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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1971
Page
4
Residents applaud a city wide cleanup planned March 20 to 27 to restore Aiken and the Aiken Augusta highway. Readers urged homeowners and businesses to start now and take pride, predicting the effort could complete most of the work.
Pravda suggests moving United Nations headquarters from New York arguing it would hurt world peace and cost the U S, though the article notes large past contributions by the U S and New York to build and operate the complex.
Preliminary hearings in Darlington focus on 41 suspects linked to overturning buses at a Lamar school during the past year. The case faces delays as 39 suspects await grand jury action while the community and lawmakers seek swift, fair trials.
In a congressional address President Nixon urges a new era where Indian tribes control benefit programs and governance. He cites Bureau of Indian Affairs bias, historic scalping, and broken treaties, arguing self determination is essential and urging tribal management to end dependence and missteps.
Reagan urges welfare reduction in his second term, calling for segregation of permanent pensioners from temporary workers and criticizing welfare expansion. He attacks federal legal aid for the poor while opposing Nixon era poverty programs, arguing only those who want to shrink welfare should run it.
A historical overview traces polo from ancient fertility rites in Egypt Arabia and Persia to its spread across Asia and Europe. It notes early Persian accounts around 860 AD, Tibetan and Chinese references by 600 to 713, and revival in the 19th century as British officers popularized the sport in India England and the United States.
In a reader letter a correspondent compares the phrases fornication and adultery. The author argues both terms reflect immorality and notes Paul urges abstinence from fornication and from all uncleanness, citing I Corinthians 6 9 and related passages.
The Aiken Standard accepts letters to the editor that are signed and include the writer’s mailing address. Anonymous letters will not be considered and pen names are not permitted. Letters should be legible and may be edited for space clarity taste and libel.
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