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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1977
Page
2
The passage muses on the rare date 7/7/77 as an occasion for occult fascination and symbolic meaning. It traces sevens through culture from Greeks and Hebrews to alchemists, notes seven as a symbol of order, and hints at esoteric importance while advising focus beyond the heat of the day.
A satirical piece mocks Mayor Woodrow Glasscock Jr of Hondo Texas proposing to import 180 unemployed Americans to push the town toward a six percent jobless rate. It imagines a federal aid scheme via relocating jobless people to “under unemployed” cities and jokes about housing URP workers in an old air base with HUD objections unlikely to dampen the plan.
President Carter overruled experts and opted to kill the B-1 bomber. Bert Lance and Harold Brown shaped the decision amid cost concerns and alternative cruise missile options. Military-industrial lobby factions split, boosting congressional opposition and complicating arms control efforts with Russia. An informal summit is urged to press the urgency of new treaty talks.
William Buckley lauds the June 12 Georgetown televised debate with Soviet officials on human rights. The piece notes Kaiser Dershowitz and Hesburgh backing medals, questions Soviet emigration and trials, and praises the American side for its linguistic and interpretive edge while hinting at a possible rematch.
A letter urges the Danville city council to abandon UMTA funded bus expansion, argues against private bus ownership, and calls for publicizing a profitable school tripper service. It warns of UMTA requirements, Davis Bacon provisions, possible discrimination, and urges a private enterprise solution with citizen involvement and a new transportation committee.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report that as Jimmy Carter pushes a peace plan, American Jewish leaders threaten pressure while administration officials warn Israel's Begin is unlikely to bend. Mondale and NSC aides stress the president will not abandon his conditions for West Bank withdrawal.
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