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News stories from Monday September 6, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A charter jet with 120 passengers aboard crashed near Hamburg, West Germany; the death toll is not yet determined. [CBS]
- Extra security precautions are being taken on the anniversary of the hijacking of three jets by Palestinian guerrillas. [CBS]
- In a radio speech, President Nixon expressed gratitude for the surge of national confidence in his new economic policy.
Senator Edmund Muskie has began a four-month, 32-state political campaign. In Los Angeles, Muskie said that average-income Americans are carrying the burden of the President's economic policy, while benefits are being reaped by those who were already well-off. Muskie said that a consumer tax credit should be developed, and tax cuts speeded up. Senator George McGovern criticized the new economic policy in Ohio; only 300 viewed McGovern's speech at the UAW fair. McGovern claims that President Nixon has increased unemployment by 2 ½ million people; McGovern called for an immediate end to the Vietnam war, an excess profits tax and tax cuts for middle income families. Senator Hubert Humphrey accused President Nixon of giving big business a windfall through his new economic policy. [CBS]
- U.S. helicopters airlifted over 20,000 South Vietnamese troops to a point near the DMZ for attacks on the Communists. [CBS]
- South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu announced his offer of $50,000 and food supplies to North Vietnam for relief for victims of flooding. [CBS]
- Defense Secretary Laird told a congressional committee last March that the military is the only cohesive group in Latin America. [CBS]
- 106 Tupamaro guerrillas escaped from a Montevideo, Uruguay, prison. [CBS]
- A teenage girl was killed in Londonderry, Northern Ireland; British Prime Minister Edward Heath and Irish Prime Minister John Lynch met concerning the situation in Northern Ireland. [CBS]
- Anti-busing protesters marched in Pontiac, Michigan. The court-ordered plan calls for busing 9,000 Pontiac students. National Action Group president Irene McCabe told people to keep their children home, and called busing "Communism".
In Jackson, Mississippi, 10,000 students are to be bused beginning tomorrow. [CBS]
- A 5,000 square foot vault will be built at the Houston Space Center for the storage of moon rocks. [CBS]
- A National Research Council report states that pollution from leaded gasoline exhaust is not great enough to cause lead poisoning. [CBS]
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens Wednesday in Washington, DC; a preview performance of Leonard Bernstein's mass will be held at the Center tonight. [CBS]
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