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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1972
Page
6
Louisiana Attorney General William Guste, head of a state commission, states a single deputy fired on the two black students killed November 16 at Southern University. He added deputies’ group was poorly trained and the shotgun blast came from their position.
Larry M. Stanford, 21, from Saint John New Brunswick, hijacks a Quebec airliner at Wabash Labrador airport while it prepares to depart. He releases a hostage, then surrenders 10 hours later to his father and a psychiatrist. Police say he carried a rifle in a box and wore olive drab clothing.
Saigon reports a record 50 B52 bombers struck lower North Vietnam in waves averaging three planes. More than 1,400 tons of bombs were dropped in the 24 hours ending noon. Seventeen raids were the heaviest in Indochina war history.
Former Argentine leader Juan D. Peron rejected a presidential nomination barred by the military regime and began a tour through Paraguay on his way to Madrid for Christmas. His return marks the first phase of a limited comeback after 17 years in exile, with plans to resume activity in Buenos Aires in January.
The American Farm Bureau Federation proposed bringing farm workers under the National Labor Relations Act if agriculture is revised for that law. Delegates also backed a separate farm labor board as a third priority at their national convention.
Gov Ronald Reagan urges California businessmen to oppose a government push to ban wine commercials on television. He cites the cigarette ad ban as a precedent and says business leaders must protest to avoid losing advertising freedoms. The speech was given to the Sacramento Rotary Club.
President Nixon accepted pro forma resignations of six Labor Department executives led by BLS Commissioner Geoffrey H. Moore. W.J. Usery Jr. and Michael H. Moskow likely to be the only holdovers as Kenneth R. Cole Jr. moves to head the Domestic Council. Ziegler cited private life returns for all but Silberman.
Courts martial open today for Seaman Cleveland Mallory 19 of Pittsburgh as NAACP lawyers press to set a test case. Mallory and 18 others were recommended for special courts martial by Captain Robert P. McKenzie at North Island Naval Air Station. One more sailor faces general court martial and the remainder await pretrial action.
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