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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1972
Page
3
The Saigon government ordered national TV and radio to stop editorials targeting Senator George McGovern after a U.S. Embassy protest. The Vietnamese broadcasts had referred to McGovern as a mad dog and enemy of the Vietnamese people.
The Peruvian Central and Southern Railroads, two major lines spanning 778 miles with 46 diesel locomotives and five ferries, are to be auctioned November 30 by the state bank after years of debt and high costs. Centered on mineral transport, the Central links Lima to La Oroya and Huancayo with 239 miles of track and 66 tunnels, while the system faces quake, landslide and maintenance pressures.
At NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center a technician tests the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator a water filled replica of a spacecraft used to rehearse Skylab mission duties underwater. An astronaut checks the film retrieval area during an extravehicular activity rehearsal inside the airlock and the umbilical cord trails back into the vehicle.
Texas backer W V Ballew says McGovern has votes but little money in Texas. After a Hobby Airport rally with over 3 000 attendees, Ballew criticized oil and gas fund raising while McGovern praised a large turnout and platform officials including Bill Hobby and John Hill. Briscoe and Sanders telegrams drew applause and boos from the Houston crowd as McGovern resumed campaigning.
The House Appropriations Committee approved the largest defense bill since World War II, totaling 74.6 billion dollars, with cuts to the Nixon requests for Indochina war funding. The panel also approved 933.5 million for additional bombs and ammo and 139 jet fighters, 66 helicopters, while denying many other weapons. It scrubs volunteer-boost plans by shifting duties to civilians and tightens aircraft and submarine programs to fit cost concerns. The bill includes full funding for the Trident submarine and B-1 bomber debates, while trimming several jet and patrol aircraft orders and delaying nonessential purchases. The House vote was slated for Thursday.
U S jets hit Hanoi and its suburbs in what commanders called the war’s most damaging raid, destroying the Paul Doumer Bridge and four military installations over 300 acres. A Bien Hoa blast case damaged or destroyed helicopters, with 70 South Vietnamese choppers affected. Casualties cited include U S losses and wounded on both sides as ground fighting continued in Quang Tri and Tien Phuoc.
Worldwide oil and gas pipeline projects slated for 1972 and 1973 are projected to exceed 7.3 billion dollars. The Pipe Line Industry magazine forecast notes that by 1985 about 56 percent of energy materials in the United States will move by pipeline, with international construction predicted to surpass U.S. work.
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