28 May 1972
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1972
Page
1
Memorial Day weekend deaths rose to 201 as motorists hit highways in sunny weather. In Illinois a car left Interstate 57 early Saturday killing five people including a mother and her two children, with four Arkansans and one Californian among the victims in a two car crash near Sara.
A weekend traffic- fatality tally reports three teenage deaths in Iota Florida as part of a national trend. Pleasant holiday weather is forecast to raise highway fatalities with the National Safety Council estimating 530 to 630 deaths before Monday midnight. Traffic deaths began Friday at 6 p m local time and end at midnight Monday, with Iowa noting one fatality on I 80 Friday afternoon and no Iowa fatalities by late Saturday.
In Belfast militants from the Ulster Defense Association and allied groups held a large, masked parade through downtown Belfast. The event, described as a major Protestant display, coincided with two bomb blasts and a border ambush injuring four soldiers and a Belfast official.
North Vietnamese troops renewed the Kontum assault, reaching within 500 yards of the airstrip and seizing the armored cavalry compound. U S jets destroyed a key railroad bridge to China while ground fighting and air losses mounted near Hue An Loc and along Highway 14.
Senators Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern spent Saturday with advisers planning for Sundays first televised debate as they race toward California's June 6 primary. Humphrey marked his 61st birthday at Disneyland while McGovern dedicated a pool for the handicapped in Helen Keller Park as advisers briefed reporters on welfare policy.
Washington opens Transpo 72 World Fair of Transportation with a Nixon message and orders of traffic flow. Officials report heavy vehicle movement to Dulles as Volpe presides and crowds enjoy perfect weather.
A humorous quip notes that dirt is costly when searching for a suitable lot to build a home. The line plays on the idea that land selection drives project costs and effort.
The former King Edward VIII died at his Paris home early Sunday 2:25 a.m. local time May 28 1972 Buckingham Palace said He abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson and lived in exile Uncle to Queen Elizabeth II his death ends a famed royal saga in the Bois de Boulogne neighborhood
Senator Edward Kennedy praised President Nixon for negotiating the strategic arms limitation treaty at the Moscow summit. He told 200 graduates at St. Michael's College that the SALT accord is the most far reaching step on arms control in the nuclear age.
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