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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1972
Page
1
The Iowa County mental hospital will be closed and its 81 patients moved to facilities within and outside the county to comply with a state order. Parts of the century-old building are cited in the decision and the move follows fire safety concerns.
The US Command reports three more B52s down with 12 crew missing as raids on the Hanoi Haiphong industrial complex continue. North Vietnam claims 12 B52s and 14 fighter bombers shot down. civilian areas suffer extensive damage. Ceasefire talks for Christmas and New Year noted, but not for US air operations.
Former President Harry S. Truman, 88, remained in very serious condition at Research Hospital as doctors pursued an experimental amino acid therapy to reduce rising blood urea nitrogen. He suffers from lung congestion bronchitis a weakened heart and failing kidneys with fluid discharge increasing and risk of coma.
South Vietnam reports Nixon warned Thieu he would cut off military and economic aid if he rejects a Nixon peace proposal. Hanoi replies that U.S. threats are insolent while Saigon asks not to bypass Paris talks. Haig delivered the letter with terms, as Kissinger and Tho mediated in Paris.
Reports from Paris say Communist delegations left the weekly Vietnam peace talks in protest of U S bombing of North Vietnam. Brezhnev condemns the bombing and urges an end to the war.
Nine people died when a North Central DC9 and a Delta Convair 880 collided on a foggy O Hare runway. Thirteen North Central passengers were hospitalized. two Delta passengers were hurt. FAA and NTSB sent investigators as airport operations resumed after a 55 minute shutdown.
Pat Helgesen 21, a Notre Dame student, described boarding a standby North Central flight at O'Hare when fog halted air travel. She and a companion escaped through a front exit before the plane burned, later reporting injuries to her feet and legs and that her parents were en route from California to visit her in Resurrection Hospital in Chicago.
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