News stories from Saturday August 22, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Nixon administration admitted that there are no geographical restrictions on U.S. air strikes in Cambodia, but the White House said that its policy hasn't changed.
Vice President Spiro Agnew is in Asia. Agnew received advice from Henry Kissinger and from President Nixon before leaving. Agnew is to visit South Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan and Korea; he will ask Thailand and South Vietnam to aid Cambodia against the Communists.
[CBS] - Senator William Fulbright has proposed a Mideast peace solution. Fulbright wants Israel out of occupied land and he wants an imposed United Nations solution along with a bilateral U.S.-Israeli treaty saying that America will aid Israel if war resumes. Many officials called the plan unrealistic. [CBS]
- On his Mexican tour, President Nixon was moving toward less aid, more trade and decreased U.S. involvement in Latin America. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced his program for a free and prosperous Latin America; Nixon's plan is the opposite of Kennedy's.
The Kennedy plan failed; there was no land reform and Latin America is now in a near-feudal state. New dictators are squeezing American businesses in their countries. President Nixon will reduce military aid to all Latin countries.
[CBS] - Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos denied fatally injuring his wife, saying that she overdosed on sleeping pills. [CBS]
- Passengers and crew abandoned a burning Philippine freighter in the Pacific. [CBS]
- A diphtheria epidemic in San Antonio has hit 60 people; two have died. An inoculation program has been launched. [CBS]
- Supporters of Senator Joseph Tydings charged that presidential assistant Peter Flanigan gave Life magazine information on Tydings' Florida business deals; the White House denied the charge that the administration is trying to scuttle Tydings' reelection. [CBS]
- The Campus Unrest Commission is back in Washington, DC and hopes to have its report ready before schools reopen. [CBS]
- Attorney General John Mitchell denied that the Presidential Pornography Commission is connected with the administration; Mitchell noted that Lyndon Johnson created the commission. The commission's report next month will say that pornography is OK. [CBS]
- In Sarasota, Florida, Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman has opened a baseball "college". Students attend Manatee Junior College three days per week and take business and history courses in addition to baseball instruction; 40 students were accepted from over 7,000 applicants. Student Frank White says that the camp is better than a minor league team. [CBS]
- In West Germany, the television program "Crime File XY" is offering cash rewards in exchange for assistance in finding criminals. The show reenacts crimes and has more violence than the German television code normally allows; it is the number one program in the country. [CBS]