News stories from Sunday May 31, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Nixon and his top military advisers met in San Clemente, California, to discuss future Indochina policy. [CBS]
- Allies recaptured Da Lat in South Vietnam, though the Viet Cong escaped. The resort town is now calm after its attack and occupation by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Communist troops killed a nun trainee and disinterred dead bodies. The Communist attack was meant to be a political victory, not military; it proves that the North Vietnamese are in South Vietnam to stay. [CBS]
- White House press secretary Ron Ziegler defended President Nixon's evasion of major issues when he spoke at the May 9 antiwar rally. Ziegler says that the President is trying to touch not only minds but spirits. [CBS]
- The Nixon administration and the House approved $290 million for the supersonic transport; there will be Senate opposition as critics protest noise pollution. In New York City, residents protested noise interference with their lifestyle. Federal Aviation Administration sound limits only affect new planes, and sound reduction elements will take years to develop and install. Critics say that the FAA limits are too lax.
The FAA is more concerned with the aviation industry's profits than with people on the ground, but the victims of noise pollution are growing more aroused.
[CBS] - French President George Pompidou sees the recent Maoist riots in Paris as a threat to French life. Rioting students destroyed property; the protest leaders were arrested. In reality, the Maoist rioters are just a fringe movement. [CBS]
- Israeli jets attacked Egypt again today. [CBS]
- Hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk died at the age of 41, possibly as the result of injuries he suffered durng a scuffle with a New York Rangers teammate. [CBS]