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The article reviews the music release "The Union."

The article focuses on the issues involving the school busing in Richmond, Virginia. It notes that in February 1972, nearly 480,000 citizens seemed ready to take to the Civil War trenches. It says that the issue of busing that has been heating in the area since 1970 flared up when U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige in January 1972 ordered an extensive citywide busing program. Merhige believes that the busing will alleviate the unequal and racially imbalanced educational structure in Richmond.

The article focuses on Media General Inc. It also offers information on the career development of the President of Media General Alan Donnahoe. It is stated that Donnahoe operates Media General in a decentralized way. It informs that Donnahoe joined Richmond Newspapers Inc. as a research director in 1950 and he had risen to the Executive Vice President by 1966. It says that Richmond Newspapers Inc. was renamed Media General Inc. with Donnahoe as the President. According to Donnahoe, Media General Inc. runs the most sophisticated newspaper in the world. It tells that Donnahoe keeps in touch with his managers and drives his staff hard.

The article offers information on the quandary at Danville Public Library which had been used as a whites-only library in Virginia. It notes that the library was promptly padlocked when Negro high school students tried to access and use the facility. It adds a federal judge ordered to reopen the library on integration scheme but voters in a special election decided to keep the public library closed.

The article focuses on the initiatives of museum director Leslie Cheek to improve the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. It notes that director Cheek has added a theater for nightly concerts and has doubled the museum space. It also highlights another innovation of Cheek to suit the museum's visiting hours to the convenience of the citizens it serves through opening the museum in the evenings as well as in daytime.

The article focuses on black postal worker-turned philanthropist Thomas Cannon who managed to give away his earnings to strangers with misfortunes or good deeds including a Colombian orphan who needed a heart surgery.

The article reports on the resignation of Democratic Congressman Frederick Richmond after pleading guilty in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York City. It states that Richmond agreed not to seek for the fifth term after reciting his crimes to Judge Charles Sifton. It mentions that Richmond pleaded guilty for sexually soliciting a 16-year-old delivery boy.

The article reports on the death sentence of former policeman Frank J. Coppola. It highlights the set up of a conference call of the U.S. Supreme Court to ask the justices to decide whether to allow the execution of Coppola. It states that his execution was the first in the country since March 1981 and only the fifth since the 1976 Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment constitutional.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. Results of survey conducted by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission show that 69% of landlords in Marina, 60% in Sunset and 50% in Richmond refuse to rent to tenants who have children. The decline in school enrollment result to decrease funding from the state government. Richmond's board of supervisors approved a law prohibiting landlords to refuse to rent to families with children, otherwise they would be penalized up to 500 dollars.