News stories from Thursday November 26, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- No Americans were killed in Vietnam today. However Americans are still dying in Vietnam despite U.S. withdrawals, as Communist booby traps are taking a toll. [CBS]
- Central African Republic President Jean Bedel Bokassa had a daughter by a South Vietnamese woman while he was in the French Foreign Legion; the daughter was surviving by selling cigarettes in Saigon. Now Bokassa has been reunited with his daughter. [CBS]
- North Vietnam claims that American POWs were wounded in the raids last week and declared that the U.S. is responsible for future American prisoner of war casualties. [CBS]
- Over 175,000 people are known to be dead in East Pakistan from the recent typhoon and tidal wave. The government rejected aid from India despite the need for it. [CBS]
- Pope Paul began his tour of the Far East. In Manila, Philippines, officials are investigating a rumored assassination plot by radical students. [CBS]
- New Orleans police raided a Black Panther headquarters, wounding one woman. Six people were arrested and guns were seized. Black Panthers are planning a rally in Washington, DC at Howard University. The University stated that they can't hold it there, but Panthers say they will anyway. [CBS]
- A grand jury cleared New York undercover officer "Tommy the Traveler" and nine Hobart College students of a bombing which took place last May. [CBS]
- Interior Secretary Walter Hickel stated that President Nixon didn't have the guts to tell him to come to the White House to be fired. Hickel claims that he was fired under false pretenses. [CBS]
- Air Canada pilot Peter Hamilton regularly failed to follow the spoiler activation procedure. Co-pilot Don Rowland talked him into following the procedure, the plane crashed and all 109 persons aboard were killed. [CBS]
- In Boston, Indians buried Plymouth Rock as a protest against the Mayflower landing. [CBS]