News stories from Friday July 3, 1970

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

President Nixon warned the Soviet Union about its involvement in the Mideast. He urged the Soviets to decrease their aid to Arabs and therefore lessen the risk of direct conflict with the United States. The U.S. role in the Mideast is vague; retaliation measures were not specified by the President. [CBS] Arab guerrillas threw bombs in Gaza and Hebron, Palestine; Israel bombed Egypt. [CBS] Two people were killed and 20 injured in religious fighting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [CBS] France exploded its fifth atomic device in the South Pacific and claimed that American and Soviet spy ships were present at the test. [CBS] U.S. artillery fired into Cambodia; a Communist mine sunk a civilian boat near the DMZ. [CBS] General Creighton Abrams is OK after a gall bladder operation. [CBS] In Cambodia, Lon Nol's government is trying ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk in absentia for treason. [CBS] Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett has been reassigned to New York City after eight years in Vietnam; at 35, he is a year old too old to cover the war now. Arnett says that he fears another decade of killing in Vietnam, and, in retrospect, he is sickened by the slaughter in Indochina. [CBS] Soviet-American trade is up over the past 14 years, but Soviet-Chinese trade is down; U.S.-Russian tension is easing but the Sino-Soviet split is growing. [CBS] The grand jury investigating the Jackson State College shootings has recessed after four days; the NAACP charges racism in the investigation. [CBS] The Chicago trucker strike and lockout has ended; local and national Teamster contracts have been revised. [CBS] Three utility companies demanded $2 million in overdue Penn Central Railroad bills and threatened to cut power if the bills are not paid. [CBS] Washington, DC is preparing for Honor America Day tomorrow. The stage has been set up, and the performers practiced; a 60% chance of rain is forecast. Protests are not expected. [CBS]