News stories from Saturday January 31, 1970

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

A federal judge ordered the railroad shopcraft unions to suspend their day-old strike against the Union Pacific and ordered the nation's railroads to put off their threatened nationwide lockout for at least 10 days. Judge John Sirica, suggesting that both the strike and lockout were illegal, cited the possible "irreparable injury" of a rail shutdown. [New York Times] Urban renewal programs should be continued and should become a major way of stopping the specter of increasing apartheid in American society, the President's study group on urban renewal has recommended in a report to the White House, which has not yet been made public. [New York Times] Price increases should decline during the year and unemployment should not be large, President Nixon's chief economic adviser said. Paul McCracken, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, added that he thought the administration's anti-inflationary polices are taking effect. [New York Times] Alabama Democrats loyal to the national Democratic party, in a showdown with supporters of former Governor George Wallace, were able to restructure the internal machinery of the state party's executive committee and push through a statement of principles that was seen as an effort to seek rapprochement with Alabama blacks. The restructuring is expected to open the way for blacks to become members. [New York Times] A Justice Department lawyer, served a subpoena during the day, is expected to corroborate a law professor's testimony that G. Harrold Carswell was hostile to civil rights workers in a 1964 case. Mr. Carswell has been proposed for the Supreme Court by President Nixon. [New York Times] "Where the hell is it going to end?" That was the reaction of Senator Mike Mansfield, the Senate majority leader, to President Nixon's proposed expansion of the Safeguard antiballistic missile system. Mr. Mansfield predicted that the system would cost more than $50 billion. [New York Times] With full French support for his efforts to ease tensions with the Soviet bloc, West Germany's Chancellor, Willy Brandt, returned to Bonn. He had spent two days in talks with French officials in Paris in a series of twice-a-year conferences that began in 1963. [New York Times]