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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1971
Page
1
Guards report a guard with a bandaged eye injured by a bottle. inmates describe negotiations only after control is reestablished. Fire crews quell a blaze as rioting spreads in a cellblock housing about 500 prisoners. inmates shout for Cahill and insist they want to be men.
At Montgomery Ward in Fremont a group of live freeze models pose to mimic mannequins, drawing crowds as customers touch and study their poses. Kathy Yapp, 18, relates how some shoppers treat the display as real, while staff explain the models are not dummies. the exhibit features every 10 minute pose shifts and a sales-boosting display in Pathfinder Days.
Cairo's Al Ahram reports Sadat warned Nixon that U S ground missiles to Israel would be a very serious escalation. The note said Washington had assured it would not supply such weapons, contradicting other reports and citing missiles with a 3 to 70 mile range under Pentagon review.
FBI hunts D B Cooper after he hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle. He demanded 200000 dollars, released passengers and crew, then vanished with money and parachute near Reno. Authorities traced his last contact at Lake Merwin area on the Lewis River corridor in Washington.
The White House said the United States may bring the India Pakistan military clash before the United Nations Security Council. Nixon discussed South Asian border tensions with British Prime Minister Heath in a Transatlantic call and explored a future meeting with Heath before travels to Peking and beyond.
Alameda Creek trustees and allies protested a federal plan for the Bay Area refuge. They urged including 1,900 more acres of baywater and marsh, arguing larger salt ponds and a bigger Bair Island site are needed to protect migratory birds. They critics the Interior report for leaving out a proposed 1,000 acre buffer zone and 1,300 acres of water for land swaps.
A morning fog with low clouds gives way to increasing cloudiness in the afternoon. Tomorrow looks mostly fair with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s and a tonight low in the 40s. Winds shift from west to southwest at 5 to 15 mph.
Jeff Kinney and Johnnie Rodgers led Nebraska in a 35 to 1 victory over Oklahoma as quarterback Jerry Tagge sparked the offense and the defense held firm. The win solidified Nebraska at No. 1 in the college grid polls amid a dramatic clash hailed as Game of the Year.
The Senate Committee on Aging reports one in four Americans over 65 live in poverty, with 4.7 million elderly affected and 100,000 more in poverty since 1968 as firms ease older workers toward pensions. Page 2.
Timisia Dr Christiaan Barnards latest heart transplant patient Lindsay Rich aged 60 dies at Groote Schuur Hospital Cape Town He had received his new heart on November 13 and his wife Jean says he had been progressing well.
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