News stories from Saturday December 12, 1970

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

President Nixon rejected the majority of the Campus Unrest Commission's findings. The President rejected the claim that he is the one responsible for ending unrest, he praised Vice President Agnew and declared that protestors are the only ones responsible for the trouble on campuses. [CBS] A bomb exploded at the computer center at the University Kansas in Lawrence; three people were injured. [CBS] Queen Elizabeth has declared a state of emergency in England due to the power strike. Home Secretary Reginald Maudling stated that the government can now set power priorities. Hospitals are the first priority. [CBS] Cambodians repulsed Communists north of Phnom Penh. [CBS] The highest draft call since last April -- 17,000 men -- was announced by the Defense Department for January. But Pentagon officials said the increase reflected more "a pattern of fluctuation" than military operations in Indochina or global deployment. The officials said draft calls usually rise just after elections. [New York Times] Astronaut James McDivitt was nominated for promotion to Brigadier General. [CBS] Federal agents raided betting operations that aided racketeers, including legal bookmakers in Las Vegas. [CBS] Over 200 pounds of heroin were seized in Miami. [CBS] Senator Edmund Muskie, regarded as the front-runner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, was reported to have already begun filling the key positions in his campaign organization. Such activity has usually taken place closer to the election year. But the Senator said that he risked alienating "impatient" campaign workers "if we tell them to sit tight." [New York Times] The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposes the Nixon administration's foreign policy. Senators William Fulbright, Frank Church, Stuart Symington, Claiborne Pell, Gale McGee, George Aiken, Clifford Case, John Sherman Cooper and Jacob Javits comprise the committee. However, the administration thinks that Vietnam is no longer a political issue and doesn't fear the dovish committee. [CBS]