News stories from Saturday March 28, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Letter carriers, postal clerks and sorters worked overtime to clear up the backlog left by their strike last week. By late afternoon, the backlog of first-class mail had been processed, a spokesman for the Post Office in New York City said. Most of the National Guardsmen retained on active duty after the strike were home on passes. [New York Times]
- As more federal air traffic controllers joined a nationwide "sick" strike, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered commercial airlines to cut their flights in and out of New York and Chicago by 50 percent. Air travelers in the Northeast were told to expect long delays on Sunday, the end of the Easter holiday weekend. [New York Times]
- The Democrats are almost certain to be "completely priced out of the market" during the 1972 presidential campaign by the soaring costs of television advertising and the greater financial resources of the Republicans, Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien said. He told an interviewer that lack of money for television advertising "cost us the election" in 1968. [New York Times]
- Thousands of students and young people free for the Easter vacation gathered in Florida to await the start of a rock festival delayed by legal moves. An estimated 25,000 people sprawled on a dude ranch in Bithlo, Fla., policed by members of a motorcycle gang. [New York Times]
- In Cambodia, more demonstrations protesting the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Chief of State were reported in provinces along Cambodia's border with South Vietnam. But official sources said there was no large-scale rioting and that the protests appeared on the wane. The sources added that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in frontier regions had increased their pressure on government forces. [New York Times]
- "Surplus" Defense Department fighter planes, cargo planes, destroyers, antiaircraft missiles, tanks and rifles worth $157 million were secretly given to Nationalist China last year, it was disclosed. Taiwan paid only $1 million for four destroyers. [New York Times]
- A bomb that shattered an apartment on the Lower East Side of New York City killed at least one Negro man and critically injured another. Several other live bombs, quantities of bomb-making material and Black Panther literature were found later by police and emergency squads. The victims' bodies were found in the debris on the top floor of a grimy tenement at 706 East Fifth Street, between Avenues C and D. [New York Times]
- President Nixon took three steps to aid Vietnam veterans, the White House disclosed. Mr. Nixon signed a bill increasing veterans' monthly educational allowances, issued an Executive order broadening federal job opportunities for veterans and received the full report of a special presidential committee on Vietnam veterans. [New York Times]
- There are relatively few secluded and unpolluted beaches left in the continental United States, environmentalists have found. Most of the nation's shoreline has been cluttered with hotels, motels, seaside developments and industries or fouled with oil spills, sewage or other pollutants. [New York Times]
- Reliable sources, including officers involved in the operations, said that South Vietnamese army rangers entered Cambodia for the second consecutive day as they tried to trap a Viet Cong force estimated at two battalions. The sources said the operations were conducted with the active cooperation of the Cambodian army. [New York Times]