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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 125 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial reviews Henry Kissinger as a model of integrity contrasting with Richard Nixon to stress the secretary of state's willingness to resign over trust questions. It cites Kleindienst and Agnew cases, arguing justice is blind and double standards persist in the U.S. system amid Watergate fallout.
A reader urges Mt. Anthony Union High School to keep Ms magazine in the library. He defends its broader feminist and sex education content as honest, private, and instructional, arguing censorship harms teens and freedoms.
Bennington writer Ray Murray questions Banner editorial on obscenity, accusing the paper of censorship and bias while demanding strong denouncement of allegedly permissive literature. He condemns community media, urges the Board to take responsibility, and questions motives behind supportive coverage by Carol Heath of Sandston, Va.
In 1778 Ethan Allen visited Bennington as news spread of a public hanging. Loyalist David Redding was tried by a questionable jury for en emical act and executed amid a mob. The event sparked dispute over trial legality and the fate of his grave remains in a museum collection.
Henry Kissinger’s threat to resign during the Austrian stop of the President’s Middle East tour appears to be an overblown reaction to wiretap allegations. The episode, tied to Watergate and foreign policy, highlights his dual image as rational architect and highly stressed, self cautious figure amid ongoing tensions with the Soviet Union and Atlantic allies.
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