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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1971
Page
2
A compact devotional line citing Proverbs on folly and scoffers. It warns that devising folly is sin and scoffing harms judgment, while fading in adversity indicates weakness. The phrasing reflects a biblical wisdom motif rather than a news item.
The piece condemns Governor Moore for censorship at the West Virginia Penitentiary and celebrates a federal grant as a political ploy. It predicts more theatrical moves as his term ends and lampoons his press abstinence and vague crime policy while forecasting potential reintroduction of corporal punishment.
The Charleston News and Courier blasts alleged conflicts of interest among lawmakers involved with strip mining. It accuses Senator Hylton, Delegate Memains, Delegate Iparacino, and Senator Gainer of voting against or for mining controls due to moral conviction rather than financial ties. The piece ridicules politicians seen as morally upright while connected to coal interests and ends with a jab at campaigners.
Ronald Ziegler urges a meeting of news media to review background briefing regulations. The Washington Post named Henry Kissinger as a high White House official in Indo Pakistan coverage, which Ziegler called unacceptable. Reporters debate whether to reveal more of the system while keeping background anonymity.
A critique of official sourcing in government briefings notes editors and reporters once trained to rely on background only sessions. Changes from 1969 to 1970 opened many meetings to on the record coverage and allowed taping. The piece warns that such briefing choices can erode the public right to know.
Nixon aims to normalize China ties in Peking and secure arms talks in Moscow while India Pakistan crisis reshapes leverage. Critics say India’s swift victory weakens U S pressure. White House argues it thwarted a larger attack plan. Outcomes could tilt influence toward Moscow or Beijing and affect regional stability.
Diplomatic sources say Israel may push in coming weeks to revive American efforts for an interim Israel Egypt agreement to reopen the Suez Canal. Israel considers a demilitarized canal zone and may withdraw some Sinai troops to break the deadlock, with Soviet persuasion seen as key. In Paris, French officials lament Soviet secrecy on India Pakistan moves. In Bonn, four power Berlin pact likely waits for May. Russia demands ratification of 1970 treaties before signing.
New Minnesota Metropolitan State College will eschew permanent faculty, campus, grades, or fixed hours. President David Sweet describes classrooms as libraries, factories, parks, and other environments in which learning occurs anywhere. The program emphasizes user friendly admission, hands on tutoring by diverse community professionals, and degrees earned on demonstrated competency across administration urban planning human services and liberal studies.
An editorial compares modern cosmology to Kepler’s era, noting space probes, quasars, and pulsars expanding observation beyond the optical. It highlights three cosmological theories the big bang, steady state, and oscillating universe, with figures like Bernard Lovell and Fred Hoyle cited as shaping debate. Indira Gandhi is quoted on national interests amid global power dynamics.
A Baltimore Social Security official recalls a clerical mix up and a note demanding erasure of initials. The Census Bureau list includes odd titles like bug duster and zigazagger, prompting a Norfolk editorial proposing a parlor game to match occupations with job descriptions.
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