UN Not Legally Bound by Nixon Wage Freeze
An Associated Press report states a United Nations spokesman said the UN is not legally bound by President Nixon's wage freeze. The question was whether the freeze blocks Secretary General U Thant from pushing the General Assembly for a raise for general service workers such as guards, stenographers, and maintenance staff. The piece argues the UN's authority can override nations, even risking that nation's survival.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Nixon
U Thant
General Assembly
UN General Service
Thant
Never On Weekends Appalling Highway Deaths Prompt Action
A 1970 highway death toll of over 55,000 spurs call for safer cars and stricter rules. Experts credit safer vehicles since 1966 and driver awareness, while speed and young drivers under 25 remain major factors. Public responsibility urged to cut future crashes.
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America
Travelers Insurance Companies
United States
Roger C. Wilkins
Voice Of Business urges realism on welfare reform H R 1
The Voice Of Business argues against H R 1, saying guaranteed annual income would expand welfare, erode work incentives, and raise costs. A Chamber study by Alfred J. Tella shows the plan may worsen poverty, with male workers reducing hours and female heads leaving the labor force. It calls for fact based reform and urges taxpayers to engage Congress.
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America
House
Senate
Businessmen of America
National Chamber Federation
Congress
White House
Chamber
Alfred J. Tella
FRENCH NEO-COLONIALISM SHAPING WEST AFRICA
West Africa remains heavily influenced by France with Paris directing finance, defense, transport, and education. Paris funds banks and airlines, sustains institutions like Dakar University, and maintains thousands of soldiers, while calls rise for Africanization and reduced French control across Senegal Ivory Coast Mauritania Chad and Niger.
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West Africa
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
France
Black Africa
Europe
Africa
South Africa
Jacques Foccart
Pompidou
Canny
Paris
Sahara
Dahomey
Chad
Air Afrique
Oferon
French Foreign Ministry
Senegal
Wolof
University of Dakar
French Africa
Leopold Senghor
Normandy
Britain
National Assembly
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Dakar
Niger
Libreville
The Manual in Modern Life Hits New York City
Alice Widener reports on The Manual as a reference for modern youth seeking meaning. Andy Hughes, vice president of the New York Bible Society, argues the Bible is a technical manual for fixing the self and restoring order, urging its relevance amid bans on Bible study in schools and a rising Jesus movement.
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New York City
Andrew Hughes
New York Bible Society International
Andy Hughes
Christian Business Men's Committee International
Andy
Christ
Nbc-Tv
California
U.S.A
Stennis trims defense bill in measured antiidiot push
In a sharp clash with what he calls the Idiots, Chairman Stennis of the Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee carves $356,000 from the Senate defense bill. He targets Research and Development, cutting helicopter, LAMPS antisubmarine, and Hound Dog 11 funds while withholding several unspent prior-year appropriations.
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Washington, D.C
Congress
Stennis
Armed Services
Department of Defense
Bill Proxmire
D.-Wis
Joint Economic Committee
USA
Ussr
China
Proxmire
United States
Russia
Pentagon
Senate
House
Defense Secretary
Army
Navy
Air Force
Cretary Laird
McNamara
Laird
Marine
Hound Dog 11
R and P
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Decampus the Mass College Campus for Alternatives
In 1971 Fen_Co argues for decentralizing higher education from swollen campuses. He cites narcotics and disruption on big campuses and advocates external degrees, educational TV, correspondence courses, and home study to reduce cost and peer-group influence while preserving learning and character.
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Academy
Behemoth II
Chevy Chase
Maryland
Academe
California
Ivory Tower
Lord Percy of
Newcastle
Cam
Gen. Fen. Corp
Plant conversation at home becomes comic misread analysis
A suburban couple debates plant emotion as a rubber plant dies newborn leaves yellow from neglect. The husband cites a survey on plant responses while the wife jokes about communication and plasticity, ending with a humorous quarrel over who talks to whom.
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Ev. A
Field Enterprises, Inc
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Office of Economic Opportunity
THE
Anderson Herald
Anderson Newspapers, Inc
Jackson Street
Anderson
Indiana
George D. Crittenberger
Harriet W. Toner
Robert E. Jackson
Jane Toner Scott
Charles W. Laughlin
Herald
By Kevin P. Phillips
Phillips Survey
India
Phillips
Alice Widener
Holmes Alexander
Alexander
By Russell Kirk
Kirk
By Erma Bombeck
Stonewall Jackson
Chicago
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