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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 12, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Shower pleasant Price to cent set. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening May 12, 1970 heavy toll in Texas Tornado these Days Blackmun confirmed by John Chamberlain the innocent front is Here again and How i grew up sociologically speaking. In the new York City of the Nineteen thirties. It was a yeasty time and the Blandishments of the left were compelling up to a Point As a daily Book columnist for the new York times i knew numerous radicals in the publishing business Many of whom had gone All the Way into the communist panty. Some of them were cynics in addition to being revolutionaries. They talked quite openly about a innocent fronts and a transmission belts a meaning of course the Liberal organizations that could be counted on to spread the communist line without knowing what they were doing. Later As a member of the newspaper Guild at time inc., i Learned a Good Deal More from Whittaker Chambers about the operations of the left. As a Veteran who has lived through one period of the innocent front and transmission Belt sort of thing i hoped i would never have to do it again. Alas the history of the thirties is being repeated. When thirty seven College presidents can come up on the same Page in the newspapers with a statement about the foreign policy of their country that is practically indistinguishable in tone from a speech in an adjourning column by Premier Kosygin of the soviet Union i know we Are in the presence of one of the most influential innocent fronts of them All. Life Long Friend of chief Justice Warren e. Burger and a judge on the 8th . Circuit court of appeals since 1959. Washington up a judge Harry a. Blackmun of Minnesota was confirmed As a supreme court Justice by the Senate today ending an abrasive dispute with president Nixon that persisted for almost a year. The vote giving Nixon another a strict constructionist on the High court was 04-0. The confirmation vote on the Federal appeals court judge came two Days Short of the anniversary of the resignation of Justice Abe Fortas which created the vacancy. Too Nixon was twice rebuffed by the Senate on his nomination of Southern Federal judges to the court a Clement f. Haynsworth or. Of South Carolina and g. Harrold Carswell of Florida. He then turned to Blackmun a no serious opposition was raised against Blackmun a nomination. He won the highest endorsement of the american bar association and was unanimously approved by the Senate judiciary committee 17 to 0. Blackmun is expected to be sworn in quickly and to assume his seat As the ninth Justice on the court when it next meets monday. S. E. Iowa College boart v lakes actions vandalism at Waco school vandalism at the Waco High school in Olds which occurred Friday night was reported to the sheriffs office monday. There was water damage to the basement and main floor and a piano in the music room was damaged. A sink was plugged up and the faucets turned on causing the water damage. Damage was estimated at $2,500. A look to the future of education and a Peak a need to keep Pace was Given by president elect Ronald Slatier at the close of the evening. The decor of Fellowship Hall of the United methodist Church was Bright with a springtime theme. Tables were decorated with Gay Spring Flowers made anti placed by mrs. Dorothy Carlst special education students. 7th and 8th Grade Art students of or. Lon Pugh were responsible for the attractive Spring posters on the Walls. A Turkey dinner was served to approximately 150 faculty and administration members and spouses and their honoured guests the scholarship recipients and their parents and the school Board directors and their wives. Well i for one object to being subjected to the indignity of having to live in a nation of patsies. We have Only one president and he will be in office heaven protect him. Until 1973. Despite the collective opinion of those thirty seven College presidents the fact is incontestable that you cannot fight a War even a War of successful extrication if you Are to deny your self the right to flank your enemy when he is successfully preparing to outflank you. The situation in Southeast Asia was drastically changed when the new cambodian government of Premier Lon nol was endangered by North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who were threatening to surround the capital of phenom penh. A Cambodia controlled by the communists would Complete the investment of South Vietnam on the North and on the West making it impossible for any process of a victimization of the War to succeed Herbert c. Hoover received honorary degrees. Israel invades Southern Lebanon by up the Arab nations said too israeli tanks and 2,000 infantrymen invaded Southern Lebanon today and that Lebanon Syria and Iraq were fighting Back in the biggest Mideast Battle since the 1967 War. The u. N. Security Council was called into emergency session. Israel said its armoured columns with Aerial support knifed into Lebanon to wipe out Arab guerrilla bases which had launched 61 attacks against 22 israeli settlements in the past 40 months. Fierce Aerial Battles broke out and Israel said it shot Down three syrian mig17s. Laird reports some troop withdrawals nothing makes a marriage rust quite so much As does distrust. Lebanon in a letter to the Security Council asked for the meeting because of what it called an Washington up a Defyn a invasion of Lebanon. It said these Secretary Melvin r. Laird said fighting raged on the slopes of it. Today the United states already Hermon near the occupied Golan pulled a several thousands Heights and that the israelis were troops out of Cambodia. But he forced to Call off the attack despite urged Congress not to impose any israeli air supremacy. Limitation on president Nixon s Israel said it sent its forces into authority there. Lebanon to wipe out guerrilla bases from which Al Fatah and other groups repeatedly hit the Border town of Shemona at the Northern tip of Israel and just West of the Golan Heights. The Battle raged throughout the Day in the Marj Ayoun area of Lebanon six to seven Miles North of the israeli Border and 32 Miles Southeast of Beirut. A Beirut military spokesman said fierce Arab counterattacks had stalled the israeli push. A spokesman for the palestinian armed struggle command said the a we have a restriction that we will be out of there by the end of june Quot Laird told the Senate armed services committee concerning tile . Thrusts against communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. Special events in Observance of mental health month we have withdrawn american forces from Cambodia a Laird said. A we have withdrawn several thousand this week and we will withdraw More this minor wind damage reported one of the first Calls made by Calvin Crane for a Buck night was at the Home of mrs. c Quot Buck night Quot Calls two jail prisoners escape at Tama

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