PHILADELPHIA, May 9 President Carter, making his first major public appearance outside of Washington in more than six months, told a "town meeting" here today that he viewed Secretary of State Edmund S. "Muskie as a stronger, more statesmanlike figure and more evocative spokesman than Mr. Muskie's predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance.  

CARTER SEES MUSKIE AS 'MUCH STRONGER' IN JOB THAN VANCE; At 'Town Meeting' in Philadelphia, He Discounts Ex-Secretary's Conflicts With Brzezinski A Question About Brzezinski Muskie-Gromyko Meeting Carter Calls Muskie a 'Much Stronger' Secretary of State Than Vance Two Polish Americans On the Hostage Situation 

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Prices paid by retailers for a wide variety of goods rose only five-tenths of 1 percent last month, indicating a marked slowing of inflation.  

PRODUCER PRICE RISE CUT TO 0.5% IN APRIL; COST OF FOOD DROPS; SLOWING OF INFLATION Economists Warn Decline at the Wholesale Level May Not Continue 'We Do Expect Moderation' Producer Price Increase Trimmed to 0.5% in April Other Encouraging Portents Amounted to Temporary Relief 

TEHERAN, Iran, May 9 President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, struggling to gain control over Iran's divided and rapidly deteriorating political scene, appeared today to have won the support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.  

KHOMEINI BOLSTERS ROLE OF BANI-SADR; Ayatollah Endorses His Proposals for Consolidating Government KHOMEINI BOLSTERS ROLE OF BANI-SADR Direct Confrontations Avoided Battles Continue in Kurdistan

On Thursday afternoon, John D. Backe, the president of CBS, landed in New York, basking in the afterglow of an upbeat three-day meeting in Los Angeles with officials of the network's 200 affiliated stations. After trailing ABC for several years, CBS had only recently returned ...  

CBS Chief's Abrupt Ouster Came Amid Network's Rising Fortunes; 'Another Palace Revolution' Ouster Came as CBS Prospered Questions About Stability 'Rubbing In' the Changes Factors in Taylor Ouster 

TAMPA, Fla., May 9 The Cuban Americans who gather at Macfarland Park every afternoon were angry when Mayor Bob Martinez arrived, and even angrier when he left.  

Cuban Backlash Grows in Florida As Influx of Refugees Nears 30,000; Cuban Backlash Growing With Refugee Population Racial and Ethnic Prejudice Education Study Planned 250 Refugees Are Rescued 

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 9  Thirty-two people were killed today when a ship struck the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, tearing away a 1,000-foot section of the span and dropping a bus, three cars and a pickup truck 140 feet into Tampa Bay.  

32 Killed as Ship Wrecks Bridge in Florida; 'The Bridge Was Breaking Off' Other Span Apparently Damaged Ship Strikes Tampa Bay Bridge and 32 in Vehicles Fall to Their Deaths 

Mayor Koch yesterday proposed a $13.58 billion expense budget for the next fiscal year and said he would strive to make it the first "truly balanced" city budget in more than a decade.  

Balanced Budget Offered by Koch For Fiscal 1981; Balanced 1981 City Budget Is Presented by Mayor Koch Enactment Is Uncertain Attrition of 6,669 Jobs Chose to 'Accommodate' Critics Chancellor Favors More Spending Polishing Up the Ugly Budget 

SADA, Yemen A convoy of pickup trucks and taxis heaped precariously high with bedrolls and assorted cartons of television sets, washing machines and other consumer luxuries lurched south along the partly asphalted highway to this old fortress city, carrying home migrant workers flush with wages hoarded in Saudi Arabia.  

For Many Yemenis, Happiness Means Job in Saudi Arabia; Earnings Important to Yemen Yemenis Can Cross Border Freely Few Rights for Foreigners 

TEL AVIV, May 9 Defense Minister Ezer Weizman said today on his return from Cairo that President Anwar elSadat's suspension of the Palestinian autonomy talks was for internal Egyptian political reasons.  

Israelis Expect Shuffle by Sadat

CARACAS, Venezuela, May 9 -- After three weeks of acrimonious debate, the Venezuelan Congress voted last night to hold former President Carlos Andres Perez "politically responsible" for what was denounced as a Government ship-purchase scandal during his administration.  

Congress in Venezuela Censures Perez for Scandal; An $8 Million Overpayment Vow to Clean Up Corruption 

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 9 The military men who overthrew and assassinated President William R. Tolbert Jr. in a coup last month are struggling for acceptance by the nations of black Africa. Many of these nations' leaders say they were alarmed by the sudden developments in what was widely perceived as one of the most stable civilian-run countries on the continent.  

Liberian Leaders Rebuffed by Other African Nations; Politically Isolated by Neighbors Rawlings Still Considered Threat Grumbling Over O.A.U. Meeting 

ACCRA, Ghana, May 9 (AP) Pope John Paul II and the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie, met today in another step toward closer relations between their churches.  

Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury Conduct 'Joyful' Meeting in Africa; Combined Flock of 785 Million Gifts of Gold and Silver 

ARLINGTON, Va., May 9 Standing beneath an arch inscribed "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain," President Carter this morning praised the dedication to duty of the five Air Force officers and three marines who were killed on the rescue mission that failed on an Iranian desert last month.  

8 WHO DIED IN IRAN PRAISED BY CARTER; 'Every American Feels Your Loss,' He Tells Families 5,000 at Arlington Cemetery Rite Planes Mark Loss of Comrades 

FRANKFURT, West Germany, May 9 (Reuters) The executive committee of the West German National Olympic Committee called tonight for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet Union's military intervention in Afghanistan.  

West German Panel Recommends Olympic Boycott; Pakistan Boycotting Moscow Peru Participating in Games 

World News Briefs; Morocco and Polisario Front Battle at Desert Outpost 1976 Emergency Legislation Overturned by Indian Court Bolivia to Pay All Workers Anti-Inflationary Bonuses Transport Union in Sweden Halts Most Fuel Shipments 

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, May 9  In July 1944 John A. Blatnik, a captain in the American Army assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, parachuted into Yugoslavia to join the Partisans.  

At Tito Rites, An American Recalls War

WASHINGTON, May 9 The Libyan Government bowed to State Department pressure today and agreed to withdraw four self-styled diplomats who have been accused by Federal officials of harassing other Libyans living in the United States.  

Libya Agrees to Demand by U.S. To Send Home 4 From Embassy; Embassy Building Cordoned Off Qaddafi Threatens U.S. and Britain 

WASHINGTON, May 9 Edmund S. Muskie began his career as Secretary of State today by telling several hundred cheering State Department employees that he intended to promote an active and outspoken foreign policy and that he hoped they would support him.  

Muskie Outlines Plan to Promote An Active Policy; Tells Staff U.S. Must Have 'Presence in the World' 'Make Idea of Freedom Live' Applause and Laughter Five Employees Brought Along 

MOSCOW, May 9 When the Soviet press announced in February that two pizzerias would open soon in Moscow, cynics predicted that the first customers would be told, "We don't have any."  

In Moscow, Pizzerias but No Pie

PEKING, May 9 (Reuters) China announced tonight that it would conduct its first long-range rocket test from its territory into an area south of the Gilbert Island chain in the central Pacific Ocean between May 12 and June 10.  

China Sets Long-Range Rocket Test

WASHINGTON, May 9 The military services disclosed today that their recruiting efforts had shown marked improvement over a year ago but that to fill their ranks they increasingly had to rely on men and women who were not high school graduates.  

Military Forces Gain in Recruiting but Lag in High School Graduates; Overall Quota Exceeded 58% High School Graduates 

WASHINGTON, May 9 (AP) President Carter announced today that he would nominate George W. Ashworth of Oakton, Va., to be assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The 42-year-old Mr. Ashworth has been chairman of the External Research Council of the agency since 1979.  

Carter Picks Arms Control Aide

Around the Nation; Striking Nashville Firemen Defy Mayor's Demand Quakes and Eruptions Shake Mount St. Helens Singer and Composer Sentenced In Shooting Ohio Court Lifts Order Barring Newspaper Reports Judge Approves Plan For St. Louis Desegregation 

CLEVELAND, May 9 For most students in Ohio and the rest of the country, the arrival of May puts graduation day, summer vacation and jobs on the horizon, but for Cleveland's public school students it might as well still be March.  

For Cleveland's Students, Vacation Is Far-Off Dream; 'One Crisis to Another' 'Psychological Damage' Found Problem of Summer Jobs Failures Reported to Court 

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 (UPI) The board of trustees of the 25,000-member American Psychiatric Association voted yesterday to withdraw the group's 1981 convention from New Orleans because Louisiana has not ratified the proposed equal rights amendment. No new site was chosen.  

May 10, 1980

Headlines from May 10, 1980

PRODUCER PRICE RISE CUT TO 0.5% IN APRIL; COST OF FOOD DROPS; SLOWING OF INFLATION Economists Warn Decline at the Wholesale Level May Not Continue 'We Do Expect Moderation' Producer Price Increase Trimmed to 0.5% in April Other Encouraging Portents Amounted to Temporary Relief

KHOMEINI BOLSTERS ROLE OF BANI-SADR; Ayatollah Endorses His Proposals for Consolidating Government KHOMEINI BOLSTERS ROLE OF BANI-SADR Direct Confrontations Avoided Battles Continue in Kurdistan

CBS Chief's Abrupt Ouster Came Amid Network's Rising Fortunes; 'Another Palace Revolution' Ouster Came as CBS Prospered Questions About Stability 'Rubbing In' the Changes Factors in Taylor Ouster

Cuban Backlash Grows in Florida As Influx of Refugees Nears 30,000; Cuban Backlash Growing With Refugee Population Racial and Ethnic Prejudice Education Study Planned 250 Refugees Are Rescued

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