U.S. CASTS A VETO IN U.N. ON MIDEAST, CITING TERRORISM
Security Council holds emergency session on Mideast
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Security Council holds emergency session on Mideast
alien population in Cambodia, including Chinese, are fearful of being blamed for current crisis in Cambodia and becoming targets of a new pogrom; crisis seen involving mil reverses, threats to rice supply, price rises and xenophobia; one Chinese rice merchant was shot to death during the week and many others were chased out of their shops, robbed or threatened; in most cases soldiers lead the anti‐Chinese activity; pub sentiment against Chinese runs too high to stop the abuses; Vietnamese population also threatened; action against Vietnamese population in '70 recalled; since then the blood feud between the 2 nations has been smoothed over to achieve at least nominal cooperation in fighting the N Vietnamese, who currently occupy much of Cambodia; one of the few links between Cambodia and S Vietnam is Premier Son Ngoc Thanh, who spent much of his life in exile in Saigon; comment on history of Cambodian‐S Vietnamese enmity
Sept 6 slaying of 4 Amer tourists and 4 workers at golf course in St Croix, VI, clouds econ future of VI and raises questions about future race relations in predominantly black island; crime has caused introspection about enormous changes in St Croix in last 15 yrs, during which population tripled in size and islands began to feel effects of soc and econ ills besetting US; Gov Evans rejects suggestion that crimes were racially inspired; failure of blacks to participate in St Croix's econ success discussed; illus
ATTICA, N. Y., Sept. 10—“I don't want to be a puppet just to prevent a riot,” said Edwin Temple, one of 28 prisoners elected by fellow inmates to speak for them to administrators of the state prison here.
CED rept recommends removal of all US restrictions on non‐mil trade with Communist countries with exception of Cuba, N Vietnam and N Korea
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 1972, covering September 11, 1972.
Chicago
Rod Stewart
Cheech & Chong
Elton John
Neil Diamond
1972The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.[†]
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving Oakland International Airport. With an average of 167,700 weekday passenger trips as of the first quarter of 2025 and 50,791,900 annual passenger trips in 2024, BART is the seventh-busiest rapid transit system in the United States.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]