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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1970
Page
2
The editorial lauds Gov. Jack Williams for blaming smokeless charcoal grilling for air pollution. It argues backyard chefs and restaurants should use less charcoal braziers to curb health risks, suggesting Arizona could triumph over the pollution threat.
Editorial weighs Eldridge Cleaver returning to the United States from exile. While condemning calls for violence and lawbreaking, it argues for civil rights and fair treatment within the law, noting violence risks broader rights. It critiques Cleaver’s militant stance and contrasts it with nonviolent reform.
The article describes a secret Black Panther Party parley in Algeria with Eldridge Cleaver Emory Douglas and Donald Cox among attendees. It covers plans to return to the U S fund-raising for legal actions against police and involvement in 1970 elections, plus tensions with SDS and bail-jumping officials.
In a deft political maneuver, Secretary Melvin Laird steered Nixon's defense bill through a hostile Congress by preserving the April budget request while arranging a phantom $5.5 billion reduction in the current fiscal year. He coordinated with key Appropriations and Armed Services leaders to secure lower funding, then allowed Vietnamization actions and Polaris cutbacks to finalize the savings.
James Jerry Jones of Phoenix argues that automobile pollution dominates in metropolitan Phoenix but freeways fail to solve transit needs. He supports Citizens for Mass Transit Against Freeways CMTAF pressing for safe fast and inexpensive mass transit and questions freeway usefulness for the disabled and taxpayers.
A reader writes that the newspaper’s humorous Children’s Letters to God feature should stay or return. The writer believes religion should be strengthened, not undermined, and notes the column’s prior removal and readers’ reaction.
A Pennsylvania State University professor and about 200 students launched a movement offering a chance for immorality and promising to free trapped Scrabble players nationwide. Reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Englewood Press Journal noting odd bridal shower display remarks.
A veteran reporter chides a young talent from a major agency about stories that interest readers. He cites wartime heroism, crime, and political intrigue as compelling subjects while lamenting modern demand for sex and sensationalism.
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