News stories from Sunday January 25, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation was reported to have zeroed in on a key suspect in the effort to find who hired the killers of Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter. A federal official also confirmed the recovery of an M-1 carbine believed used by the gunmen. [New York Times]
- Massachusetts officials said they are checking the legality of advertisements by a company that offers a $1,250 package deal on an abortion in England. The company, London Agency, Inc. of Springfield, arranges for transportation, hotel, the operation and other details. [New York Times]
- A suspicious Pennsylvania highway patrolman searched John Cahill, the 19-year-old son of New Jersey's new Republican governor, in a rundown section of Philadelphia and arrested the youth for possession of marijuana, a felony. The governor, who had urged in his campaign a more lenient attitude toward drug users and a harsher one toward drug pushers, expressed distress and sorrow. [New York Times]
- Chickens carrying cancer virus should be allowed to be sold in stores as long as they do not look too repugnant. New scientific evidence was said to doubt any link between chicken and human cancer viruses. [New York Times]
- Because they were deaf and could not hear cries of warning, two young men died of smoke inhalation as a fire in an elevator shaft at the ninth floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago sent smoke pouring through the floor. Thirty-nine other students from the School for Deaf Mutes in Jacksonville, Ill. and hundreds of other guests escaped, 19 of them with injuries. [New York Times]
- Fourteen Mexican newsmen, a doctor and four crewmen died when their plane crashed and burned on a mountainside near Poza Rica. The reporters were covering Luis Echeverria Alvarez, candidate of the governing party, who was traveling on another plane. One reporter, sitting in the plane's tail, survived the crash. [New York Times]
- A hospital in the heart of the Nigerian territory that was Biafra was reported to be down to a two-day supply of food for its 300 patients. Only one truckload of relief food has reached Awo-Omamma Hospital since the civil war ended, and though the Uli airstrip is only 6 miles away, the Nigerians refuse to use it. [New York Times]
- Hundreds of amateur lobbyists -- including school superintendents, college financial aid directors, librarians and educational equipment manufacturers -- arrived in Washington from all over the country to try to prod Congress into overriding President Nixon's expected veto of the health and education appropriations bill. [New York Times]