News stories from Sunday November 26, 1972

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

Gov. George Wallace of Alabama said that he had not decided whether to run for the presidency in 1976 but that he would be physically able to make the race if he decided to do so. Mr. Wallace discussed his physical condition in a television interview and said, "My condition is coming along all right, other than the fact that I am paralyzed, and I recognize the fact that there is not much chance that I will ever walk again." [New York Times] The White House said that, after conferring with Henry Kissinger, President Nixon remained confident that an Indochina settlement would be achieved, but it was not clear how long this might take. Mr. Nixon conferred with his foreign policy adviser at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York after Mr. Kissinger returned from Paris, where the negotiations with North Vietnam were recessed until next Monday. [New York Times] An attempt by gunmen disguised as priests and hospital workers to free Sean MacStiofain, the leader of the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, from a Dublin hospital was foiled in a brief shootout with Dublin policemen. Mr. MacStiofain, who has been on a hunger strike, was sentenced yesterday to six months' imprisonment for belonging to the I.R.A., an illegal organization. [New York Times] The Norwegian defense command said that the unidentified submarine that has been hunted in the Sogne Fjord for the last two weeks had escaped into open sea. Defense Minister Johan Kleppe said that neither the nationality nor the type of submarine had been established. [New York Times] Youthful assassins in three major cities have committed more than 100 murders this year in what some police officials fear may be a resurgence of street gang warfare. The cities are Los Angeles, where there have been 31 deaths caused by gangs; Philadelphia, which has had 37 deaths, and New York, where there have been 30 in the Bronx alone. [New York Times] The first detailed map of the entire globe of the planet Mars has been completed by cartographers working with a mosaic of photographs from the Mariner 9 spacecraft. The map, showing the topography of Mars in detail, is regarded a milestone in the exploration of the solar system. [New York Times] New York City, which has not had a presidential convention since 1924, is making a pitch for the 1976 Democratic and Republican conventions, with plans to hold them in a $100 million exhibition and meeting hall that is to be constructed along the Hudson River in the West 40's. Construction is to start next year. There is even a possibility that one of the conventions could mark the opening of the hall, which will be the biggest of its kind in the country. [New York Times]