News stories from Friday March 27, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Professional Air Traffic Controllers slowdown snarled air traffic again today; 25% of air controllers are out. A federal judge ordered PATCO lawyer F. Lee Bailey and two others into court on contempt charges. In New York City, over 100 flights were canceled and others were delayed. [CBS]
- Letter Carriers union president James Rademacher is satisfied with the pay raise negotiations with the federal government, and he told postal workers to stay on the job so as to not jeopardize a potential settlement. [CBS]
- Teamster negotiations have broken down; federal mediation was requested. [CBS]
- Cambodia is a battleground for the South Vietnamese and the Communists. The U.S. opposes extending the war, but Americans are patrolling the border. [CBS]
- The White House denied reports that South Vietnam Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker is being replaced. [CBS]
- American-backed guerrillas in Laos pushed Communist forces back from Long Cheng. [CBS]
- Tel Aviv claims that five Egyptian MiGs were downed today; over half of Egypt's MiGs have reportedly been destroyed since 1967. [CBS]
- Palestinian guerrillas and right-wing Christians battled in Beirut in a fourth day of violence; 30 people were killed. [CBS]
- Italy's Christian Democrats formed a new center-left government, ending a 50-day political crisis. [CBS]
- Athens is trying 35 people for the attempted 1967 overthrow of the Greek military junta, 20 of them in absentia. [CBS]
- The Dominican Republic air attache discussed his kidnapping. Col. Don Crowley described his experience and stated that he was not mistreated. His captors were anti-American leftists who would have shot him without remorse. [CBS]
- Interior Secretary Walter Hickel warned ten oil companies against dumping oily ballast water off the coast of Alaska; legislation will follow if dumping continues. [CBS]
- The Atomic Energy Commission proposed new nuclear power plant discharge limits. [CBS]
- Country singer Johnny Cash will perform at the White House. "Welfare Cadillac", Cash's song about welfare loafers, is controversial. Welfare administrators and recipients don't like the song, but Cash said he will sing it if the President wants him to. [CBS]
- The Interstate Commerce Commission proposed a four-month delay in terminating Penn Central's long distance railroad service. The railroad lost $100 million last year on its eight-state service. [CBS]