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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1975
Page
2
Letters discuss legislative options to alter or allow Las Vegas to withdraw and form its own board. The page includes sharp satire about a restraining order on a coed wrestling ordinance, and jabs at the CIA and media figures. Witty asides mix local politics with national quips.
UPI Sen Henry M Jackson told the AFL CIO convention in San Francisco that the federation must back the 1976 Democratic nominee to beat Ford, accusing Ford and Nixon of neglecting workers. He urged building jobs, energy, schools, health care and a strong merchant fleet, and praised the grain deal stand against the Soviet Union. A delegate shouted encouragement as he denounced a “do nothing White House.”
Former Undersecretary of State George W. Ball urged Congress to approve 200 American experts in the Sinai Accord, warning the plan could provoke a dangerous explosion in two to three years. He called for a broader Middle East peace push as Senate sessions continue and the House panels move toward approval with withdrawal safeguards.
Arlene Hunter, a 40 year old divorcee in Nashville, fights in chancery court for permission to marry George Putt, a Tennessee State Penitentiary inmate serving a 497 year sentence for a Memphis panic slaying. She states she loves him and visits weekly, despite no parole prospect for 24 years.
African bloc leader Iianious Adjibade condemned U S ambassador Daniel Moynihan for calling Uganda president Idi Amin a racist murderer. Adjibade spoke for the OAU denouncing Moynihan and Amin's Israel remarks, while Senegal and NAACP officials weighed in on the debate at the United Nations.
Antiwar activist Philip Berrigan was released without bond after defacing four military jets on display. He and 21 demonstrators face Oct. 20 court appearances for spray painting and splashing what was claimed to be human blood on the planes at an air show in East Hartford.
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