Okinawa Pact May Not End Long-Standing U.S. Ties
Okinawa’s 1972 reversion to Japan faces Senate ratification delays and linked issues. The agreement preserves U.S. military presence, with bases still in use and nuclear weapons to be removed, while economic diversification for Okinawa becomes essential for its one million residents.
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Okinawa
Japan
U.S
Nixon
Eisaku Stao
Tokyo
Washington
U.S. Senate
United States
Ryukyu
Korea
Vietnam
Paris
Voice of America
China
End the Harp Seal Massacre off Canada's Gulf
An eyewitness account from the St Lawrence gulf describes brutal baby harp seal hunting. Seals are clubbed and skinned not only for profit, with mothers grieving beside their slain pups. The writer urges action, noting Rep Waldie’s bill to ban harp seal pelts in the U S and asking readers to petition Chairman Mills.
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Gulf of the St. Lawrence
Canada
Jerome R. Waldie
Ways and Means
Wilbur D. Mills
The Shepherd and a Harp Seal Policy Debate
A mountain church stained glass view inspires a lyric. The text shifts to politics with H. R. 7122 to ban harp seal product imports. A Missouri reader recalls Nixon speeches and school era diphtheria, praising Texas vaccination progress and sharing a family loss on Cemetery Hill.
Trade with Red China Opens Under Nixon Policy Change
Washington reports that President Nixon has begun normalizing trade with mainland China after 20 years of restriction. A broad list of farm, fish, forestry, chemicals, metals, industrial equipment, textiles, and consumer goods will be exportable, alongside lifted wheat and grain controls. The move aims to improve relations, aid Chinese living standards, and reflect broader Asia outreach while noting ongoing tensions.
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Washington
Nixon
China
United States
Asia
Peking
Red China
Europe
Soviet Union
North Vietnam
Indochina
Southeast Asia
John Kerry's Speech on America
An opinion piece critiques John Kerry's Vietnam era indictment of America, arguing it reflects a broader intellectual attack on the military and national resolve. The writer questions whether Kerry’s rhetoric will endure and defends the Vietnam commitment as a high national tribute.
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John Kerry
America
Kerry
Mrs. Spock
Lot
James Baldwin
Harvard
Soviet Union
John Kerrys
Calley
Einstein
John
Vietnam
Job hunt optimism and inflation jokes in Elks Magazine
Comments note that 1970 college graduates found accountants fared best in job searches. The Elks Magazine humor section jokes about inflation, including a supermarket scene where a man with a twenty dollar bill declines a cart, saying he won’t need one.
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Bill Vaughan
the Elks Magazine
Education vs schooling for the class of 1971
The piece argues schooling often mirrors training for pay and status, not true education. It contrasts modern technocratic schooling with Newman’s ideal of an educated person, who possesses broad understanding and place in history, illustrated by a tracker named Dende who embodies educated humanity without formal schooling.
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Washington
Newman
John Ciardi
Saturday Review
Eliseo Vivas
Ciardi
East Africa
Dende
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