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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1973
Page
4
An opinion piece celebrates Newspaper Week and the American press. It praises the press as a foundation of the Republic and a premier mass communication medium. The column argues freedom of speech and of the press must be defended and warns against government overreach.
James Reston notes a shift as officials publicly question White House control. Richard- son and Shultz push independence, Kissinger and Schlesinger court Congress, Agnew claims a vendetta and demands accountability, while Nixon stays a spectator as cabinet members craft policy without direct White House orders.
A trio of maxims from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Schumann, and Henry W. Longfellow. Holmes urges inner potential for knowledge in every person, Schumann counsels learning from peers, and Longfellow notes that low points precede rising tides.
Washington reports CIA bomb and booby trap experts quietly train foreign police at the Border Zone Academy in Los Fresnos Texas. The program run with AID faces Pentagon opposition and targets police from Brazil Guatemala Thailand Uruguay Panama and El Salvador amid concerns over aiding military regimes.
A News Service analysis notes Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai maintain control as China marks its regime’s anniversary. It traces Maoist aims rooted in peasant power, permanent revolution, and a leadership that reshapes a famine ruined past into a modern, literate, self confident nation while balancing the risks of ongoing upheaval.
Theodore Bernstein offers language guidance noting Nixon’s Sept. 5 press conference audit contradicting common newspaper headlines. He explains usage of USE versus USED and highlights correct past tense forms with and without the auxiliary did. He traces SCRIMMAGE to skirmish and flags graceful writing in modern prose.
Ebony reports insurance researchers show death by own action increasing sharply among Black women, exceeding 80 percent over a decade and reaching historic highs. Experts attribute rise to social isolation, failing institutions, and the decline of the Black church, with proffered causes debated among sociologists and doctors.
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