European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                M the stars and stripes the United states thursday asked for a meeting with korean lives Al the truce Village at zone that two v White mouse press Secretary Jody Powell said he North agreed to meet Early the military the Heli copter ferrying construction material when it strayed int North rear Warren unc senior Delegate to the Mac said in a roes Sage requesting the session that Are indications let we forced Down by your fire in the course of an Unin in by returned  her Givens Crew to Yogi Rohte we try deeply concerned about the  and req St from Hamm said in his for nto Era Early thursday by the press Samerj said penetration off korean continued frontage Gate the Power to find out Why it to recommend specific actions to prevent another such the commission announced by that an investigative task Force would begin work morning in new York and would have a report ready within two t by 9 had been re stored to about of consolidated Edi sons million among areas switched on were parts of Staten Island and the Lenox Hill Section of manhattans East Sido and Moat of Welches ice county Nierth of the Bui in the heart of the nations restoration of electricity was a slow and agonizing with to second night of darkness and its looting menace loom ing for new chairman Charles Luce of consolidated the cites Power crossed his fingers and told re it seems very Likely thai new York will be Back Ullh full  before at Luce said to per cent o the City had in manhattans Brooklyn  and other neighbor hoods that1 belonged to the evil forces of darkness wednesday there wan no Power As dusk Early Beame declared a state of emergency and called for an invest we cannot tolerate in this age of modern technology a Power system that can shut Down Tho nations largest thai shutdown precipitated a Long humid night of police said persons were arrested on that charge 78 police officers were reported including one who was traffic in the City was extremely Light As residents and workers apparently heeded beanies request to slay cabs and buses were although no traffic signals directed traffic Only at major at Drivers uncharacteristically edged 1 state office buildings and off track betting offices were so were summer schools and Gas station water was Cut off in Many of the cites larger buildings As electric pumps to subways were most com Muier railroads Wall Street was shut the Stock Market put of business for the duration elevators were Beame said there could be no subway or rail service until 2i hours after Power was fully Beame told a news conference he was outraged and said he was assembling a Blu ribbon panel to investigate the com Pany which had vowed there would never be a repeal of Iho big blackout of the unlike the 1965 Power outage that affected the whole was limited to new York City and parts of adjoining Long Island and Westchester county one of the worst aspects of wednesday nights blackout was the widespread loot which did not occur in the 1965 police were forced to reopen the 19th Century tombs jail to help hold the arrested but at midday they said Calm was returning to Harlem and other Black and hispanic areas where hundreds of stores were ripped All available patrolmen and firefighters were called to duty to control looting and scattered people Are going wild in the Borough of one polio offi cer there the in the Bronx for loot ers drove 50 new Pont tech through the showroom doors of at the Bronx House of inmates their cots on fire on two in policeman John Ryan hundreds of shops have been wiped out As if a bomb was dropped there is not a single television set left in Harlem thousands of travellers were in dark ened subway tunnels and knocking out communications through Large part it the metropolitan As lights then and finally went out at Twenty six minutes Beame cleared a slate of at 10 Hugh Carey ordered the National guard on standby despite the looting by bands of Young most of the cites residents appeared to take the crisis calmly Many radio and television stations went off the those that were Able to switch to emergency generators broadcast pulp the minute reports of what was happen i was so dark you could not see your hand in from of one new yorker police patrol cars cruised the streets telling people to keep to the with temperatures m the Many people went into the streets just to Cool off because without electricity v authorities ordered All Floc personnel to emergency duty and several Nati orial guard armoires were opened to the Public As at Bellevue Hospital electricity generators also but operating Heaters wore not doctors and nurses used flashlights to get around a spokesman for con Edison said that a thunderstorm struck Northern Westchester county shortly after 9 and lightning knocked out key Power lines near the Indian Point nuclear generating Plant in the Generator itself was not the Power lines Down an overload resulted arid con Edison countered by reducing voltage first by per cent at then by 8 per cent at but it became Clear this would not the spokesman a Power overload effected another Generator and the entire system the new York City transit authority re ported that about passengers on 10 to 15 trains were trained when the blackout but the trains operating under residual Power but without the Benefit of signals unloaded passengers at the near est there were no fatalities and no a transit spokesman at the stale Dai inon said that were on their they had the to Carter Learned was listening 16 a from the musical Carousel after a House dinner for West German Helmut no Fig j president stayed behind we Schmidt while top Aid dbl Inlew state Vance and defense Secretary Harold Brown went to the situation Hoong Vance and brawn were Guestis Fobe in after the Carter met lately with Schmidt before going to the Patlon room about there was no suggestion from the White House that the incident might persuade Carter to forgo his plan to with draw ground troops from South testifying on Capitol of the joint chiefs of said the shooting has not changed the military leaderships support for Carters plan to withdraw combat troops from South the North koreans acted in a manner entirely consistent with their past behave Brown told the House armed serv ices they have done this in every i but Robert said the president seemed to be taking All this very and i dont myself be Lieve that exactly the right j he said it called for sterner what a difference dark made in new York City Senate votes a 1 cheers from every Bistro they Berle and Rita both aspiring opera Broadway hand in they said they had seen a Small Van pass with four Young women standing in the Back singing god bless America and keeping the beat by Pound some cab Drivers saw in darkness a Spe Cial at ninth Avenue and 23rd Sheet someone asked a cabbie can you take me to Rockefeller Center said uie tax Driver give he got the ride usually costs about on too Many streets the looters were about persons were burglar alarms sounded along Many some store owners armed them selves and stood guard inside their Italy president operated on Home api president Giovanni one of was operated on for a prostate condition and the removal of Sunestrom his urinary Leone s office said the Perallon was successful and thai his condition was thursdays baseball still at Leith Street in Harlem a 10yearold boy crossed with a new bicycle on his he passed a girl about the same age carrying a bulging laundry bag Over her Good Samaritans Kew gardens hos Pital was an Island of Power in a sea of thanks to its emergency Gener the Hospital opened its doors for a Derby people fearful of going Home in the and provided candles and flashlights to visitors who did head Security guard Eddie Brennan took cold water to the old folks who live across West 73rd Street at the Hamilton House for senior Breiman also brought a flashlight and helped the elderly residents walk at Shea stadium the Only thing playing was the organist after the lights that make night baseball possible went u was the sixth so the final score stood cubs mets informal car pools helped As fans groped heir Way through the parking Europe m Paul to if noon Vul Mil Der titling Fri Tift f lid Affif n n u aim Ken ii a 44 u Armani u w m u m h m h final veto right on Neutron Armit Washington up after approval for producing a Neutron we which president Carter says will Cost i to million through 1980 and prospects of nuclear the wednesday voted to retain Tor Congress a final right to veto a presidential godhead on it adapted on a 7419 vote an amendment by democratic Leader Robert Byng and Republican Leader Howard Baker to Fye the House and Senate the right to Overon such a decision within Days by Coney rent before Tho on the urging of Hubert Carter de classified an arms Impact Sial Enami which the National Security Council Elsaid the total hidden in the pending Public works appropriation Bill for direct development costs of the Neutron warhead was million with a total of Mil lion through the end of this a Neutron the statement provides increased kill capability against personnel while leaving some structures and armoured vehicles such As tanks rail Lively the statement contained some of the same words Carter used at a news Confer ence tuesday when of announced his ded Slon to continue development of Whit been a to secret