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News stories from Friday December 25, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- In Bethlehem, pilgrims flocked to Christ's birthplace as Israeli troops patrolled the streets. [CBS]
- Pope Paul held his Christmas mass and said that the world won't unite until hatred is erased. [CBS]
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski asked his fellow Poles to forgive violence during the recent riots and said that he hoped for better government-church relations. [CBS]
- Basque separatists in Spain freed West German diplomat Eugen Beihl. [CBS]
- Prime Minister Golda Meir asked the world to intervene on behalf of two Soviet Jews who are sentenced to death for a hijack attempt. In Washington, DC, 300 Jews burned a Soviet flag to protest Soviet treatment of Jews. [CBS]
- Fourteen Soviet scientists asked President Nixon to protect Communist Angela Davis, calling her a "social fighter." [CBS]
- Eleven Americans were killed in Vietnam today, nine of them by an American artillery shell.
American planes are attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail from Thailand and have been dong so for the past two years. A North Vietnamese defector reported that the Communists have a two-hour warning of U.S. air strikes. He added that although the bombing raids don't kill many North Vietnamese, they've helped stop 50% of the flow of Communist supplies. [CBS]
- The Navy is reportedly training dolphins to be used as military weapons. [CBS]
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