News stories from Saturday May 20, 1972

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

John Mitchell, the former Attorney General who is now in charge of President Nixon's re-election campaign, said that Senator George McGovern was likely to emerge as the Democratic presidential candidate, but he added that once the public learned more about him, it would reject his bid for the White House. Mr. Mitchell refused to speculate on whether Senator McGovern or Senator Hubert Humphrey would be a more formidable rival. [New York Times] As more and more details about the life of Arthur Bremer, the man accused of shooting Gov. George Wallace, are discovered, similarities with the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and Sirhan Sirhan appear frequently. The backgrounds of the four men show patterns of poverty, troubled childhoods, derelict or absent fathers, domineering mothers and lives of repeated failure. [New York Times] President Nixon arrived in Austria today on the first leg of his trip to Moscow. Most of his week-long stay in the Soviet capital will be spent in talks with the Soviet leaders that the President hopes will prove that the superpowers can move towards a better relationship even while they continue to oppose each other in Southeast Asia. [New York Times]