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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 21, 1996

Page

14

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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
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