Editorial Board Consensus on First Amendment Rights
The Daily Telegraph Editorial Board carries the opinion from publisher Steve Smith and executive editor Thomas A Colley on the core freedoms in the First Amendment. The piece frames religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition as essential protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph
Allies in race burnings urge united Christian response
Editorial argues for blacks and whites to unite as allies amid more than 30 black church burnings in the South. Ralph Reed pledges July 14 offerings for rebuilding, alarms, and insurer pressure, with a $25,000 reward. Rabbis, Muslims, and Jewish leaders pledge aid as ecumenical unity is urged to replace hostility with love thy neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Coalition
South
Ralph Reed
Atlanta
Reed
New York
Kristallnadt
National Council of Churches
Local 911 system seen tested by nuisance calls
NBC Nightly News highlighted non emergency uses of 911 and the strain on dispatchers. Mercer County urges callers to use non emergency lines for non urgent needs and notes about 10 percent of 191 May alarms were legitimate, stressing alarm companies fix faults. Citizens urged to contact lawmakers as extended service rate hikes for Pocahontas GTE customers draw criticism and calls for toll free intercounty dialing amid fiber connections debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
Nightly News
Mercer County
T.K. Mullens
Mullens
911 Communications Center
Pocahontas
Bluefield
Virginia
GTE
Tazewell County
Pocahontas Area
Netanyahu policy plan tests Clinton on peace policy
Washington faces a clash as incoming Israeli PM Netanyahu proposes detailed guidelines that expand West Bank and Gaza settlements, keep Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, and oppose a Palestinian state. The move risks undoing 1967 land for peace policies and could trigger U S policy shifts amid election year pressure from pro Israel lobbies. Leonard E. Larsen reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Benjamin Netanyahu
Clinton
Netanyahu
White House
United States
Middle East
Yitzhak Rabin
Shimon Peres
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Syrian
Golan Heights
Jerusalem
Jordan
Israel
Warren Christopher
U.S
Netanayahu
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Old FBI files era contrasts with Clinton White House flap
Columnists Jack Anderson and Jan Moller examine the FBI file practice from Hoover to Nixon and Johnson, comparing past abuses of investigative power with the Clinton White House episode. They argue the current incident is far from the entrenched, expansive spying of earlier decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
FBI
Clinton
Oval Office
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor
New York State
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
High and Mighty
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Hong Kong
White House
Henry Foster
Lani Guinier
Justice Department
Also Mentioned on This Page
Steve Smith
Thomas A. Colley
John
Disneyland
Barbara Hawkins
The
Leonard E. Larsen
Washington
Scripps Howard News Service
Jack Anderson
Jan Moller
United Feature Service