Logan Act questions rise after Vietnam critiques at rally
Across the country critics argue why the Logan Act hasn’t been used. Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda’s North Vietnam visits and public comments prompt calls that they violated policy prohibiting private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. The debate centers on alleged treasonous acts and possible Logan Act charges.
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Jane Fonda
Ramsey Clark
Clark
U.S
Miss Fonda
North Vietnam
United States
Nixon’s Vietnam Era Accomplishments and Moves
The piece credits President Nixon with a three phase plan of negotiation Vietnamization and troop withdrawal. It cites troop reductions from 549 500 to about ten weekly deaths by late 1971 and notes Cambodia and Laos incursions as strategic steps that lowered casualties while pursuing Paris peace talks and private negotiations with Hanoi.
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Fullbrights
Clarks
Fondas
Bayhs
Hartkes
Nixon
Vietnam
United States
Cource
Cambodia
U.S
Paris
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Nixon approves four percent blue collar pay raises plan
President Nixon authorizes a plan delivering four and one half percent raises for about half a million federal blue collar workers, targeting support from AFGE and AFL CIO members. The measure, tied to wage surveys and market comparisons, expands the pay scale with new steps and applies to non fund activities and adds night differentials. The action aims to influence the AFGE convention and bolster civil service backing.
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Washington
Nixon
American Federation of Government Employes
John F. Griner
Afl-Cio
AFGE
Sen
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Civil Service Commission
Robert E. Hampton
CSC
Soviets expand outward with STOL and airlift plans
McNaught Syndicate analysis argues that Soviet pilots may train in STOL to support airlift and forward deployment. It discusses mobile sea platforms, ANTEUS and AN-12 fleets, submarines as capital assets, and the shift toward conventional power projection through airlift and airborne forces.
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Washington, D.C
Marshall Kutakhov
Admiral Zumwalt
Soviet Union
STO
Russia
Anteus
Royal United Services Institute For Defense Studies
Soviet
Air Transport Command
Ussr
Aeroflot
Jackson
Czechoslovakia
Egypt
East Europe
Mideast
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Rhodes critique of US education ignored by major TV nets
Alice Widener reports that NBC CBS and ABC skipped Governor Rhodes’s Miami speech criticizing the national primary and secondary education system. He warned of an inflexible college-focused tunnel harming 18 million youths, while census figures showed stark racial gaps in NYC high school and college graduation rates.
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TV News
NBC
CBS
ABC
American Bar Association
Republican Human Concerns Subcommittee
Miami
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Gov. Rhodes
Rhodes
Staten Island
New York
Republican Human Concerns Committee
Nixon
Right to Die Debate Faces Medical Ethics
A Senate panel hears Dr. Walter Sackett defend a proposed Florida bill to allow terminally ill adults to halt life-sustaining treatment, with spouses or doctors deciding when the patient is unable to direct care. Critics and religious ethics weigh whether euthanasia is implied and how double effect doctrine applies to prolonging life versus prolonging suffering.
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Walter Sackett
Florida
Sackett
Laurance Foye Jr
Education Service
The
Veterans Administration
Nixon Feasts on Political Revenge and Power
A King Features Syndicate column likens Richard Nixon to a chef serving Humble Pie Rockefeller a la Jerusalem. It traces Rockefeller and Connally moves to secure New York and Texas support, Nixon’s past defeats, and anticipates a Texas and New York GOP triumph fueled by revenge and strategic alliances.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
Rockefeller
Jerusalem
Nelson Rockefeller
Israel
Richard Nixon
New York
Nixon
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Nilson Rockefeller
Texas
John F. Ken
Lyndon Johnson
le Star
Johnson
John Connally
Hubert Humphrey
Connally
LBJ
Lone Star
Long John
LBJ Connally
California
Chou Ewai
Breshnev
Kosygin
Sim
Sammy Glick
King Features Syndicate
Readers Comment More Pay
A retired Indiana Reformatory sergeant urges 24 hour guard towers, higher pay for guards, and a new correction system. He notes staffing gaps, union limits, and budget allocations favoring a new women's prison and a power house, calling for better pay to hire and retain staff.
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