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News stories from Saturday November 13, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Mariner 9, an unmanned American spacecraft, became the first man-made object to orbit another planet as its rockets fired on schedule, swinging it into orbit around Mars. The television-equipped craft is expected to circle Mars twice a day, photographing the planet's surface from as close as about 750 miles. [New York Times]
- Negotiators for the United Mine Workers and the operators of soft-coal mines in 25 states announced an agreement on a three-year contract that would provide 100,000 miners with benefits approaching the 39% won by the steel workers in August. Mines that have been struck for 44 days are to reopen on Monday. [New York Times]
- A new Census Bureau report showed that poverty is growing faster in the suburbs than in the cities. More than half of last year's increase in the poverty population took place in the suburbs, the report said. The increase in the nation's poor of 1.2 million from 1969 to 1970 was the first year-to-year increase in a decade. [New York Times]
- Military sources in Saigon said today that North Vietnam has been massing supplies in preparation for a major push down the Ho Chi Minh Trail network and that this stockpiling was the primary reason for President Nixon's threat Friday to intensify American air strikes. [New York Times]
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