News stories from Sunday August 26, 1973

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

With wheat prices at a record high level, wheat farmers throughout the Midwest are making so much money so fast that they are struggling to stay out of the higher-income tax brackets. [New York Times] To seek out the causes of hurricanes, typhoons and the tropical "heat engines" that drive much of the world's weather, about 35 nations will participate in the most elaborate international scientific experiment ever undertaken. The research project will be based mainly on data gathered by 25 to 30 ships that will be stationed next summer in an area spanning the Atlantic. [New York Times] Mayor Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia, the self-styled "toughest cop in America" who took office 18 months ago and quickly established a reputation rivaling that of Chicago's Mayor Daley as the most powerful big-city mayor in the country, now finds himself at a crisis point in his short but flamboyant political career. [New York Times] Nutrition, once a subject relegated to grade-school "health" classes, has become a household word and a subject of national concern and intense controversy. Increasing concern over the nation's dietary habits is beginning to show in official action by the government. [New York Times] The Phnom Penh military command reported that Communist forces had cut both the Cambodian capital's overland supply routes and the lull that followed the cessation of American bombing of Cambodia on Aug. 15 had apparently ended. [New York Times] The curfew has been relaxed in Vientiane, Laos, and although soldiers are guarding residences of officials, the city has shrugged off last Monday's attempted coup d'etat by right-wing military officers against Prince Souvanna Phouma and his pending agreement with the Communist Pathet Lao. [New York Times] The Soviet Union raised its public attacks on China to a new level of hostility by charging that Peking was intent on becoming a new nuclear superpower over Asia. An article in Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, said that the Chinese were seeking to discourage the current East-West reconciliation by asking Western nations to be distrustful of Soviet overtures. [New York Times]