News stories from Sunday August 29, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Enemy forces launched 50 attacks in South Vietnam in an attempt to terrorize election voters. In Saigon, a U.S. jeep was burned in a terrorist attack. Some voters reportedly left polling places after waiting over an hour to cast ballots. [CBS]
- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas has reportedly turned down an appeal by San Francisco's Chinese parents to halt the busing of their children. In St. Petersburg, Florida, parents held a rally to protest the desegregation plan. Former Florida Governor Claude Kirk said that busing must be opposed full-time and viewed as a national problem.
In Austin, Texas, the school board devised a plan to preserve neighborhood schools while meeting desegregation requirements; students will be periodically bused to centralized learning centers. A district court approved the plan, but blacks and Chicano groups are calling for a boycott.
[CBS] - Labor Secretary James Hodgson said that a cross section of economic interests will be examined before determining additional measures beyond the 90-day freeze. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans thinks that restraints will be applied more loosely following the freeze, but will continue until inflation is curbed. UAW president Leonard Woodcock hopes that a permanent wage-price review board will be set up. [CBS]
- Pope Paul said that violence in Northern Ireland is being aggravated by the government's decision to jail citizens without trial; a British soldier was killed in fighting today. [CBS]
- The sixth annual Puerto Rican folklore festival is being held in New York City. Dario Resto and his family returned to Puerto Rico to escape the crime of the Bronx ghetto (see yesterday's report), but drugs are becoming a problem in Puerto Rico too. Social welfare secretary Ephraim Santiago says that 80% of Puerto Rico's drug problem is caused by people returning from New York City. [CBS]