News stories from Saturday June 6, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Nixon announced a cabinet shift. Welfare Secretary Robert Finch is moved to the President's personal staff, and Undersecretary of State Elliot Richardson replaces Finch as head of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Finch will take a pay cut of $17,000 per year and his new post is not cabinet status. Finch's switch is a sign of his friendship with Nixon; the HEW job exhausted Finch. [CBS]
- Vice President Spiro Agnew has asked for a $50 million increase in funding for summer youth jobs. [CBS]
- Communist terrorists hit Phnom Penh and the Viet Cong hit Siem Reap in Cambodia. [CBS]
- South Vietnam Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky reports closer military cooperation with Cambodia and Thailand. South Vietnamese troops will leave Cambodia when the Communists are beaten and will return upon government request. [CBS]
- The Air Force has received its first C-5A transport; economic and structural problems have plagued the plane. At Charleston AFB in South Carolina, the Lockheed jet lost a wheel during a ceremonial landing; another went flat while on the ground. Lockheed V.P. Bob Ormsby says that the wheel problem is minor.
Senator William Proxmire and Rep. William Moorhead say that the C-5A is incapable of performing its mission.
[CBS] - Senator Abraham Ribicoff endorsed Rev. Joseph Duffey, Senator Thomas Dodd's opponent in the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut; Dodd will seek re-election in November as an independent. [CBS]
- The anti-war movement is so old that some draft dodgers' sentences have been served. In St. Johnsbury, Vt., 21-year-old draft dodger Stephen Elliott has been paroled after 22 months in jail; he was a Harvard freshman who refused induction into the military. Most of the townspeople in St. Johnsbury support the government and deride draft dodgers. But Stephen Elliott may be the truly patriotic one, by trying to get his country out of an unjust war. [CBS]
- 50,000 hippies are expected to spend the summer in Atlanta. Atlanta mayor Sam Massell welcomes the hippies and says that they are protected by law like any other citizen. 64 policemen are patrolling the 20-block area frequented by the hippies, who resent the police saturation. [CBS]