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Publisher William H. Weldon and President Robert Blosser outline the paper’s stance on integrity and accountability. The message affirms commitment to pursuing truth, tolerating no error, and defending reason in editorial direction across the newsroom.
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Missouri Enacts Armed Criminal Action Law
Gov. Bond signs a significant anticrime measure creating armed criminal action a separate crime for using a deadly weapon during felonies. First offense carries three years, second five years, subsequent offenses ten years. Law takes effect Aug 13 and hinges on prosecutor use in plea bargains while urging vigilant judicial oversight to curb violent crime.
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Ford misses point on Capitol sex scandal critique
Patrick J. Buchanan argues President Ford misses the core issue of Capitol Hill sex revelations, highlighting calls for accountability over promiscuity reports. He cites Hays and others, urging moral standards and warning that widespread misconduct could jeopardize Congress in the next session.
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Ghost of George Mason Haunts Williamsburg Debate
A visitor in Williamsburg meets a ghostly George Mason on Duke of Gloucester Street. Their midnight exchange revisits the Virginia Declaration of Rights and questions whether 1976 America preserves fundamental principles such as liberty, justice, frugality, and virtue amid modern freedoms and government power.
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Orphans of Saigon drive NATO pressure over refugees
Danes hold 200 South Vietnamese children refugees as Denmark weighs sending them back to Saigon amid a global clash of opinions. Becker, a West German caregiver, leads opposition with Free Vietnam Forces and the Freedom Corps urging NATO powers to allow the orphans to go to the United States or France.
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Mid Missouri memories June 25 1966 and 1936 highlights
A brief look back lists Jefferson City youths at the Missouri Young Americans for Freedom convention in St Joseph and Laurie Estes named as a Girls Nation delegate. Also notes Cpl Raymond Patterson among Missourians in Korea docking in San Francisco, and local enlistments in the Air Force.
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Frank Dallmeyer
Moreau Park
Andy Diemler
Broadway
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