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News stories from Sunday November 14, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Phase Two of the President's economic program began with several major questions unsettled. Do car manufacturers and other large companies due to pay wage increases soon need Price Commission permission before they raise their prices to meet their added costs? Can teachers get higher pay retroactively? Can the coal miners who won a 39% pay increase Saturday collect their higher pay? [New York Times]
- Mariner 9, the American spacecraft that on Saturday became the first man-made object to orbit another planet, sent back the first television pictures of Mars taken from orbit. Scientists said some apparent Martian features were faintly distinguishable beneath dust storms. [New York Times]
- Lady Fleming, who was convicted of having taken part in an unsuccessful plot to free the would-be assassin of the Greek Premier, was stripped of her Greek citizenship and deported to Britain. She was temporarily released from prison last month because of her precarious health. [New York Times]
- President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam, in a state of the nation radio address, announced early today an austerity program that includes an effective devaluation of the piaster. He outlined a "free exchange system" in which the piaster would float on the international money market and said his program would modernize his country's economy and help reduce its dependence on aid from other countries. [New York Times]
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