June 15, 1980

IT has been a bad year for the "Sons of the Bad News Bears," as one mother dubbed the Cubs, and today the score resembles foot ball more than baseball.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. JUST like Datsun and Sony, another Japanese import is threatening the American economy--the golf economy. Isao Aoki (pronounced I-saho AH-oaki) is the cultured pearl of his sport.

WASHINGTON, June 14--President Carter traveled across the country this week emphasizing that cushions already in the economic system would help Americans who had lost their jobs avoid extreme financial hardship. He promised he would offer new measures if the cushions proved to be inadequate.

TOKYO, June 14 (UPI)--The body of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira was cremated today after a private funeral attended by 3,000 friends and political allies.

WASHINGTON--Two barons of the United States Senate have joined the battle over, of all things, whether car bumpers should be made of steel or aluminum.