Gary Hart, Senator George McGovern's campaign manager, said yesterday that the Democratic Presidential candidate would clarify his economic policies next Tuesday but would make no major modifications of those policies.

M’GOVERN TO TALK ON HIS ECONOMICS

Sen McGovern, in series of campaign speeches and press releases, charges Nixon has made a joke of women's rights

M'GOVERN ASSERTS NIXON POLICY COST MILLIONS OF JOBS

Con Ed on Aug 25 cuts voltage 5% as NYS Power Pool and New England Power Exch order 5% cut throughout northeast as high temps lead to heavy power demand to run air conditioners; Con Ed repts 380,000‐kw Ravenswood generator is back in service; Natl Weather Service repts record 92 degree temps and forecasts continuing high temps

VOLTAGE IS CUT 5% IN THE NORTHEAST

China's First U. N. Veto Bars Bangladesh

Moscow, USSR, experiences shortage of soft drinks as result of prolonged summer heat wave, believed to be worst in century

Muscovites Suffer From Record Heat and Lack of Beer

FDA on Aug 25 announces it will bring all blood collection and processing centers under Fed control; FDA Comr Edwards says that action ‘will provide uniform, nationwide system to more fully protect Amer public from unsafe blood and blood products'; proposed plan will require estimated 3,000 to 5,000 collection facilities currently operating in intrastate blood trade to register with FDA each yr and undergo inspection every 2 yrs; will require licensing and set standards for 200 centers that collect and process blood plasma, source of growing number of blood products; blood facilities, including community blood banks, hosps, clinics and public health agencies, handle about 15% of 8 million pints of whole blood collected and used each yr; 530 facilities that handle balance of blood traffic, such as Red Cross and privately run blood banks, are already Fed licensed because they operate across state lines; only 8 states have laws requiring licensing and inspection; regulations are based on new interpretation by agency that classifies blood as drug within meaning of ‘62 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; Amer Assn of Blood Banks, which provides inspection and accreditation program for 1,350 dues‐paying inst members, protests rules and complains that it was not consulted; Edwards acknowledges that, in absence of laws in most states, number of intrastate blood operations ‘submit to voluntary regulation through such orgns as Amer Assn of Blood Banks'; holds these voluntary programs ‘lack adequate enforcement authority to stop intrastate collection and distribution of substandard blood'; assn pres‐elect R Langdell says assn should not be ‘regulated out of existence'; says people will not utilize voluntary program if Fed program is available; assn outgoing pres W G Battaile says it was anticipated that FDA would delegate authority to assn as is done in Illinois; FDA Bur of Biologics head Dr H M Meyer to admr program

F.D.A. TO REQUIRE FEDERAL CONTROL OF BLOOD CENTERS

Comr Lowery blames Aug 25 death of retired surgeon Dr N Belina‐Belinovich in Bronx on illegal parkers who block sts and fire hydrants; Lt E Korn of Engine Co 50, whose men were 1st to arrive at scene, says 4‐min delay in playing water on blaze was caused by need to hook up hose to more distant hydrant and that this could have meant difference between life or death for victim; blaze at 1840 Harrison was in neighborhood where battalion chief died of heart attack a yr ago after helping fight blaze for 15 mins without water because nearby hydrants were blocked by double‐parked cars; dept spokesman P O'Brien comments; earlier city announcement increasing fire hydrant parking fines noted

Fire Fatality Laid To Illegal Parkers

Aug 26: S Vietnamese troops, Aug 25, reptdly retake Queson district capital; there is no rept on whether troops encountered resistance; stiff enemy resistance at hill position 2 mi away holds up advance of inf column, part of task force assigned to counter‐offensive in the valley; enemy troops reptdly cut Rte 4, Saigon's link to rice‐producing areas of Mekong Delta; enemy attacks mil outpost near Binhphu; civilian exodus hampers S Vietnamese operations; enemy ambush on Aug 22 36 mi N of Saigon left a bn of about 300 S Vietnamese rangers with 30 dead; other ground action reptd; US planes fly over 310 strikes over N Vietnam; 3 US planes reptd lost over last weekend, 4th downed Aug 25; 6 of 8 pilots reptd missing; Hanoi repts 2 US planes downed Aug 25 over Lang Son and Hai Hung provs; map; illus of mil action near Cailay

Queson Reported Retaken By Saigon Ranger Force

Nixon campaign trip to Chicago, Mich and San Diego revd

Nixon Is Buoyed by Tour; Tactics of 1968 Revived

Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky agreed to a draw after 47 moves of the 18th game in their world chess championship match in Reykjavik, Iceland. The 19th game will be played tomorrow. Details, Page 11.

Chess Game Is Drawn

OTB Corp vp H Biggart announces Sept, ‘72 opening of office that will be staffed with disabled veterans as part of orgn's attempt to bring positive impact on NYC through creating jobs and accruing revenue

Mental Patients Will Man OTB Parlor

NYC police on Aug 26 arrest Pfc W D Gordon and M Lofton, AWOL infantrymen, for holdup of Beth Israel Methadone Maintenance clinic on city's E Side; robbery is 4th since July 1 involving methadone; incident described; illus of area where accomplices of brigands reptdly vanished

2 SEIZED FLEEING METHADONE THEFT

Cordoba is crippled on Aug 25 by 14‐hr gen strike, protesting slaying of 16 guerrillas and supporting demand for higher wages

Protest Strike in Cordoba

article discusses resentment of foreigners by people of Munich, W Ger, 813‐yr‐old city that bears vestiges of traditional village life; resentment of aliens seen linked to city's postwar development under which city was transformed into typical met area; residents comment on reasons for bitterness; illus of man in regional garb

To Munchners, Foreigners Are an Olympian Nuisance

19 mos of Ugandan Pres Amin's reign, marked by disappearances of about 12 prominent officials, murder of 2 Amers while they were investigating tribal massacres, perilous econ problems, erratic foreign policy and tribal strife within Ugandan Army that has left thousands of soldiers dead, discussed; restrictions on individual freedom noted; Amin's background noted; Amin's abrupt policy changes towards former allies, particularly Israel and GB, cited; dictatorship described

Abrupt Shifts Mark Amin Rule of Uganda

Soviet Communist party leader Brezhnev flies to Soviet Central Asia on Aug 25 in effort to spur crucial grain harvests in Kazakhstan amid repts that USSR's foreign grain purchases will be larger than had been expected; Western diplomats maintain Soviet purchases for upcoming 15 mos will total $1.5‐billion

Brezhnev Goes to Kazakhstan To Speed Up the Grain Harvest

Argentine Army comdrs warn that pol agitation will be severely repressed as Peronists plan mass rallies to proclaim Peron their Pres candidate in next elections; proclamation will be in defiance of Govt rule requiring candidates to take up residency in Argentina not later than Aug 25; earlier, Pres Lanusse denounced Peron for not having returned, charging that he had ‘no interest in the normalization of the country'; also announced temporary reforms of Const aimed at strengthening exec branch and allowing ‘stable Govt’ after elections; held reforms will be kept in force until ‘77 unless const assembly decides before Aug ‘76 to incorporate them permanently into old 1853 Const; illus of army troops breaking into Peronist hq in Buenos Aires, Aug 24

Peronists Defy Argentina Regime and Plan Rallies

powerful pol and financial factions in Italy are fighting over whether nation, still going through its worst econ slump in a generation, can afford color TV; salesmen and lobbyists for French SECAM and W Ger PAL systems are striving for control of Italian mkt; debate over color TV became Italy's overriding pol issue on Aug 16 when Post and Telecommunications Min G Gioia announced that state TV monoply would use SECAM and PAL systems to televise Olympic Games in color; informed sources contend that before meeting between French Pres Pompidou and Italian Premier Andreotti last mo, France sent confidential document to Rome promising that in exchange for adoption of SECAM Italy would receive French backing in EEC

Color Television Becomes Italy's Big Issue

Saigon command ousts Brig Gen Phan Hoa Hiep who lost battle at Queson; ouster encouraged by US mission; command also arrests Col Nguyen Van Lu, whose troops fled when enemy attacked Fire Base Ross; defeat, called worst since height of enemy offensive, aroused intense pol interest in Saigon; lower house group made investigation on the scene and found Hiep lacked experience in command; Second Division is temporarily ineffective as a combat force; new comdr is Col Tran Van Nhut; S Vietnamese rangers reptdly enter Queson, Aug 25

Saigon Ousts Commander Who Lost Battle at Queson

US Defense Dept, Aug 25, confirms that on occasion US planes have been given permission to bomb targets in N Vietnam close to the China border; Deputy Asst Sec Friedheim, commenting on a NY Times dispatch on the subject, concedes there were recent instances in which US air controllers warned jet pilots they were on a ‘heading’ that would quickly take them across the China border, and to turn away; declines to confirm there is a 25‐mi buffer zone along the border in which US planes cannot operate without special permission from Washington; dismisses Chinese complaint that US planes bombed a Chinese lifeboat off N Vietnam coast; says it is most ‘unlikely’ it was a lifeboat

Border Flights Confirmed

China broadcasts protest, Aug 24, saying 5 Chinese sailors were killed Aug 22 when US planes bombed a lifeboat from a Chinese merchant ship near Honngu Island just off Vinh, 137 mi N of the DMZ; US command says it has no evidence that the boat sunk was a lifeboat; says US planes sank ‘one 30‐ft supply water craft’ in that area; pilots believed boat carried supplies in attempt to circumvent US mining

U.S. DOUBTS JETS SANK A ‘LIFEBOAT’

10 Argentine guerrillas who hijacked plane 10 days ago leave for Havana on Aug 26 aboard Cuban airliner; Pres Allende says Chile granted them pol asylum and took steps to insure they left Chile as quickly as possible

10 Argentine Guerrillas Leave Chile for Havana

Indian and Pakistani officials on Aug 25 meet in New Delhi to discuss issues imperiling peace agreement signed on July 3; Pakistan has sought to internationalize Kashmir issue by insisting on delineation of line of control along old cease‐fire line that had existed before Dec war and to continue presence of UN observers to supervise line; India sees these objectives as reversals of stand taken by Pakistan when peace agreement was reached

India‐Pakistan Talks on Threats to Peace Pact Open in New Delhi

6‐member citizens group occupies rock outcropping in East River, NYC, near UN, in attempt to dramatize plight of Soviet Jews and protest new Soviet exit fees; symbolic occupation, planned by Greater NY Conf on Soviet Jewry, is led by Boro Pres Sutton and Abrams

Isle at U.N. ‘Occupied’ In a Jewish Protest

Israeli mil spokesman says on Aug 25 that 25 Arabs and Israeli woman soldier were injured when Arab guerrilla hurled hand grenade at Israeli civilian car in center of Gaza; attack is 1st serious incident in Gaza Strip in several mos

26 Are Hart in Gaza By a Grenade Attack

Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE was a British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.

Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (born 1901)

Francis_Chichester

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and officially branded as Munich 1972, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi rule. Germany became only the second country at that point after the United States to have two different cities host the Summer Olympics.

The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.

August 26, 1972

Headlines from August 26, 1972

M’GOVERN TO TALK ON HIS ECONOMICS

M'GOVERN ASSERTS NIXON POLICY COST MILLIONS OF JOBS

VOLTAGE IS CUT 5% IN THE NORTHEAST

China's First U. N. Veto Bars Bangladesh

Muscovites Suffer From Record Heat and Lack of Beer

Billboard 200

Chicago V

Honky Chateau

School's Out

A Song For You

Big Bambu

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for August 26, 1972