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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1972
Page
1
Miami attorney for President Nixon could not verify claims he earned about 100000 dollars from selling two canal-front lots near his Florida home. The sale price cited was 150000 dollars with costs listed as 30000 and 23100 dollars for the two parcels.
Israeli embassy attache Dan Beeki and his wife Rachel, held by Black September militants, discuss their release with friends and reporters early Friday. The two had been married two months when seized.
The National Society of Film Critics named The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie best picture. Luis Bunuel won best director for 1972, with Sounder star Cicely Tyson best actress and Al Pacino for The Godfather as best actor. Jeannie Berlin and a tie between Joel Gray and Eddie Albert won supporting honors. Ingmar Bergman won for Cries and Whispers, which also earned Sven Nykvist best cinematography. Rosenthal Foundation awards went to Claude Jutre and a joint award to Ivan Passer and Robert Kaylor.
Four Arab terrorists who occupied Israel's Bangkok embassy for 19 hours released six Israeli hostages and surrendered their weapons before flying to Cairo with Thai officials aboard. The plan refueled at Karachi. Egyptians kept the terrorists separate from reporters. The incident followed negotiations with the Egyptian ambassador and Thai leaders.
Manuel Irizarry, 31, a former St. Regis- Sheraton assistant cashier, faced homicide charges after shooting Domaso Sammon, 30, the hotel’s head cashier at a Fifth Avenue hotel. He surrendered in the Bronx nine days after being fired for inefficiency. The gunman fired during a union-management meeting, as patrons evacuated and officers searched the 18 story building. Salvador Dali, a guest, sheltered with his wife in their room.
In Warsaw New York about a dozen more former or current inmates were expected for arraignments in State Supreme Court on charges linked to the September 1971 Attica prison uprising. Sealed indictments from December 15 face hearings through next week with bail and pre trial matters.
New Yorks Court of Appeals ruled that strikers remain eligible for welfare even when off work due to a strike. The unanimous decision reversed Onondaga County Social Services denial of benefits for 1971 72 telephone workers. Strikers qualified by registering with state employment offices.
Tehran AP report says Ardeshir Zahedi the man who led the coup against Mossadegh will become Iran's ambassador to Washington. Zahedi 44 educated in the United States has served as ambassador to the United States and Britain and as foreign minister. He has been vacationing in Switzerland.
President and Mrs. Nixon arrived at Camp David in Maryland with a secretary for an indefinite stay. The White House said they traveled by helicopter from Washington on Thursday.
Cambridge police said a man acquainted with Ruth Abigail Hamilton has agreed to take a lie detector test. Hamilton, 22, an art teacher in Winthrop schools, was found dead in her Cambridge apartment. The man attended a Cambridge party Dec 9 with Hamilton and her sister Jane.
The National Bank of Washington sues Walter T. Duncan in Bexar County Texas for nonpayment on a six month 200000 loan taken two days before he donated 200000 to Hubert Humphrey. Duncan pledged 10000 shares of Archer Daniels Midland stock as security.
New York police say two men and a woman were arrested on kidnapping charges in the abduction of construction executive Gerald Lazar who was found unharmed in a car trunk after a ransom demand. Three other suspects face charges or are held on related counts. one man identified as the alleged mastermind was arrested nearby.
Chinese premier Chou En-lai told a Washington Post reporter that U S bombing of North Vietnam would harm Sino American relations. He urged the United States to stop bombing and asked that his answer be conveyed to the American people during a Peking banquet for Viet Cong negotiator Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh.
Washington AP memorial services were held at Washington Cathedral for Evelyn Wadsworth Symington wife of Senator Stuart Symington and mother of Representative James Symington. She died Sunday at 69 after a heart attack. The Rev Francis Sayre Jr led the service and read a poem she penned at 18. Born in Geneseo New York she was the daughter of Senator James Wadsworth Jr and married in 1925 with President Calvin Coolidge among guests.
Two teenagers Geraldine Reilly fifteen and Patrick Stanley sixteen were killed by a 100 pound car bomb on Bellulent main street near the border with the Irish Republic. A second blast hit Clones ten miles east as Protestant terrorists raid across the border.
Saigon AP reports the U S Navy and Air Force tally 27 aircraft lost and 93 fliers missing or dead in two weeks of Hanoi Haiphong raids. Hanoi claims 76 U S planes down, including 33 B52s, as 12 more crewmen are counted missing or captured.
Rep. Sam Gibbons of Florida withdraws from the race for House Democratic majority leader, clearing the path for Rep. Thomas P. O’Neill of Massachusetts after Hale Boggs’s death. The caucus election is set for next Tuesday.
Albany New York AP The Court of Appeals denied Fordham University professor Robert M Byrns motion to stop all legal abortions in the state as he seeks to challenge the liberal abortion law before the U S Supreme Court.
Eighteen House Democrats urged a national campaign to mobilize public opposition to bombing Vietnam. They asked party Chairman Robert Strauss to convene a special session of the Democratic National Committee and seek a House caucus vote against the bombing and in favor of a U S peace treaty with North Vietnam at the new Congress opening.
Chief Judge Stanley Fuld administered the oath to Domenick Gabrielli Sol Wachtler and Hugh R. Jones as the state Supreme Court’s three new associate judges. The ceremony was in the Red Room at Governor Rockefeller’s Capitol office suite with dignitaries present.
Am nesty International reports a broad Soviet action against dissent with arrests political trials and confinement to mental hospitals. Dissidents are being stripped of jobs and targeted as part of a massive campaign to suppress political opposition.
A national fertility study released Thursday shows by 1970 about 68 percent of married Catholic women aged 18 to 39 used contraception other than rhythm. The figure climbs from 30 percent in 1955 and 51 percent in 1965, indicating a broad rise in contraceptive use.
Special State Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari subpoenaed Knapp Commission files one day after its final report on police corruption in New York City. Subpoenas served on Michael Armstrong chief counsel and on the city corporation counsel to turn over any unpublished data on police crime.
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