News stories from Sunday July 25, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- At Cape Kennedy, Florida, officials are deciding when to roll back the mobile service structure from the Apollo 15 rocket. Astronauts were practicing in the lunar rover simulator for their landing in the lunar highlands. [CBS]
- Viet Cong troops attacked a South Vietnamese village in the Mekong Delta. The U.S. embassy in Saigon has studied South Vietnam's internal security and concluded that the enemy is gaining strength.
Phu Yen Province is being terrorized by political assassination and sabotage; 48 officials have been murdered there so far this year.
[CBS] - Syria is closing its border with Jordan in protest of the shelling of Syrian villages from Jordan, and because of Jordan's crackdown on Palestinian guerrillas. [CBS]
- Sudan coup leader Babakr Al-Nur-Osman and his companion who were taken off a plane in Libya have been sentenced to death by Sudan President Gaafar Mohammed Al-Nimeiry. [CBS]
- Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplanted a heart and two lungs into a 49-year-old man. [CBS]
- Federal mediators report that a settlement of the railroad strike is imminent; the steel industry strike threat continues for August 1. [CBS]
- A metro subway system is being constructed in and around Washington, DC. The first trains will run in 1973 on a system that will stretch 97 miles at a cost $3 billion. Despite the fact that 70% of Washington, DC's population is black, less than one-third of 1% of construction projects have been awarded to black contractors. Metro chairman Carlton Sickles says that the goal of the contracts is to keep costs down, therefore contracts must be awarded to big companies; it is in everyone's interest to get the Metro built cheaply and quickly. [CBS]
- Treasury Secretary John Connally, despite being a Democrat, intimated that he might support President Nixon for re-election. [CBS]
- President Lyndon Johnson's economic adviser Gardner Ackley called for the creation of a wage and price review board independent of the White House. [CBS]
- Many Corvair owners dislike Ralph Nader's constant criticism of their car. Though Chevrolet stopped making Corvairs in 1969, an estimated 500,000 are still on the road. The Corvair Society of America is holding its convention in Chicago. Convention chairman Diana Brodman declined to comment on Ralph Nader, but said that neither she nor the club have anything against Nader. [CBS]
- Vice President Spiro Agnew returned to Sotogrande, Spain, from Morocco, where he met with King Hassan II and reaffirmed American support of Hassan in the wake of the coup attempt two weeks ago. [CBS]
- Soviet journalist Victor Louis is reportedly in the United States; it is rumored that he may be on a diplomatic mission. [CBS]
- Vandals continue to plague Rome, Italy. In a park that was just opened to the public a few weeks ago, many statues have been vandalized or stolen. The city has yet to increase police surveillance of the park, and the park still has only one guard. It is believed that vandals have been hired by antiquarian dealers to steal portions of statues. [CBS]