28 Apr 1973
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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1973
Page
1
The 176-year-old U S S Constitution rests in drydock at the Boston Naval Shipyard for a five year overhaul costing 4.2 million dollars. With the Navy Yard set to close, questions arise about where repairs will be finished. States seek to host the "Old Iron sides" in maritime exhibits.
Swollen rivers from Wisconsin to Mississippi kept more than ten million acres under floodwaters as the Mississippi basin flood worsened. President Nixon designated four more states as disaster areas unlocking federal aid and cheap loans. Damages soared past $200 million with Arkansas Louisiana Ohio Wisconsin joining Missouri Illinois and Mississippi as disaster areas. Continued threats to levees and farmland prompted mass evacuations and emergency sandbagging along the rivers.
San Francisco hosted a weekend reunion for 66 POWs from Son Tay and 85 raiders who tried the 1970 raid. H. Ross Perot funded the event, praising the rescuers though the mission failed to free inmates as captives had been moved earlier. Colonel Risner hailed the raid as a success that showed North Vietnam’s resolve was not unassailable.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller vetoed a bill that would have delayed for a year the Adirondack Park Agency master plan for 3.7 million acres of private land in the Adirondack Park. He warned against tolerating delay amid pressures for commercial ventures and urged timely legislative consideration.
President Nixon retreats to Camp David to plot a response to Watergate troubles. He names a temporary FBI chief after Gray resigns, while Ehrlichman and Haldeman stay behind amid job-security battles. The Watergate saga touches the Ellsberg Pentagon Papers case as investigators press on.
Rain soaked the eastern third of the nation with an unseasonable chill spreading from the Ohio Valley to New England. A flash flood watch remained from the Middle Atlantic coast, gale warnings along the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes, and frost possible from the Great Lakes to the central Plains. Temperatures ranged from 26 in Minnesota to 83 in California.
American warplanes and Cambodian gunboats pounded Communist positions on the east bank of the Mekong opposite Phnom Penh to support government reinforcements. B52s bombed targets Friday night and today within two miles of the landings by Prek Luong and Trek Bang Kang. One government fighter killed and 17 wounded. enemy heavy losses reported. Across the border in South Vietnam, clashes near Hong Ngu left 25 enemy and four Saigon soldiers dead.
A series of blasts tore through a military ammunition train in Sacramento on Saturday. CHP reported many injured as a witness described at least 20 railway cars engulfed in flames with debris shooting up to 60 feet.
Tokyo AP reports Japan's worst railway strike ended early today. The National Railway cited a total cost of 29.4 million dollars, including 25.7 million in lost ticket revenue and 3.7 million for damages to train windows signals and station facilities caused by angry commuters.
Saigon government and Viet Cong exchanged their first civilian prisoners in Bien Hoa Vietnam under the ceasefire. The exchange followed a four hour dispute over numbers with South Vietnam releasing 100 prisoners including 35 women, after promising 400. No explanation given.
Oil companies raise Britain's gasoline price for the fourth time in just over two years. The increase adds about 2 cents per gallon to medium grade fuel, now around 92.44 cents, with the Conservative government approving the hike due to higher crude costs and freight charges. In Aden, sixteen British and locally recruited soldiers were killed as clashes with the Liberation Army of Oman and the Arabian-Persian Gulf intensify, after artillery and machine gun fire targeted a British base at Salalah in Muscat and Oman.
In Warsaw talks opened on a new long term agreement for sale of Canadian grain to Poland. Otto E. Long Canada minister of justice and G. N. Vogel head of the wheat board spoke at the talks.
In White Plains North Carolina Justice John W. Sweeney refused 15 year old Scott Cooper's bid for a district school board ballot spot. The 64 year old state Supreme Court judge upheld a state law setting the 18 year age minimum for candidates. The Moscow MOSCOW Salyut 2 noting the space lab mission ended Friday. He remained unconvinced that modern youth are more mature than prior generations.
A mission ends a day after its 26 day duration as the cosmonaut reportedly remains crippled and unable to join the crew for return. Officials confirm the setback and note ongoing evaluation of the spacecraft and crew readiness in the wake of the incident.
Beirut reports Syria has placed armed forces on full alert amid fears of an Israeli attack in the Golan Heights where five Arab guerrillas were caught infiltrating into Israel. An Nahar cites Arab sources that Hafez Assad may meet Anwar Sadat in Cairo within two days to assess a possible war, while Egypt signals total confrontation. France says Libya’s Mirages may be deployed to Egypt, with 18 jets arriving at Beni Sudif and Fayoum bases in April, amid denials from Egypt and Libya and a sale of 110 Mirages to Libya contingent on non-use against 1967 allies.
Lawrence LaMont 31, AIM supporter and Oglala Sioux Tribe member, was killed in a multi hour gun battle with federal officers at Wounded Knee. The incident followed a cease fire as LaMont’s body was removed. another AIM member was reported wounded but not confirmed.
In Albany, Gov. Rockefeller wins Senate backing for a life sentence plan for drug sellers, 41 to 14, while Assembly leaders vow to block it. The watered down bill allows parole after a year in some cases and plea bargaining, but critics call it a publicity stunt.
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