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Sunday July 18, 1971
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This Day In 1970's History: Sunday July 18, 1971
  • Britain announced that it will vote for the admission of the People's Republic of China to the U.N.; South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu hopes that President Nixon's trip will lead to peace in Vietnam. The Communist negotiators at the Paris Peace Talks are also interested in Nixon's trip to China; they feel that the trip may lead to a war settlement to be negotiated at a Geneva-style conference on Indochina.

    The Associated Press reports that Henry Kissinger traveled to China under an assumed name and with a foreign passport to arrange the President's trip. [CBS]

  • U.S. command in Saigon reported that fighting in Vietnam is at its lowest level since 1965. [CBS]

  • The telephone strike and Union Pacific railroad and Southern Railway strikes continue. Progress was reported in negotiations with postal workers however, and a tentative local agreement could lead to an overall settlement of the copper workers' strike. [CBS]

  • Federal animal health experts are meeting with veterinarians to devise a program to combat the sleeping sickness epidemic which is killing horses in Texas. [CBS]

  • Palestinian guerrillas are reportedly fleeing across the Jordan River after attacks by the Jordanian army. [CBS]
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