News stories from Saturday October 30, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Nixon administration, still stunned by the killing of the foreign aid program in the Senate on Friday, acted today to continue some foreign aid. Presidential advisers drafted a congressional resolution extending the programs for 90 days at the same rate that they were funded last year and a bill providing a supplemental appropriation of about $400 million for Pakistani refugee relief and aid programs in South Vietnam. [New York Times]
- President Nguyen Van Thieu was inaugurated for a second term today as troops patrolled Saigon's streets. Earlier the outgoing Vice President, Nguyen Cao Ky, went on television to say farewell to the Vietnamese and to announce he would return to the armed forces "to share with the combatants the dangers and miseries on the battlefields." [New York Times]
- John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist, proposed the nationalization of the nation's largest defense contractors because of the companies' public character. He was at a conference on corporate accountability sponsored by Ralph Nader. [New York Times]
- Chief Justice Warren Burger announced that the Judicial Conference of the United States had formally asked the Supreme Court to require all courts in the nation to establish time limits for the trial of criminal cases. A bill requiring speedy trials is pending in Congress. The courts in New York state and the federal courts in New York, Connecticut and Vermont have already established time limits for the trial and sentencing of defendants after indictment. [New York Times]