News stories from Sunday July 26, 1970
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- 2,500 South Vietnamese troops attacked Communist strongholds in Cambodia as Communists and Cambodians continue their hit-and-run war.
Some buildings in Srang were razed, but most were left intact; North Vietnamese POWs were taken. Communists want to hold the village for a propaganda campaign.
[CBS] - Syria and Iraq oppose the United States' Mideast peace plan; Jordan and Israel approve it though the Israeli cabinet is still debating the issue. [CBS]
- Attorney General John Mitchell reported that he expects less campus unrest this fall. [CBS]
- Presidential adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan predicted that if the administration's family assistance plan doesn't pass Congress this year, it won't pass during this decade. The plan has been passed by the House, but is tied up in the Senate Finance Committee. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson says that the bill is President Nixon's top domestic priority.
Finance Committee chairman Russell Long cited the bill's defects, one of which is that it doesn't encourage work.
[CBS] - Puerto Ricans protested the U.S. Navy's shelling of Culebra Island, and demonstrators camped on the target range to block the shelling. The issue is increasing anti-American sentiment in Puerto Rico and helping the Independence Party. [CBS]
- Georgia police are holding Jerry Ray, the brother of Martin Luther King's assassin, for shooting a 16-year-old white boy. Ray claimed that the boy was in an office stealing the files of a white supremacist candidate. [CBS]
- Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughter Kim formerly wanted to join antiwar demonstrations, but now is a booster of the administration. Today in Taos, New Mexico, Kim told Indians that the Nixon administration will restore 48,000 acres of land as the result of a new policy that was announced on July 8th. [CBS]