California considers tougher drunk driving law from England model
California lawmakers debate a bill by Assemblyman John Vasconcellos to set mandatory fines and prison terms for drivers with blood alcohol between .08 and .15. The measure would also require on road breath tests and emphasizes public education on what constitutes intoxication.
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California
England
Sacramento
John Vasconcellos
Field Research Corp
California Traffic Safety Foundation
Royal A. Neilson
CTSF
Neilson
Great Britain
Campbell
Warning to retailers over amm unition sales and licenses
The piece notes that using cartridge belts as a fashion accessory prompts an IRS warning to retailers about potential arrest for selling ammunition without a license. It also questions hunting without a license and cites New York welfare rules denying benefits to a mother of three who chose college over work, with implications about earning on the books.
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IRS
New York
We Scalped Indians First President Nixon Urges Indian Self Rule
Paul Harvey argues Congress should back a new era where Indian tribes control Indian benefit programs now run by white bureaucrats. He cites BIA discrimination, historic scalping bounties, broken treaties, and vast gap in life expectancy income and employment, urging freeing Indians to manage their own affairs.
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Nixon
Congress
Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States
Prolong Indochina War Debate Stirs Cambodian Aid Clash
Column argues against wider US land forces in Southeast Asia, urging limited military aid to Cambodia to bolster pacification and avoid jeopardizing South Vietnam. It warns that withdrawing troops could invite renewed Communist assaults and jeopardize gains in the region.
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Southeast Asia
United States Senate
Pease
George McGuffin
Nixon
South 1
South Vietnam
Elephant Mountains
Cambodia
Indochina
Hanoi
America
Inochina
Would test tube humans become citizens and workers
A commentary ponders creating human like beings in a lab to perform routine tasks on an assembly line. It questions whether such beings would have civil rights, and warns definitions of human may blur with future scientific advances. The piece imagines social and ethical consequences and the vanity of labeling living machines Homo Sapiens or model workers.
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Olympia
John Doe
Abe
Nixon and the Wilsonian Mind in a Crisis Era
Dr. Robert A. Nisbet argues in the Wall Street Journal that Nixon mirrors Wilsonian crisis politics. He notes Nixon’s expansionary budget, Vietnam stance, and reliance on intellectuals like Rusk and McNamara, contrasting with Eisenhower and Hoover. The piece frames Nixon as aiming to preserve South Vietnam under U.S. leadership with a Wilsonian moral tone.
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Washington, D.C
Nixon
Congress
Robert A.nishet
University of California
Wall Street Journal
Nisbet
Vietnam
John Kenneth Galbraith
America
Dr. Nisbet
Democratic Party
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Truman
John F. Kennedy
U.S
Rusk
McNamara
Schlesinger
Goodwin
Hilsman
Johnson
Nishet
Dwight Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover
South Vietnam
Academy and Press
Hoover
Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Washington
F.D.R
White House
Wilson
Nixon Under Fire Over Cambodian Laos War Policy
The piece argues President Nixon is trapped by Cambodia and Laos crises and the broader Indochina situation. It compares recent U S retreat dynamics to Napoleon and Rommel retreats, urges clarity that the United States is not fully withdrawing, and warns of risks to national interest if the public perceives a pell‑mell retreat.
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Nixon
Cambodia
Laos
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. William Fulbright
King Canute
Mr. Nixon
Vietnan
Hanoi
William P. Rogers
Oklahoma
Oregon
Thailand
France
Laog
Burma
Singapore
India
Indonesia
United States
Kores
Napoleon
Moscow
Rommel
Vietnam
Williams arrives in Salem founding Rhode Island
In 1631 Roger Williams lands in Salem seeking religious freedom and later founds Rhode Island. In 1904 Russia and Japan sever diplomatic ties over Korea and Manchuria. In 1945 US Army breaches the Siegfried Line. In 1968 the FCC begins steps to ban cigarette ads on radio and TV. A historian’s thought notes Henry Brooks. “He too serves a certain purpose who only standards and cheers.”
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Roger Williams
Salem
Mass
Rhode Island
Russia
Japan
Korea
Manchuria
Siegfried Line
Federal Communications Commission
Henry Brooks
Washington Senators and Congressmen for South County Areas
Listing of U S Senators and House members with districts and mailing addresses in Washington D C. Includes Senator Alan Cranston Senator John V Tunney and Congressmen George P Miller Don Edwards with district details covering San Leandro Castro Valley and surrounding communities plus Hayward Union City Fremont Newark and parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
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U.S
South County
Alan Cranston
Senate
Washington, D.C
John V. Tunney
Cannon House
George P. Miller
Rayburtr
San Leandro
Castro Valley
San Lorenzo
Livermore-Amador Valley
North Hayward
Alameda
East Oakland
Don Edwards
Cannon
South Hayward
Union City
Fremont
Newark
Santa Clara
San Mateo
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