News stories from Saturday February 19, 1972
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- President Nixon arrived on Guam after a flight from Hawaii on the second leg of his trip to China. After an overnight stop he is to leave tomorrow for Shanghai. Carlos Camacho, the first elected Governor of Guam, took to the radio with special appeals to assure a large crowd to welcome the President. [New York Times]
- Rep. Shirley Chisholm, citing the preliminary results of a study on the number of women and minority employees holding professional jobs in the news departments of newspapers, accused newspapers across the country of racism and sexism in their employment policies. Mrs. Chisholm, a Democratic presidential contender, made the charge in declining an invitation to attend the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organization of journalists with no women or minority-group members. [New York Times]
- The National Council of Afro-American Republicans, Inc., opened a campaign to compel the Republican party to give more blacks policy-making positions in the party. The group, a coalition of black Republicans from across the nation, announced plans for a possible class action lawsuit against the Republican National Committee. [New York Times]
- Britain's striking coal miners ended their picket lines at power stations and coal depots, freeing tons of already mined coal for delivery to power generators. But even though it will be a week before the miners can ratify a proposed contract and return to work and even though coal stocks will not be replenished for several weeks after that, plans for even stricter conservation of power scheduled to go into effect next Wednesday were canceled. [New York Times]
- The most liberal of Arkansas's four representatives, David Pryor, announced that he would oppose Senator John McClellan in the state's Democratic primary. But the 37-year-old representative acknowledged that the odds were against his challenge of the 75-year-old Senator. Ted Boswell, a liberal lawyer, is also in the race. [New York Times]
- In Hanoi, North Vietnamese officials paraded five captured American airmen before an audience of newsmen and diplomats and said the five had been shot down during bombing raids over North Vietnam Wednesday and Thursday. Only one of the five seemed to be in good health; the others seemd shaken. [New York Times]
- An alarm was issued by the St. Louis police for Twyman Meyers, who is believed to be the man who got away after a gun battle with police there last week. Meyers is the third of those sought by New York City officials in connection with the murder last month of two patrolmen who is believed to be in St. Louis. One other was killed in trhe shootout and a second arrested. [New York Times]