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News stories from Saturday May 29, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Nixon visited the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The President said that the U.S. will end its involvement in the Vietnam war with honor, and the keystone of American strength will be the service of West Point graduates. [CBS]
- Communists shelled three U.S. positions in South Vietnam. [CBS]
- A Pan Am jet from Caracas, Venezuela, to Miami, Florida, has been hijacked to Cuba; an Eastern Airlines plane was hijacked on a flight from Miami to New York City last night. U.S. sky marshals subdued the hijacker, James Bennett, after he threatened to blow up the plane. [CBS]
- House Armed Services Committee investigators say that it takes the Defense Department, one hour and 40 minutes to transmit messages labeled "immediate"; one hour and nine minutes to transmit "flash" messages. [CBS]
- The pace car crashed into the stands at the Indianapolis 500 today, injuring 20 spectators. [CBS]
- The number of murdered migrant workers found buried in a Yuba City, California orchard is now up to 23. [CBS]
- Senator Hubert Humphrey said that he doesn't think one Democratic presidential candidate will dominate the 1972 primaries. [CBS]
- Due to trouble with the ground control system, the launch of Mariner 9 to Mars has been postponed until tomorrow. [CBS]
- Eagles in the U.S. are threatened with extinction. Both the bald eagle and the golden eagle are on the endangered species list; only 250 are left in Wyoming. The eagles are being poisoned by eating the meat of poisoned animal carcasses. [CBS]
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