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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1969
Page
2
The AFL-CIO's first national boycott against General Electric enters its sixth week as 147,000 members from 13 unions stall negotiations over wage and contract terms. Observers say the outcome could influence auto industry bargaining next year and test Nixon’s anti inflation program.
SAIGON AP News says Nixon fulfilled his pledge to pull 60 000 U S troops from Vietnam, reducing the war zone to 479 500 and marking the lowest level in two years. Last week 4900 service members left, with 63 300 fewer since February.
UPI report notes Attorney General John Mitchell clashes with Milton Eisenhower on the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Mitchell argues poverty is not an excuse for crime and questions the commission’s view linking urban poverty to high crime rates. He warns against exoneration based on poverty and questions the scope of proposed urban rebuilding.
Varig airliner with 98 aboard hijacked to Havana arrived in Rio de Janeiro 32 hours late. Hijacker described as a dark Algerian type was escorted from the craft by Cuban authorities. Flight originated in London, stopped in Paris, then San Juan before heading to Cuba. It was the second Varig hijack to Cuba in two months.
United Press International reports the Thanksgiving weekend traffic toll fell short of forecasts, with at least 660 deaths on highways from Wednesday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight. California led states with 68 deaths, followed by Texas 39 and Georgia 38 amid major pileups, fog, and icy roads across rapid nationwide counts.
Chicago police official Deputy Superintendent James M. Rochford prepared to be cross examined about his account of violent clashes with antiwar demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He described a melee after demonstrators stoned police near Balbo and Michigan Streets on August 28, 1968, and said he ordered the crowd cleared. He noted a conversation with David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, who insisted on marching to the Amphitheatre.
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad Richard Gordon and Alan Bean remain in quarantine until mid December while geologists study larger rocks and finer soil saying Apollo 12 samples differ from Apollo 11 samples with no breccia found.
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