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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Apr 03, 1972
Page
15
In New York hundreds of nurses and state employees walked off to picket mental hospitals schools prisons and other facilities in a first general strike by state workers in the city. In Paris a crowd gathered under the Eiffel Tower after an April Fool hoax inviting listeners to a free aerial party aboard a Galaxy jet.
Abortions on grounds of contraceptive failure became legal in India, where about 210000 abortions occur annually. In Bergamo Italy thieves raided a parish church Friday night stealing paintings valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars including two attributed to Titan and Veronese.
In SAN SPRASTIAN Spain two teenagers died and eight others were injured when a stray mortar bomb they were playing with exploded on Friday. Three of the injured were in critical condition.
Fifteen people died and one others were injured after a bath-house boiler exploded and a nearby water bank burst in Shahpour, northwest Teen. The incident was reported by ANP.
US analysts cited three aims behind the Hanoi offensive in the northern South Vietnam sector. They said Hanoi sought to impress Moscow and Beijing and the Vietnamese people with resolve to fight on, revive anti-war sentiment in the United States to hurt Nixon, and disrupt Vietnamisation while damaging South Vietnamese forces. A White House spokesman said Nixon closely follows the situation and that only a few SS units would remain active. In Deng Ha, North and South Vietnamese tanks clashed near the DMZ with two North Vietnamese tanks reported destroyed. American guided missile destroyers faced German artillery fire but were not hit.
Catholic women from Anderstown Belfast travel to meet IRA leader Sean Mistotain amid calls for ending the three year bloodshed. The campaign follows the death of Martha Crawford and a 2901h time bomb attack on a Belfast hearse as Catholic rebels plan an Easter 1916 commemoration amid tense security.
A Soviet military court in the Ukrainian town of Galovanske sentenced two war criminals, Lutsenka and Zaho loiny, to execution for killing Jews and others during World War II. The men, linked to Nazi collaborators, hunted partisans and civilians, including a girl cousin, with testimony from over 60 witnesses.
Indian officials cite a growing flow of Bengali and Bihari Muslims fleeing Bangladesh amid law and order and food concerns. Reports from Amrita Bazar Pakka say over ten Bengali families crossed from Rajshahi toward West Bengal's Malda in the past week as Rajakar remnants were blamed for arson looting and rapes, though observers doubt their continued presence. The piece notes Mujibur Rahman orders and Indian Army chief General Manekshaw's extended tenure.
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