News stories from Saturday January 30, 1971

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

U.S. planes continued intensive bombing in Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam in attempt to prevent an enemy troop buildup. Saigon military sources reported that a full North Vietnamese division is operating in southern Laos. If South Vietnam attacks the Communists in Laos with the help of U.S. air support, it will widen the war and end Laos' neutrality. Administration officials refused comment concerning a possible attack in Laos. [CBS] Liftoff of the Apollo 14 moon flight is scheduled for 3:23 PM EST tomorrow. [CBS] The President's new budget calls for a cutback in public relations spending; 1,200 public relations jobs would be eliminated, with the Defense Department and NASA hardest hit. [CBS] Although charges were dropped yesterday against Gen. Samuel Koster in the My Lai incident, he was censured and may be reduced in rank or asked to retire. [CBS] President Nixon visited the Virgin Islands. The St. Croix Governor is a black Republican. Racial unrest in the Virgin Islands is increasing; the President spent his time there reading. [CBS] The director of France's counter-espionage organization charged that half of the Eastern European diplomats in Paris are Communist spies. [CBS] Uganda charged that troops from her northern neighbor, the Sudan, had invaded the country and that a village had been attacked. A statement by Gen. Idi Amin, leader of the military coup that overthrew Milton Obote last Monday, promised to "meet force by force" unless the violations end. He said such incursions had occurred "for years." [New York Times] Television, which lost its cigarette advertising at a time that the economic slowdown was cutting other advertising revenues, was reported to be in its worst slump since the early 1950's. Network officials predict a period of tight austerity until the economy turns around, then renewed growth. [New York Times] People who have talked to Senator Edward Kennedy recently said the Massachusetts Senator believes that Senator Edmund Muskie is virtually certain to win the Democratic prersidential nomination in 1972. Mr. Kennedy was said to have counted himself out of the 1972 competition. [New York Times] Rural areas get "far more" federal aid per pupil than do urban areas with greater problems, a Ford Foundation-supported study found. Funds are often shunted by harried school planners, the study said, "to the least important of their priorities." [New York Times]