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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1972
Page
4
The sloop hailed as the first to navigate the Northwest Passage in 1803 1693 under Captain Roald Amundsen disappears from San Francisco harbor after 33 years.
In a Boston Globe poll McGovern leads Muskie by about 19 to 12 percent in Massachusetts as both race toward the upcoming Pennsylvania primary. Campaign activity includes McGovern urging workers to ignore polls and Ed Kennedy campaigning with him in Medford.
A station wagon swerved to avoid another car and struck a center barrier on the Santa Ana Freeway in Santa Ana Saturday. Three youths died and five were injured. Names include Scout Dera 12 Leo Fivara 14 Laure Boersch 1% Patti Brown 18 Scott Keys 18 Karen Dora 27 Mark Redmond 16 Greg 18. Victims from Whistler.
Divers recovered several hundred pounds of garbage from the American River about 30 miles downstream of the first California gold discovery during Earth Week. They collected rusty cans plastic forks and broken bottles then quit pessimistic about future cleanups saying an army of men and money is needed.
Frederick Lash, then military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in London, says Lyndon Johnson sought volunteers from a private British army of ex servicemen to bolster the Vietnam effort in 1966. The offer, vetoed by Harold Wilson, involved the British Military Volunteer Party and a private army of ex servicemen, with reports of 36 volunteers sent and mercenaries blamed for Congo failures.
Washington reports that limited dissent within the Soviet military led to the imprisonment of three Baltic naval officers in June 1970. Documents and uncensored translations from The Chronicle of Current Events reveal police interrogations and calls for political rights, highlighting a case where a witness Soldatov defended freedom of speech against state pressure.
A New Jersey protest escalated as 18 antiwar activists tried to scale a fence near a Naval pier where an ammunition ship bound for Vietnam awaited. Police and depot security halted the march by members of the Movement for a New Society after threats to block a railroad and the ammo train. Boats in Sandy Hook Bay were used in another attempt to stop the USS Nitro from sailing with munitions for aircraft carriers.
Foreign ministers from the six current Common Market nations meet in Luxembourg to discuss economic union and relations with nonmember states. They plan to abolish the green card insurance, raise duty free allowances for tourists, and open talks with Malta Prime Minister Dom Mintoff as part of preparations for the Paris summit.
The Americans for Democratic Action endorsed Gen. George S. McGovern for the Democratic presidential nomination, calling him honest, intelligent, and morally driven. The majority report praised his opposition to the Vietnam War and his work on poverty, tax reform, welfare reform, and defense cuts, while noting broad appeal beyond traditional bases.
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