News stories from Monday September 7, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Palestinians are holding 200 hostages from hijacked TWA and Swiss Air jets; 100 passengers have been released. The guerrillas are demanding the release of political prisoners, which may include Sirhan Sirhan.
In Amman, Jordan, women and children hostages were freed but men will be kept until the hijackers' demands are met. Guerrillas want the release of the women who were captured in yesterday's aborted hijack attempt.
A third hijacked jet met a fiery end. In Cairo, a Pan Am 747 was blown up with baggage aboard. Some passengers were injured and had to be carried off.
[CBS] - Palestinians fought Jordanian troops in Amman; a U.S. Army sergeant was kidnapped from the American embassy; The U.S. and the United Nations are stumped on how to resume the Mideast peace talks; Israel won't talk until United Arab Republic missiles are removed from the cease-fire zone. [CBS]
- West German leftists and right-wingers both rallied over the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. In West Berlin, Germans demanded the return of land which was seized by the Soviets; leftist West Germans honored Russians who died in World War II. [CBS]
- Fighting in Vietnam was light; there are 399,000 American troops in Vietnam now. [CBS]
- President Nixon attended a Washington, DC funeral mass for professional football coach Vince Lombardi. [CBS]
- Two people were killed and 20 hurt when lightning hit a huddle during a football game in St. Petersburg, Florida. [CBS]
- The International Monetary Fund stated that U.S. inflation is the worst in 20 years and threatens world financial stability. The IMF said that President Nixon's economic policies to fight inflation are taking too long. [CBS]
- Caesar's Palace executive Sanford Waterman has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon for pulling a gun on Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas during a quarrel. [CBS]
- A retired Army colonel suggested that long-haired soldiers be put in separate units and compete with shorthairs in maneuvers. [CBS]
- A man parachuted off of the Colorado Royal Gorge Bridge into the Arkansas River; officials say the man broke a law against throwing things off the bridge. [CBS]