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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1975
Page
4
Sheriff Paul D. Grant denounces the former Aiken County Stockade while warning the jail’s 95 inmates, at times 123, strain budget and space. He cites public works prison labor savings in Barnwell County and argues against returning to a past system plagued by escapes and contraband.
The article surveys a lengthy Senate debate on the 1975 Military Procurement Act amid broad topics from U S foreign policy to nuclear strategy. It notes veteran and rising senators shaping the discussion as lawmakers weigh arms restraint, deficits, and the future of American defense spending in a world of detente and potential conflicts.
A blue ribbon panel led by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield plans to urge on June 30 that the CIA continue covert operations under a new name, Foreign Intelligence Agency, with oversight reforms and a reduced role for presidential certification of necessity. The report notes covert action should be used only when essential and only after high level review, while not calling for abolition.
The writer argues many Christians seem hypocritical and critiques rationalizing disbelief. He cites Christ’s condemnation of hypocrites, urges readers to stop judging others, and focuses on personal salvation and following the Lord rather than others’ faults. John 21 22 is highlighted as guidance.
In Charles Town December 1773 the LONDON tea ship faced a ban on landing and importing due to a tax dispute. A mass meeting argued for monopoly concerns, but the council resolved to store or reject tea, and by December 22 officers stored it in the Exchange basement. A later shipment was dumped into the river, showing South Carolina’s own tea party history.
On June 2 Congress creates an Army Pay Department and designates besieging colonial militiamen as the Continental Army. It authorizes six rifle companies in Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia with four more in Pennsylvania later. John Adams notes New Englanders had little experience with frontier rifles but the weapon proves crucial to colonial success.
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