28 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1972
Page
1
The Nixon administration signals limited federal spending and temporary wage price controls as economic indicators show rising growth. Commerce reports reveal a worsening trade deficit reaching 5.8 billion dollars for 11 months of 1972, while leading indicators hint stronger expansion.
In Managua the National Guard sealed the quake wrecked capital and intensified demolition of uninhabitable buildings. Gen Somoza announced a 30 by 15 block epidemic zone and vowed to shoot looters while calling for obedience. Doctors began typhoid and typhus inoculations as distribution bottlenecks limited aid, with 19 sustenance points set to feed the homeless and draw people from the center.
North Vietnam demands an end to bombing before talks resume. Communists cancel technical negotiations and postpone semi public four power sessions in Paris. Viet Cong reject US expert meetings as Nixon pledge on bombing is challenged. France seeks renewal of stalled discussions as Haiphong Hanoi bombing resumes.
The Nixon administration ordered the Farmers Home Administration to stop new emergency loans in disaster areas hit by storms and bad weather. The move aims to counter inflation and stay within a 250 billion federal spending ceiling, with a backlog feared at 200 to 600 million for the year ending June 30.
A brief note from the A Today section cites a Gallup poll showing President Nixon leading in public esteem. The page also mentions upcoming legislation to reintroduce departure fee bans at airports next month.
A group of 35 survivors from a deadly New Mexico highway crash boarded a commercial airliner in Clovis for a solemn return to Austin. Tears marked the scenes as one bus survived while another convoy bus and 18 others, including the driver’s wife, perished.
The EPA extends time for lead reduction in gas with mid 1974 goals for 91 octane or better grades and lead limits. Ruckelshaus postpones phased reductions to allow further discussion as new studies alter earlier findings. The plan targets 1975 model cars needing anti pollution devices and preserves leaded gasoline for other vehicles for now.
A ferry with 150 aboard sank in dense fog off Hadong on the southern coast near Ko rea. Police said seven passengers were killed and 117 rescued, including nine crewmen, as No. 2 Hungah went aground near Hadong about 200 miles south of Seoul.
A short reader prayer thanks the Heavenly Father as the year ends and another begins, expressing gratitude for blessings.
Mourners from heartland and world leaders gathered in Independence to honor Harry S Truman. President Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson paid respects as Truman lay in state at the library and at the mansion on Delaware Street. The funeral was private with no mail delivery and stock markets closed for the day.
U S air raids last week hit Hanoi and Haiphong with over 1400 strikes aiming to cripple their vital facilities. The campaign concentrates on power plants and rail yards, with Hanoi residents fleeing en masse as fighting continues north of the 20th Parallel.
Las Cruces transforms old U.S. 85 into a seven block downtown mall, the nation’s only central business district urban renewal project. The $14.2 million effort includes parking upgrades, fountains, greenery, benches, and open air concert spaces. Local merchants report rising business as the project runs 10 months ahead of schedule and under budget, with downtown gross volumes rising from about $3 million in 1969 to over $7 million in 1971.
Partly cloudy and mild today with high in the middle sixties. Tonight overcast and cooler with a slight chance of showers. Friday mostly cloudy and cooler with a chance of showers. Highs in the sixties today and upper fifties Friday. Lows tonight around 38.
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