20 Sep 1972
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1972
Page
1
Capsule descriptions compare President Nixon and Senator McGovern on 11 major issues. The Christian Science Monitor Service outlines each candidate’s positions and policy distinctions to help voters gauge contrasts before the fall election.
A manuscript credited to staff writers Lansing Shepard and Frederic A Moritz outlines a compilation connected to prior reports. The note lists editors and contributors, emphasizing collaborative drafting with no single author. The brief reference appears in a mid-century newsroom record.
Draft resisters advocate immediate demilitarization and broad steps toward peace. They call for end to bombing and troop withdrawal from South Vietnam within 90 days, amnesty for resisters after the war, POW release, and a coalition government including the Viet Cong. They also oppose continued U S intervention and seek war recovery aid for Indo China.
Policy advocates shift from broad U S military and economic commitments to shared international responsibilities. It calls for talks with China and the Soviet Union, a Security Council backed Middle East plan, arms control emphasis, tariff reductions, and gradual troop adjustments in Europe while maintaining support for Israel.
Congress is urged to cap federal spending at 250 billion dollars in 1973, veto inflationary laws, and pursue full employment. The plan targets 3 percent inflation and 5 percent unemployment by year end 1972, with a 10 billion dollar yearly jobs program in housing transport and pollution control plus a 6 billion dollar public service jobs program. It favors inflation proof savings bonds and automatic cost of living increases for pensions while excluding low income occupations from wage controls.
The plan taxes capital gains more, tightens death and gift taxes, limits real estate shelters, and repeals foreign tax breaks. It would raise about 24 billion yearly by 1975 and return 29.6 billion over five years to states and locals, with more federal education support and a move to shift burden onto corporations and the wealthy.
MoT advocates aggressive environmental programs while resisting actions that would harm industry. It seeks 2 billion annually for 1972 74 to fund federal cost sharing of a 12 billion national effort to build waste treatment plants. It requests 1 1/2 billion for health impact studies and backs a White House council of national resource advisers and a national wilderness preservation system. It opposes Senate efforts to dilute water and air acts and supports citizens standing in pollution suits in courts.
A booby trapped letter to Israel Consul General P Shaanan in Montreal detonated in morning mail. London reported the murder of agricultural attaché Ami Shachori and 17 more bombs were found or intercepted. The Black September group is suspected of supplying targets with messages and lists.
Undercover agent testified Dr Lenard Faymore of Doctors Clinic Eaton Township issued three methadone prescriptions without a medical examination for a Columbus man Steven Koch 22. Koch said he visited on November 10 11 and 16 last year to obtain the drugs and related supplies amid disputed testimony at the hearing.
Chauncey 5. Smythe at rectern participated in ground breaking for the west wing addition of Elyria Memorial Hospital. Smythe president of the hospital board recalled watching the cornerstone laying on Nov. 17 1907 at age 18. Mayor Reichlin read the speech by former Mayor Chapman.
An 18 year old Sheffield Township youth, Nathaniel Barnett, pleaded innocent in Lorain Municipal Court to two counts of cutting with intent to wound after allegedly stabbing Victor Garcia and Frank Rosales, both 17, following the Lorain Catholic versus Clearview High School football game at Clearview field. Rosales was treated and released for a leg wound. Garcia remained in fair condition at St Joseph’s Hospital.
A 31 year old Cleveland police officer Wallace E Cowper was charged in the Mentor Lake County National Bank heist at the Great Lakes Mall on September 12. He was arrested by the FBI and scheduled to appear before a U S magistrate. The two robbers used Brink s like uniforms and escaped with six bags of cash.
Rain likely today with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s and partly cloudy tonight with lows around the mid 60s. Tomorrow brings variable cloudiness and a chance of showers with highs again in the upper 70s. Winds come from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
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