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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1972
Page
1
Hawaiian Republicans organize a wide telephone canvass to welcome President Nixon on his arrival for a summit with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Tanaka arrives tomorrow to be met by Nixon and Honolulu's Japanese community. Topics include the U S Japan mutual defense treaty Japan's trade surplus and emergency U S purchase of nuclear ores.
Fires sparked by lightning spread across Northern and Central California with about 200 fires reported and 1,200 firefighters battling a 2 mile forest fire in Los Padres National Forest as storms hit near Stanislaus National Forest. Census Bureau reports U S population rose by 1.8 million in the past year reaching about 208 837 000.
An international airlines group warned travelers Arab terrorists have a new strategy to use ordinary passengers to carry time bombs aboard planes. Passengers should not accept packages or last minute gifts from strangers for carriage as baggage or hand luggage. In Manila, police reported thirteen killed in a Moslem terrorist raid by the Barracudas, raising casualties since Thursday.
The Price Commission told large food packers to keep canned and frozen fruit and vegetable prices steady through year end. Chair C Jackson Grayson barred Norton Simon from raising tomato and fruit prices and deferred requests from Del Monte Brown & Williamson Stokley Van Camp California Canners Consolidated Foods.
The Evening News, once New Jersey’s largest paper, will stop publishing Thursday four months after resuming from a month long strike. Bruce Mair, president of Evening News Publishing Co., cites financial problems as the cause. Circulation was about 240000 daily and 400000 on Sundays. The Sunday edition and much assets were sold during the strike to Morning Star Ledger for 20 million dollars.
GM plans to offer the Wankel rotary engine as an option in the Vega by about 1974 in Ypsilanti production as part of a shift to smaller, quieter engines. The design uses rotating triangular rotors in an elliptical chamber, promising about 100 dollars less than conventional engines and a lighter, two thirds smaller package.
The U.N. Decolonization Committee backed Puerto Rico independence in a nonbinding 12 to 0 vote with 10 abstentions. Iraq introduced the measure for Cuba as part of broader criticism of the United States. Delegates note the General Assembly previously opposed independence moves, while China calls Puerto Rico a colony and cites the Puerto Rican referendum showing 60 percent favoring the commonwealth.
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