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News stories from Sunday November 21, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Although soft coal miners won a 15% wage increase, three times above Phase II guidelines, some miners are not happy and want to continue their strike. Miners are particularly defiant in areas where coal mining is the only industry, but they voted to go back to work on Monday in West Virginia. The head of the Pay Board said that coal companies may ask for an 8.5% price increase to cover part of the wage increases. [NBC]
- Indiana Senator Vance Hartke announced that he will probably run for president. An aide to Hartke said that Hartke wants to run and will enter several primaries; Hartke believes he has a chance because he is close to organized labor and is in good standing with local Democrats. But the Democrat field is crowded and Hartke is not well-known. It is doubtful that he can do as well as Senators Birch Bayh, Fred Harris and Harold Hughes, who have all dropped out.
Hartke joins the group of Democratic presidential hopefuls including Senators George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Edward Kennedy, Henry Jackson and Hubert Humphrey along with Representatives Wilbur Mills and Shirley Chisholm and Mayors John Lindsay and Sam Yorty. [NBC]
- Alabama Governor George Wallace is also running for president. A presidential campaign takes modern technology, expert help and money; Wallace has all three. Thirty paid workers have been busy since June trying to broaden Wallace's appeal with various groups. Wallace's "American Independent Party" has organizations in each state and is on the ballot in 22 states so far. Fundraising dinners help out now. The campaign is well-organized and well-financed, not amateurish like Wallace's last presidential campaign. [NBC]
- The Chicago Tribune reported that the Justice Department is reviewing the draft of an indictment of ex-Illinois Governor Otto Kerner and three other former state officials. Kerner, now a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, was the head of the Commission on Civil Unrest. A federal grand jury learned that Kerner, while Governor, and ex-Illinois revenue director Theodore Isaacs put up $30,000 for stock in a racetrack and later sold it for $300,000. [NBC]
- American B-52s bombed enemy positions in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. [NBC]
- East Pakistan is forming a guerrilla army to fight the Pakistani Army. The Bangladesh liberation army known as "Mukti Bahini" claims to control a district near the border of India; the guerrillas are usually farmers or fishermen. Mukti Bahini is reportedly receiving arms from India, but guerrilla leaders deny it. Widespread support exists for the guerrillas. [NBC]
- President Anwar Sadat of Egypt has told his soldiers that he despairs of making peace in the Mideast and Egypt will have to fight. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said that Israel takes Egypt's military threat seriously. [NBC]
- Cuban leader Fidel Castro was given a warm welcome in Punta Arenas, Chile. Many supporters of Chilean President Salvador Allende continue to fight for revolution, not merely reform. A leftist group called MIR is organizing Indians to make armed land seizures from farm owners. One-third of the farms which have been confiscated since Allende took power were taken by the MIR. MIR feels that revolution can only come by violence, not by Allende's method of building socialism in a framework of democracy. MIR has organized seizures of property from homes in cities too. [NBC]
- Catholic schoolteachers who are members of the AFL-CIO voted to strike in the New York archdiocese. Catholic representatives will keep their schools open. Only half of the teachers are in the union. [NBC]
- A spokesman for the Thailand Executive Council said that the council will run the country for three or four months, then a cabinet will be organized until a constitution is drawn up. [NBC]
- Twelve football games were played today. President Nixon watched two at the same time.
Two Baltimore Colts, Johnny Unitas and Ray Perkins, were hurt today. There have been several major injuries in the NFL this season, many of which have been seriously damaging to teams. The Washington Redskins were undefeated until Charlie Taylor was injured; the team lost quarterback Sonny Jurgensen before the season began. The NFL is reluctant to talk about injuries, and the recent death of Detroit Lions receiver Chuck Hughes due to a heart ailment adds to the reticence. 114 players have been injured during the first half of this season and missed one or more games. Both the NFL and the Players Association have noted the increase in injuries from last year. Players Association president John Mackey of the Baltimore Colts believes that Astroturf causes injuries, but Jets coach Weeb Ewbank retorted that all player contracts should include a mention that "football is a hitting game." [NBC]
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