News stories from Sunday November 29, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Reports from around the world showed that relief operations for the victims of perhaps the worst natural calamity in the century -- East Pakistan's recent cyclone and tidal wave -- were slow getting under way but were picking up momentum. [New York Times]
- State legislatures across the nation are tightening their security following the bombing of the Louisiana Senate, "occupation" of the Wisconsin legislature and the brandishing of weapons in the California Capitol. Proposals ranging from the installation of bulletproof glass in the spectators' gallery to a search of all visitors are being discussed or implemented. [New York Times]
- A survey of cities using a new computerized method capable of compiling and listing all the job openings in a metropolitan area overnight showed that the method, called job banks, has made more jobs available to the poor and in some cities has kept the unemployment rate from rising higher than it would have otherwise.
The Labor Department reported a drop in the number of job openings in manufacturing industries this fall, reflecting the continued nationwide economic slowdown.
[New York Times] - Pope Paul VI briefly visited American Samoa and Western Samoa, then flew toward Sydney. Earlier, as he left Manila his "message to Asia" attacking materialism and atheism was translated and broadcast to Asia from a new radio center in the Philippines. At the end of his Manila visit, the Pontiff visited Carlos and Elena Navarro and their eight children in their two-room shack in the city's worst slum. [New York Times]
- Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist party leader, told the Soviet people today that he considered the political climate right for an accord on Berlin and a settlement of the Middle East crisis. In a nationally televised speech marking the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, he also denounced the recent American air raids over North Vietnam. [New York Times]
- Senator J. W. Fulbright, in a television interview, charged that the Defense Department was more instrumental in making foreign policy than the State Department. He cited the incursion into Cambodia last May as an example. The Senator, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also accused Defense Secretary Laird of misrepresenting the facts of the recent air strikes over North Vietnam. [New York Times]
- In the interest of improving medical care for the poor, the American Medical Association should reverse itself and encourage doctors willing to practice in low-income neighborhoods to seek and accept federal loans or grants-in-aid, Dr. Walter C. Bornemeier, the A.M.A. president, told the organization's House of Delegates. [New York Times]
- An analysis of data from the Health and Social Services Departments by a New School researcher showed that more than 60 percent of New York City's out-of-wedlock births were among women on welfare. From 1959 to 1968, he found, there was a doubling of out-of-wedlock births overall, but a tripling of such births among welfare mothers. [New York Times]