First-quarter earnings reports of the nation's major retailers are due out starting today, and some of the largest companies are expected to report the sharpest profit declines.  

Retail Profit Expected to Show Slide; Quarterly Fall at K Mart, Penney, Sears Estimated Smallest Quarterly Contributor Weak Retail Profit Seen

ATLANTA, May 18--Demonstrating that he has lost little of his prowess despite a long absence, Pat Zachry pitched nobly today as the Mets split a doubleheader with the Atlanta Braves.  

Mets Split With Braves; Mets and Braves Divide Pair Braves' Metula Effective Mets' Unearned Runs Kelvin Chapman Quits Mets Box Scores 

Iranian assets held by the Federal Reserve have earned more than $80 million since President Carter imposed a freeze last November, according to Federal Reserve officials.  

Frozen Iran Funds Earn Interest; $1.1 Billion in Treasury Bills Frozen Iran Funds Earn Interest Myriad of Attachment Suits Priorities Might Be Set Up 

A team of specialists climbed scaffolding on the Statue of Liberty over the weekend to look for damage by two political protesters who had scaled the monument a week earlier. Instead, they found blemishes from acid rain and other corrosion from 40 years of exposure since the statue was last overhauled.  

Inspectors Find Statue Is Corroded; Experts Checking Climb Damage Discover the Statue Is Corroded Peril From Acid Rain Epidermal Surgery Relics of a Protest

MIAMI, May 18--Five more persons were killed today in racial rioting here that continued into a second night. Police and National Guard patrols tried in vain to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew to stop the violence, which by tonight had claimed 14 lives and left more than 200 injured.  

14 DIE IN MIAMI RIOT; ARSON AND LOOTING PERSIST FOR 2D DAY; TOLL OF INJURED EXCEEDS 200 Violence in Black Neighborhoods Follows Acquittal of 4 Whites Accused in Fatal Beating 14-Year-Old Boy Slain Fires Burn for Hours Rioting in Miami Leaves 14 Killed And Hundreds Hurt in Black Areas Blacks Protect Restaurant Random Violence Reported 

CHICAGO, May 18--The Commonwealth Edison Company, like many other utilities, faces a difficult future, with rising oil prices and production costs, large capital demands aggravated by an unstable bond market and the onset of recession.  

Chicago Utility's Uphill Fight; Nuclear Power Best Approach, Says New Chief Chicago Utility's Uphill Fight Nuclear Power Stressed by Chief Future of Nuclear Power 

ON a rainy Friday afternoon in Sec Taylor Stadium, a cheerful little ball park on the banks where the Raccoon River meets the Des Moines, where baseball players are not  as self-assured as the ones in the big leagues, and where fewer people--and television cameras-- watch them play, the pitchers for the Evansville Triplets, the top farm club of the Detroit Tigers, went through the monotony of their pregame running.  

For Fidrych, A Minor Role Is All He Has; For Fidrych, A Minor Role Is All He Has 

DALLAS, May 18--An impressive lineup of recent box-office hit films will be made available to the public through a new pay-television network being organized by four major Hollywood film makers and the Getty Oil Company.  

New Pay-TV Network To Offer Box-Office Hits; Battle Lines Drawn New Pay-TV Network To Offer Box-Office Hits Commitments From Operators Antitrust Issues Raised 

MIAMI, May 18-- Black leaders here said today that they could see violence coming for months.  

ANGER LONG IN RISING AMONG MIAMI BLACKS; Leaders Cite Other Brutality Cases and the New Influx of Cubans Hours After the Verdict, Riots Months of Rising Anger Preceded Riots, Blacks Say Angry Talk About the Cubans High Black Unemployment Raid on Teacher's Home Black Officials Prosecuted 

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., May 18-- Leonard Whitenight didn't plant flowers in his garden in the Love Canal neighborhood this year, and he no longer mows the lawn. "I'm sick of this canal, this city and this state," he said today. "I just want to get away."  

For One Love Canal Family, the Road to Despair; 'I Felt Completely Helpless' Despair Is Ravaging Family at Love Canal Not Alarmed at Emergency A Time of Frustrations Move to Texas Planned

RIDGEWOOD, N.J.--"Sure, I've cut back," said Robert W. Honsinger, principal of the Ridgewood High School. "I don't use my Visa card anymore."  

Suburb Copes With Credit Curb; Tightening Their Belts Jersey Suburb Copes With Credit Curbs Not Spending for Extras 

LOS ANGELES, May 18--The cost of financing pensions for retired and disabled employees is growing so fast for many American cities that some have been forced to curtail public services just to pay for pensions.  

Public Workers' Pensions Strain Cities and Increase With Inflation; The Pension Tangle Second of a series. Governments Strain to Pay Cost as Pensions Go Up With Inflation Battle of Young and Old Half Pay After 20 Years Getting More After Retirement Getting Social Security Anyway Spending Quadrupled in 4 Years Sophistication of Workers Costs for Later Generations Exempt From Federal Regulation $2.4 Billion Unfunded Deficit Fire Pension Fund Needs Help 

With its patrol strength at its lowest level in recent years, the New York City Police Department says it will spend $2.8 million in overtime to put 400 more officers on the streets during the normally high crime months of July and August.  

Police Will Increase Patrols in Summer; 400 Officers Are to Be Given Extra Duty at Cost of $2.8 Million McGuire Voices Concern 

NAPLES, May 18--Common Market foreign ministers said today that they would impose limited sanctions against Iran on Thursday for holding American hostages seized there six months ago.  

ALLIES WILL IMPOSE LIMITED SANCTIONS ON IRAN THURSDAY; BAN ON CONTRACTS APPROVED Pacts Made After Hostage Seizure Are Affected--Step Is Called 'Meaningful' in Washington Officials Note Developments Allies Favor Ban on Some Contracts With Teheran

Ten years after New York City made the seemingly routine decision to build shelters at bus stops, only 392 of them are in place. And no shelter has been installed since the one at the northwest corner of 96th Street and Park Avenue was completed on Sept. 22, 1978.  

New York Bus Shelter Case: Business, Law and Politics; New York's Bus Shelter Franchise: A Case Study of Business, Law and Politics Franchise Granted in 1975 Dispute Over Hiring of Law Firm Financial Pressures on Bustop 2d Shelter Company Formed 2d Company Seeks Franchise Breakfast With City Comptroller A Second Audit Is Reported Convenience Wins Bidding Offer to Purchase Bustop Contract Is Suspended 

VANCOUVER, Wash., May 18-- Mount St. Helens exploded at 8:39 A.M. today with a thud felt 100 miles away and with a drifting column of steam and pumice that turned day into night. At least eight people lost their lives fleeing flood waters, fires and mudslides that hit the Toutle River valley shortly after the volcano's eruption.  

At Least 8 Dead As Peak Erupts; Worst Blast Yet; Mount St. Helens Throws Mud and Column of Ash Earlier Eruptions Dwarfed At Least 8 Dead As Peak Erupts; Worst Blast Yet Inactive Since 1857 

BUSINESS Digest; The Economy Industry International Today's Columns 

Exotic Cuisine and Spring Showers

LONDON, May 18--Iran, which is already experiencing major difficulties in exporting its oil, could find the problem affecting domestic supplies of gasoline this coming summer and of heating fuel next winter, according to several Western oil executives.  

Unsold Heavy Fuel Clogs Iran Refineries; Unsold Heavy Fuel Clogs Iran Refineries Concern by Iranian Oilmen Refinery Incapacitated 

CLIFTON, N.J., May 18--Donna Horton White, who said she began her final round today thinking that she might finish third or fourth if she played well, came from six strokes off the pace to win the fifth annual ...  

Mrs. White Triumphs in Playoff; Mrs. White Triumphs in Playoff 

News Summary; International National Metropolitan 

ALBANY, May 17--Although no official ever gave him a formal explanation, Paul Thomas contends he was dismissed from his job at a New York State agency that regulates lobbyists because he had complained about waste and inefficiency and had given public records to a civic group.  

3 'Whistle Blowers' Accuse State Units of Harassment; Greater Job Security Outlook for Passage Is Poor 'Whistle Blowers' Assert Agencies Punished Them for Being Diligent Fear of Job Loss Suit Charges Harassment Problems Began in '78 

WASHINGTON CONTROLS over commodity speculation, prob  ably in the form of Federally set margin requirements, could emerge in the wake of the silver collapse, which, as one regulator put it, "threatened the very financial fabric" of the nation.  

Washington Watch; Commodities: Debate Grows Chrysler's New 'K' Car Mortgage-Rate Fanfare Ashland Refining Process Briefcases 

WASHINGTON, May 18 (AP)--A Federal judge has upheld the Carter Administration's decision to suspend the trigger price mechanism--a system that, in effect, sets a minimum price for imported steel.  

Judge Backs Carter on Steel

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May 19, 1980

Headlines from May 19, 1980

Retail Profit Expected to Show Slide; Quarterly Fall at K Mart, Penney, Sears Estimated Smallest Quarterly Contributor Weak Retail Profit Seen

Mets Split With Braves; Mets and Braves Divide Pair Braves' Metula Effective Mets' Unearned Runs Kelvin Chapman Quits Mets Box Scores

Frozen Iran Funds Earn Interest; $1.1 Billion in Treasury Bills Frozen Iran Funds Earn Interest Myriad of Attachment Suits Priorities Might Be Set Up

Inspectors Find Statue Is Corroded; Experts Checking Climb Damage Discover the Statue Is Corroded Peril From Acid Rain Epidermal Surgery Relics of a Protest

Billboard 200

Against The Wind

The Wall

Glass Houses

Mad Love

Just One Night

Notable Births

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