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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1978
Page
4
Outside Help Winchester and Frederick County officials vote to hire a consultant to study feasibility of joint city county courts and offices. The $30,000 study will be split $15,000 each with prior 1974 county spending of $14,500 cited as a useful reference for the new plan.
Chief Justice Warren Burger condemns erosion of state courts by federal directives urging a return to constitutional balance. A Williamsburg dedication of the National Center for State Courts accompanies a poll showing low public confidence in state and local courts. Optimism about center's impact contrasts with doubt federal role will recede without action by Congress and the Carter administration.
South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, a Republican, works to broaden support among black voters who may cast about 27 percent of the 1978 vote. Ravenel counters with Thurmond’s 1948 Dixiecrat statements while Thurmond touts recent minority scholarships and staff appointments as proof of political evolution.
The Washington Star Syndicate argues Britain and the United States risk a monumental blunder by not backing the Rhodesian settlement, calling for decisive Western support to stop Soviet Cuban influence and transform Rhodesia into a peaceful multiracial Zimbabwe without bloodshed. It criticizes Carter Vance Young and Owen for hesitancy and urges immediate Western intervention.
The document lists a satirical hour by hour schedule for President Carter, detailing calisthenics, breakfast, policy tasks, international aims, and personal moments. It mixes real policy goals with whimsical actions and celebrity references, reflecting a mocked presidential daily plan.
At CPAC in Washington Ronald Reagan remains conservatives’ top choice for the 1980 nomination. Senator Philip Crane of Illinois emerges as a new conservative voice. Others like Jesse Helms Bob Dole and Paul Laxalt are named as possible successors or allies in a future ticket. Some conservatives urge Reagan to retire while others argue he remains the party’s marquee figure as debates about the Panama Canal treaties continue.
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