Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter describing life in his "barbed-wire island," the officer wrote the Clarion Herald, a New Orleans Catholic newspaper: "There are two serious needs. One is clothing for the children. Many infants are naked. The other is for soap. Bathing is done in the rain, from contaminated wells or stagnant pools. The use of soap could prevent countless boils, infections and abscesses on these unfortunate children...
...response was instantaneous. A New Orleans meat packer shipped two tons of soap directly to Rod. Children gift wrapped individual bars, rushed them off by airmail. Other contributions inundated the Clarion Herald. A Baton Rouge TV station weighed in with 700 Ibs. of soap, a New Orleans seventh-grade civics class with 700 bars...
...leaves a wife and his own five children, ranging in age from 18 months to eight years. In Due Pho, he also leaves a legacy of love. Six and a half tons of soap and clothes go from New Orleans this week to Rod's wards. The Clarion Herald plans to continue the fund drive for his orphanage. Said the paper's executive editor, Father Elmo Romagosa: "Captain Rod has done more than launch a campaign for the Vietnamese children. He has made thousands of persons in communities throughout Louisiana feel that they have a personal stake...
...disintegrate the unity of Malaysia," but Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew welcomed it warmly. "Malaysia's friends may be our friends," said Lee, "but Malaysia's enemies need not be our enemies." Encouraged perhaps by Lee's response, the authoritative newspaper Indonesian Herald published an editorial reiterating Djakarta's "position of flexibility" on the confrontation issue...
STUDENTS SENTENCED TO CUTS, the Rhodesia Herald reported: "At a special magistrate's court held in Senka Village yesterday evening, 239 African students from the Fletcher High School, aged between 15 and 21, pleaded guilty. The allegation was that they took part in an unlawful procession . . . The magistrate, Mr. D. K. Utting, imposed sentences ranging from four to six cuts on the juveniles, and on those aged 19 or more, one month imprisonment suspended for three years conditionally, plus six cuts...