page_title: October 1970
section_title: October 7, 1970 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1970 / October 7, 1970 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: Juan José Torres
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1970:
context_section_description: In a nationwide address, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced a five-point proposal for a truce to halt the Vietnam War, with all sides to begin a ceasefire and the release of all prisoners of war, in exchange for broader negotiations in the Paris Peace Talks   The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations to the Paris talks both denounced Nixon's proposal the next day as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion," but stopped short of rejecting it entirely.
  General Juan José Torres, a leftist officer of the military, took office as the new President of Bolivia "with a show of strength that toppled his rightist opponents", bringing an end to the two-day civil war.  The only known casualties of the rebellion were ten leftist demonstrators who were shot by military officers in the mining town of Oruro.
caption: General Torres
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