News stories from Saturday July 15, 1972

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Senator George McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee, has decided against any foreign travel between now and the November election, though some senior campaign staff members have been urging that he visit Israel and Ireland, in a gesture to the vital three "I's" of American ethnic politics. [New York Times] Bobby Fischer remains steadfast in his refusal to play tomorrow's chess match unless two conditions are met: the removal of film and television cameras from Exhibition Hall in Reykjavik where the match is being held and the voiding of the forfeiture of his second game with Boris Spassky last Thursday. Fischer maintains that his clock on that day was started illegally. [New York Times] Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri appeared to be recovering from extremes of exhaustion and euphoria that followed his nomination as the Democratic candidate for Vice President. He is amused at the "perfect nobody" epithet that has been suddenly thrust upon him. [New York Times] Only two months away from the start of a new school year, colleges and universities across the country were found to have room for at least 300,000 to 500,000 more students. An enrollment slowdown has been indicated in surveys by the National Association of College Admissions Counselors and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Even at this date, anyone capable of going to college should be able to find a number of institutions "ready and willing to accept him or her," said an official of the middle states association. [New York Times] Violence continued in Northern Ireland today with more explosions and sniper attacks, and a confrontation in Londonderry between Catholic women and British soldiers. Two soldiers and four civilians were killed. In Londonderry, Catholic women forced British troops to abandon the construction of a wall that would have cut off the Catholic strongholds of Bogside and Creggan from Londonderry's center. About 1,000 Catholic women and children fled Belfast for the Irish Republic. [New York Times]