News stories from Sunday October 4, 1970

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

The National Guard should not have been issued loaded weapons, should not have tried to disperse a peaceful demonstration and should not have fired the weapons, the President's Commission on Campus Unrest said in a special report on the killing of four students at Kent State University last May. But the actions of the Kent State students, the report added, were "violent and criminal" and "dangerous, reckless and irresponsible." No evidence was found of a sniper attack on the guardsmen. [New York Times] White House officials, speaking after President Nixon conferred in Ireland with his two top negotiators at the Paris peace talks on Vietnam, made a point of leaving open the possibility of new United States peace proposals this month. Mr. Nixon was in Knocklong, Ireland, at the end of his five-nation European tour. [New York Times] Some powerful Egyptian officials were reported to be trying to prevent the quick emergence of a strongman in Cairo so that none of the competing groups could become dominant. Observers in Cairo were said to feel that since all potential candidates have drawbacks and opponents, a collective leadership, possibly with a figurehead president, is likely to wield power. [New York Times] President Alfredo Ovando Candia of Bolivia seemed to have control of the situation in his country after a group of officers of the Bolivian Army proclaimed themselves in revolt against him. The president hurried back to La Paz, where other officers led by the commander of the palace guard had affirmed their loyalty. [New York Times] Chile's Christian Democratic party recessed a convention in Santiago without acting on proposals that its delegation in the Chilean congress vote against Dr. Salvador Allende, a Marxist who won a plurality in the nation's presidential election and needs congressional confirmation of his victory. But the party might meet again before the Oct. 24 vote in congress. [New York Times] Final results of Hawaii's primary showed that Gov. John Burns had been renominated by the Democrats and that Sam King, former circuit judge and son of a territorial governor, had won the Republican nomination. Both men defeated strong opponents in the season's last primary. [New York Times]