News stories from Saturday October 9, 1971

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Although the White House declined to comment on reports that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is among those being considered for the Supreme Court, high Nixon administration officials confirmed the report. Mr. Byrd, the majority whip in the Senate, has developed a close relationship with President Nixon. [New York Times] President Alejandro Augustin Lanusse, the head of the military regime in Argentina, today put down the first attempt by other military officers to unseat him. Two army garrisons that had revolted Friday against the regime surrendered quietly to loyal troops. Some experts described the short-lived revolt as merely a test of President Lanusse's strength. [New York Times] Hanoi radio announced an agreement between the Soviet Union and North Vietnam to set up a joint committee that will work out details of long-term economic, trade, cultural, scientific and technological relations between the two Communist countries. The statement revealed a Soviet commitment to studying a possible hydroelectric project in North Vietnam. [New York Times] France announced the arrest of an industrialist and four other men and the seizure of 233 pounds of pure heroin in a case broken as the result of close cooperation between American and French police. The French police disclosed that the seizure, France's largest drug haul, was linked to the discovery in New York City last month of 187 pounds of heroin concealed in a car aboard an Italian liner. [New York Times] Emperor Hirohito was booed and jeered at every stop in an unofficial tour of Amsterdam by Dutch recalling Japanese wartime aggression in Indonesia, then ruled by the Netherlands. The Japanese Emperor, whose tour of Europe has been met mostly with indifference so far, continued to wave stiffly at the crowds. [New York Times]