News stories from Saturday September 4, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- An Alaska Airlines jet with 107 passengers on board is missing between Anchorage and Juneau. [CBS]
- South Vietnam Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky denied vowing to destroy President Nguyen Van Thieu. [CBS]
- President Nixon thanked Americans for accepting the hardships of the wage-price freeze; the Cost of Living Council asked corporations not to increase stock dividends. The Bureau of Labor Statistics warned that the cost of living may still rise during the freeze.
Senator Fred Harris said that a system should be set up to enforce the freeze, and AFL-CIO president George Meany wants a labor-management-consumer board to be set up to avoid chaos after the freeze.
[CBS] - A conservative youth organization, the Young Americans for Freedom, met in Houston, Texas. Speaking at the convention, Senator Robert Byrd stated that Americans wouldn't stand for busing if Congress ordered it, but people are helpless against court edicts. Senator James Buckley said that forced busing aids neither education nor racial harmony. The Young Americans for Freedom proposed a resolution opposing President Nixon's trip to China, and an anti-wage-price freeze proposal was passed. [CBS]
- Americans for Democratic Action gave good ratings to seven of the nine Democrat presidential contenders. [CBS]
- A Gallup poll shows President Nixon ahead of his Democrat opponents; Senator Edmund Muskie has fallen behind Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edward Kennedy. [CBS]
- Former Senator Bourke Hickenlooper died at age 75. [CBS]
- The Concorde supersonic transport jet flew from Toulouse, France to French Guiana in four hours and 28 minutes, an average speed of 1,119 mph. [CBS]
- Phoenix, Arizona, police are holding a man who is accused of shooting seven people in a jealous rage. [CBS]