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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1972
Page
3
Firefighters using picks and shovels surrounded and controlled a stubborn coastal blaze near Big Sur. The fire has destroyed 4 300 acres of brush and timber over five days. Weather is favorable as 300 men stay for mop up for up to two weeks. Crews were ferried by helicopters to battle flames that jumped a thin clearing.
Eight Cubans from the Gonce and Pintade families arrived in Miami after leaving Haiti aboard a 20-foot boat. They had previously flown to Spain and the Dominican Republic seeking visas, then Haiti, before being rescued by a Bahamas fishing vessel and turned over to a Dade County patrol boat. They were granted political asylum and reunited with relatives.
A 19 year old sailor from Puallup Washington was in custody for allegedly sabotaging an engine on the aircraft carrier USS Ranger last month. He tossed a paint scraper and belts into a main engine causing 550000 dollars in damage. The Ranger sits at North Island Air Station San Diego undergoing repairs.
Jeff Beck with the Jeff Beck group featuring Edgar Winter will headline a concert at the Tucson Community Center Arena on Wednesday. Foghat opens as special guest. Beck returns after nearly two years with a new group and new album. Tickets available at the Community Center box office downtown and at El Con. show starts at 7 p.m.
Makoto Ichikawa, chairman of the General Council of Trade Unions, urged intensified demonstrations as protesters halted a U.S. convoy carrying five armored vehicles to a Yokohama pier. The action targets the movement of weapons from Japan to South Vietnam.
LOUISVILLE UP I says Alabama Governor Wallace is not expected to endorse anyone. John G. Schmitz, a California congressman and Birch Society member, heads the party’s ticket with Thomas J Anderson. Schmitz notes the ticket is balanced Protestant South and Catholic West and criticizes Nixon’s offer to voters.
Arthur H. Bremer, sentenced to 63 years for the Wallace assassination attempt, was placed in a 12 by 22 foot cell on the penitentiary hospital’s third floor for protection from inmates and himself. Lt Newsome said isolation was ordered due to threats of harm and Bremer’s past remarks about self harm. He will have no visitors for a week except his court appointed attorney and the prison chaplain.
The AP reports Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, entered a hospital for a checkup after being ordered to bed for exhaustion while visiting Alexandria. He later sought hospital care in Cairo for a cold.
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