26 Sep 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1969
Page
1
A brief reader prompt invites contact by phone or mail to share concerns or questions with ACTION LINE at The Enterprise, encouraging speech and engagement. The notice emphasizes accessibility and ongoing support for unresolved worries or problems.
Readers ask about worms near fish fins in North Carolina ponds. Zoologist P M Miller says copepod parasites are likely if partly exposed, but many details needed. no danger to consumers when fish are well cooked. Other questions address water shutoffs, grocery hours for women, cats eating grass, a song query, and Highway 1 85 routing updates with maps available at the Enterprise office.
President Nixon urged continued public support for a peace settlement in Vietnam and rejected calls for troop withdrawal deadlines. He said negotiations could end by the end of 1970 or mid 1971, arguing that fixed cutoffs would undermine bargaining and prolong the conflict. He touted progress on inflation cuts and defended his Supreme Court pick. He also defended school desegregation policies and warned against undermining the administration’s course.
In Washington GOP leaders press Nixon for quicker Vietnam withdrawal. Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott hints at a new de escalation move as conditions permit. Other Republicans voice concern over fall outcomes and push for faster pullout amid mounting party pressure.
Nicolae Ceausescu urged Romania's press to toe the official line, signaling no liberalization at home despite a liberal foreign policy. He warned against works counter to the party ideology and defended authoritarian rule amid speculation of reforms. Romania maintains ties with China and sought neutrality in Moscow Beijing tensions.
LA PAZ Bolivia reports a military coup installing Gen Alfredo Ovando Candia as leader. The new regime ousts President Luis Siles Salinas and forms a cabinet of dissident leftists and independents. Ovando vows peasant rights, agrarian reform, and heavy industrialization amid Bolivia's tin-based economy.
President Nixon proposes 84.25 billion in reforms including a 10 percent across the board benefit hike in 1970 and an automatic cost-of-living escalator. He would raise the earnings base to 2000 in 1972 and adjust employer and employee rates, seeking long term protection against inflation for retirees and disabled beneficiaries.
In a lush North Miami area, fist sized giant African snails swarm across 13 blocks, up to 20,000 individuals estimated. They eat foliage and paint, threaten Florida crops, and were brought by a visitor from Hawaii three years ago. Authorities plan granular lawn treatments as spraying is unsafe in the populated area.
In Chicago AP report jurors—10 women and two men—sit for the start of the trial of eight defendants charged with conspiracy to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Defendants include Bobby Seale and Abbie Hoffman.
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