News stories from Sunday October 1, 1972

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

Senator George McGovern, whose presidential candidacy was founded on a pledge to obtain peace in Vietnam, will spell out in the next few days a detailed plan to end the war, his wife Eleanor said on a television interview program. Mrs. McGovern said her husband would address himself soon to "specific plans he has for ending the war." The Senator accompanied his wife to the television studio, but remained in the background looking on. [New York Times] A federally sponsored home-purchase program conceived to enable poor families to purchase homes is contributing to the blighting of still viable, mostly black middle-class neighborhoods. Thousands of houses bought under the federal program have been abandoned in Detroit, among other major cities, by families who could not maintain them, and are now occupied by narcotics addicts, rapists and muggers. About 10,000 of the houses sold in Detroit have reverted to government ownership. [New York Times] Important shifts in the authority of government to regulate obscene material and corporate business activity could develop in the 1972 term of the Supreme Court, which convenes today. In recent years, the consistent trend in obscenity cases before the Court has been for the prosecution to lose, while the government has generally won cases concerning business regulation. These trends may be reversed as the Court begins its first full term with four conservative justices appointed by President Nixon. [New York Times] Rabbi Meir Kahane, the controversial head of the Jewish Defense League, was arrested and detained by Israeli police in connection with an alleged plot to smuggle arms out of Israel for use in a campaign against Arab terrorists abroad. [New York Times] Carnivals were staged in towns and cities throughout China today as the country celebrated the most momentous year since the People's Republic was founded 23 years ago. The Soviet Union congratulated the Chinese on their anniversary, but criticized Chairman Mao Tse-tung for "theoretical incompetence." Peking's new accords with Japan, ending years of conflict, added to the festivities. [New York Times]