News stories from Saturday June 20, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The South Vietnamese launched a new drive in Cambodia with the support of American B-52's which attacked a Communist border stronghold and hit the enemy around Kompong Thom.
A bipartisan House commission left for Southeast Asia to investigate the Vietnam war. Rep. Sonny Montgomery stated that he will make sure Americans are out of Cambodia by June 30. The delegation will investigate the U.S. POW situation, pacification, Vietnamization, and the economic and political outlook.
[CBS] - Vice President Spiro Agnew denounced Democrats as Communist sympathizers; Ethel Kennedy wears a Spiro Agnew watch, and says that she's a Mickey Mouse fan. [CBS]
- An oil refinery is burning in Sugar Creek, Pa. The fire has been contained, but not controlled. Blasts killed three people and injured 14, and over one million gallons of gasoline and oil have been lost. [CBS]
- Red China won't resume talks in Warsaw as a protest against U.S. actions in Indochina. [CBS]
- The Nixon administration reportedly pressured Asst. Commerce Secretary Kenneth Davis to resign because Davis criticized U.S. tariff policies. Davis reported that the administration resented his public dissent and his bypassing of Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans.
The House Ways and Means Committee is considering a bill to reverse the trend of U.S. trade. Chairman Wilbur Mills fears that an open trade policy would hurt domestic industries, and he wants protective tariffs. The cotton industry is being hurt by imported textiles and 50,000 American textile workers have lost their jobs. The State Department wants free trade but the Commerce Department favors tariffs to protect U.S. industry. The administration now favors shifting to a protectionist policy to aid Americans, since this is an election year.
[CBS] - Health, Education and Welfare administrator James Farmer says that black distrust of President Nixon may result in urban violence this summer. [CBS]