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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1970
Page
4
Editorial warns skyjackings threaten travelers and calls for swift international law, sanctions, and a universal tribunal to punish pirates. It cites hostage cases in Jordanian desert, Leila Khaled, and cross border seizures, urging pilots to withhold Middle East flights until prevention improves.
The piece urges federal and state lawmakers to develop safety codes for camps before the 1971 season. It notes many injuries and deaths last year due to lax precautions and argues that strict licensing and personnel standards are as essential as cabins and fires for safe camping.
The International Rescue Committee, founded in 1933 in New York, reports aiding more than 110000 refugees in 1969 across Europe Asia Africa and the Americas with a rising rate in 1970. It highlights mass Czech exodus since 1968 and a 25 percent 1968 rise in Western Europe, plus aid to Greeks Hungarians Cubans Haitians and other groups amid wars and dictatorships.
A columnist argues that a husband is formed gradually through daily acts and shared life. The piece contrasts a man as an independent figure with the evolving bond of husband and wife. It highlights small deeds like gifting flowers, handling domestic challenges, and joint decisions as marks of becoming a husband.
Texas Democrats face 18 McGovern commission guidelines that would ban race and gender discrimination, redefine youth as 18 to 30, remove restrictive registration barriers, and prohibit convention delegate fees. Impact depends on 1972 national convention decisions and Texas action.
Policyholders gain protection after two years from insurer objections though fraud claims still void contracts. Cases show contestable clauses do not rescue frauds, while Texas rules push clear delegate procedures, no proxy voting, quorum, vacancies, unit rule ban, minority representation, and post hearing committee-based delegate lists.
Bruce Biossat argues the Vietnam war is misused as an alibi for avoiding urban race and social reform. He asserts U.S. spending rose on social goals even during war and that peace dividends would vanish amid high demand for welfare, education, and health care. He urges use of inventive methods and notes student radicals distract from slow social progress.
The Na tonal Eye Bank reports sending 327 corneas to developing countries for transplants in the last 12 months, 148 more than the prior year.
Ford Motor Company purchased a large part of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Southeastern Kentucky in 1920 for timber to use in auto bodies. Government purchases began in 1965 and the U.S. Forest Service now holds more than 100,000 acres across parts of 12 counties.
The piece argues the labor movement and church are part of the American Establishment yet overlook the poor and deprived. It recalls union history, Christian concern for justice, and figures like David Livingstone and Robert E Speer, urging churches and unions to aid migrant workers and the laboring poor.
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