News stories from Sunday September 6, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Arab guerrillas from the Popular Liberation Front hijacked four jets; one attempt failed. In London, England, the crew took anti-hijack action; a steward grabbed the gunman and was wounded. A guard killed one hijacker and the other two were subdued. All flights that were hijacked were en route to New York City. The captors wanted prisoners to be released. [CBS]
- Israel is boycotting the peace talks until United Arab Republic cease-fire violations are retracted. The United Arab Republic and Soviet Union are still building surface-to-air missile sites in the cease-fire zone. [CBS]
- The Black Panther conference in Philadelphia has been peaceful. Radicals cheered Huey Newton's militant rhetoric as he called for social revolution. A showdown with police has thus far been avoided. [CBS]
- Two policemen have been indicted for their actions in the Augusta, Georgia spring riots; six blacks were killed in those riots. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says that the Black Panthers were not involved, but the were police ill-trained and ill-equipped. [CBS]
- A bomb in Minneapolis killed one person, who may have been carrying the bomb. [CBS]
- Heavy rains in Arizona have killed 12 people and left many others homeless. [CBS]
- The Campus Unrest Commission in back in Washington, DC after their tour of college campuses. Commission member Joseph Rhodes says that the commission's purpose is to alert America to danger and warn against law enforcement using too much force. [CBS]