Opium Bloom in Afghan Aid Project Critics Warn
Editorial notes US aid to Afghanistan funded land reclamation and irrigation like the Helmand Arghandab project, but claims villages now grow opium poppies. Officials estimate 100 tons yearly, possibly up to 300 tons, with heroin exports reaching the United States. Renewal of Helmand support is set for June 1974.
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Afghanistan
United States
Asia
Helmand-Arghandab
Tennessee Valley Authority
New York
Times
Helmand Valley
Helmand
The Selling of HEW and Pentagon Spending Compare
Researchers argue HEW outlays dwarf Pentagon costs and outpace defense spending over 20 years. The ACA study cites HEW public relations spending exceeding the Pentagon’s and urges media scrutiny of domestic programs. Questioning why HEW spending gets less attention.
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Pentagon
CBS
American Conservative Union
Washington
Health Education and Welfare Department
ACA
America
Defense
HEW
Critcal
Space road echoes from a June night
Alice Widener reflects on Skylab and Space Road concept from General Power. She recalls 1961 talk at Offutt AFB, praises Jack Kinzler’s umbrella fix saving a $2.5 billion mission, and honors astronauts Conrad Kerwin Weitz amid a calm New York night sky.
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Manhattan
Skylab
Offutt Air Force Base
Omaha
Thomas S. Power
Strategic Air Command
Space
General Power
Rew
Charles Conrad, Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Jack Albert Kinzler
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Jack Kinzler
Mr. Kinzler
Europe
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Daily TV News
U.S.A
Aviation’s critics miss the force of progress and innovation
Paul Harvey defends aviation against silence and smears, noting its role in world trade, rescue, weather forecasting, and medical advances. He recounts the Aerial Experiment Association led by Alexander Graham Bell and Glenn Curtiss, and cites Wright brothers’ legacy, urging continued investment and cooperation to advance supersonic and VTOL potential.
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Hitler
Tojo
Harvey
Jim Taylor
Cessna
States
Canada
Aerial Experiment Association
Wright Bros
Glenn Curtiss
Alexayer Graham Bell
Gen
Fea. Corp
Southern Strategy rolls on with regional gains in South
Washington columnist Kevin P Phillips reports the GOP realignment across the South as Watergate fades. Virginia Missouri Mississippi Georgia and Texas show GOP breakthroughs, with Mills Godwin and others as catalysts, while Northern analysts debate the long term impact of the Southern Strategy.
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KFS
Daniel Elisbeng
G. Gordon Liddy
Virginia
Mills B. Godwin
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Our Party
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Ttem
Cntury
Mississippi
Clarke Reed
Greenville
S.C
Columbus
Texas
John Connally
White House
George Bush
Bush
Mason-Dixon Line
Southland
Atlanta
Rez Murphy
Murphy
New Left
New York Review of Books
Kirkpatrick Sale
Minnsters
Nixon
Phillips
Richard Nixon
Republican Party
Sale
New Money
Roosevelt
King Features Syndicate
Reflections on Nixon Brezhnev Watergate and Harvard
The column surveys Henry Kissinger Paris diplomacy and L Duc Tho, Brezhnev’s praise of Nixon, and Watergate’s echo on policy. It notes Magruder's Coffin influenced ethics, Harvard ROTC debate, and Nixon era tensions with a mix of curious anecdotes and political commentary.
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Rs Duchvey
Henry Kissinger
Paris
L Duc
Ricard Nixon
New York
City
Richard Nixon
Brezhnev
Tat Sovat Union
Nixon
Bis
Treasury
Oes ‘Shultz
New York ‘Times
Art Buchwald
Jeb Stuart Magruder
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Sprites
Coffin
Magruder
McGovern
America
Harvard
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Bok
Army denies full denture claim for civilian worker
Federal diary reports Richard W. Osgood Jr., a civilian technician, is denied full reimbursement for a denture damaged in duty. The Army offers $48 for a 14 year set while an insurance depreciation rate is questioned by Osgood’s union NAGE which may take the matter to the GAO.
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Washington
Army
Sam
Richard W. Osgood Jr
Osgoed
Osgood
National Association 2 Government Employees
NAGE
General Accounting Office
GAO
Alan J. Whitney
Fort Devens
Mass
New England
Yng Opel
Whitney
John V. Tunney
Bill Scherle Relowa
House
Nixon Fresien
Congress
Nixon
Amn es ty Talk Sparks Political Debate in Washington
In Washington the Returning Traveler questions whether amnesty could extend to deserters and political offenders who sabotaged the war effort. The discussion notes lawmakers who defied funding and aided the enemy, urging no forgiveness for figures like Morse Goodell Gore and others amid a national shock over Vietnam.
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America
Iain
Congress
Church
Pentagon
Wayne ‘Morse
Charles Goodell
Albert Gore
McNaught Syn., Inc
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