News stories from Sunday March 22, 1970

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

Officials at the Department of Defense and the Department of Labor made different plans to cope with the nationwide postal strike. Top Army planners prepared to help move the mail if most of the postal workers fail to return to work. And Secretary of Labor Shultz scheduled a negotiating session for Monday with officials of seven major postal unions on the assumption that the workers would be back at work. [New York Times] Although Post Office employees in some areas agreed to return to work, letter carriers in Brooklyn, parts of Queens, Newark, Detroit and Philadelphia voted to continue their walkout, and postal clerks in the New York area voted to join them. [New York Times] Charles Manson apparently continues to exert influence over the members of his nomadic band -- especially those who will be tried with him for the murder of Sharon Tate and other victims. His strategy to gather all the family members under a common defense so none would testify against the others has worked except for one woman, Linda Kasabian. [New York Times] The International Control Commission was invited by Cambodia's new rulers "to help put a stop in a peaceful way" to the occupation of Cambodian territory by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. The new government said it would immediately begin talks with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese representatives on the withdrawals of the troops. [New York Times] Reports reaching Saigon last week had indicated that Vietnamese residents of Cambodia were streaming back across the border, with widespread fighting raging, but a correspondent who visited one major crossing point found only a smugglers' shopping center selling Chiclets and apples. [New York Times] Women who attended the three-day annual conference of the National Organization for Women agreed that their movement to "liberate" American women was finally being taken seriously. An ambitious program for the future includes a proposed general strike by women on Aug. 26. [New York Times] Drug use and college pressures are not important causes of suicides among college students, a two-year study indicates. The study also shows that nonstudents are twice as likely to kill themselves as youths the same age in college. [New York Times]