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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1971
Page
3
The Laos conflict expands beyond official denials as U S involvement widens. CIA backed operations, mercenaries, and Thai Cambodian forces fight on Lao soil under from the 1960s through 1971 while bombings and air support escalate the covert war.
At the Paris peace talks the Viet Cong foreign minister Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh charged that South Vietnam elections are being feverishly rigged under direct supervision of the American Embassy in Saigon. She called American nonintervention assurances hypocritical. In Saigon a task force clash north of the Phnom Penh Saigon highway left 42 enemy dead with 25 by helicopter gunships. no South Vietnamese losses reported. In Washington President Nixon faced a Senate protest over Rush Moody Jr. nomination to the Federal Power Commission, cited as an example of the politics of oil.
The Agriculture Department reports a 0.7 percent rise in a market basket of foods in June driven by higher prices for beef pork frying chickens and fresh fruit. Farmers' share of the food dollar fell from June 1970.
Secretary James D. Hodgson told the House transportation subcommittee that Congress must draft new transit labor legislation or face mass dispute settling. He warned against expecting compulsory arbitration and free collective bargaining to coexist. Secretary John A. Volpe testified as well.
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court plans to take up four capital punishment cases at the start of the new term in October. Lawyers have been told to be ready for hearings beginning October 12, the first day of the term.
The US parole board ruled the Berrigan brothers must stay at Danbury Federal Correctional Institution for at least 16 more months. Philip, 47, and Daniel, 49, were denied parole on Wednesday.
Vernon Jordan Jr the new director of the National Urban League criticizes the Nixon administration for ambiguity in minority policies and targets Vice President Agnew for insulting Black leadership. He says black people are concerned by symbolic figures who degrade their leaders and by extension the community.
Apollo 15 astronauts plan to fire their engine from behind the moon using a hybrid manual computer controlled procedure. The crew led by James B Irwin and David R Scott prepared for the 4:05 p.m. EDT burn while assessing a water leak in the command ship and rechecked Falcon systems for a lunar landing at the Apennines.
Vice President Spiro Agnew reported to President Nixon on a 31 day world tour dominated by Henry Kissinger’s China visit. Nixon said the briefing covered substance and the trip fulfilled a useful purpose, while Agnew gave no details to reporters on the return.
A group of conservative editors and activists denounce Nixon but GOP leaders expect defections to reverse. Key figures include Sen. Barry Goldwater and Sen. Robert Dole signaling doubt yet show loyalty to Nixon amid talk of conservative alternatives and possible China mission.
Administration officials defend the fiscal 1971 72 deficits totaling over 40 billion dollars as fiscally prudent pegged to high tax revenues. They cite a 23.2 billion national deficit in 1971 and project 11.6 to 18.6 billion for 1972 while contrasting with 1967 68. They argue a full employment surplus was reached in 1971.
Washington AP House negotiators offer a no deadline substitute for Indochina war pullout language but no early break in Congress deadlock over the draft. Hebert says the counterproposal does not include the Senate nine month deadline and efforts stall as Congress heads into recess.
California health and agricultural officials warned of an out of control Culex taralis mosquito population capable of transmitting sleeping sickness and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. They planned an army of veterinarians to vaccinate 400,000 horses while exploring biological controls and water management to curb the threat in San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys.
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