News stories from Sunday August 22, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker is urging Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky to run in the South Vietnam presidential election. Ky said that President Nguyen Van Thieu has had no consideration of the people during his scheme to achieve personal power; the decision whether to run cannot be made in haste. Ky is weighing his chances of winning the election before announcing his candidacy or withdrawal. [CBS]
- U.S. fighter planes attacked missile and anti-aircraft batteries in North Vietnam twice today. [CBS]
- Governor George Wallace will order more Alabama schools to ignore a federal court's busing orders; he expects President Nixon to respond before schools open. [CBS]
- In San Francisco, Chinatown residents are appealing to the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling that their children must be bused; the Chinatown community is segregated by choice. Mayor Joseph Alioto said that if the courts can understand that busing aggravates a situation it's supposed to solve, they may let San Francisco create its own plan. Integration director Don Johnson said that if the Chinese children were integrated, they would learn what other ethnic groups have contributed to America. [CBS]
- Texas Governor Preston Smith vowed to fight the wage freeze all the way to the Supreme Court, but will comply with court rulings during the legal battle. [CBS]
- Right-wing rebels gained control of La Paz, Bolivia; Bolivian President Juan Torres has been granted asylum in the Peruvian embassy. [CBS]
- A bomb exploded outside a jail holding Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [CBS]
- The "Big 4" powers are reportedly on the verge of an agreement to re-open the Berlin Wall to West Berliners. [CBS]
- Three convicts and three guards were killed in an attempted prison break from San Quentin; "Soledad Brother" author George Jackson was among the victims. Jackson apparently led the escape attempt with a gun which had been smuggled in to him. Today's violence was the worst in the history of the prison. Four of the six who were killed were murdered with a razor blade. [CBS]
- The FBI arrested 20 people for the attempted theft of draft records from the Camden, N.J., Federal Building. Three of those arrested were clergymen; the FBI knew of the planned theft through an informer. [CBS]