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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1971
Page
5
A California prisoner with a troubled past sought work and faced rejection until a reader intervened. The man later wrote that he secured a job, proving that some community compassion embodies holiday ideals. The editor shares this Christmas message and hopes for new chances for all in the New Year.
A year end reflection argues that the United States Soviet Union and China have more to lose than to gain from general war. It notes new political and economic balances Europe unity and Japan and China rising centers. It warns of dangers including Israel Arab tensions and Sino Soviet rivalry and calls for constructive peaceful cooperation beyond merely avoiding war.
A collage of opinions and aphorisms questions worry about war pollution and old days. It notes automobile accidents and hints at self help with lines about heart and success. The LINE’S Puzzle asks who writes popular song lyrics and why.
The piece contrasts Christian faith with scientific atheism, citing Jesus calming the storm and Paul on faith while noting Jacques Monod’s view that life is a chemical accident. It argues faith as cure for fear, asserts God's omnipotence, and urges believers to embody Christ’s radiance amid birth and eternity.
A Bellflower letter writer defends a supervisor and the county environmental panel after a Sunday editorial. recalls actions to reinstate the Environmental Quality Control Committee, reports to the Board, and clarifies interactions with Ellen Harris. The piece shifts to a Christmas meditation urging inner gifts over material ones.
Oslo reports that King Haakon urged joining NATO long ago, but current Prime Minister Bratteli cautions about defense spending while Norway weighs a European common market bid. Public opinion splits between pro market and cautious neutrality, with NATO seen as a Western safeguard.
A compact miscellany notes that advice to earners should save, remarks on medicine and wealth, hints at changing times, a reflection on raising children before modern psychology, living’s problem of time, a remark on trash baskets, and a quip about tumor as a rare gift and laughter making one lucky.
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