Editorial on New York Abortion Law and Reform
The piece notes New York joins states relaxing abortion laws with a 24 week limit for abortion by woman and doctor decision and life saving exception afterward. It cites political debate and a Foley vote by George M Michaels amid Catholic district pressure and the broader moral and policy questions surrounding abortion.
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New York
Supreme Court
New York State
George M. Michaels
Michaels
SEATO Seen Durable Yet Largely Ineffective in Southeast Asia
The SEATO alliance with eight members faces deadlock on many issues yet remains linked to the Vietnam war. Its annual Manila meeting likely to discuss Cambodia as Bangkok stays away, reflecting enduring but limited effectiveness since its 1954 founding after Dien Bien Phu and Geneva Accords.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
United States
Britain
France
Pakistan
Thailand
Philippines
Australia
New Zealand
Indo-China
SEATO
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Treaty
Ence
Manila
Cambodia
State Department
Bangkok
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva
Uy. S
John Foster Dulles
Truth In Taxing Congress Secrecy on Airline Taxes Targeted
A recent law hides federal taxes in ticket prices, raising taxes to eight percent and adding a five percent air freight tax. Airline transparency ends as travelers must not see tax amounts. Citizens urged to write to Senators Hartke and Bayh criticizing the secrecy.
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Congress
Senate
Vance Hartke
Birch Bayh
Woman's Bra Crisis With a Computer
A Pittsburgh woman narrates a comical battle with a malfunctioning ordering computer. Mixed up orders lead to two bras delivered, returned, and charged, prompting creative protests including destroying the second bra. The piece ends with the woman burning her own bra in defiance of machines.
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Pittsburgh
Field Enterprises, Inc
Massachusetts War Law Sparks Supreme Court Debate
Paul Harvey questions double standards in war ethics as Massachusetts enacts a law barring state servicemen from participating in the Vietnam conflict. The measure, approved by 127 to 92 in the House and 29 to 3 in the Senate, challenges federal authority to wage undeclared wars and prompts debate on presidential powers, congressional declarations, and the cultural response to the war.
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Harvey
U.S. Supreme Court
Massachusetts
State House
Senate
Vietnam
High Court
Supreme Court
Congress
Rao
Federal Diary Charts Defense Cutbacks and Job Losses
Washington officials grapple with a projected 70 000 civilian job cuts across the military services, led by the Army with up to 30 000 positions. The Army Materiel Command would shed about 11 000 civilian slots, while Navy and Air Force losses approach 20 000 each. Congress and Defense press for protections for older workers and careful use of private contractors, with training slots as a potential safeguard. The Budget Bureau memo notes the end of the Budget Bureau and the rise of the Office of Management and Budget to oversee money apportionment and broader duties including staffing and training oversight.
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Congress
Defense
Uncle Sam
White House
Burglary Suspect’s Wry Answer Sparks Domestic Jokes
A county jail interview quotes a burglar saying the greatest risk is being mistaken for the husband when entering a house. The dialogue spins from marriage jokes to domestic misunderstandings, including a wife noting the cat would be blamed for a broken jug. The anecdote ends with a quip about a bore being someone who tells you how he is.
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Len
Presidential powers challenged in Senate war debate
Senator Barry Goldwater pushes for one or two Constitutional amendments to define and limit presidential and congressional war powers amid the Nixon Cambodia episode. Senator Frank Church urges rapid action on imperial powers while debates over impeachment loom amid a constitutional crisis mood.
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Washington, D. C
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Congress
Goldwater
Edgar Robinson
Nixon
Frank Church
Idaho
United States
Church
USA
Hawaii
Philippines
Guam
Puerto Rico
Britain
France
Japan
Rome
New Yorker
Richard Goodwin
Goodwin
Woodrow Wilson
General Pershing
Villa Bandetti
Wilson
Mexico
Richard Nixon
Peacebloc
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Britain Returns to Conservatism After Socialist Sweep
The piece argues that Britain's June vote swung to Conservative leadership after years of socialist policy. It contends taxation, debt to unions, and immigration pressures undermined Socialist governance, urging the U.S. to heed Britain’s shift away from socialism and strengthen federal leadership and personnel.
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Labor Party
United States
Canada
Australia
Britain
Fabian Society
Winston Churchill
America
Great Britain
New Frontier
Great Society
Harold Laski
The
New Statesman
London Observer
Boorstin satire targets racism in academia and the White House
In a 1970 critique Gen Fea argues Daniel Boorstin's The Sociology of the Absurd lampoons radical professors who claim the White House signifies racism. He notes Boorstin mocks an imaginary Professor X who attacks Ivy League myths and pushes a universal racism agenda while exposing hypocrisy in university admissions.
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White House
Academy of Lagado
Bedlam
Daniel Boorstin
Boorstin
University of Chicago
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Professor X
Simon and Schuster
Boogistin
Ivy League
Executive Mansion
F. J. Tompkins
North Caro
Lina
New York
John Kennedy
Robert
Dr. Boorstin
White Man
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Gen. Fea. Corp
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