News stories from Sunday June 25, 1972
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The Democratic party has completed the complicated process of choosing the delegates who will cast 3,016 votes at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. Senator McGovern's committed votes now total 1,378.90, only 130.10 votes short of the 1,509 needed for victory. He seemed all but assured of a first-ballot nomination. [New York Times]
- Rampaging rivers in the Northeast began dropping below their crests, but thousands of people in the hardest-hit areas, in upstate New York and central Pennsylvania, were still isolated by floods. [New York Times]
- A call by a guard to the police about strips of tape across the latches of doors to the underground garage in Washington's Watergate residential-office complex put plain-clothes men on a trail that led to the Watergate offices of the National Democratic Committee and the arrest of five men who invaded it, nine days ago, in the first installment of a first-rate mystery. [New York Times]
- Violence in Belfast has increased since the provisional Irish Republican Army proposed the cease-fire against British troops scheduled for midnight tomorrow. As the truce period approached, a gun battle between British troops and terrorists shook the city's predominantly Catholic Suffolk section. Residents signed a petition asking the IRA to end the shooting. [New York Times]
- United States planes wrecked North Vietnam's only modern steel plant with guided bombs, the American command in Saigon announced today. The attack marked an apparent step-up in the current phase of bombing attacks on North Vietnam. The wrecked plant is 30 miles north of Hanoi and 65 miles from the Chinese border. [New York Times]