Poppy Budgets and Pigskin Rivalries Shape Virginia Outlook
A Virginia trend favors football over classrooms with GW Eagles and Reidsville Rams highlighted as they prepare for next week. Turkey plans to end legal poppy crops with US subsidies, while Seevers warns of illicit opium tensions and global demand. Meir memoir offers compare to government pay, and a quip about Congressman Sludgepump rounds out a satirical survey piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Reidsville
Eagles
Murfreesboro
N.C
Chowan College
Washington Redskins
Gettysburg
Turkey
Southeast Asia
Golden Triangle
Burma
Laos
Thailand
United States
Maurice H. Seevers
Department of Pharmacology
University of Michigan Medical School
Seevers
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S
Mexico
Pedro Ojeda Paullada
It's Done In The Name Of Christianity
A long critique argues that some Christian groups and leaders, including World Council of Churches figures and a Dutch sociologist, support or enable revolutionary causes in Africa, opposing gradual reform. It warns the West risks death by its own action through ecumenical and political missteps and highlights alleged bylines and questionable sources surrounding Mozambique, South Africa, Rhodesia, and the Kunene River Dam dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin Sjollema
WCC
South Africa
Rhodesia
Sjollema
Kunene River
Africa
Angola
Dr. Sjollema
Jesus
Christian Concern Versus Results in Third World Development
An analysis argues that social concern by church leaders and groups like the World Council of Churches often undermines concrete development goals. It contrasts redistributive socialist paths in Cuba and Chile with investment-led growth in Nigeria, Malaysia, and Brazil, asserting international business drives true development while socialist models fail. It criticizes theologians aligning with radical movements and notes New York Times criticism of Castro and Allende.
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World Council of Churches
Castro
Cuba
Allende
Chile
Nigeria
Malaysia
Brazil
James Y. Schall
Schall
Castros
Allendes
New York Times
Soviet Union
United States
Third World
The
Allendes and
Reading problems linked to neurological development and crawling
The column argues reading failure is largely neurological and tied to early development. Dr. Robert Morris of Plano Texas advocates a developmental approach including crawling to train eye fusion and depth perception. Early restriction of movement may hinder reading and imagination, with lifelong consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Morris
University of Plano
Texas
Plano
Morris
Watergate Hearing Turns Poignant With Strachan Testimony
Gordon Strachan, 27, a former White House staffer, faced Sen Montoya as he warned young people to stay away from public service. Strachan spoke through tears while the room and audience laughed, a moment Gainesville Times frames as tragic for idealism.
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White House
Israel
Golda Meir
Meir
Gordon Strachan
Sen. Montoya
Strachan
Gainesville
Pregnancy Trophy Stuns Roanoke Tennis Fans
The Roanoke Times notes Mrs. Judy Miller, eight months pregnant, won the West Virginia Jaycee women’s tennis tournament as a rare handicap story. The photo caption highlights her lead and victory, calling it remarkable and a record handicap for a tennis player.
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Judy Miller
West Virginia
Stranger Isn t It To the Editor
Letter to the editor by Elijah T. Sutherlin questioning how excessive talk on religion vs Watergate affects perception. He notes that religion is dismissed as insanity while Watergate is praised as brilliance, asking what differentiates the two.
The Turning About Of Bill Proxmire
Washington column notes Sen. Bill Proxmire’s energy in leading Joint Economic Committee probes into the Soviet economy. It recalls his admiration for Paul Douglas, contrasts their Cold War stances, and suggests Proxmire may steer informed study of USSR credits and technology amid Moscow’s internal pressures and Western relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Bill Proxmire
D-Wis
Bill
Soviet Union
Proxmire
Wright Patman
D-Tex
Joint Economic Committee
Congress
Senate
Joint Committee
Paul Douglas
D-Hl
Douglas
America
Ussr
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Red China
West
Europe
United States
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Congressman Sludgepump
Sam Ervin
John Chamberlain Chamberlain
U.N
Cambodia
Northern Ireland
Council of Churches
James Burnham
National Review
College of the Ascension
Birmingham
England
London Times
Mozambique
Father Hastings
BBC
Times
Portugal
Marcello Caetano
Holmes Alexander
Jeffrey Hart
Salvador Allende
U.N. General Assembly
Russell Kirk
Elijah T. Sutherlin
Legislative Branch
Danville
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