Reform needed as postal prices rise and private delivery urged
Editorial urges Congress to end the postal monopoly and allow private firms to carry mail if the USPS cannot improve service. Cites price increases from six to thirteen cents and potential jumps to 15, 30, or 50 cents, noting delays and inefficiencies in current delivery. Calls for increased efficiency and a possible private option to curb subsidizing taxes and rising rates.
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U.S. Postal Service
Postal Service
Anderson
Indianapolis
Postal Rate Commission
Commission
Congress
History revisited by MU on Holocaust docudrama critique
A Los Angeles Times piece reviews the TV miniseries Holocaust. It argues the program, though powerful in scenes, cannot capture humanity’s capacity for inhumanity in nine hours. The author urges documentary rendering for memory, discusses timing and political pressures, and cautions against weaponizing tragedy to influence Middle East policy.
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Germany
Concentration Corps
Menachem Begin
Begin
Israel
Middle East
Los Angeles Times ‘Syndicat
NIMH funds Peru brothel study sparks outrage
Sen. William Proxmire condemns a $97,000 NIMH grant to researchers from the University of Washington and University of Missouri for a Peru study on ethnic and class relations in a mountain village brothel. He urges tighter control of taxpayer funds amid claims of research publicity and bureaucratic excess.
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Ull
Washington
National Institute For “Mental Health
William Proxmire
D-Wis
NIMH
Tuti
Proxmire
Peru
Treasury
van den Berghe
Primov
Gary
Ind
Someday you'll thank me odyssey of a warning to mothers
In a humorous recollection from 1978, a San Francisco reader writes about the eight word instruction Someday you'll thank me, tracing its origin to a Des Moines housewife who disciplined a difficult child. The note riffs on motherhood, discipline, and the elusive understanding between generations, ending with a tongue in cheek invitation to call.
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California
Gayley S
San Francisco
Gayley
Des Moines
Iowa
Collect
Field Enterprises, Inc
Phillips survey Indian question
Kevin F. Phillips argues that the Longest March of American Indians highlights contested tribal rights and land claims while critiquing films and writings on frontier history. He contends Indians fought for fighting itself, not defense of land, and warns against romanticized narratives influencing 1978 assessments.
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Kevin F. Phil
Washington
California
D.C
Sand Creek
Colo
Cat
Col. Chivington
Chivington
John Greenway
University of Colorado
Boulder
William F. Buckley
National Review
Department of Justice
Maine
U.S
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Nuclear plants halted by California governor sparks national alarm
California Governor Jerry Brown has suspended further nuclear plant production amid a pro nuke referendum result and a Heritage Foundation study warning of massive job losses and economic collapse if nuclear options are shut down nationwide. The piece argues environmentalists threaten a no growth society and calls for regulatory streamlining to avert mass poverty and unrest.
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Roumae Julevanu
Copley
Washington
Jerry Brown
California
Pearl Harbor
Milton Copulos
The
Heritage Foundation
Mr. Carter
Brown
Far West
Congress
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Sierra Club
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