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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1971
Page
23
The Veterans Administration halted staff hires for its drug treatment centers as part of a broader Nixon program to rehabilitate addicts. Officials say the moratorium is temporary while caseload levels are assessed, leaving center administrators and patients puzzled about the plan and timing.
The Atlanta VA center faces hiring freezes and a delayed fifth floor renovation for a 16 bed drug treatment unit. Only eight patients are treated, with new admissions paused as requests for care rise. Moon and Bros, two patients, praise counseling and methadone options while wary of substituting one addiction for another.
Former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev died of a heart attack at his country home near Moscow. He was 77 and buried at Novodevichy cemetery after a long, controversial career marked by de-Stalinization, Moscow’s tense leadership battles, and pivotal Cold War clashes.
The world remembers Khrushchev’s outbursts from 1956 at a Polish Embassy party when he shouted that burial was not up to outsiders and history was on the Soviet side. The 1960 United Nations desk poundings with Harold Macmillan remain a stark image of his volatile leadership and public persona.
Israeli antiaircraft gunners shot down a Soviet-made Egyptian warplane over the canal zone, the first downing in 13 months. Egypt offered no comment as planes from both sides have continued flights since the August 1970 cease-fire.
The Lorain County newspaper page shows publication terms for The Chronicle Telegram including edition details, pricing and mailing rates. It lists 10 cent daily 15 cent Sunday and annual mail rates for Lorain County and Ohio outside Lorain. It notes Elyria and Lorain contact numbers.
Los Angeles actress Pier Angeli 39 died from a drug overdose. Her body was found in a friend’s Hollywood home. Coroner Noguchi cited an overdose including a barbiturate and promised further studies to determine how it happened. Angeli had been treated for a stomach ailment and was formerly married to Vic Damone. She is also sister to Marisa Pavan.
The Concorde SST landed at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires from Rio de Janeiro after a 1 146 mile flight. Pilot Andre Turcat steered the delta wing jet amid rain and gusty winds, completing the South American tour’s fourth leg as weather eased.
Len Edmund Muskie leads as early presidential favorite among Democratic governors ahead of the 63rd National Governors Conference in San Juan. Governors Hearnes Scott Rampton predict Muskie will win the nomination, with Jackson Mills named as other possibilities.
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