April 19, 1980

BUENOS AIRES, April 18--The InterAmerican Human Rights Commission accused the Argentine Government today of killing and torturing many people held in detention. It expressed concern about thousands who are missing and "can be presumed to be dead."

MONTGOMERY, Ala.--The state whose low taxes were made famous by George C. Wallace's Presidential campaigns is having a financial crisis so severe that thousands of nursing home residents may face eviction and there is danger that the state will be forced to curtail or end its Medicaid program, which serves hundreds of thousands of the poor and elderly.

To the shock and surprise of Isamu Noguchi, one of the world's foremost sculptors, a Japanese bank near Wall Street has removed his 1,600-pound work "Shinto" from a lobby ceiling, cut it into pieces and carted it off to a warehouse.

WASHINGTON, April 18--A recent Pentagon study has concluded that a new nuclear missile system based at sea could be substituted for the controversial MX mobile missile system that the Carter Administration proposes to base on land, according to a senior Defense Department official.

Most major American banks lowered their prime interest rates yesterday to 19 percent from the record 20 percent of recent weeks in yet another sign that a recession may have begun.