Senate Confirmation Self Defeating Policy
Harold M. Agnew questions the Senate advise and consent role in presidential nominations. He cites Kenneth Adelman’s failed confirmation and argues the process mauls capable nominees, discouraging qualified figures from serving. The piece urges the Senate to set rules protecting decent nominees from political mauling for public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold M. Agnew
Senate
Kenneth D. Adelman
Adelman
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Agnew
South Carolina
Clement Haynesworth
U.S. Supreme Court
Thailand seeks aid against Vietnamese border raids
The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia spills into Thailand with tanks and artillery hitting villages and killing civilians. Thailand appeals for U.S. aid, while Washington funds Red Cross relief and begins an airlift of anti aircraft missiles and 155mm howitzers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambodia
Thailand
Vietnam
Khmer Rouge
Khmer People’s Nationalization Front
Norodom Sihanouk
Prajadhipok
Hoop Skirts Return With New Range of Models
The House of Hoops Inc in California sold 50,000 hoop skirts last year and anticipates Japanese entrants. Hoops form a tiered ring framework expanding to five feet wide at the floor. An Atlanta shop sold about 200 units to wealthy Saudi buyers. Popular models include Miss Scarlett and Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
House of Hoops Inc
Atlanta
Scarlett
Charleston
Was Nazism Christian and should the Holocaust museum teach faith?
A reader questions whether Nazism arose from Christian anti Semitism and argues the Holocaust was not the work of Christians. The piece urges avoiding interfaith bitterness and condemning attacks on religious core while warning against viewing World War II as defining Western history. It stresses safeguarding core beliefs as defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyam Maccoby
Israel
Commentary
Norman Podhoretz
Susan Sontag
West
Europe
Edmund Burke
Jacob Neusner
Adolf Hitler
United Nations
Hitler
Holocaust Museum
Disinformation On The Freeze
The piece argues that FBI reports show the Soviet Union has not controlled the nuclear freeze movement but has infiltrated and steered it through front groups. It cites the World Peace Council and US CPUSA links, noting coordinated campaigns and a Moscow-directed push for disarmament not “clearing” Communist involvement. The tone warns readers that media accounts misrepresent public documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Soviet Union
Congress
FBI
Washington Post
Moscow
World Peace Council
WPC
United States
Communist Party
U.S.A
U.S
Europe
CPUSA
USPC
Monster
New York
U.S. Peace Council
Newsmix of jokes and jibes from the 1960s era
A collage of quips and short anecdotes spans pop culture, politics, and international satire. It features a South Carolina dating tale, a note about a second grade girl, Moscow humor from a new book, Brezhnev and Carter exchange, a dentist joke about the Soviet Union, and a patriotism commission exchange concluding with a child’s aim to be an orphan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Daddy
Kosygin
Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Readers' Views on Prostitution Arrests Sparsely Justified
A letter questions two months of agency work leading to four prostitute arrests. The writer asks why focus on prostitution while robberies assaults and murders go unsolved and urges protection of property and lives.
Postal prices and delays spark rider’s ire in Aiken letter
Betty Abney of 330 E Boundary Road laments high postal rates and slow service after sending a package to Greenville for 1.55 and finding it arrived days later. She switched to UPS for 1.15 and faster delivery to Wisconsin, questioning how the post office functions in the era of rising costs and poor service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
Aiken
Post Office
U.P.S
de Pere
Wisconsin
Postal Service
Betty P. Abney
Boundary Road
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Joseph Sobran
The
American Jewish Committee
Henryk Grynberg
God
M. Stanton Evans
Ashley
By Ashley Cooper
Eskimos
Wall Street
Chicago
Russia
Andre Deutsch
Helsinki
Carter
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