News stories from Sunday March 28, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- An Associated Press reporter in Pakistan says that the East Pakistan rebellion has been crushed, the West Pakistan army is in control of Dacca, and East Pakistan leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman is under arrest. Rebels claim that a provisional government has been formed. [CBS]
- North Vietnam attacked American and South Vietnamese convoys that were withdrawing from Laos, and the U.S. Vandergrift base in South Vietnam was shelled. The U.S. is continuing to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. [CBS]
- Senator Henry Jackson proposed that the U.S. and Soviet Union negotiate a one-year arms agreement. [CBS]
- Speaking at the Democratic Governors Conference in St. Louis, Democratic party chairman Lawrence O'Brien promised governors in-depth involvement in party matters. Ohio Governor John Gilligan stated that all governors and mayors favor the concept of revenue sharing, but President Nixon's proposal is unworkable, unrealistic and inadequate. [CBS]
- Attorney General Mitchell announced that FBI figures indicate an 11% increase in serious crime last year. Seattle was the only large city where the crime rate declined. [CBS]
- A House Banking Committee report charged that banks acted on insider information in selling large blocks of Penn Central Railroad stock before the public was informed of the railroad's financial trouble. [CBS]
- Three women were killed in Amman, Jordan, when the army shot into a crowd of demonstrators. [CBS]
- Reports from colleges and universities showed that undercover police agents have become almost a permanent institution on many of the nation's campuses in the last five years. Such agents have been exposed by students on a number of campuses. [New York Times]
- The 13 black members of the House who won a meeting with President Nixon said they would set up a permanent staff for their organization, the Black Congressional Caucus, to create "a national system of communications with the black community." Observers said the Representatives were making a bid to assume the leadership of the black community nationally. [New York Times]
- Col. Reid Kennedy, the military judge in the My Lai murder trial of Lt. William Calley, said that he would ask prosecution and defense attorneys tomorrow whether he should prod the six-man jury into speeding up its deliberations, which have so far taken 12 days. [New York Times]