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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1974
Page
4
A reader phones The Messenger complaining about frequent front page bad news like jobless claims high and rate hikes. The reporter explains AP sends the top stories and that the paper cannot print only good news or shield local figures from coverage.
In a nationwide poll Muskie leads Ford with 45 percent to 48 percent for Ford and Jackson. Jackson trails narrowly behind Ford in the race.
The piece notes Dr. Stephen R. Maloney’s critique of 1960s American colleges. It cites political conformity, neglect of core subjects, ethnic studies programs, and grantsman professors. It praises reform at small liberal arts colleges and criticizes federal ant i intellectualism and affirmative action quotas.
The Justice Dept moves to break up AT&T for monopolizing telecom services while unions face no antitrust action. A UMW shutdown highlights alleged labor monopoly power and calls for equal enforcement. Crane and Thurmond push bills to cover powerful unions.
Kansas City reporters assess a split Democratic convention and a fractured Republican gathering in St Louis. The piece notes factionalism, reformist aims, and uncertainty about 1976 nominees with Jackson and Wallace as notable figures amid a generally disarrayed landscape.
In Teheran the Shah presents a rare blend of lucid oil policy and global outlook. He argues prices will stay high due to demand and production costs and warns that cutting prices now would be folly, labeling those who advocate it as knaves or fools.
The Shah advocates a single price for oil to stabilize markets and enable talks on indexation and revenue recycling. He favors linking oil prices to a basket of goods, two way index movement, and loans to boost poorer nations while urging US-led dialogue between producers and consumers.
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