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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1972
Page
8
A tense airport alert in Lebanon precedes a planned Israeli raid. Passengers disembarked in small groups, each searched and baggage inspected before entering the terminal where a slaughter occurred hours earlier. No details on the alarm’s origin were released.
Texas legislators face rising welfare and education costs with calls to raise taxes or cut the next budget. Senator Blanchard warned that federal court rulings push enrollment to 12,000 new welfare recipients monthly, risking more than 12 percent of Texans on welfare in a few years. He urged deferring a tax cut and warned against three month appropriations amid inflation and population growth. The special session looms as lawmakers weigh funding and deficits.
President Nixon told Congress the United States maintains adequate defense and seeks an early honorable end to the Vietnam War. He touted SALT and other accords reached in Moscow as progress toward stability, while warning Soviet ideology remains hostile. Negotiations on a broad trade pact with the USSR were expected later this year.
In Dallas Briscoe blames Mrs Farenthold for a scheme tied to Border Patrol employment. Farenthold denies responsibility and accuses others. affidavits were sent to Sen Adlai Stevenson and not to the Justice Department. Briscoe contends the plot was devised and executed with her involvement.
Mrs. Nixon greets a student with a photo album from 1959 and accepts pink daisies from a 19 year old. She chats with Mrs. Henryk Jablonski and comments on the crowds as guards accompany the stroll. The article also covers political tensions and Border Patrol comments about alleged payroll and wage disputes involving Mexican workers.
Eight P Z and planning figures including owner Bill Cantrell architect Juanita Schmidt Mark Haley and J B Hance sit on a sign study panel with ex officio Jim Bertram directing. The panel heard three rezoning pleas with one NW corner Jot at 50th and Indiana denied from R 2 to C 3 amid opposition from nearby dentists. A new C 3 tract at 82nd and University and adjacent A 2 strip were tentatively approved with plats revised. Tubbs request to rezone Westmoreland blocks from C 4 to M 1 was approved to move his wood and plastic plant location under city code constraints.
U S air forces press attacks north toward the Hue area while Hanoi Haiphong targets are struck anew. A Phantom crash in Thailand with crew rescued raises total U S planes lost in Indochina to 67 since March 30. North Vietnamese forces hold parts of Kontum as An Loc siege continues with heavy artillery. Abrams possibly reassigned if battlefield stabilizes.
Bobby Baker, smiling and steadfast in innocence, left Allenwood federal prison on parole after about 17 months for income tax evasion fraud and grand larceny. He told reporters he would not speak further until his book is published and rode away in a car with Maryland plates.
Hale County authorities reopen the Andrea Phares case after a letter to police references a recent newspaper clipping about the 1955 disappearance. The note mentions seeing a woman in Guyman Oklahoma and hints the subject acted unusually before vanishing, prompting a broader inquiry by Sheriff Carl Tue.
The 29 year old Emanuel Gambino, nephew of mob boss Carlo Gambino, reportedly abducted May 26. A $60 000 ransom was dropped but no release occurred. FBI declined comment while police said they had no knowledge of the abduction and Italy mob ties loom large in the saga.
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