This Day In 1970's History: Saturday November 30, 1974
- Members of the United Mine Workers' largest and most politically volatile coal-field district hooted disapproval and honked automobile horns in a protest caravan through Beckley, W. Va., as union leaders appealed to them to ratify a proposed strike settlement with the mine operators. In a secret-ballot contract ratification vote that will be held Monday among most of the union's active members, the miners are to have the last word on whether the mine operators have offered enough in their tentative agreement with Arnold Miller, the union's president, who has insisted the companies have no more to give. [New York Times]
- Pioneer 11, after a coasting journey of almost two years, is plunging at ever increasing speed toward its crack-the-whip trip around Jupiter on Monday night. Its imaging system is sending excellent pictures and is expected to provide views of Jupiter's polar regions that are a prime goal of the encounter. Early Tuesday morning, 22 minutes after midnight Eastern standard time, Pioneer 11 will come within 26,600 miles of Jupiter -- one-third the distance of the fly-by of its predecessor, Pioneer 10 -- and it will be traveling at 107,000 miles an hour relative to the planet. [New York Times]
- College fraternities and sororities, which fell on hard times during the social activism of the 1960's, are enjoying a resurgence on many campuses. The organizations are different from those that many students shunned a decade ago: Fraternity and sorority life is now marked by more academic seriousness and even social consciousness, a survey of a dozen campuses from East to West finds. [New York Times]
- The historic egalitarian purpose for which Congress established land-grant colleges more than a 100 years ago is being eroded by steeply rising tuition fees and inflation. The traditionally high quality, low-cost college education offered by land-grant colleges and universities is something that not even relatively affluent middle-class families can afford. College administrators all over the country, confronted with the prospect of raising tuition fees even higher in the face of declining enrollments, are watching with keen interest the fate of an unusual proposal by the president and regents of the University of Wisconsin that tuition fees be sharply cut. John Weaver, the president, believes the taxpayer should pick up the tab for rising costs. [New York Times]
- India and Pakistan moved to end their 10-year ban on trade relations -- dating from the 1905 war over the Kashmir issue -- with the signing of a protocol stating that the ban would be lifted Dec. 7. The decision to end the ban fulfills a crucial aspect of the peace agreement signed by the two countries in July, 1972, that provided for a renewal of relations broken when the two countries fought over the new nation of Bangladesh. Indian and Pakistani officials told newsmen that the question of resuming diplomatic relations was being considered but the resumption of trading need not wait for that. [New York Times]
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