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News stories from Saturday July 17, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Vice President Spiro Agnew completed his six-day trip to Africa; he said that black leaders in America could learn much from African leaders in Ethiopia, Kenya and the Congo. [CBS]
- Taiwan Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai said that Communist China is trying to destroy Nationalist China through America's hands. Nationalist Chinese fear the consequences of President Nixon's trip to the People's Republic of China, but they are more irked about Nixon's handling of the announcement than the trip itself.
Australian labor party leader Gough Whitlam just completed a 12-day visit to China. Whitlam said that the Chinese didn't criticize the U.S. as much as Russia or Japan; the U.S. was criticized only for attempting to get Asians to fight Asians. Australian Prime Minister William McMahon has begun asking other governments to persuade Taiwan to remain in the U.N., even if the People's Republic of China is admitted. [CBS]
- President Nixon's visit to China will have political implications in the United States. The President has had Henry Kissinger working on reopening a dialogue with China since taking office; Nixon wants to be able to seek re-election as the President who went to Peking in search of world peace. [CBS]
- Rep. Pete McCloskey has begun campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire. McCloskey said that attempts to improve relations with China or Russia don't affect the real issue of ending the Vietnam war. McCloskey will campaign in New Hampshire for the next five months. [CBS]
- No progress was reported in negotiations to end strikes against the Union Pacific railroad and Southern Railway; the Labor Department is taking part in railroad and postal workers' negotiations. [CBS]
- Dr. Jerome Jaffe reported to President Nixon regarding his trip to South Vietnam to study the military drug problem. Jaffe reported that only 4 ½% of soldiers tested were found to have used heroin, contrary to earlier estimates of 10%. U.S. command in Saigon says that the rate of drug deaths in South Vietnam dropped from 18 in January and February to only three in June. [CBS]
- A typhoon halted fighting in Vietnam. [CBS]
- Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin sent over 2 million doses of an experimental vaccine to Texas to combat the sleeping sickness epidemic among horses. Rep. John Dow criticized the Agriculture Department for preventing commercial firms from developing a vaccine 10 years ago.
Ralph Nader's task force reported that Agriculture Department regulations permit the sale of meat and poultry that has been infected by germs and pesticides. Nader's report cites the need for strong federal inspections, new testing standards, and an Office of Consumer Protection. [CBS]
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