News stories from Saturday June 13, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Nixon has appointed a nine-member campus violence study commission to be headed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. The group will study the cause and prevention of violent dissent.
Interior Secretary Walter Hickel may be fired for criticizing the administration; Hickel denied reports of his resignation.
[CBS] - Kent State University graduation was held today; grads and parents discussed the National Guard shootings. [CBS]
- The Jordanian army and Palestinian guerrillas stopped an attack on Amman by ousted Army officers; foreigners are being evacuated fro the country. In Beirut, Lebanon, demonstrators burned the Jordanian embassy. [CBS]
- Cambodians fought Communists in Kompong Speu; the highway to the major port of Kompong Som has been cut. The Viet Cong has reportedly set up hospitals and supply depots in Cambodia's sacred Angkor Wat temples; Hanoi denies the report. [CBS]
- Laotian troops have retaken Saravane, a food supply control point. [CBS]
- Brazil stated that it will free 40 political prisoners in order to ransom the kidnapped West German ambassador. [CBS]
- General Roberto Levingston is the new president of Argentina; he had been the military attache to Washington. [CBS]
- Hubert Humphrey is attempting a political comeback by running for the vacant Senate seat in Minnesota. Humphrey has been teaching political science at Macalester College. Republican Rep. Clark MacGregor is opposing Humphrey. [CBS]
- Ralph Nader urged the FTC to ban enzyme detergents, claiming that they cause disease and allergies. [CBS]
- Women were at the White House for the Labor Department Women's Bureau's 50th anniversary; the President did not attend, but the first lady greeted delegates. One quarter of the delegates boycotted the White House and protested President Nixon's absence; Women's Bureau members feel that he is chauvinistic. [CBS]