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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1972
Page
1
Firefighters battled smouldering ruins at the century old Hotel Vendome after a four alarm blaze. Nine firefighters died when a six story wall collapsed burying a ladder truck. crews continue search for the cause as authorities inspect debris.
Hurricane Agnes strengthens near the Florida Panhandle with 12 dead and many injured. Tornadoes struck Okeechobee and the western Cuba coast, killing several, as 1,500+ evacuated along the Gulf Coast. Some residents refused to flee and awaited the storm.
Irma Simonton Black 66, author of children's books, was found stabbed to death in her Greenwich Village apartment. Her body lay on the living room floor with a carving fork in the back after a nighttime intruder tampered with a fusebox to cause lights to flicker. Her daughter spoke by phone Friday. Black had declined visiting her daughter's home to care for a cat. Police suspect an intruder escaped via a third-floor sky light. two neighboring apartments were ransacked.
A worldwide strike of airline pilots idled Eastern Airlines planes in upstate New York today. Eastern’s 12 flights in and out of Buffalo and eight at Syracuse were cancelled. Other airlines reported normal passenger bookings for Monday despite the walkout.
In Saigon two South Vietnamese offensives faced strong resistance as President Thieu asserted North Vietnamese troops were demoralized and bogged down. Meanwhile the U S air force destroyed a large portion of North Vietnam s air defense and halted bombing in the Hanoi Haiphong area after Podgorny left.
Airline pilots launched a worldwide 24 hour strike to protest hijacking. Only three U S carriers were grounded while many foreign lines canceled service. Southern resumed flights by midmorning after pilots voted to end the walkout.
A British European Airways Trident jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 aboard, including 34 Americans. Among victims were 12 British doctors en route to a homeopathic congress and Irish industrial leaders bound for Brussels talks. Flight recorders recovered for inquiry.
The Supreme Court declared illegal the government's wiretapping of suspected domestic subversives without a warrant. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. said such wiretapping is unconstitutional and not authorized by the 1968 Safe Streets Act, amid a backlogged docket and a planned adjournment for a summer session.
AP reports Henry Kissinger arrived in Peking to hold talks with Chinese leaders. Peking and Washington had announced he would be in China from Monday to Friday for discussions with top officials.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan begins electing a new leader on July 5 to become prime minister, with internal strife seen as possibly unraveling the governing Conservative Group after Eisaku Sato steps down after eight years. In Rochester, New York, 21 students were injured in a Charlotte Junior High clash between black and white pupils, with windows and furniture damaged and two arrests.
Continuous rain in the New York metropolitan region floods streets and triggers a washout on both Penn Central Railroad Harlem Division tracks near White Plains. Westchester County Airport records 5.75 inches of rain since Sunday. evacuations by rowboat occur in flooded areas. Opposing France nuclear tests trigger protests in Sydney as FR government warns ships and planes near Mururoa Atoll follow test timing set to midnight GMT.
The Supreme Court granted a hearing on an appeal by New York to limit federal civil rights suits by prisoners. The case will be heard next term and questions whether inmates may be punished for diary writings and file civil rights claims directly in federal court without state court remedies.
AP reports three days of near record rain caused floods landslides and rock falls across Hong Kong island and Kowloon. Avalanches toppled squatter huts and three apartment blocks on Victoria Peak, with a six story building evacuated earlier and a 12 story tower demolished followed by a 14 story building damage.
Five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in a break-in. James W. McCord Jr. was named among the detainees, drawing Democratic charges of political espionage and Republican denials. FBI investigation is ongoing as officials seek who organized the act.
Sen. George McGovern canceled an upstate New York swing Albany Rochester Buffalo and Big Flats to support the hijacking protest and plan a news conference on the hijacking. Delegates rise to 1 056 with 1 509 needed for Miami Beach convention.
Moscow Radio demanded the United States immediately halt military actions against North Vietnam ports and resume constructive talks in Paris. It said the Soviet government would continue to supply necessary aid to Hanoi and signaled no peace movement despite talks in Beijing and Hanoi. Kissinger headed for Shanghai and Beijing for new talks on normalization and shared interests, including Vietnam.
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