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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1973
Page
4
The U S Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates 150 to 200 yearly crib related infant deaths and about 50 000 serious injuries. New crib safety standards will start next year while awaiting safer models. Until then parents should add bumper pads, use fitted mattresses, and inspect crib stability to protect babies.
In brief, Old Orchard Beach expands its school board from three to five members and urges a non Friday meeting night for citizen participation. The piece also notes Kennebunk officials’ failed anti smoking effort in girls restrooms and suggests outdoor spaces for students to smoke instead.
Paul Harvey argues whether politicians should publicly reveal medical and psychiatric information. He cites past cases involving Goldwater Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford and Eagleton to discuss stigma and the right to medical privacy versus public accountability.
Publication details list B F C Whitehouse Alta W Foster W Paul Casavant publisher Charles C Sutton managing editor Gladys M Whitehouse president and treasurer with a Biddeford Maine office. Subscription rates are in advance at 18 for two months and 36 for a year. Associated Press membership and AP dispatches are noted.
Secretary of State Kissinger, recalling his family losses in the Holocaust, urges Israel and American supporters to back a peace process in Geneva starting December 18. He asks Arabs to lift the oil embargo and Congress for 2.2 billion in arms, warns against returning to prewar conditions, and outlines key shifts since the October conflict. He avoids fixed positions on borders or Jerusalem’s status while stressing Israel’s diplomatic isolation will grow without a broad settlement.
The piece discusses a Quebec reader noting ACCESS used as a verb, contrasts Harding’s NORMALCY myth with its 60 year history, and analyzes Kissinger’s approach to Israel. It outlines U.S. and Soviet roles, Arab-Israeli tensions, oil embargo risks, and the need for a negotiated peace seen as reasonable by global opinion.
In London the Old Vic reflects on family tensions as Europe and the United States reassess NATO roles. The piece argues for gradual, allied led reductions, flexible response, and a strategic pullback to spur Europe’s self defense while maintaining NATO leverage. It cites U S policy signals, the Jackson-Nunn Amendment, and calls for timetable based consultations with allies.
Washington auditors read Burns pressed bankers to defeat a bill requiring GAO audits of the Federal Reserve. An internal memo links Burns via John Lee to Gabriel Hauge and urging New York bankers to mobilize against Patman backed reform. Also notes Hughes affidavit in London and Watergate jury summons.
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