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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1972
Page
2
In Soissons, France, ET rescue teams worked in relays to find survivors and bodies after a tunnel ceiling collapsed. Sixty four bodies were recovered, with the death toll expected to rise. Eighty plus people listed as injured as operations continued sixty miles northeast of Paris.
In the Dominican Republic, Civil Defense Agency reports at least 337 people have died in widespread flooding over six days around Santo Domingo. A mudslide near San Cristobal buried a home with 13 refugees, only an eight year old boy surviving.
A disaster report notes three days of exceptionally heavy rainfall in Hong Kong, the worst in 83 years, causing landslides that killed 76 people and left many missing or homeless. Thousands evacuated, with a mountain slope collapse killing 48 in Kowloon. Nearby Japan reported floods and landslides with 10 fatalities.
Willie TM Vickers a 33 year old file clerk in East Palo Alto is in critical condition at Stanford University Hospital after a man allegedly doused him with gasoline at a service station and set him on fire during an argument over money. Deputies questioned two attendants who saw Vickers run burning across the lot and collapse near the station. No suspect is named and the case remains under investigation.
A three jet Trident airliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Heathrow, killing 118 onboard, including 34 Americans and at least 12 British physicians. The accident near a busy road prompted a formal inquiry as officials recovered black box recorders. Notables among the Irish victims included industry leaders and a Guinness executive. The disaster follows two other fatal crashes in five days.
Political roundup reports Senator George McGovern courting New York minority voters as he targets at least 200 of 118 delegates at stake in Tuesday's primary. He campaigns in Harlem and Brooklyn meeting black, Puerto Rican, and Jewish communities while Meany weighs labor support and Nixon aides forecast McGovern may soften positions to avoid defeat in November.
Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts said he would have to give heavy consideration to a vice presidential offer if convinced it was the party’s best path to victory. He refused any interest in top billing, stating he is not a candidate for either spot and would only consider if he believed he could beat President Nixon.
Edith Trying, serving two month fall sentence, claims she was raving mad after learning of Clifford and Baroness Nina van Pallandt’s affair. The Tryings pleaded guilty to grand larceny and conspiracy to defraud McGraw Hill of 765000 with a phony biography of Howard Hughes. Irving, 41, got 2 1/2 years and 10000 fine, wife 36 received ten months plus two year suspended sentence and 10000 fine. Baroness van Pallandt testified she was with Irving in Mexico during Hughes interview talks.
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