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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1972
Page
2
Mostly cloudy and warm conditions persist with showers and thunderstorms possible. Highs reach the 60s to upper 70s in parts of the region while overnight lows dip into the upper 40s to low 60s. Occasional precipitation chances around 30 percent.
A New York Times survey of correspondents shows big international firms face stiffer government pushback in developing nations, reversing past imperial dominance. Economic nationalism rises through ownership, regulation, and resource control, while multinationals retain influence in industrial countries but with caution.
ALPA issued a Sunday statement saying pilots will proceed with strike actions despite a court injunction. Captain John J. O'Donnell urged members to ignore court rulings, with a one day two am start to protest perceived weak international cooperation against aerial piracy and extortion. The circuit court did not rule on merits, delaying resolution as it weighs corporate and government collaboration.
The envoy stressed Washington’s aim to persist in Paris talks seeking a political Vietnam solution. He blasted the Nixon clique and said Xuan Thuy remains in Hanoi. He lamented the Nixon administration’s failure to resume discussions and noted no hearing date was set.
Washington AFL-CIO leader George Meany has convened his top lieutenants to reexamine how much labor will back George McGovern in the 1972 campaign. Meany and other union presidents remain cool to McGovern over key issues, fearing a Democratic disaster and hoping Humphrey may prevail.
Rev Peter Knoll, a Roman Catholic chaplain at the airport, reached the scene ten minutes after the crash and gave last rites to about 60 people. Victims’ bodies lay near the wreckage, carried to a mortuary as Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath sent condolences. The Trident crashed in dull drizzle near the King George V reservoir on the outskirts of Staines, close to the main street during a holiday weekend.
Ted Bullet Rollins told a 1 hour Sunday operation at Holy Cross Hospital that surgeons removed a bullet from Wallace's spinal canal. The spinal cord appears bruised but not severed, leaving hope Wallace may walk again though final recovery time and ability remain uncertain.
A single-engine Cessna Skyhawk crashed into a wooded hillside near South Webster, Ohio, injuring four people. Pilot Daryl Ostrander, 46, his wife Virginia, 32, his son Vern Ostrander, 15, and 13-year-old Addie Hodges were reported in fair condition in Portsmouth hospitals. The flight was en route from Cincinnati to Gallipolis when engine trouble caused the crash.
West Virginia inmate John G. Perry of Holden Logan County received an added five to eighteen year sentence for second degree murder in the Apel 13 fatal beating others at the state penitentiary. He will serve concurrently with a separate one to ten year term for breaking and entering. Perry pleaded guilty in Marshall County Circuit Court Friday.
In Soissons France rescuers released a 22 year old soldier alive but gravely injured after 42 hours pinned in wreckage of two passenger trains in a tunnel north of Paris. Up to 100 may have died with a survivor heard breathing. Death toll stood at 62 with the late woman victim dying in hospital.
Secretary General Shigeru Hori said the party leader election will be held. The vote hinges on factions that control no party bloc. Japan's diet totals 197 lower house seats and 252 upper house seats. Sato, who rose after Ikeda, remains influential through maneuvering and cabinet postings. Sato’s ally Kishi leads allies tied to nationalist China. Fukuda favors closer China ties and backs the United States.
U S customs agents report a wide ranging black market operation involving stolen military items including air conditioners and pianos. Investigations touch U S personnel and Vietnamese police with raids said to have occurred in Hong Kong and Da Nang amid claims gifts were meant for charity.
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