December 5, 1970

BLS repts unemployment rate rose 0.4% to 5.5%, Nov; notes sharpest increase was among women 20-24 yrs old

Nixon, speaking to NAM, NYC, directs 2 warnings to construction indus, where recent wage settlements have been more than doubted natl avg; says legis might be required to change pattern of collective bargaining and raises possibility of Fed intervention in wage negotiations on federally sponsored construction projects; says he will propose legis to change structure of collective bargaining process if such recommendation is made by Construction Indus Collectice Bargaining Comm; says he has directed comm to take initiative in working out these changes with leaders of management and labor, suggesting that he would prefer to see new arrangement arrived at voluntarily; White House sources disclose that Nixon's warning that he might intervene in wage negotiations on Fed projects could be carried out by suspending provisions of Davis Bacon Act

NYC detectives, posing as drunks, arrest 6 men and women outside 1st Natl City Bank branch at 91st St and Madison Av and charge them with attempting to fire bomb bldg; say arrests were made as group placed 4 one-gallon milk containers of gasoline and benzine outside bldg; suspects, identified as members of Weatherman, had been under surveillance for several mos; suspects identified as R Palmer, Mrs S Krebs, J Plecha, C Conine, M Lewis and C Trenkle; illus

UN fact-finding mission issues rept concluding that Guinea was invaded by Portuguese troops commanded by regular white Portuguese officers; says ships carrying attackers had been manned by predominantly white Portuguese troops, same of which used blackface disguise; says invasion was mounted from Portuguese Guinea; Portugal, in lr to UN Security Council, declares it did not order or authorize any mil operations against Guinea; scores mission failure to inform Portugal of allegations before drawing any conclusions; says Portugal will reject any resolution that may 'seek to establish culpability of Portuguese entities or individuals'; mission says it reached conclusions from data produced by Guinea, from interrogation of prisoners as well as from 'eyewitness accts of ind observers and material evidence'; says invasion force included 2 naval transports and 3 or 4 patrol craft; says about 400 troops were landed; those giving data to mission included US Amb in Conakry, A W Sherer Jr, and Ambs from W Ger and Yugoslavia; their testimony detailed; illus of mission members meeting with Security Council employes

Govt decrees 3-mo state of emergency in Basque prov of Guipuzcoa; map; decree is 1st major Govt response to widespread resistance to ct-martial; demonstrations had taken place in all main towns of prov; search for Beihl continues; 2 leading army officers express opposition to use of army to try pol crimes; some think that Franco regime may have given way to some opposing voices and transferred case to ordinary cts and let it be known there would be no executions, but it did not do so because it does not tike to yield under pressure to major protest by opposition; illus of police restraining spectators, Burgos