Week of April 8, 1971

National television - President Nixon says that “Vietnamization has succeeded”

but says only a modest increase in the monthly troop withdrawal rate. He

assured viewers that the U.S. role in the Vietnam War “is coming to an end.”

Vice President Agnew in a speech said that “in

the main” the American news media has given

“preponderantly negative coverage of the

Vietnam War.” He singled out Life magazine for

headlining a story about Laos as “an

ignominious and disorderly retreat” and called

the article “a hatchet job.”

Waves of U.S. bombers dump explosives and

napalm close in Fire Base 6 in an intensified

effort to break the North Vietnamese siege of the

frontier outpost in the Central Highlands.

Peking allows correspondents of three American

news organizations to enter China to cover the

visit of the U.s. table tennis team.

Pope Paul VI gave the world a message of hope

this Easter, foreseeing the day when nations will be at peace and declaring that

“man’s cause is not only not lost, it is secure.”

About 500 women, chanting, clapping and singing militant songs of the women’s

lib, march on the Pentagon for a justice and oppression of rally against the war in

women.

Radio Pakistan claims two companies of Indian border security forces infiltrated

rebellious East Pakistan and were wiped out by government troops.

A federal court jury in NY acquits David Poindexter Jr., of harboring Angela Davis

while she was a fugitive.

President Nixon initiates five steps to ease restrictions that have curbed trade

between the U.S. and China. It seems Russia is suspicious of the U.S. overtures

to China.

First Lt. William L. Calley Jr. is splitting a $100,000 fee with Vietnam War

correspondent John Sack for publication of Calley’s exclusive memoirs. The

book, titled, “Lt. Calley: an American Tragedy,” will be published July 26.

Week of April 8, 1971

Entertainer Danny Kaye presents the U.N. Children’s Emergency Fund with a

$7,845,000 contribution from Americans.

Off Track Betting begins in New York after months of delay.

Technology/medical - A new technique for viewing the heart in action as an

animated display on a computer screen which can help determine the need for

surgery or other treatment is disclosed. The system, is a project of joint NASA

and Stanford Medical Center, projects a 3-D animated image of any desired

chamber of the patient’s heart on a computer display screen.

Sports -

Tom McCraw, pinch-hitting for Denny McLain, slams a leadoff homer in the 10 th

to give the Washington Senators a

5-4

win over New York and McLean got the

win.

Music news - James

Taylor has a brother -

Livingston - who also

sings. But did you

know - he has a

sister who has a new

album out? Yes -

she’s Kate Taylor (21)

Her new album is

“Sister Kate” on

Cotillion records.

Unlike James and

Livingston, she likes

to rock. She’s already

been called the

“Caroline Kennedy or

rock.”

Radio news -

It’s announced that a

new national

noncommercial will

go on the air May

3. National Public radio, financed by the Corporation for Public

Broadcasting, will initially have a 90-station hookup and will start with a review of

news and personalities from 5 to 6:30pm Mon-Fri.

Week of April 8, 1971

Music news - In the current issue

of Life Magazine, it’s reported that

John Lennon’s hiring of Allen Klein

as business manager led to the

breakup of the Beatles - that

according to Paul McCartney.

“Klein is incredible,” McCartney

said. “He’ll say, ‘Whaddaya want”

I’ll buy it for you.’” McCartney said

he was force by a previous

agreement to sue the other three

members of the group rather than

Klein and another businessman.

“The four of us, I think, still quite

like each other.”

Television news -

WNJT-TV (channel 52) begins

operations in Trenton, NJ. It’s one of a

few NJ TV stations and a bright hope

for the state and the first of four

“network” stations being linked

together. All will be non-commercial.

New Jersey has few TV stations - very

few.

Monday night television -

CBS - Gunsmoke, Here’s Lucy,

Mayberry RFD, Doris Day, Carol

Burnett, Merv Griffin

NBC- From a Bird’s Eye View, Laugh-

In, NBC Monday night at the Movies,

Tonight

ABC - Let’s Make a Deal, Newlywed

Game, Reel Game, Movie, Dick Cavett

Laugh-In - Sammy Davis Jr and Wilt

Chamberlain.

Johnny Carson - Davis Steinberg guest

hosts..