May 13, 1980

WASHINGTON, May 12 Senator William Proxmire, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said today that there was "no evidence" that the White House intervened to help Rupert Murdoch, publisher of The New York Post, obtain a low-interest Government loan shortly before the newspaper endorsed President Carter for renomination.

Ronald Reagan and President Carter, despite only light campaign efforts in both states, go into today's primary elections in Maryland and Nebraska with little likelihood, according to politicians, of being derailed in their drives to nomination.

WASHINGTON, May 12 The Senate tonight adopted a $613.1 billion budget for the fiscal year 1981, tenuously balanced with funds previously earmarked for a tax cut. The vote was 68 to 28.

Mayor Koch and Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin acted yesterday to prevent a 45year-old teacher at a junior high school in Queens from qualifying for a pension while he faced prosecution on charges that he had dealt in pornography involving children.

WASHINGTON FIVE years after the end of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon has been quietly but forcefully trying to repair ties with university scientists that were badly ruptured during that divisive conflict.

DETROIT, May 12 American auto makers have acknowledged with fanfare in recent years the demise of the convertible, the passing of the V-8, the death of the gas guzzler. But as America's romance with the automobile fades, one jilted sweetheart is disappearing quietly from the highways, probably never to recover its past glory the standard Chevrolet.

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12 -- Uganda's state radio said tonight that a six-member military commission had "assumed the powers of the presidency," but it said nothing about the status or whereabouts of President Godfrey L. Binaisa.

LEAD, the toxic metal that is thought to have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, is today a pervasive environmental contaminant that may be damaging the brain development of millions of children here and in other industrialized countries.

ALBANY As head of President Carter's campaign here, Mayor Erastus J. Corning 2d was asked to send state headquarters a list of Albany officials who were supporting the President in the Democratic primary.

The tentative contract that ended last month's bus and subway strike was ratified yesterday by an overwhelming vote of the memberships of New York City's two transit unions.