Senate Votes 47 40 to Fund SACB but Block Executed Order
Senators approved an $84 000 appropriation for the Subversive Activities Control Board but barred the funds from implementing Nixon’s executive order to identify groups seeking violent overthrow. The debate touched on McCarthy era history and concerns over civil liberties and national security.
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United States Senate
U.S
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Joseph McCarthy
United States
Kennedy
Congress of the United States
Faa
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Nixon
Sen
McClellan
SACB
McCarthy
Otto Otepka
Aly
Robert Kennedy
Otepka
Teddy Kennedy
Apollo 15 Mission Poised For Moon Landing Milestones
Apollo 15 is scheduled to launch from Cape Kennedy and become the fourth manned lunar landing. Astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Mfred Worden will stay away from Earth for 2 days 7 hours the longest lunar mission yet. Scott and Irwin will spend three days on the moon and 20 hours outside the lunar module. The mission features the large Saturn 5 payload 107 500 pounds and the Lunar Roving Vehicle enabling five mile moon traverses. TV coverage will be extensive with a camera on the Rover and another on the command module photographing Worden on his spacewalk and the lunar liftoff. For the first time astronauts will remove space suits to sleep wearing coveralls.
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Cape Kennedy
Moon
David Scott
Mfred Worden
James Irwin
Earth
Scott
Irwin
Neil A. Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Rover
Worden
Scott and
Chester Lee
USN
Birch Bayh interns face awkward political cruise moment
A Potomac River cruise organized by 35 Birch Bayh interns drew hundreds who clenched fists and chanted Ho Chi Minh in support of the National Liberation Front. The event funded intern salaries, provoking questions about political expression by youth volunteers.
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NFL
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam
Communist
National Liberation Front
Bayh
Political ad spending and party finances in 1970s U.S.
The Democratic Party faced funding challenges against Republicans with Larry O'Brien stating Democrats could not compete financially. A Indiana speech highlighted Democratic fundraising gaps while an FCC survey noted $50,292,164 spent on political broadcasts in 1970 with Democrats outspending Republicans by about 4.3 million in the primaries and general elections.
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Democratic Party
Republican Party
Larry O'Brien
Democrat
Fargo
N.D
U.S. Congress
U.S. Senate
Indianapolis
U.S
FCC
United Press International Dispatch
Right to Die Debate Turns on End of Life Care
A column on the 10th annual aging conference at the University of Michigan weighs whether incurably ill patients may choose to stop extraordinary treatment to hasten death. It argues for moral legality of refraining from prolonging life, distinguishes from euthanasia, and cites religious and ethical perspectives on mercy and dignity.
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Ubscursity
Michigan
The Greening of America reviewed by Antony Marrigan
Antony Marrigan condemns The Greening of America by Charles Reich as intellectual mobbish yet readable. He argues Reich misdefines Consciousness as a modern lifestyle eroding individual responsibility and respect for society, while noting sharp attacks on logic and historical context.
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Sy Antony Marrigan
America
Charles A
Yale University
Reich
Orn
Jess Ws
Albert Camus
Sho
Berkeley
Prof. Reich
Germany
Nixon Promise on Crime Shows Progress in 1971
The piece argues President Nixon kept his crime crackdown pledge, citing New Hampshire 1968 speech, praising strict justice and nominating four Supreme Court justices. It highlights FBI Uniform Crime Reports, noting crime rose early 1971 but cites declines in Los Angeles and other cities, framing Nixon’s approach as effective and decisive.
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Nixon
Washington, D.C
Dwight Eisenhower
Front
New Hampshire
Humphrey
Mixon
Ghotts
White House
White House. Mr. Nixon
Supreme Court
John Mitchell
Ramsey Clarkeg
Gensest
Hubert Humphrey
FBI
Ign
PBL
Los Angeles
Hubert Rumphrey
Minneapolis
Vicw
Agnew
Baltimore
Harry Truman
Independence
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
On The Right By Buckley China Visit Speculation
Buckley ponders Chou Enlai and Kissinger talk, Nixon's China trip implications, and the shift in U S attitude toward the Soviet Union. He contrasts Eisenhower era diplomacy with current hopes of redefining world blocs, predicting domestic and regional effects, including Japan and Formosa.
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William F. Buckley
China
Chou Entai
Henry Kissinger
Dan Fisberg
Chairman Mao
United States
Mr. Nixon
Kissinger
Chou
Eisenhower
Moscow
Nixon
Peking
Korea
South Vietnam
General Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Sayiel Une
Russia
Khrushcchev
Cuba
Mid-East
Vietnam
Peoples Republic
Khrushchev
Japan
Formosa
Ned China
America
F.D.R
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Probing FTC Chief Pitofsky's "Prove It" Campaign
Alice Widener critiques Robert Pitofsky's 1971 FTC drive to require advertisers to prove every claim. The piece satirizes the notion of mandatory proof for ads like car glamour and consumer products. It questions government meddling, referencing Nader, Galbraith, and industry figures while defending freewheeling consumer talk.
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Alice Widener
Pitofsky
New York City
Consumer Protection Bureau
Federal Trade Commission
Robert Pitofsky
Tokyo
Starket
Helen
Food Mart
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Gap. Fea. Corp
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Alexander
Buckley
Nader
Pitolsky
Couse
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N.Y
Manhattan
Long Island
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Gare Vidal
Raider Nader
Kenneth Galbraith
Putelsky
Robert Pito
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Ralph Nader
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