28 Jul 1971
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1971
Page
1
The Nixon administration announced the fiscal 1971 budget deficit at between 20 and 25 billion dollars, the second largest since World War II. It reflects a shift toward Keynesian economics with higher spending to stimulate the economy, despite earlier vows of a balanced budget.
Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense Department analyst who leaked the Pentagon papers, was called before an unofficial House panel led by Rep. Dow. The group did not reveal testimony plans. Ellsberg faces Espionage Act charges and government property theft. he was arrested June 28 after admitting sharing the 47 volume study with press.
Frederick County native Denny Cole announced his Republican bid for the Stonewall District seat on the Board of Supervisors. He owns Denny's Furniture Store, serves on local boards, is a military veteran, sponsors a Little League team, and lives with his wife Mildred Faircloth and six children on Berryville Pike.
Premier Chou En lai told a visiting American student delegation that Peking rejects any Formosa compromise. He called Taiwan status undetermined and urged withdrawal of U.S. forces, labeled the 1954 treaty with Chiang Kai-shek illegal, and said China will not join the United Nations while the Nationalist regime is represented.
The United Transportation Union rejects a Labor Department plan for a neutral three member arbitration panel amid a nationwide rail strike affecting 120000 workers and 20 percent of shipments. UTU calls government bias toward management and demands direct collective bargaining.
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden faced five minor electrical and communications glitches while en route to the moon. Ground teams diagnosed issues with a power amplifier a broken meter glass and a circuit breaker trip. The crew remained on course for a Friday moon landing and was kept rested for six days near the lunar vicinity.
In eastern Cambodia another 3200 South Vietnamese troops joined a massive operation supported by U S helicopter gunships jets and B52s. The drive is the third in a week and aimed at pushing North Vietnamese forces away from the border to protect elections in late August and early October. The advance moved from Highway 1 between Svay Rieng and Prey Veng about 25 miles inside Cambodia.
A Greyhound Scenicruiser from New Orleans to New York collided with a tractor trailer on Interstate 95 near Quantico sending 15 passengers to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. Most injuries were not serious and many expected to be treated and released. Traffic backed up about two miles for nearly an hour as responders arrived.
A cold front barely penetrated Virginia today lowering temperatures and humidity in the north and west while the southeast remains humid with a chance of afternoon thundershowers. Industrial ads and local notices mix with sale prompts and business mentions in the Richmond AP report.
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