News stories from Saturday November 28, 1970

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

A plane bound for Vietnam crashed in Alaska with 229 persons on board. The DC-8 exploded on take-off from Anchorage; 179 survived, 48 are known dead. Bad weather is hampering the investigation. [CBS] Communist forces continue to build up around Phnom Penh. [CBS] Pope Paul was in Manila, where police tried to keep radical students away as the Pope pressed into large crowds. Would-be assassin Benjamin Mendoza said that he would try to kill the Pope again. [CBS] The Pentagon reported that the Soviet Union tested an SS-13 ICBM, which has better accuracy and reliability than other models. [CBS] Guinea reported a new Portuguese invasion and barred foreign reporters from the country. [CBS] Senator Abraham Ribicoff will introduce a national school and housing desegregation bill. He wants to balance the effects of integration between the cities and suburbs. [CBS] The Black Panthers will meet in Washington, DC to write a new U.S. constitution. [CBS] Reverend Joseph Wenderoth, a member of the East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives, rejected FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's charge of subversion and said that the FBI can't deal with reality. [CBS] Southern California power companies need 1.5 million more kilowatts each year than the year before. Power company spokesman Howard Allen noted that Los Angeles can't take any more pollution.The Fruitland, New Mexico, power plant is the worst polluter in that state; it provides power for Los Angeles without increasing pollution there. Power companies in New Mexico are strip-mining sacred Indian ground, a move opposed by the Hopi tribe. Allen said that the minority must sometimes be hurt to help the majority. [CBS] Montreal beat Calgary 23-10 for the Canadian football championship. Pro football pay is lower in Canada than in the United States, but Montreal halfback Moses Denson said that there is less anti-black prejudice in Canada. [CBS]