News stories from Sunday January 10, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Guerrilla fighting continued in Jordan. U.N. mediator Gunnar Jarring left Israel; he was given a questionnaire to determine the Arabs' positions on peace issues. [NBC]
- Defense Secretary Laird is observing the situation in Vietnam and Cambodia. [NBC]
- The trial of Lt. William Calley reopened today. The Army will hold hearings to determine if Capt. Ernest Medina should also be tried. [NBC]
- A House committee was told how to end the draft and attract volunteers. But Rep. Edward Hebert, the new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, dislikes the new, easier military rules. [NBC]
- A Soviet newspaper reported that Russians in the U.S. are victims of a campaign of terror by Zionists. [NBC]
- Germans in Poland are now able to leave. The new treaty between West Germany and Poland will enable the repatriation of Germans who had been living in Poland. Relatives in West Germany must register those who want to leave. The official details are still being negotiated. [NBC]
- Poison gas at the U.S. military base in Okinawa was supposed to be moved tomorrow. Local people protested; the move has been delayed. [NBC]
- An investigation has begun into the of the cause of fire on the French ship which burned in the Caribbean. [NBC]
- President Nixon signed a bill to keep low income housing going in St. Louis. The major housing project in the city has been a failure and is becoming a $36 million ghost town. The housing authority director says that nobody wants to live there. [NBC]
- It was announced that Tricia Nixon will marry Edward Cox on June 14th. [NBC]
- The American Academy of Allergy reported that detergents with enzymes are potentially dangerous. [NBC]
- The federal government is planning more liberal tax deductions for the depreciation of plants and businesses in order to stimulate the economy. [NBC]
- Designer Coco Chanel died in Paris. [NBC]
- An investigation into the collision of a jet with a light plane near the Newark airport is underway. [NBC]
- Twenty-eight whales came ashore and died for no apparent reason on a San Clemente, California, beach. The cause possibly involved pollution. [NBC]