News stories from Saturday March 11, 1972

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

Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, who seems to be the front-runner in Florida's Democratic presidential primary, campaigned across northern Florida, while the other Democratic candidates campaigned frantically in selected spots in last-ditch efforts to stop Mr. Wallace. School busing for integration seemed to be the key issue. [New York Times] Population growth in the United States must eventually be stopped, the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future reported to the President and Congress after a two-year study. While the commission recommended an immediate government policy to slow the population increase, it said that there was no need for an "emergency-crisis response." [New York Times] Reliable diplomatic sources in Nicosia, Cyprus, said today that Archbishop Makarios, the President of Cyprus, has agreed to let the United Nations peacekeeping force on the island inspect and take control of the cache of Czech-made weapons that the President smuggled into Cyprus last January. The appearance of the weapons was the main pretext for a pressure campaign launched by Greece against the Cypriot Archbishop. [New York Times] Administration officials and congressional aides worked out an agreement to provide funds for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty until June 30 while Congress considers more permanent financing. The agreement was clearly a victory for Senator J.W. Fulbright, who had proposed such a plan in preference to an administration bill to finance the stations through June, 1973. The administration concession came at the last minute; both stations said they would have to begin closing on Monday unless the congressional impasse was broken. [New York Times] The lack of vigorous legal enforcement of wage, price and rent controls was said to be concerning officials in the administration's economic stabilization apparatus. High officials of the Cost of Living Council and the Price Commission have expressed disappointment that so few cases are being forwarded for prosecution to the Justice Department. As of last week, only 11 cases had been forwarded. [New York Times] Unity appeared threatened during the first full day of the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., by a split between delegates who believe in building black strength within existing political parties and those who believe that blacks should build a complete political structure of their own outside the existing parties. [New York Times] John Mitchell, now national campaign manager for President Nixon, told a Republican audience in New York that Mr. Nixon would be re-elected with strong support from women and young voters, He asserted that the connection between International Telephone and Telegraph's pledge to help the Republican National Convention and the dropping of three antitrust suits against I.T.T. was like the connection "between the Lord and the devil." [New York Times] Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of a Senate subcommittee on refugees, charged that the administration had delivered much less humanitarian aid to the people of Bangladesh than it had publicly promised it would. The Massachusetts Democrat said Congress and the public had been "seriously misled." He said investigators have found that only $10 million in relief arrived in Pakistan's former east wing last year, while President Nixon talked of $158 million. [New York Times]