We Are Destroying Ourselves A Civic Warning
A columnist argues Rome declined from within and applies the warning to the United States. He cites apathy greed corruption Watergate figures and political leaders as signs of moral and institutional decay across morals class struggle trade deficits bureaucracy taxes and governance.
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Rome
Will du
Christ
Sen
Sam Ervin
Lowell Weicker
Birch Bayh
Ted Kennedy
Jacob Javits
United States
Environmental Protection Agency
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Internal Revenue Service
Public Service Commission
Price Commission
Congress
Driving Tests At DMV Tickle On The Edge Of Sanity
A humorous essay recalls the dread of license renewal tests at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The narrator faces a moral dilemma inside a long line while pondering an absurd multiple choice scenario about an elderly pedestrian and traffic safety. The piece mocks test questions and shifts to a joke about running the old lady down to keep traffic moving.
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Department of Motor Vehicles
Kansas
Field Enterprises, Inc
Beware the Drumbeat in Pavlovian Politics
Alice Widener argues that criticism of President Nixon and top officials in 1973 echoes 1964 slander of Barry Goldwater. The piece condemns Pavlovian press tactics, the drumbeat against leaders, and the risk of mob psychology leading to dictatorship.
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New York City
Barry Goldwater
Dean Martin
Nets
Henry Kissinger
Nixon
Kissinger
Marvin Kalb
CBS
Mark Vin
United States
James McCartney
Kiss Inger
United Nations
Council
Pavlovian
Dan Rather
Jerry Greene
New York Daily News
White House
U.S.A
Right- WHEW detente study of last week events
Students study detente events from last week as pressure built around Israel and Syria. The piece discusses US aid to Israel, Soviet reactions, ceasefire pressure, and fears of broader conflict in the Mediterranean.
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Israel
Golan Heights
Haifa
United States
Suez Canal
UN Security Council
Soviet Union
U.S
Secretaries Kissinger and USSR spur uneasy alliance warning
Holmes Alexander argues that Kissinger's Moscow visit signals a de facto Soviet American partnership risking U.S. interests. He warns of junior roles, MIRV advances, and a World War era pattern of great power ententes, noting UN role and Sino Soviet tensions as consequences.
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Russia
Washington, D.C
Kissinger
Moscow
Mideast
East Europe
Berlin
Cairo
Damascus
Tel Aviv
Mediterranean Sea
Med
Defense
Schlesinger
Ussr
London
International Institute For Strategic Studies
Portugal
Mussolini
Italy
Germany
USA
United Nations
China
UN Security Council
United States
Soviet Union
Risesinger
McNaught Syndicate
Nixon aides warn of superweapons in Middle East conflict
The piece argues Egypt and Israel possess secret superweapons including Dimona plutonium and nerve gas. It discusses US and Soviet moves, a UN peace force, and the risk of direct intervention as the Arab Israeli war escalates. It notes Israel's alleged nuclear capabilities and past chemical use, with broader fears of regional nuclear escalation.
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Egypt
Israel
Los Angeles
Desert
Nixon
United Nations
Special Action Group
Kremlin
Middle East
Tel Aviv
Dimona
Israeli Defense Agency
Caio
Pentagon
America
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Agnew urged to curb payoffs in state contracts
In a letter to reader, Donald Colbert and Donald Buzzell urge Spiro Agnew to leverage his influence to fight contracting payoffs in public works. They argue payola rings exist nationwide, with architects and engineers pressed to back politicians for contracts.
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AGNEW
Jimmy Hoffa
Jay
Spiro Agnew
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Louisiana
Charles. Colbert
New Oleans
Donald Buzzell
American Consulting Engineers Council
Colbert
Buzzit
Department of Justice
Newas
Where To Write Your Legislators
A fragmented public notice lists Washington address lines for senators Hartke Bayh and representative Hillis with office locations in the Old Senate Office Building Longworth and Rayburn, though several entries are garbled. The text points readers to write to lawmakers at specific House and Senate offices in Washington D C but remaining details are unclear.
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Sen. Wren &. Bayh Jr
Senate
Washington, D.C
Elwood A. Hillis
Longworth
Dinas
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