News stories from Saturday November 11, 1972
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Government sources disclosed that the Justice Department was confident that it could obtain indictments by the end of the month against the finance committees of both major presidential campaigns for violations of the law on reporting campaign funds. The indictments would mark the first time that presidential campaign organizations have been prosecuted for alleged violations of campaign laws, and would provide the first test of the new reporting statute that went into effect on April 7. [New York Times]
- The Navy announced that individual hearings dealing with the racial grievances of 129 crewmen from the aircraft carrier Constellation would begin this week at three shore stations to which most of the dissident sailors have been reassigned. Admiral Bernard A. Clarey, chief of the Pacific fleet, ordered all ship and shore units under his command to report immediately on the extent of racial unrest and the steps being taken to head off more serious troubles. [New York Times]
- Gen. Alexander Haig left Saigon for Cambodia to confer with President Lon Nol after two days of talks with President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam, according to a spokesman for the United States Embassy in Saigon. There were no signs that General Haig, Henry Kissinger's deputy, had persuaded President Thieu in two days of talks to drop his opposition to the nine-point draft peace settlement worked out by Hanoi and Washington. But the semi-official Saigon newspaper Tin Song said that during the talks "the position of the Republic of Vietnam has been made clearer than ever." [New York Times]
- The United States Army turned over its huge base at Long Binh, 16 miles north of Saigon, to the South Vietnamese Army, symbolizing the end of direct United States Army participation in the Vietnam war. The small remaining American headquarters staff moved into United States Military Assistance Command offices in Saigon. [New York Times]