News stories from Saturday August 15, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- South Vietnam claimed a major victory over a Viet Cong stronghold near Danang, South Vietnam. In Cambodia, Communists are building up around Phnom Penh. The Lon Nol government is getting help, as 600 Cambodian troops returned from a South Vietnam training camp better trained and equipped; they will be sent to the front. [CBS]
- Marine Pvt. Samuel Green has been sentenced to five years for killing 15 Vietnamese women and children. [CBS]
- Lebanon and Jordan accused Israel of cease-fire violations for bombing raids across their borders. The United States is responsible for protecting Jordan from Israel, as Jordan has no real anti-aircraft capability. The U.S. may be selling Israel jets at the same time as it is selling Jordan weapons to shoot those jets down, in order to keep a balance of power. The United States will decide by Monday whether Israeli claims of United Arab Republic cease-fire violations are valid. [CBS]
- Angela Davis is being sought for buying the guns which were used in the San Rafael, California courtroom kidnap-murder. [CBS]
- An ocean storm won't interfere with Army nerve gas dumping. [CBS]
- The $510 million keel of the nuclear aircraft carrier "Eisenhower" is in place. Controversy surrounds the carrier. Senator William Proxmire says that carriers such as the Eisenhower are "impressive but obsolete." Senator Walter Mondale calls the carriers "floating bombs." The cost of each carrier is $6 billion plus $1½ billion per year for maintenance. The Navy wants more carriers now. [CBS]
- White House aides advised President Nixon not go to New Orleans for the southern governors' conference. The President wants peaceful desegregation and has written off the South to George Wallace in 1972. Presidential counselor Robert Finch claimed that southern representatives changed their views about integration due to Nixon's persuasion. [CBS]
- Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams charged the President's Campus Unrest Commission with deliberately fomenting racial unrest in the South; Commission member Joseph Rhodes said that Williams is the one responsible. [CBS]
- An Eatontown, N.J. bank went bankrupt eight days ago; bank President Doug Schotte was arrested for misusing $5 million in cashier's checks. Depositors lined up for the bank's reopening today. Those with over $20,000 in deposits must wait until bank records are complete to get the remainder of their money. [CBS]