News stories from Sunday July 30, 1972
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Thomas Eagleton stated that he intends to remain the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and he will not quit even if George McGovern asks him to. Democratic party chairman Jean Westwood and vice chairman Basil Patterson think that Eagleton should withdraw.
In Jefferson City, Missouri, Eagleton attended a birthday dinner honoring Missouri Governor Warren Hearnes. Eagleton said that he can take the heat and will stay in the kitchen. In Washington, DC, he faced columnist Jack Anderson on CBS's "Face the Nation" television program. Anderson apologized for reporting that Eagleton has a drunk driving record without documents to prove the charge, but Anderson still refuses to retract the story. Eagleton maintains that he's never been stopped for drunk driving. Eagleton will meet with McGovern tomorrow night. McGovern says that he still has not decided about Eagleton's continued candidacy.
[NBC] - Funeral services will be held in Louisiana tomorrow for Senator Allen Ellender. President Nixon, Vice President Agnew and Senators McGovern and Eagleton will attend. [NBC]
- American planes shot down two North Vietnamese jets northeast of Hanoi. [NBC]
- Heavy fighting continues in Quang Tri city. [NBC]
- British soldiers and bulldozers are preparing to tear down barricades to Catholic neighborhoods in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In the past two days the British have doubled the number of soldiers in Londonderry to 4,000. Armored bulldozers are prepared to knock down the barricades; security is tight. [NBC]
- A Soviet naval commander boasted that Soviet fleets can detect and destroy ships anywhere in the world. Admiral Sergei Gorshkov says that Soviet submarines and ships can destroy any submarine. [NBC]
- 15 million Americans received welfare payments in March. [NBC]
- In Mississippi, a pilot rural health care program is endangered because of lack of money. Mound Bayou is the oldest all-black municipality in the United States and the home of the most comprehensive health-care program for the poor in rural America. The Office of Economic Opportunity approved a grant of $5.5 million for a community hospital and for the Delta Health Center. Mississippi Governor William Waller said that he vetoed most of the grant because it concentrates too much money in too small of an area; hospital officials accused the governor of playing politics with the grant. Project director Richard Polk claims that if the center is closed, many people who need health care will do without it rather than suffer humiliation, as they have in other facilities. [NBC]
- FBI agents are searching for the two men who kidnapped Mrs. Virginia Piper from her Minneapolis home. She was found chained to a tree after her husband paid $1 million ransom. [NBC]
- President Anwar Sadat of Egypt will meet with the leaders of Libya in Tobruk to discuss a possible merger. [NBC]
- Israel turned down a request by Christian Arabs that their village in Galilee, which was confiscated in the 1948 war, be returned. Protesters gathered at the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem to demand that they be permitted to return to Berem, as was promised. Berem, which is 2,000 years old, is near the border with Lebanon. In 1948 the townspeople greeted Israeli troops as liberators and helped them. They were asked to evacuate for security reasons but were told they could return in 15 days -- that was 24 years ago.
Twenty years ago the Israeli Supreme Court said that the Arabs could return but the military destroyed the town, saying it was too close to the border. The Israeli government is worried that other Arabs, whose case is not as strong, will also demand their land back if Berem is granted. Villagers insist that Berem is sacred to them; their roots here go back to the time before Christ.
[NBC] - The ninth game (of 24) between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky was postponed by the Russians because Spassky has a cold. The world championship chess tournament in Iceland is scheduled to resume on Tuesday. [NBC]