News stories from Saturday September 19, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Palestinian guerrillas vowed to fight until the Jordanian Army is beaten; United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser urged peace. The Army holds Amman, but snipers are still active. Jordan charged Syria with sending guerrilla troops.
Most of the rest of the country is quiet. A guerrilla strike was ignored on the West side of the Jordan River; people accept Israeli occupation as the lesser evil.
[CBS] - Israel joined the negotiations for the release of the Palestinian-held hostages. In Washington, DC, Prime Minister Golda Meir visited the Israeli embassy. [CBS]
- The U.S. won't evacuate American citizens from Jordan yet. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird says that the Jordanian Army is protecting Americans well enough. [CBS]
- The U.S. is puzzled over the Soviet role in the Mideast; the Soviet Union backed the truce, then aided United Arab Republic cease-fire violations. [CBS]
- President Nixon will visit Ireland; he has relatives there. [CBS]
- Vice President Spiro Agnew says that Democrats are in a bad position for the 1970 election. Senator George McGovern stated that the Nixon administration is exploiting disruption for political gain. [CBS]
- A Boston-bound Allegheny Airlines jet was hijacked to Havana, Cuba. The pilot said that the hijacker wanted to fly to Cairo and join the guerrillas, but the crew talked him into flying to Havana instead. [CBS]
- Communists still have thousands of Cambodian troops surrounded. [CBS]