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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1973
Page
1
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau recalls Parliament declaring a national emergency as MPs prepare to act. Labor Minister John Munro says railways could resume by weekend after a six day strike that halted plants and shipments and stranded travelers.
North Vietnamese forces are said to have transformed Khe Sanh into a large military complex with new roads, storage and repair facilities, and an air defense shield. Pentagon analysts note a western road network and revitalized airstrip. Comment follows unlikely prospects of renewed U.S. bombing authority. In Cambodia, government troops breached a Highway 4 roadblock near Phnom Penh as rains ease fighting and aid convoys.
Carter Camp president of the American Indian Movement was arrested in Nebraska on charges of assault with a deadly weapon on an Indian reservation. Clyde Bellecourt, shot yesterday morning, was hospitalized in serious but stable condition after extensive surgery. Indian leaders planned a vigil and an all Indian grand jury to investigate the shooting as tensions rose in Winner, South Dakota.
Seven people died in a weekend fire in North Caldwell New Jersey. Investigators say heavy smoke backed by the central air system spread deadly gases through the two story house. Victims include Fred Stock 36 his wife Dorothy 34 and children Margaret 6 Laura 4 Colleen 1 and twins Jean and Joan Dort 1 from Brooklyn.
The Nixon administration announces tentative rules restricting coal burning industries from switching to scarce petroleum fuels to heat homes. Public hearings are set for Sept. 6-7 at the Interior Department as the policy seeks to ease the winter fuel shortage. Separately in Chile, thousands of shopkeepers strike in a second week of protests against President Allende’s Marxist government, with the Central Chamber of Commerce backing a 48 hour shop closure.
The Indus River rose 18 inches daily and breached embankments just south of Hyderabad. Floodwaters inundated plantation land about 73 miles east of Karachi, though officials said the river had not yet reached full force.
New Delhi and Islamabad sign an agreement to repatriate about 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war held in India and return roughly 160,000 Bengalis stranded in Pakistan. The accord also provides transport for many Pakistani Muslims from Bangladesh to Pakistan after 1971 war negotiations.
Timothy Barrow former Arizona House speaker says he will run for mayor of Phoenix as a charter candidate. Barrow 39 an investment counselor and Republican says he accepted the Charter Government Committee invitation to seek the post, noting the group has won every major election since 149.
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