News stories from Sunday June 28, 1970

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Five people are dead and 200 injured in Northern Ireland street fighting; a civil war is feared. British troops have been sent in; the jailing of militant leader Bernadette Devlin started the trouble. [CBS] The deadline for U.S. pullout from Cambodia is two days away; troops are leaving tear gas crystals and bad roads to delay reoccupation by the enemy. Communists continue attacking near Phnom Penh. [CBS] Secretary of State William Rogers will leave tomorrow for a two-week tour of Asia. Rogers wants the neutrality of Cambodia to be assured, and all foreign troops out including the South Vietnamese. [CBS] President Nixon will give a report on the Cambodian operation next Tuesday, in which he may present a new effort to end the war. [CBS] Mrs. Nixon helped deliver relief supplies to Peru. Two planes of supplies and $15,000 in cash were sent to earthquake victims. President Nixon said that it's better for Mrs. Nixon to deliver the goods than himself. [CBS] Republican Senator Mark Hatfield says that President Nixon and Vice President Agnew have split the country and destroyed the GOP. Hatfield blames Agnew for the party's new "Southern strategy". [CBS] The governor of Virginia ended his support of independent candidate Harry Byrd for Senate and now backs Republican candidate Ray Garland. Linwood Holton is the first Republican Governor of Virginia since reconstruction, but many Republicans back independent Senator Byrd. Byrd has the only real political money in Virginia, and some Republicans want to block their own nominee to avoid having an opponent for Byrd. [CBS] The draft lottery has been reformed. Birthdates and numbers are in separate drums; capsules are mixed, drawn and matched. [CBS] Indians are growing militant in the cities. The American Indian Movement is protesting discrimination; AIM was designed to help Indians in cities. Housing is a major problem because landlords won't improve slums. The arrest rate is high in the Indian community; AIM gives legal counsel and patrols the streets to help drunks avoid arrest. [CBS]