News stories from Sunday March 29, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Easter Sunday air travel was snarled by the combination of the "sick" walkout of 1,500 federal air traffic controllers and a surprise snowstorm in the Northeast. Airlines canceled dozens of flights, and some flights that did leave sat on runways for as long as five hours waiting to take off or circled airports for hours. [New York Times]
- Things are looking down for this year's college graduates. The number of jobs available and the salaries being offered to students are at their lowest points in years. Among those hardest hit by the downturn, reports suggest, are Ph.D-holders. [New York Times]
- The nation's jobless rate might go as high as 8 percent by the middle of next year, Dr. Charles Killingsworth, a leading manpower economist, said. He questioned the adequacy of the Nixon administration's manpower proposals and took issue with predictions by administration officials that unemployment would average only 4.5% this year. Dr. Killingsworth urged public service jobs for the jobless. [New York Times]
- As evidence for his contention that the tide was beginning to turn toward Senate confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst cited endorsements of the judge by Senator John Sherman Cooper and by 11 of the 19 active or retired judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, of which Judge Carswell is a member. [New York Times]
- An earthquake that shook western Turkey late Saturday killed about 600 people and injured hundreds more. "I am afraid the death toll may reach 1,000," the Governor of Kutahya Province said. Most of the casualties were in the town of Gediz. [New York Times]
- The British way of dealing with narcotics addiction -- by giving free heroin to addicts -- is being cut back sharply, and may be abandoned. Even former supporters say the system may have contributed to Britain's soaring addiction rate. [New York Times]
- Carbon monoxide levels in large cities reach hazardous levels during rush hours because of motor vehicle exhaust, a report prepared by the National Air Pollution Control Administration said. The report, the most comprehensive federal report ever compiled on carbon monoxide pollution, called the New York area the most polluted and cited evidence of the physical effects of the gas at rush-hour concentrations. [New York Times]
- Although Vietnamese Communist forces were moving deeper into Cambodian territory, the Cambodian government said the country was still trying to "resolve the problem by peaceful means." A high government source added that demonstrations favoring the return of Prince Norodom Sihanouk as Chief of State continued in some provinces. [New York Times]