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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1977
Page
6
President Carter recommends a package to Congress to stabilize Social Security by gradually raising revenues, reducing benefit growth, and using general funds. The plan faces opposition from business and liberals alike, but critics warn that doing nothing risks a national disaster in retirement funding.
The narrator recalls an invitation to revisit a traumatic relationship with a former partner. The reunion reopens old betrayals and disputes, leading to mutual discomfort and a sobering realization that not every affair can end cleanly. No satisfying conclusion emerges from the gathering.
L K Advani asserts in a statement that all legal fetters on the Indian press have been removed. Censorship is scrapped, previously discredited journalists reaccredited, houses taken away restored, and jailed reporters freed.
Will Rogers argues that disarmament plans take years to scrap and change with new leaders. He notes the importance of conscientious men and the need to strive for peace, warning that without effort no progress is possible.
The Athens County hike bike for the mentally retarded exceeded its $5,000 goal with pledges over $6,200. Organizers and volunteers including Mike Wren and Mary Lou Harris earned special recognition while Ohio University and the American Cancer Society supported the event. Ed Kliner thanks a concerned community for funds aiding camping recreation and research. Local schools aided information distribution and pledge collection.
Rep. Arthur Wilkowski with Toledo seeks to let school districts place income tax proposals before voters as an alternative to real estate levies. House rules moved the idea into a new measure now before the Economic Affairs and Federal Relations Committee. hearings ongoing.
At the American Society of Newspaper Editors gathering in Honolulu, reporters and scholars urged stronger U S engagement with Pacific Asia. Panelists including A Doak Barnett and Richard Solomon pressed for rapid China normalization while Japan was urged as a key economic power. Optimists cited growth across Taiwan South Korea Singapore Hong Kong Malaysia Indonesia and the promise of Pacific partnerships.
Washington notes the Supreme Court ruling in Ingraham v Wright that the Eighth Amendment does not apply to corporal punishment in public schools. The piece defends judicial restraint, cites factual disputes about school discipline, and lauds the decision as sound law despite brutal anecdotes and contested outcomes.
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