04 Sep 1972
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Newspaper
Arizona Daily Sun
Location
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1972
Page
1
Six children played a game when a four year old cried, then calmed by a student teacher. Kimberly Kirk recited Little Boy Blue with no mistakes. Darrell Hammock in Mangum's class disrupted desk behavior but finished without errors. recess followed.
North Vietnamese troops overran two ranger camps in the Central Highlands. About 150 defenders were reported missing from a border camp fortified by roughly 200 personnel, many Montagnard tribesmen trained by the US Green Berets. Field reports indicate four rangers accounted for, with several others possibly escaping to reach other government posts.
Labor leader George Meany denounced George McGovern as an apologist for the Communist world while reiterating neutrality in the presidential race. UAW President Leonard Woodcock said he was briefly approached in July about potentially being McGovern's running mate but preferred remaining a fulltime union leader.
Geologists led by Willam Breed report fossilized single cells and filaments in Chuar Group rocks near Nankoweap Butte. The specimens resemble forms from Central Australia, possibly early fungi or algae, dating 700 to 900 million years. Further field work planned to confirm significance.
United States and Canada push ICAO subcommittee to draft a treaty for joint action against nations failing to discourage hijackings International group plans an international airline boycott of non prosecuting states and not returning hijacked passengers and crews this follows last year’s ICAO rejection and a wave of hijackings last June
Arizona State Prison guards used seven rounds of tear gas to flush three inmates from the laundry area after overpowering five guards. Gary Tison, 36, killer of a prison officer in 1967, Duane Warner, 36, and George Warrick, 40, were identified. The trio seized a guard and fired a smuggled pistol, then hid until guards cornered them in the laundry. a tower guard alerted staff when one inmate failed to look up after lowers keys. The men were placed in isolation after a four hour bid and investigators noted the pistol resembled a .45 automatic. Pioneer Week began with a Sechrist School picnic.
The death count on the nation’s highways rose to 422 by midday as motorists returned for the Labor Day weekend. The toll began at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at midnight, with the National Safety Council predicting up to 680 deaths in traffic accidents this weekend. The worst Labor Day toll was 688 in 1968.
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