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News stories from Sunday May 27, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Temperatures inside Skylab are dropping as the astronauts' repairs begin to take effect. Astronauts Conrad, Kerwin, Weitz are preparing to conduct experiments. Things are now going well in Skylab despite early troubles. [NBC]
- The Prime Minister of Iceland called the shelling of a British fishing boat a "normal police action" and warned about violating Iceland's territorial waters. British Foreign Secretary Sir Alex Douglas-Home protested the incident.
Fishing, which is Iceland's major industry, is dying. Cod fish are disappearing so fishing limits have been extended. Cod fishing is a big British industry also. The British trawler "Everton" became the first casualty of the shooting war; there were no injuries. [NBC]
- The "Fair Campaign Practices Committee", a private, non-partisan organization which has been investigating complaints for 20 years, reported that Watergate represents the worst incident of dirty politics and called the 1972 campaign the dirtiest ever. Committee member Samuel Archibald said that electronic surveillance during a campaign has never happened before. [NBC]
- Democratic party chairman Robert Strauss says that President Nixon trying to use "national security" as a cover-up for Watergate. Federal and Senate investigators are worried that national security may still be invoked to block the truth about Watergate from coming out. [NBC]
- A tornado hit Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing four people and injuring many others; half of the city was destroyed. [NBC]
- Fires and explosions wrecked a large area in Chicago. [NBC]
- Gasoline shortages are being felt by tourists. In Oakland, California, the shortage led to tragedy when an irate motorist killed a service station attendant over gasoline rationing. [NBC]
- President Nixon has ordered an investigation into an Army helicopter crash in the Bahamas. The helicopter was bringing Secret Service men to guard the President at Grand Key.
Communists fired on a ferry boat in South Vietnam, in violation of the cease-fire. Norma Levy, the call girl in the British sex scandals, says that there is a third government minister among her clients. Two other ministers have already resigned. [NBC]
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