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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
In Miami Beach AFL-CIO leaders denounce a Hodgson proposal requiring affirmative action plans for federally registered apprenticeship programs. They claim quotas would harm the economy and wage levels, citing past minority representation in construction unions and accusing officials of harassment and political pandering.
The editor reacts to a Post Office list restricting sexually oriented mail while recalling Bennington’s past policing scene and the Sage’s tales of old police captains. Apollo 15 plans introduce a mooncart as lunar nostalgia, with Lincoln's Birthday a Vermont holiday but not federal, and Washington's Birthday shifting celebrations amid a quiet Banner schedule.
A veteran Kremlinologist notes KGB missteps in a Leningrad hijacking case where eleven accused, nine of them Jews, were convicted of treason. The piece suggests the whole affair was a KGB fabrication and discusses internal Politburo rifts, clemency, and broader Jewish questions amid the world congress in March. The article also considers KGB actions around Khrushchev memoirs and Svetlana’s book, positing smuggling motives and West publication timing.
A Vermont writer contemplates Simone Weil and warns against endless growth. He critiques the idea of infinite expansion for roses or a massive Gross Vermont Product, then questions Governor Deane Davis era industry aims with eight pointed queries on pollution, population, incentives, climate, taxes, Essex Junction growth, power demand, and atomic radiation effects.
A letter to The Banner ridicules a Stokholm Expressen headline about Victor Luiss selling Khrushchev’s story for over 1 million and branding Khrushchev as a KGB agent. It denounces Life magazine coverage as dangerous communist propaganda and attacks Khrushchev’s character, accusing him of crimes and dictatorial acts across Eastern Europe.
An eminent historian visits a New England town and is described as a doctor of philosophy. The letter-writer portrays Khrushchev as a war criminal and mass murderer, citing alleged Ukrainian purges, postwar executions, and vast camps, while warning of continued Soviet cruelty and oppression.
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