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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1968
Page
4
A historical clipping contrasts biblical verse from Isaiah 25 8 about God swallowing death with Henry Ward Beecher’s remark that tears are a telescope to heaven. The text presents religious reflection on suffering and faith from two sources.
West Virginia doctor J B Leith Hartmann a coal company physician for five years argues 78 miners trapped at Mannington mine could be alive and urges sealing be overturned and 100 air shafts sunk. He claims officials may be murderers if no action is taken though he cites no evidence.
John J. Gilligan a Democrat and former Ohio senator nominee argues the 1968 defeat marked the end of the Roosevelt era. He says the old Democratic coalition of Negroes ethnic groups the South and labor has dissolved as their goals were mostly achieved. He calls the coalition and its leaders irrelevant now and notes Hubert H. Humphrey as fittingly described.
Chief Justice Stanley H. Fuld holds that strikes by public employees can threaten the public welfare and that state or federal constitutions do not bar outlawing such strikes. He finds Sanitation workers and John J. DeLury in contempt for ignoring an injunction during the garbage strike. The ruling upholds heavy fines and forfeiture of dues check-off, stressing naked power gains in strike actions.
The Nixon administration faces a clash over the fate of the Office of Economic Opportunity as Ohio Governor Rhodes urges abolition. Congress considers a bipartisan study of OEO programs in major cities while Bertrand Harding defends pruning high risk experiments to save the agency.
The article argues the CGT led by the Communist party controls vast French labor power, funded from Moscow, and compels de Gaulle to negotiate on Vietnam and other issues. It cites historical references from Dien Bien Phu to Mendes France and Molotov to claim the Reds will not relent.
The essay condemns campus protests by students and faculty, naming Homer Babbidge and Theodore Hesburgh. It argues higher education should unite not divide, criticizes tactics as tyrannical and fascist, and mocks demands for ethnic dance courses and soul food. It cites San Francisco State College and Connecticut incidents as examples of disruptive activism.
US intelligence finds NFL leaders use ghost names and lack real command power. North Vietnam directives through COSVN control the Viet Cong and NFL, with Tran Nam Trung as a false head, while Hanoi officials and generals steer operations from behind fronts.
A column reviews Lieutenant Herbert Klein’s The Police Damned If They Do Damned If They Don’t and Edward J. Van Allen’s Our Handcuffed Police. It notes how both works discuss injuries to officers, judicial attitudes, and the need for fair treatment, praising American police for honesty and humanity overall.
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