASEL, Switzerland, April 15 Central bank governors from the major industrialized nations issued an unusual public warning today about "the greater risks" now facing the international banking system as a result of rising oil prices and said they planned to control overseas bank lending more strictly to head off the danger of a financial crash.