News stories from Sunday May 17, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Allies drove against Cambodia's Communist sanctuaries. Cambodian troops retook Kompong Cham and repulsed a Viet Cong counterattack. [CBS]
- Eleven Asian nations called for an Indochina peace conference and want all foreign troops out of the region. [CBS]
- Senator Mike Mansfield signed the McGovern-Hatfield resolution which calls for complete U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam by June 30, 1971. Vice President Spiro Agnew denounced the move as a political undercut to the administration, and he said that students are misunderstanding the President's motives. [CBS]
- In Washington, DC, 12 antiwar groups have been set up as a permanent lobby. At Dartmouth College, a computer has been programmed with information on Congressmen, in order for antiwar lobbyists to exert heavy political pressure on them. [CBS]
- Two soldiers that are charged in the My Lai murders claim that the Army won't provide them with good lawyers. [CBS]
- Dominican Republic President Joaquin Balaguer was re-elected. The president doesn't want many reforms but voters didn't have much choice in the election. A military coup may come soon. [CBS]
- Israeli jets and artillery hit Egyptian targets near the Suez Canal. [CBS]
- The Washington police department is being praised for its restraint during the student protests last week. The DC police department wants more college recruits. The department has launched its most intensive recruiting campaign ever; 22 of its 400 officers are college graduates, but most stay on the force for two years or less. [CBS]
- South Africa claimed that its expulsion from the 1976 Olympics was the result of Soviet anger at not being the site for the games. [CBS]
- Racial separation has invaded British cricket. An all-white South African team was invited to a cricket tournament, which caused much left-wing protest. The fields are ringed with barbed wire and are guarded. Last year there was violence at all South African rugby games in England. [CBS]