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Newspaper

Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 1972

Page

4

Assembly Urged to Accept Cain Amendment on Reapportionment

Time is running out before the May 7 federal court deadline for a new Senate reapportionment plan. The House approved Cain Amendment is urged as a compromise that reduces population variance, restores Pickens to a four county district, and reunites Lee Chesterfield Marlboro Dillon. The plan lowers oversized districts and satellite patterns, likely causing the loss of two or three incumbents.

General Assembly Senate Joint Conference Committee House Pickens North Vietnam Laird Rogers Foreign Relations Committee Fulbright

Press freedom under threat fuels high stakes talk

Time Inc chief Andrew Heiskell urged Hofstra audiences to defend a free press amid public distrust and government restriction. He cited a 55 percent belief that the press should not report harmful stories and highlighted international contrasts in press freedom based on Freedom of Information Center findings. Heiskell warned that without strong support for press rights, liberty itself is endangered.

Time, Incorporated Andrew Heiskell Hofstra University United States Heiskell Freedom of Information Center University of Missouri Rocky Mount N.C

Turbulent church reform blocks and Vietnam policy debate

A reader commentary argues that church reforms are a natural, biblical process toward renewal despite upheaval. The piece critiques Senate hearings on Vietnam policy, defending the Nixon doctrine while urging clear, peaceful strategy and restraint.

How The Airlines Licked Skyjacking Sooner Or Later

A dramatic 1960s style spoof recounts a midflight skyjacking by Con X and Al J Fatah on Icarus Air Lines Flight 629 from Albuquerque to Pierre. The crew fights back then, after a chaotic attempt, the hijacker Gramway is arrested and the airline adopts armed skyjackets in the rear seating for deterrence.

Icarus Air Lines Albuquerque New Jersey Pierre Texas Buck Ace Gramway

Letters on Belvedere Pageant and Aiken parks

Belvedere Jaycee-ettes thank the editor for pageant publicity and speaker MRS PICKENS REDD. A reader from Aiken criticizes local radio music and urges station owners to sample WPXI Charleston and WSPA Spartanburg. A letter from JOHN F ELLIOTT argues residents must fund or undertake park improvements and support youth cleanups.

The Belvedere Jaycee-ettes WPXI Charleston WSPA Spartanburg Aiken T.E. Ewing Evans Rd

Your Health How to assess chest pains in women

This guidance outlines questions and checks for women with chest pain. It emphasizes duration and accompanying symptoms, breast examination, heart function indicators like breathing on stairs, family history, mental stress, and possible muscle or nerve sources of pain. It notes menopause, buffalo hump, and occasional need for pain relief.

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