News stories from Sunday March 11, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A state of emergency was declared in Bermuda following the murder Saturday night of Sir Richard Sharples, the British colony's Governor, and his aide de camp. Police were given the right to detain any person up to 48 hours. There were reports that three men had been detained. Scotland Yard ordered nine of its detectives to the island. [New York Times]
- France's Gaullist-led government coalition won a renewed five-year mandate in today's final round of legislative elections, with a markedly stronger showing than had been expected. Returns from over two-thirds of the contested districts in metropolitan France showed that the existing government would have an easily workable majority in the new Assembly, even without help from the centrist Reformers, who are nonetheless likely to be represented in the cabinet. [New York Times]
- An agent of the FBI was shot and a young militant Indian was injured when gunfire erupted at a roadblock set up near the hamlet of Wounded Knee, S.D., which has been seized by Indians. Tension mounted rapidly and federal law enforcement officials began mobilizing and were apparently moving to restore an armed ring around the hamlet. [New York Times]
- Record shipments of grain have overloaded railroads and ports, spreading severe financial problems along a network reaching into the major grain-producing areas of the Midwest. The rail lines must move more grain than ever before if the United States is to meet its export commitments, supply domestic millers, hold consumer prices in check and make a proposed solution to farm problems work. [New York Times]
- Administration sources said that the White House would ask Congress to approve postwar aid to North Vietnam only if Hanoi began living up to its part of the Paris cease-fire agreement. Specifically, one well-placed source said, the administration will go ahead with the request for aid only if reported North Vietnamese infiltration into the South ceases, and only if North Vietnamese troops are withdrawn from Laos. So far, the administration says, neither condition has been met. [New York Times]
- The Peronist coalition held a solid lead in Argentina's national elections, but was falling short of the majority needed to win outright, according to official returns. At midnight, with fewer than 5% of the votes officially reported, the Peronists were leading eight other parties with 43% of the total. The elections -- the first to be held since 1965 -- will replace the seven-year-old military regime with a civilian government. [New York Times]