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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1971
Page
1
The passage asks how many Americans would do as much as needed for the country’s long term future. It invokes the Declaration of Independence affirming that governments are instituted to secure rights and implies a call to personal responsibility in shaping the nation’s destiny.
U S officials say the recent North Vietnamese push south of the Demilitarized Zone sought to undermine the South Vietnamese army rather than threaten Saigon’s control of Quang Tri. They expect more attacks in the summer campaign, though visits to villages and bases in Quang Tri found little alarm among allies. Intelligence remains unclear about Western Quang Tri where Saigon and U S forces once ran bases to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
A Braniff International 707 hijacked by a U S Navy veteran and a Guatemalan girlfriend prepared to fly to Algeria after a stop in Rio de Janeiro. Argentina demanded a written embassy petition before departure as police surrounded the jet at Ezeiza Airport.
The three day old strike idles 39000 copper workers plus 3000 more across the nation. Longshoremen, transit, and utility workers join the holiday labor action while Mediation and Conciliation Service arranges talks. San Francisco and Oakland buses and Safeway stores protest firings.
Rep Wilbur Mills says he may propose tax cuts with reduced government spending to stimulate a faltering economy. He contrasts Nixon’s optimism, calls for more data in coming weeks, and notes possible reintroduction of the investment tax credit while warning unemployment may rise into year end.
The Morgantown Post will not publish tomorrow due to the Fourth of July holiday and will resume Tuesday afternoon. An edition of The Dominion News will appear as usual Tuesday morning.
Wolfgang Flor, famed West Virginia woodcarver, plans to leave his Upshur County farm retreat after a spate of bombing, arson, and shootings. His barn studio was dynamited and burned within two weeks, with arrests made in the dynamiting and police labeling arson likely. Locals blame a clash with longhaired youths, while one retiree touts violent acts by some as a misguided defense of the community.
United Press International reports at least 163 people killed in road accidents since the holiday began. California 13 deaths, Indiana 11, Georgia 9, Michigan 8, Texas and New Mexico 7 each.
Former Pentagon official L. Fletcher Prouty tells UPI a clandestine group of civilians and military officers, including CIA and White House personnel, controls American foreign policy. He says the team is not the most competent and influenced by presidential advisors cited in Times Pentagon papers.
Quote from Abraham Lincoln cited as a call to transparency and civic duty emphasizing the link between informed citizens and national security. The remark highlights a historic principle about governance and public accountability.
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