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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1973
Page
4
All eyes stay on the Watt Powell Annex court as the Charleston Center Junior Tennis Tournament enters its second day. The event features boys and girls 16 and under competition with photographers and spectators capturing the action.
Federal Power Commission officials ordered a security officer to destroy confidential papers about natural gas shortages. The effort failed due to missing incinerator facilities and an out of order military incinerator. Nassikas and Maxson reassembled torn documents with tape. Hart sought full records of disposition in a Senate inquiry.
In Bonn a German cartoon likens West German scandal talk to Watergate as Julius Steiner, a former opposition lawmaker, claims he acted as a double agent for East German spies while alleging contacts with French agents. The no-confidence push by Rainer Barzel sought to topple Chancellor Willy Brandt amid detente tensions.
More than 50 members of Congress endorsed a study urging a four point plan to end underground nuclear tests by the United States and the Soviet Union. The study, prepared for Peace Through Law by Sen. Philip Hart and the MCPL, calls for U.S. testing halt if the USSR does the same and for negotiations toward a comprehensive test ban with verification.
A federal study finds men over 63 lag in benefits from declining death rates. In 1970 there were 11.6 million elderly women and 8.4 million men, about 722 men per 1000 women, a gap expected to grow by 1990 to 675 per 1000. The elderly population rose 21 percent from 1960 to 1978, driven by births in the 1908s–1920s and prewar immigration.
At the United Nations, debate centers on a 12 word phrase from the 1967 Security Council resolution that defines the framework for Middle East policy. Britain defends the wording while Arabs and the Soviet Union demand broader withdrawal. Israel says the extent of withdrawal is for negotiations. A separate note announces Hinton teen Robin Allen crowned Miss West Virginia Teen-Ager and set to compete in Atlanta.
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