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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10— Clark MacGregor, President Nixon's campaign director, attacked the Democratic Pres idential nominee with his own words today, imploring Senator George McGovern to “come. home, George,” from what he termed a “giveaway” welfare program, “massive and reck less” defense cuts and a “beg ging” foreign policy.
August 11: (McGovern Campaign--Wagner Named NYS Chmn) NYC ex-Mayor R F Wagner to replace R C Wade as chmn of Sen McGovern's NYS election campaign; Wagner accepts post on Aug 10 after telephone conversation with McGovern; Wagner seen having advantage of professing no further pol ambitions and of having maintained good ties with state's organized Dems; Wagner had backed Sen Muskie for Dem Pres nomination before Muskie's bid failed; served as at-large alternate delegate at conv; Wade to remain with campaign in 'policy advisory role'; others who were mentioned as successors to Wade noted; Wagner illus
Aug 11: US Defense Dept document, 'The Economics of Defense Spending', reveals that extra cost of Vietnam war, resulting from renewal of heavy bombing and other US air and naval action since Hanoi offensive began, will be $1.1-billion in current fiscal yr; document contains 1st disclosure in detail on war costs ever made by Nixon Adm; table on cost of war estimates the 'incremental' cost in current fiscal yr at $5.8-billion; other document figures detailed; Sec Laird, in announcing a proposed supplemental appropriation to cover the extra post-offensive costs of the war, had left the impression that it could be as much as $5-billion; when the supplemental request was later sent to Cong, the Office of Mgt and Budget used a figure much closer to the one mentioned in the document, an estimated $1.2-billion; Sec Laird illus with document and Asst Sec R C Moot
2.7% rise in domestic air fares is expected to increase airline revenues by more than $170-million per yr
NYC police see definite connection between death of C Lombardi on Aug 10 in Sullivan County (NY) and recent gangland slayings in NYC, but no link between Lombardi's death and killings of 2 Manfredis on same day
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 1972, covering August 11, 1972.
Elton John
Alice Cooper
Chicago
Carpenters
Simon & Garfunkel
1972Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)[†]
Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate.
1972Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]