News stories from Sunday October 3, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Nguyen Van Thieu won re-election to a second four-year term as President of South Vietnam today in a one-candidate election marked by scattered protests, intensified enemy shelling and, apparently, one of the largest voter turnouts in recent South Vietnamese history. Early returns showed that only a small fraction of the voters opted against Mr. Thieu by mutilating or throwing their ballots away. [New York Times]
- The Nixon administration was reported to be back at the beginning in its search for new Supreme Court Justices after the withdrawal from consideration of Rep. Richard Poff. An official said that no one else had even been considered. The result leaves the seven-member Court facing an even longer delay than it had expected while waiting for the two vacancies to be filled by President Nixon. [New York Times]
- Secretary of the Army Robert Froehlke was reported to be reviewing personally the file of Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert to determine if the officer was unjustly relieved of his command. Colonel Herbert, who is facing a forced retirement, has said that he was relieved and his career ruined after he accused two senior officers of covering up atrocities against Vietnamese civilians. [New York Times]
- In what was seen as a landmark decision, a federal judge in Michigan ordered a grower of fruits and vegetables to pay damages for interfering with visits to a family in one of his migrant labor camps. Judge Noel P. Fox said in his ruling that although migrant workers only temporarily reside on a grower's property, they have the same rights as any other citizen. [New York Times]
- Automation has come to the last stronghold of the small farmer, the Carolina-Virginia tobacco belt. The coming of machines to harvest the crop is expected to drastically reduce the dependence of growers on expensive hand labor. This, in turn, is expected to set off another farm-to-city migration by black workers. [New York Times]