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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1972
Page
1
Action Line offers legal and military guidance based on reader inquiries. Topics include spousal support and divorce, child support, updated military re enlistment bonuses, and the status of marijuana laws.
Democratic nominee George S. McGovern outlines seven steps to end the Vietnam conflict in a nationwide broadcast. He vows a halt to bombing, withdrawal of U S forces from Vietnam Laos and Cambodia, and calls for prisoner releases. He criticizes Nixon for broken promises and supports pressuring North Vietnam through a public plan.
The Light newspaper runs a TV Sweepstakes with a 19inch portable color TV as a bonus prize and a $1,560 weekly jackpot. Other prizes include a Canyon Lake vacation lot, additional TVs, mink capes, and boat rigs. Entrants match the bonus contest number on the cover of Sundays TV Channels magazine and daily numbers from Monday to Saturday yield $10 to $100. Recent cash winners are David A. Holliday and Judith Whalen.
Four men were killed when a CH-46 Mariner helicopter crashed and burned in wooded terrain near Bogue Sound during a training flight near Emerald Isle North Carolina. The incident occurred Tuesday and involved service members responding to the call.
The Supreme Court faces challenges to Texas and Georgia abortion statutes. Texas makes abortion a crime unless needed to save a mother's life, with a 1967 ruling by a Dallas panel. Georgia allows abortion for rape or threats to the child’s health or mental state. The court also accepted 18 appeals for review this term and left a Mustang Island park case unresolved.
Six burglary suspects were arrested in connection with three break ins. Three men stopped at W Commerce and Florts after a burglary at Ben Grant's home. A juvenile and two teens were in custody for other break ins at Tomasa Gonzales and Edgewood High School. Items recovered include a TV set, 10 pairs of men’s trousers, $8 and a billiard cue.
About 40 to 50 inmates took control of a DC jail cellblock early today and threatened to kill corrections director Anneth Hardy who was held hostage with others. Police surrounded the facility near RFK Stadium as negotiators, including Lorton officials, worked to secure release.
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