News stories from Sunday June 13, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Johnson and his advisers were reaching a general consensus that air attacks against North Vietnam would probably have to be launched at the same time that he was stating, in his 1964 Presidential campaign, that the United States should "restrain" itself in Vietnam, a Pentagon study on United States involvement in Vietnam shows. [New York Times]
- Chilean policemen shot and killed two leftist extremists sought for the assassination of a prominent opposition politician last week. Two detectives were seriously wounded in the shootout with the two suspects. Six other persons were arrested, and a number of weapons and bags filled with currency were confiscated. [New York Times]
- President Nixon, in a letter to Labor Secretary James Hodgson, ordered that a high priority be given to the "mobilization of federal resources" to help Vietnam veterans get jobs or job training. Mr. Hodgson said 370,000 veterans were unemployed. [New York Times]
- In his first public statement on the recent trial in New Haven of Bobby Seale, national chairman of the Black Panther party, and Mrs. Ericka Huggins, Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale University, applauded the conduct of Judge Harold Mulvey. The trial ended when the jury could not agree on a verdict, and Judge Mulvey then dismissed all charges against the two defendants. [New York Times]