News stories from Sunday March 8, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- As the spring demonstration season returns to the campuses, so does the likelihood that 1970 will be remembered as the year that campus protests turned from their colleges to society at large. No single issue has galvanized support the way the Vietnam war did before President Nixon announced the first troop cutbacks, but other issues -- such as open enrollment -- are building in local areas. [New York Times]
- A consumer relations code recommending that information be made available so customers can make sound value comparisons of products and calling for a high standard of product servicing was announced by the United States Chamber of Commerce. The chamber appealed to businessmen to abide by the code. [New York Times]
- Guatemalan guerrillas released Sean Holly, a political secretary at the American Embassy in Guatemala City, unharmed at a church after two prisoners had been released by Guatemalan authorities and given asylum in an embassy. [New York Times]
- Machinegun and rifle fire from the roof of a high school near the archepiscopal palace in Nicosia riddled the helicopter of President Makarios of Cyprus, just missing the President and critically wounding his pilot. Greek Cypriotes were suspected. [New York Times]
- A man killed in an explosion in a Greenwich Village (New York City) townhouse Friday was identified by the police as Theodore Gold, possibly a member of Students for a Democratic Society. Reported missing was the building owner's daughter, also of S.D.S. [New York Times]
- Prof. James S. Coleman, a leading authority on schools and race, called racial integration the most effective instrument known for improving the education of poor black children and warned against its abandonment as a result of growing pressures. [New York Times]
- A United States Army captain and 26 American civilians have been killed or are missing in Laos as a result of enemy action over the last six years, the White House confirmed. But a spokesman said the information did not contradict President Nixon's assertion that "no American stationed in Laos has ever been killed in ground combat operations" because the captain had been behind the "expected line of contact with the enemy" and the others -- possibly including some killed in air actions -- were not in ground combat. [New York Times]