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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1970
Page
12
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In London and Lusaka protests flare as Britain weighs selling arms to South Africa. India, Uganda, Kenya and Malaysia condemn the move while Kenneth Kaunda warns of grave consequences. Heath defers final decision pending consultations with Commonwealth nations and South Africa.
Brownfield hosts a sacred concert at 8 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church auditorium. Robert Hale, a leading bass baritone with the New York City Opera, and Dean Wilder, leading tenor with the Goldovsky Opera Theater, will perform solo and together after touring nationally in opera and sacred concerts. Hale holds the 1962 Singer of the Year award from the National Association of Teachers of Singing and is under NYC Opera contract through 1970. Wilder appeared in La Boheme Tosca and Cosi Fan Tutte with Goldovsky Opera Theater.
Plainview’s Central Plains General Hospital, a 151 bed facility, will hold an open house August 1 and 2. Dedication address by Gov. Preston Smith at 2 PM August 2. Plainview High School Band and American Legion post to provide music and honors.
District 7 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary will present a $25 check toward the veterans hospital in Big Spring and pledge continued support. The ceremony includes a flag raising and ribbon cutting with local officials and district leaders.
The five aquamaids from the Tektite II program stepped from a decompression chamber in Virgin Islands in good health and ready to dive again. They were greeted by Dr. James Miller and Dr. Merrill True and taken to base camp for medical tests and debriefing. A Wednesday news conference was planned.
Pope Paul VI will visit FAO headquarters in Rome on November 16 to help celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary. He will address a one day conference of delegates from FAO's 121 members, as announced by the FAO and the Vatican.
The government asks the Supreme Court to decide if Roman Catholics opposing the Vietnam War on religious grounds can be exempt as conscientious objectors. The case centers on James Francis McFadden, a UCLA philosophy graduate student from San Francisco who refused Army induction on conscience grounds. The district judge ruled the draft law unconstitutional, saying it forces believers to choose between faith and jail. The high court also agreed to hear appeals from other conscientious objectors, while noting no Vatican statement declares the war unjust.
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