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News stories from Sunday May 3, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A movement for a nationwide student strike protesting American military involvement in Southeast Asia appeared to be gaining momentum. The editors of 11 Eastern college papers drafted an editorial calling for "the entire academic community of this country to engage in a strike." [New York Times]
- A number of prominent antiwar spokesmen were among the 75 persons arrested for protesting the Vietnam war and United States involvement in Cambodia. The protesters, who were holding a prayer service in a park across the street from the White House, included Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician. [New York Times]
- Senator Ralph Yarborough, liberal Texas Democrat, felt that his loss in the Texas primary was primarily due to his vote against a proposal by the late Senator Everett Dirksen to allow prayers in public schools. [New York Times]
- "People felt ecology would unite the country. It will prove more divisive than black power, even more divisive than the war in Vietnam, " says Luther Gerlach, an anthropologist who has studied the ecology movement for the last two years. Some environment experts agree with him and predict there will be a backlash against the ecology movement as soon as the specifics of ecology are discussed. [New York Times]
- More than 2,000 well-equipped ethnic Cambodian soldiers have been flown to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, as reinforcements for the Cambodian army. The troops will fight under the control of the Cambodian army while in the country. [New York Times]
- From Sweden to Italy, the Western European worker is staging wildcat strikes. The new militance of the workers underlines a growing dissatisfaction with their traditional union establishments. Most of the walkouts are led by employees in the pits and factories and not by their union leaders. [New York Times]
- Interviews with sources close to Judge James Boyle and District Attorney Edmund Dinis and with Leslie Leland, foreman of the grand jury that looked into the case last month, indicate that no additional legal action was taken against Senator Edward Kennedy because officials were apparently convinced there was no new evidence or witness to substantiate a new charge against the Senator. [New York Times]
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