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News stories from Sunday November 28, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- As Premier Wasfi Tal of Jordan walked into the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo after a meeting of the Arab League's Joint Defense Council, three men rushed at him. Witnesses said they all fired revolvers at the Premier, who had strongly opposed freedom of action for the Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan. Mr. Tal died in the volley, and Foreign Minister Abdullah Salah of Jordan and a policeman were reported wounded. Three men were held by the Egyptian authorities. [New York Times]
- The White House, in the fourth such announcement in five days, said that President Nixon would meet Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany in Key Biscayne, Fla., Dec. 28 and 29 to discuss Mr. Nixon's forthcoming visits to Peking and Moscow. [New York Times]
- About 400 Mexican-American and Puerto Rican activists ended a three-day conference at Southern Colorado State College with a pledge to make their La Raza Unida party totally independent of the nation's existing political parties.
At a weekend conference in Dallas, about 200 political activists formed the Peoples party and some of them nominated Dr. Benjamin Spock as their stand-in presidential candidate. [New York Times]
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