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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1974
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 125 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
Editorial notes major political shifts in Britain France and West Germany after resignations and elections. It argues inflation and economic slump drove changes, questions future governments, and suggests coordinated Atlantic cooperation with the United States to counter the shared economic threat.
ABC panicked as the White House announced another presidential Watergate speech at 9 pm delaying the film QB VII. The event drew high ratings with ABC benefiting from the overlap and audiences watching through the transcripts and pans. Sixty five million viewers per minute marked a blockbuster evening.
The piece argues the edited White House transcripts reveal strong evidence of federal crimes by Richard Nixon, including obstruction of justice and suborning perjury. It cites expert opinions, notes specific March 21, 1973 discussions about hush money to E. Howard Hunt, and highlights how the evidence could support indictments for obstruction, conspiracy, and related offenses.
In San Francisco the author argues that love alone cannot create social harmony. A mid-19th century Victorian drive for greatness fuels social instability through rapid growth, urban inequality, and cultural change. The piece links national ambition to local fraying cohesion and warns a city on the edge of upheaval without balanced planning.
Vermont towns celebrated Green Up Day with events in Middlebury including hot dogs games and prizes for trash categories. The drive saw fewer deposit bottles and cans due to the bottle ban with 140 deposit containers found statewide and highway crews reporting lighter debris and quicker cleanups along a six mile stretch.
Washington columnist notes Nixon era Watergate tapes show many inaudible or unintelligible sections and expletive deletions. The piece argues blue pencil gaps strain readers and suggests using dashes to signal missing letters. It cites John Dean's remark about Judge Sirica as an example of deletions complicating reading.
A Burlington Free Press column discusses how inaudible sections in Nixon era transcripts complicate understanding. The author recounts learning to read mumbling speech via a relative, interpreting Ron Ziegler’s “two options” as “no comment” and “that information is classified.”
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