News stories from Saturday November 7, 1970

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

President Nixon held a staff meeting on strategy for Campaign '72. Top political aides will change their tactics -- law and order won't be the key issue; economic and social reforms will be stressed instead. [CBS] Economic adviser Herbert Stein predicts high unemployment for the next two years but he stated that inflation will slow down. [CBS] The Ripon Society said that President Nixon's campaign hurt Republicans; party chairman Rogers Morton vowed that he won't resign. [CBS] The USSR celebrated the 53rd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. In Moscow, the Soviets displayed their military might. The U.S. boycotted the ceremonies because the Soviets are still holding three American officers. A Soviet soldier was shot by a sniper during a ceremony at the Russian memorial in West Berlin. [CBS] The South Vietnamese and Cambodians launched an offensive against the Communists; 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [CBS] Israelis are seeking the terrorists who exploded two bombs in Tel Aviv. Police and soldiers herded Arabs into buses to protect them from an angry crowd at a bus station; 1,000 Arabs were questioned. Al Fatah has claimed responsibility for the dual bombings. [CBS] Montreal police arrested Bernard Lortie in the Cross-Laporte kidnap-murder case; Cross is believed to still be alive. Four other suspects are being sought. [CBS] The National Guard is in Henderson, North Carolina, to prevent further racial violence. [CBS] Chicanos are fighting landowners in California. In Salinas, Oakie Indians are now wealthy produce growers; Cesar Chavez's organizations are striking against those owners. The fight is based on race as well as the United Farm Workers union. [CBS]