Doctors warn over shift in Blue Shield control
A South Carolina debate centers on a proposed bill by Sen. J P Harrelson to transfer voting rights for Blue Shield from the medical association to contract holders. Advocates frame it as restoring legal mutual-insurance rights, while doctors warn of potential desertion. The measure would not recharter either Blues and would keep service payments intact.
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Blue Shield
Blue Cross
Daniel R. McLeod
S.C. Medical Assn
Sen
J.P. Harrelson
D-Colleton
General Assembly
Atty
Gen. McLeod
Sen. Harrelson
Blue Shield Treasury
South Carolina
Reporters Can Report Discrepancies
The piece discusses how frontline reports funnel up through military and political channels, ending with Kissinger’s final rewrite for Nixon. It questions Nixon’s Vietnam disclosures, noting possible distortions or misjudgments at multiple levels and urging awareness that leaders may not always know.
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Division
Corps
Gen. Abrams
MACV
Military Assitance Command Vietnam
Gen
Laos
White House
Nixon
Saigon
Recollections of Aiken field trials by Miss Claudia Phelps
Miss Claudia Lea Phelps recalls the first Aiken Field Trial Club event held at Home Run Plantation on the stage coach road to Charleston. She recalls Fitch Gilbert Jr and herself as leading figures, the lively day with dogs, judges, reporters, and a barbecue, and notes her continued involvement and her dogs’ national standing thirty years later.
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Claudia Lea Phelps
Aiken
Home Run
Phelps
Charleston
Three Runs
Claudia
Divine Authority Behind Parking Offenses
A reader questions police and judge authority over a double parking ticket. The reply cites Romans 13, arguing that governing powers derive from God and enforce laws to prevent anarchy, while acknowledging imperfect enforcers. It urges Christians to respect laws and protect public order.
Army Ad vance Legal Training School teaches Rules of War
A dialogue portrays a six week Army course aimed at grounding officers in the Rules of War after My Lai. Critics doubt necessity while the colonel argues it prevents future atrocities and covers tactics including controversial uses of force and collateral damage.
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Army
Advance Legal Training School
My Lai
Calley Case Sparks Nationwide Sympathy and Debate
A week after Lt. William Calley's murder conviction for My Lai, voices across the nation criticize the trial as unfair scapegoating. The White House and public letters reflect anger at the war’s conduct and call for review by multiple authorities, urging exoneration if warranted.
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William Calley
My Lai
Calley
My Office
White House
Lt. Calley
Vietnam
Nixon
Convening Authority
Army Court of Military Review
United States Court of Military Appeals
Secretary of the Army
United States
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Samuel A. Cothran
Eugene J. Oyler
Aiken, S.C
Paul Harvey
Gallup
Washington
C.O
J.W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations
Shameless
W. K. Laughlin
Ray Staudinger
Miss Phelps
Billy Graham
Paul
Citizen Smith
the Register and
Trbwar Syndicate
Senator’s Office
Strom Thurmond
London
Germany
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Ft. Benning
Georgia
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