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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1972
Page
4
Dear Abby columns address a wife seeking divorce over her husband’s infidelity and a daughter’s cries for help. A jury duty note asks if a reader’s experience is unique. The editor closes with Abby’s standard counseling prompts and reader mail instructions.
AP reports Lo Hsing Han, a mysterious Chinese opium king operating in Burma’s Golden Triangle, commands a 1000-man private army and runs refineries along the border. Thai and U.S. authorities mounted raids on opium and heroin shipments, while Burma’s government tacitly allows his operations to battle guerrillas.
Charles Manuel Campbell, 33, of Alexandria, was sentenced to 51 years after being convicted of first degree murder and related charges in the September 22 1970 death of John Swan Sutton in Amissville Virginia. The judge may run sentences concurrently or consecutively after a hearing next month.
A Virginia study by Resources Planning Corp for the Department of Welfare and Institutions finds drug use in state prisons is negligible with isolated smuggling and minor marijuana and LSD cases. The report says custody dominates, rehabilitation lags, and no systematic inmate drug-use assessment is done.
The Society of the Cincinnati, formed in 1783 by Continental Army officers, is the oldest military organization in the United States. George Washington served as its first president.
Traditional accounts place Saint Peter’s death during Nero’s persecutions around AD 64. He is said to have been crucified head downward at his own request, possibly in the gardens attributed to Nero.
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