News stories from Thursday November 23, 1972
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Henry Kissinger met with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho in Paris for the fourth time in the current session of the private Vietnam peace talks. As Kissinger and Tho appear friendlier, South Vietnam grows more suspicious. South Vietnamese presidential adviser Nguyen Phu Duc arrived in Paris, but had no comment on his mission there. [CBS]
- Soldiers celebrated Thanksgiving in Vietnam; some of them did so by make bombing raids. [CBS]
- One U.S. soldier was killed last week in Vietnam and two were wounded; 395 South Vietnamese troops died, as did 1,620 enemy. [CBS]
- Indians in Plymouth, Massachusetts, were not in a Thanksgiving mood. 100 Indians gathered to protest their position in American society, saying that the U.S. government exists only for whites and Thanksgiving is a day of mourning for native Americans. Indians boarded the Mayflower as part of their protest. [CBS]
- The Nixon family celebrated Thanksgiving dinner at Camp David, Maryland. While most food prices are up, turkey costs have stayed the same in recent years. More people are eating more turkey throughout the year. [CBS]
- Five Texas farmers are filing suit to recover $60 million they claim to have lost as a result of U.S. wheat sales to the Soviet Union. The farmers said that wheat growers are the victims of a conspiracy involving former assistant Agriculture Secretary Clarence Palmby and six grain companies; those six companies were given advance warning of the deal, the farmers claim. Oklahoma farmers have filed a similar suit. [CBS]
- The hunt for a submarine that is supposedly lost in a Norwegian fjord went on for a 13th day. The Norwegian Defense Minister believes that the sub lost in the fjord is probably a Russian one. Norway, which is a NATO member, will have to take action of some kind if this is true. [CBS]
- Marie Wilson died at age 56 in Hollywood of unknown causes. She was best known for her role as the dumb blonde in the TV series "My Friend Irma." [CBS]