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News stories from Sunday April 1, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The last group of American POWs arrived in the United States. Capt. Robert White is last of the known POWs to be freed. North Vietnam denied having mistreated prisoners. [NBC]
- Heavy fighting continued in Cambodia. [NBC]
- Sweden announced that because the Vietnam war is now over, it will no longer automatically accept American deserters. [NBC]
- The national meat boycott began today. Shoppers expressed mixed feelings about the boycott, and experts are generally doubtful that it will have lasting effects. In some areas, people are not sympathetic to the boycott; farmers' wives will hold an anti-boycott demonstration in Sioux City, Iowa, on Monday. [NBC]
- Meat prices are not the only prices that have risen. The overall cost of living is rising rapidly. Bill and Mary Clark of Pearl River, New York, have an average income for an American family. Bill says that all of his friends either have more than one job or the wife works because the cost of living so high. Mary stated that her husband's salary doesn't pay for all of the things the family has to have.
Bill Clark is a full-time guard and drives a bus as a second job. He makes about $12,000 a year; Mary has a part-time typing job to make extra money. The Clarks say that they can't afford to go out for dinner or to a movie except once in a great while. Mary must shop carefully for groceries, and she sews many of the family's clothes. The Clarks have a small camper to use for vacations. [NBC]
- Tornadoes hit Georgia and South Carolina, killing at least eight persons. Six are dead and at least 40 were injured by tornadoes in South Carolina; Calhoun Falls and Abbeville were hardest hit. Four hundred people have been left homeless by the storm. South Carolina Governor John West surveyed the damage from a helicopter.
Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter estimated that damage from the tornadoes could go as high as $100 million; 250 people were injured and two were killed by one storm in Georgia. [NBC]
- The chairman of AT&T announced that telephone rates will increase. [NBC]
- Republican Senator Lowell Weicker claims that White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman knows much about the Watergate bugging, and it is absolutely necessary that he testify before the Senate committee which is investigating the case. [NBC]
- Leaders of the American Indian Movement and government representatives held talks at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. [NBC]
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