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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1972
Page
5
Vice President Agnew presided at Budokan ceremonies as Okinawa returns to Japanese sovereignty ending U S control. Security forces of 50 000 kept watch for protests while Japan also assumes control of the Senkaku islands. The move follows decades of U S occupation with nuclear weapons assurances cited and Chinese students protesting in Taiwan.
Edward Asner won best supporting actor in a comedy for Mary Tyler Moore and repeated the honor last year. Jean Stapleton also repeat lead actress win. John Rich won comedy direction for Sam y's Visit with Sammy Davis Jr. Norman Lear praised the cast as Burt Styler won writing for Edith's Problem. Falk accepted Emmy for Columbo with humor about humility.
UPI reports major Emmy winners across comedy and drama, naming John Rick, part Styler, Alexander Singer, Richard Levinson and William Link, and Edward Asner. The list includes Outstanding Comedy Series All in the Family, and The Bald Ones for drama directing.
A downtown Los Angeles gas station attendant, John Morales, 33, shot and killed a customer, Jan Marquez, 26, after an argument over getting gas out of turn. Morales reported arming himself with a shotgun from the station garage and claimed the customer advanced toward him. Morales was booked for murder investigation.
US F-4 Phantoms razed the Thanh Hoa bridge cutting a key North Vietnamese supply route from Hanoi to the DMZ. North and Northeast rail lines were also damaged while Thanh Hoa lies 215 miles north of the DMZ. Saigon reports 44 NVA killed. three dozen more neutralized elsewhere. South Vietnamese losses total six dead and five wounded. The National Assembly in Saigon grants Thieu expanded emergency powers.
Reports quoted informants claiming mines in North Vietnam could be ordered to end bombing or mining for Nixon's Moscow visit. Pentagon spokesman Friedheim called the report wrong and said no specifics would be discussed. Laird warned ships unloading after the mine activation deadline could be attacked, treating any North Vietnamese delivery as a strike. Soviet freighters were en route to Haiphong with nonmilitary cargo, while others were diverted or awaiting instructions.
In Da Nang Vietnam a 122mm off course rocket hit Duy Tan Military Hospital during a 2 am attack. Twenty four South Vietnamese soldiers escaped the battlefield with minor injuries but five were killed instantly and two died later leaving sixteen badly wounded from shrapnel. A hospital doctor mourned the soldiers as beams collapsed and roofs were torn away.
Thirty-eight survivors from the British tanker Golden Jay, which exploded and sank off Mexico, will be returned to Long Beach Tuesday. Three crewmen died in the accident. The vessel had docked at Wilmington May 8 and was returning to Aruba, Venezuela, when the explosion occurred at 1:30 am about 150 miles south of Mazatlan.
Antiwar demonstrations in the United States largely halted after a week marked by widespread protests and more than 1000 arrests. Small gatherings appeared in Wisconsin Maryland and Missouri while planned events continued in California and Oregon. At Madison Wis a 200 person march to Truax airfield drew a calm crowd and a rally at Kansas Citys Liberty Memorial drew several hundred. In Maryland a vigil near the Federal Building followed by a late night event in Mount Angel Oregon drew about 40 people. Princeton University hosted about 500 attendees with speakers including David Dellinger, and a Saturday march to Mountain Home Air Force Base was echoed by Sunday demonstrators bearing banners backing the President.
Police tie weekend trestle burning to antiwar actions. Fire may have aimed to stall a military freight train returning from Southeast Asia. Three gasoline tanks found nearby with a gas trail to the bridge. About 100 demonstrators arrested in sit-ins targeting Southern Pacific trains. FBI joined the probe. no arrests yet.
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