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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1970
Page
4
The Carlsbad Current Argus critiques both violent radicals and liberal conservatives, warning that suppressing free speech and press rights could push America toward a police state. It emphasizes democracy, critique, and peaceful dissent as essential to national greatness.
The Senate confirmed Judge Harry A. Blackmun for the Supreme Court without opposition after bitter debates over Haynsworth and Carswell. The editorial draws parallels to local budgeting and warns voters and senators against emotional swings, urging measured decisions.
A reader urges support for U S involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia and questions antiwar protests. The letter defends national duty, flag honor, and draft eligibility while insisting Americans stay behind their government amid war.
Quotations on life and money mix humor and social observation. The column riffs on motives for staying hopeful about wealth, marriage, work, and public conduct, with light digs at optimists, manners, and philanthropy. The tone is wry and reflective, characteristic of midcentury syndicated humor columns.
The piece surveys heightened international tensions with kidnappings of U S diplomats in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, and a German envoy in Guatemala triggering severed ties. It links domestic labor unrest with union tactics and criticizes political rhetoric while urging reform of labor laws and agencies. It notes air traffic control disruptions and profiles figures like George Shultz.
World Almanac recalls the 1965 power failure on November 9 and 10 when about 30 million people across an 80,000 square mile area plunged into darkness. Only two deaths were reported as New York City lost power at 5 27 p m with subways and elevators halted.
Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi argues in The Crazy Ape that modern society is death oriented and run by idiots. He predicts less than 50 percent chance of surviving to the next century, urging youth to read and act while acknowledging powerful scientific possibilities to end hunger and disease.
NEA correspondent reports that a 1961 book and its chapter on Mobile Group 100 influenced Gen. Westmoreland's Vietnam era doctrine. The piece links Nixon's Cambodia decision to lessons from Street Without Joy and fears of entrapment, noting heavy rains and risk to American units.
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