News stories from Sunday October 25, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A state prosecutor in Ohio said that the National Guard should have shot all Kent State University protesters; Kent State professor Glenn Frank broke a court ban on commenting, and called the Ohio grand jury report "stupid." [NBC]
- Chilean Army commander General Rene Schneider Chereau has died from the wounds inflicted by his assassins; two more people were arrested in the plot. Communists blame the extreme right for Chereau's murder. [NBC]
- Elections were held today in Montreal as police guarded polling booths; French separatist terrorism failed to materialize. [NBC]
- The USSR is still holding two American generals whose plane accidentally landed 12 miles inside the Soviet Union last week. [NBC]
- The British Army is collecting garbage during the strike. Trash is piling up in the streets; soldiers are removing piles labeled as health hazards. Sewage workers are on strike too. [NBC]
- The fire on an oil tanker in the English Channel has been snuffed. [NBC]
- Bernadette Devlin attended a Catholic rally in Carrickmore, Northern Ireland, where she called for "organized revolution." [NBC]
- Pablo Picasso observed his 89th birthday today, working as usual. [NBC]
- Senator Charles Goodell will give a televised speech tonight. [NBC]
- John Linley Frazier's fingerprints were found on Victor Ohta's typewriter, which was used to type an ecological ultimatum. [NBC]
- An American ammunition barge exploded near Danang, South Vietnam; there were no casualties. [NBC]
- The Wichita State University football team lost at Arkansas by the score of 62-0 in their first game since many members of the team perished in the Colorado plane crash. [NBC]
- In Detroit, 15 blacks were arrested after a nine-hour shootout with police; one policeman was killed. Four police cars were firebombed; police then surrounded a Black Panther house and the shootout ensued. Police are proud of the fact that they stayed cool under fire, but blacks claim that the police provoked the incident. Sixteen blacks have been charged with murder and conspiracy. [NBC]
- State police arrived in Cairo, Illinois, after an armed attack on a police station by a gang of blacks. [NBC]