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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1972
Page
3
Springtime mild conditions persist in North Carolina with scattered showers and thundershowers building today and tonight. Temperatures range from the low 70s to mid 50s tonight, with Wednesday highs in the 60s to near 70 and cooler conditions by Friday.
Poland's Sejm remains 460 seats with Communists holding 255, Peasants 117, Democrats 39 and 49 non party members. Edward Gierek leads after strong showing including 99.8 percent in Sosnowiec. Parliament elected earlier than four years to bolster Gierek's rule after 1970 upheavals.
A weekend blizzard and storms in Japan left at least 118 dead and 22 missing. Nineteen mountaineers perished on Mt Fuji as winds up to 90 mph sparked an avalanche. A fishing boat sank near the Danjo Islands with 12 drowned and nine missing. Authorities reported 85 deaths in road crashes Sunday and Monday.
The Provisional IRA killed a 19 year old British soldier in Londonderry and a 100 pound bomb exploded in Banbridge injuring a policeman and damaging shops. A second truck bomb outside a Belfast Protestant newspaper killed six and wounded 146 after a warning. Labor’s Harold Wilson warned a worsening mood could spread to the south.
Chiang Kai shek, leader of Nationalist China, was drafted for a sixth six year term by the National Assembly on a 1308 to 0 vote with eight abstentions. Vice President C. K. Yen was re elected. The move aims to prevent power struggles amid sagging fortunes.
In Yuba City California Superior Court Judge Richard E Patton denied bail for 38 year old Juan Corona pending his murder trial. The defense had argued that a California Supreme Court ruling against the death penalty altered bail rules for capital cases. The judge cited the high court decision that bail remains denied when guilt is evident or presumed.
AFL CIO and affiliated unions consider resigning from the five member Labor Pay Board to protest White House wage price regulations. Floyd Smith of IAM AW and other AFL CIO leaders signal openness to leaving, while UAW and Teamsters wavering on whether to quit.
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