Week of March 15, 1970

Night time attack as Israeli army forces smash four Egyptian gun and bunker

positions in the first reported direct frontal assault across the Suez since the

1967 war.

An American cargo ship carrying bombs and other munitions to a U.S. base in

Thailand is diverted to Cambodian waters after being seized by its civilian crew.

Later, the New York Times reports that two crewman who used a bomb scare to

seize control of the ship were reported to have been granted asylum in

Cambodia. The name of the ship is the Columbia Eagle.

The Army charges 14 officers, including the West Point superintendent and

another general, with misconduct in connection with the alleged massacre at My

Lai, Vietnam. Ten soldiers were charged earlier with crimes at My Lai, but the

highest ranking was three captains.

Right-wing opponents depose Prince Norodom Sibanouk as Cambodia’s chief of

state - all this while he was visiting Moscow. A Radio Phnom Penh broadcast

said that Sibanouk had “provoked” the political crisis in Cambodia, where in the

last week crowds took to the streets in violent demonstrations against the

presence of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in border regions.

At least 20 are dead in an arson-caused

windows.

A postal strike that began in the New

York metropolitan area goes nationwide,

despite a government agreement that

wage talks would begin if the postal

workers return to their jobs.

In Norfolk, Nebraska - Three college

students are electrocuted when a

gunshot fired by one of them severed a 7,200-volt powerline and the wire fell

across their car. A coed escaped death or injury by crawling through a window.

The Nebraska Highway Patrol said the four had stopped along a county road.

One of them left the car and was shooting at power line insulators.

Plans for an entirely new, innovative city of almost half million is proposed in

Orange County California, not far from Disneyland. Located on the sprawling

Week of March 15, 1970

Irvine, which would be the largest fully planned new city in

the world and would cover more than 82 square miles with

500,000 people.

Woman’s lib - (University of Pennsylvania) Members of

Philadelphia Women’s Liberation solemnly pledge “to

abstain from love and love’s delight’s and demand repeal

of all abortion laws. The demonstration was put on by the

daughters of Lysistrata.

Unbelievable but its true -

Television producer Norman Felton (best known for Man

From UNCLE) acquired a screenplay called “Terry and

others” which was written by Rhodes scholar Don Bach. It

had to do with a group of young activists who decide on a

sow of force to attract attention. In it, bombs go-off in three

Manhattan buildings - IBM, AT&T and Esso (Standard Oil). Just after the

screenplay sold, three real bombs exploded in three New York buildings - IBM,

General Telephone and Union oil.

Sports - Walter O’Malley names himself to chairman of the board of the Los

Angeles Dodgers and appoints his son Peter as president of the ball club.

Jerry Lewis - Caesars Palace

Don Ho - Flamingo

Wayne Newton - Frontier

Patti Page - Fremont

Gene Kelly - International

Trini Lopez - Landmark

Roger Miller - Riviera

Flip Wilson/Kim Weston - Sahara

Music news -

circuit television appearance this summer that will

bring him the largest fee- more than $1 million ever

paid an entertainer for a single performance. The

agreement calls for Presley to perform at the Las

Vegas Convention Center that would be shown the

same night via closed circuit to more than 200 outlets

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in some 150 cities. The date is August 8.

original song by himself titled “It Don’t Come Easy.”

George Harrison was there to play guitar. Starr’s just

completed his first album, consisting of 12 ballads

including “Sentimental Journey.”

Some best-selling books -

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles

Mr. Sammler’s Planet - Saul Bellow

Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene

The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight - Jimmy Breslin

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex - david r. Reuben

The Selling of the President 1968 - Joe McGinniss

Mary Queen Of Scots - Antonio Fraser

Ruffles and Flourishes - Liz Carpenter

Wednesday night television -

CBS - CBS news with Walter Cronkite, Hee Haw, Beverly Hillbillies, Medical

Center, Hawaii Five-O, Merv Griffin

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley report, The Virginian, Bob Hope Special, Tennessee

Ernie Ford Special, Tonight Show

ABC - ABC News with Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith, Nanny and the

Professor, Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Room 222, Johnny Cash, Englebert

Humperdinck, Dick Cavett

The Virginian - A gunman robs a railroad

stationmaster of a large payroll but loses the loot to

his partner as they make a getaway.

Bob Hope special - With Perry Como, Barbara

Eden, Tony Curtis and Billy Casper

Johnny Cash - Guests - George Gobel, Jeannie C.

Riley, Merle Haggard and Tommy Cash

Hawaii Five-O - A foreign power plots a false tidal wave alert to divert attention

from a kidnapping.

Week of March 15, 1970

Tennessee Ernie Ford special - With Barbara Feldon, Eva Gabor, Joey

Heatherton and Shirley Jones

Englebert Humperdinck - Guests - Ken Berry, Kaye Stevens, Georgia Brown

and Tommy Roe.

Late night talk:

Merv Griffin - Sam Levenson, Jacques Levy, Rodney

Johnny Carson - Guest host Alan King

Dick Cavett - Joe Cocker and the Grease Band

Pop music this week in 1970 -

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - Simon & Garfunkel

RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA - Brook Benton

THE RAPPER - Jaggerz

HEY THERE LONELY GIRL - Eddie Holman

TRAVELIN’ BAND - Creedence Clearwater Revival

MA BELLE AMIE - Tee Set

EVIL WAYS - Santana

HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER -

Hollies

GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME -

Chairmen Of The Board

KENTUCKY RAIN - Elvis Presley

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - Frijid

Pink

LOVE GROWS (Where My Rosemary

Goes) - Edison Lighthouse

DIDN’T I (Blow Your Mind This Time) -

Delfonics

INSTANT KARMA (We All Shine On) -

John Ono Lennon

CELEBRATE - Three Dog Night

PSYCHEDELIC SHACK - Temptations

THANK YOU (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly & Family Stone

OH ME OH MY (I’m A Fool For You Baby) - Lulu

EASY COME, EASY GO - Bobby Sherman

NO TIME Guess Who

NEVER HAD A DREAM COME TRUE - Stevie Wonder

VENUS - Shocking Blue

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HONEY COME BACK - Glen Campbell

WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN - Creedence

Clearwater Revival

At the movies -

Warner

Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan

Cannon

Susannah York

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

by Allen Funt)

Skerritt

Week of March 15, 1970