Endorsements Favored for Bluefield Board Seats
The Daily Telegraph backs re election of Mayor Edwin Elliott Vice Mayor Allen Connolly and directors Angelo Monaco and Joe Walker for the Bluefield Board of Governors and recommends a fifth seat candidate Jason McGuire or Don Keesling. It argues challengers fail to justify change and urges turnout today and in July elections.
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Bluefield Board of Governors
Daily Telegraph
Edwin Elliott
Allen Connolly
Angelo Monaco
Joe Walker
Jason McGuire
Don Keesling
Blacks Turn Scrutiny on Carter After Election Support
The article reports growing Black dissatisfaction with President Carter over his budget priority, welfare reform, and unemployment response. It notes 90 percent of Black voters backed Carter, with 216 electoral votes in key states, and cites Rep. Parren Mitchell criticizing Carter while Andy Young faces questions about jobs versus protection.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
George McGovern
Carter
Parren J. Mitchell
Congressional Black Caucus
Mitchell
Labor Department
Joint Center For Political Studies
South
Midwest
Andy Young
United Nations
Parren Mitchell
Will on Soviet constitution and democratic centralism
George F. Will critiques the Soviet Union s new constitution calling it a polished facade of democratic centralism and compares it to Stalin era practices. He notes articles granting freedoms while tracing the system s power to the Little and Great Khurals and the presidium structure. He views Belgrade talks on human rights and the Helsinki accord as misaligned with reality.
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Washington
Benjamin Franklins
James Madisons
Mother Russia
Franz Liszt
Liszt
U.s-S.r
South Carolina
Lincoln
Gulag
Elizabeth
Soviet Union
Stalin
Mongol People’s Republic
Robert Strauz-Hope
United States
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Panama Canal Treaty Faces Pushback And Pivotal Debate
As Mrs. Carter promotes a quick treaty accord, lawmakers clash over Panama Canal terms. Ambassadors warn the pact is essential while opponents fear surrender of control. With a summer recess looming, prospects for ratification this year look unlikely.
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Washington
Rosalynn Carter
U. S
White House
State Department
Sol Linowitz
Don Oakley
American Legion
Panama Canal
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Canal Zone
Daniel Flood
Dpa
James Allen
D-Ala
Dewey Bartley
R-Okla
Jesse Helms
R-N. C
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Black Gains Seen Continuing Despite Recession
Demographer Prof. Reynolds Farley of the University of Michigan cites 65 studies showing that gains by black Americans in education, occupation, and income during the 1960s persisted into the 1970s. He notes narrowing racial gaps, especially in education for youths, but cautions that gaps remain and contrasts with a Supreme Court ruling on seniority systems that may hinder affirmative action and threaten future progress.
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Reynolds Farley
University of Michigan
Vietnam
Farley
U. S. Supreme Court
Steel
McGovern probes foreign secret police operations in U S
Senator McGovern begins a Senate subcommittee probe into Chile's DINA, KCIA, Soviet KGB, Philippines NISA, and Iran SAVAK and their actions in the United States. The effort follows past reports of burglaries, kidnappings, and exiles' assassinations, with testimony planned from dissidents under U.S. protection.
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Washington
United States
George McGovern
D.S. D
U. S
Senate
Chile
Orlando Letelier
DINA
KCIA
Korea
SAVAK
U.S
Mansur Rafizadeth
United Nations
Sen. McGovern
Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Primitivo Mijares
House
Justice Dept
Carter
Japan
White House
Rpp
Chris Dodd
D.-Conn
Congress
Dodd
Simon Eilenberg
Carlos Garcia
Marilene
Benny
Milt Josefsberg
Jack Benny
America
Banter and boasts swirl in oddity filled column items
Senator Soaper jokes about a Chinese Hamlet translation and a play with a controversial line. A magazine eyeing a piece on The Jimmy Carter Nobody Knows may turn into a monthly feature. Java reports giant skunks climbing trees, sparking a neighbor to want a watch skunk.
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Jimmy Carter
Java
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Detroit
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Gerald Ford
Ted Kennedy
Berry's
NEA, Inc
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Robert Walters
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Robert S. Allen
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Idaho
Dick Clark
Iowa
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N. Y
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Foreign Relations Committee
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Soaper
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