29 Sep 1972
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1972
Page
1
Playwright John Osborne and his wife Jill Bennet escaped unharmed when a knife-wielding intruder burst into their London home and struggled with Osborne before police pinned him down. The assailant was disarmed and taken into custody after a brief confrontation.
Washington reports the Treasury rejected export firms request for a tax break under the DISC program related to a 400 million bushel wheat sale to the Soviet Union. Continental Grain led the deal seeking tax relief on half profits, while lawmakers and officials urged probes into potential conflicts of interest.
Washington The Senate defeated a move to end debate on a bill to create a Consumer Protection Agency. The cloture vote was 47 to 29, four short of the required three-fifths majority. Proponents vowed a second vote early next week as amendments remain to be acted on.
In Lower Falls Belfast a British soldier and a guerrilla gunman were killed in a firefight triggering rioting as youths hijacked two buses. The death toll in the three years of violence rose with more Protestant and Catholic killings, bombings and threats amid fears of a renewed Northern Ireland conflict.
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