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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1971
Page
5
Rep Shirley Chisholm the first black woman in Congress said she is seriously weighing a run for president. She criticized major candidates for not addressing gut issues and noted strategists in 27 states are exploring her candidacy as an alternative. She hinted at entering the Wisconsin primary and other races depending on coalition support to shift the Democratic party.
President Nixon, in Centerville, Iowa, vows peace hinges on China’s inclusion and cites his Peking trip plan. He dedicates Rathbun Dam, notes 800 million people risk isolation, and discusses steel and railroad strike talks with labor officials during a two day Midwest swing. He recalls Navy days in Ottumwa and jokes about finally finding water.
Nevada health officials will conduct a six month trial of Progenasy on about 200 prostitutes across 40 rural houses. The drug, existing for 20 years, will be used twice daily as a preventive measure, not treatment, with Amerex Laboratories donating the supply and travel funds.
Green, 50, of Warren, Ohio, was unanimously elected commander of the Ohio American Legion, becoming the first Negro to head the state's department. A World War II Army sergeant who served in the Southwest Pacific, he is a GM Packard mail supervisor and active in the Trumbull Red Cross board, chairing its service to military families. He has a wife and a six year old daughter.
ITT announced a settlement with the U S Justice Department ending antitrust suits. It offers divestiture options within three years affecting Hartford Fire Avis Rent a Car ITT Levitt and Sons a building firm ITT Hamilton Life and ITT Life Insurance Co of New York. ITT would divest Canteen Corp and Grinnell fire division within two years. Harold S Geneen called the agreement in the stockholders best long term interest.
Laotian troops supported by artillery retook Ban Nhik on Friday, a key Bolivens Plateau position on highway 23 near Pakse, inflicting heavy Vietnamese casualties. Government forces advance toward Pak Song while clashes occur northwest of Saravane. Defections from Pathet Lao officers reported near Sou vannakhily and Pakse.
The United States has won agreement from Pakistan and the United Nations to station 153 civilian relief and rehabilitation experts in East Pakistan under UN auspices. American officials said the U S will contribute $1 million immediately as an initial grant.
Washington sources say the Nixon administration will make a significant statement next week on U S policy toward the admission of Communist China to the United Nations and broader ties.
An Israeli parliamentary leader dismissed indirect Middle East talks as pointless without new proposals from Egypt via U S assistant secretary Joseph Sisco. He urged concrete official reaction before continuing contacts.
The United Nations plans a relief force with 73 monitors stationed at four area offices in Dacca Chittagong Rajshahi and Khulna and at 69 other spots. Monitors will link by radio to Dacca HQ to document conditions and aid authorities in alleviating starvation disease and housing rehabilitations as well as restoring communications and transport for tens of thousands of rivers boats and trucks.
In Morioka two men face negligence charges after a mid air collision between an F 86 jet trainer and an All Nippon Airways airliner on Friday. The trainee pilot Yoshimi Ochikawa age 22 and instructor Capt Tamotsu Kuma were arrested for alleged negligence leading to the disaster that killed 162 people.
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