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News stories from Saturday July 25, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and her cabinet will discuss the U.S. Mideast peace proposal. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco and Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Rabin are seeking agreement; Israel wants intense supervision over the United Arab Republic if a cease-fire is called. Syria and Jordan will follow the U.A.R. in accepting the plan, but Palestinian commandos oppose the proposal. [CBS]
- B-52's bombed Communist positions near Fire Base Ripcord in South Vietnam. [CBS]
- Anthony Barber has been named as the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer. [CBS]
- A United Mines Workers-sponsored West Virginia mine safety survey report has been released, and it charges President Nixon with allowing lax enforcement of safety laws. Ralph Nader says that West Virginia miners are being exploited and that laws on the books are not enforced. [CBS]
- Alexander Heard's campus unrest report criticizes the Nixon administration and states that the war is prolonging domestic tensions; the President is more aware of the views of students and blacks than he was two months ago. [CBS]
- Senator Strom Thurmond stated that he doesn't want President Nixon's political endorsements in the South. Thurmond added that the President's image would be better if he fired liberal advisers Robert Finch and Jerris Leonard. [CBS]
- Utah Senate candidate Rep. Laurence Burton wants President Nixon's help. In Salt Lake City today Mormons cheered the President, who met with Mormon leaders and endorsed Burton for Senate. The President will head to California begin a 10-day "working vacation". [CBS]
- Fortune magazine charges that the Penn-Central Transportation Company claimed a $4.4 million profit last year but really lost $95 million; the company paid dividends while losing money and had a unique bookkeeping system. [CBS]
- "Chicago 7" judge Julius Hoffman was honored by the Illinois American Legion in Chicago. The legionnaires praised Hoffman for maintaining dignity despite Communist enemies; the judge avoided comment on radicals. [CBS]
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