Editorials The CHP gets writer's cramp
The California Highway Patrol faces a salary cutback clash as a 10 percent ceiling clashes with anticipated raises tied to city pay scales. The piece condemns the slowdown and urges lawful enforcement, warning that attempting to blackmail the state would lead to chaos. It advocates repealing restrictive laws or enforcing them rather than disruption.
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California
Sacramento
Brown
Nimitz
Bay Area
State Personnel Board
Denial in New Haven
New Haven Unified School District's three top administrators refused salary increases this year, including Superintendent Thomas Hedden and assistants Guy Emanuele and Ellis Teel, as part of about 400000 in budget cuts. The move, praised as frugal leadership, signals restraint but foreshadows tougher times ahead for bargaining and overall government costs.
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New Haven Unified
Thomas Hedden
Guy Emanuele
Ellis Teel
New Haven
Hedden
New Havens
Oil fuels inflation OPEC price move analyzed
The PLOYS of OPEC to extract higher world oil prices despite a self-imposed freeze are seen as potentially counterproductive. Ministers from 13 OPEC members agreed to set oil prices using the Special Drawing Rights system, likely raising the price per barrel by about 30 cents and fueling global inflation beyond the United States borders. Inflation is portrayed as a global issue needing global remedies, a point the piece says has not yet reached the new economic power’s leadership.
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Monetary Exchange
United States
OPEC
Copley Newspapers
Commission urges separate roles for secretary of state and security
A special commission recommended future secretaries of state not double as the President's national security adviser. The idea is to avoid the appearance of one man handling two key jobs. The report notes the policy shift could improve government balance and accountability.
Namibia dispute letter meets sharp rebuke from critic
A Washington opinion piece targets William Johnston for claiming Namibia as a nation under South Africa. It argues South West Africa was administered under a 1920 mandate and that UN actions lack legal authority, noting Windhoek delegates will decide the territory's future.
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Washington
William Johnston
New York
Episcopal Churchmen
South Africa
Namibia
Johnston
United Nations
International Court of Justice
Washington Post
League
U.N. General Assembly
Assembly
General Assembly
U.N
South West Africa
World Court
Dean Acheson
Security Council
Mr. Acheson
Windhoek
Pretoria
Episcopal
Democrats Seek Hidden Venue for National Convention
Will Rogers quotes show a view that no city has bid to host the Democratic National Convention. The piece notes the party seeks an obscure town willing to take on the event, reflecting skepticism about finding a suitable host.
Lord in Israel returns to Oregon schools for better future
In Oregon, high school diplomas will require reading writing computing and civic understanding before they are granted. A second piece notes Midge Decter's Liberal Parents Radical Children, critiquing the lack of parental boundaries and the 1960s youth culture, urging return of traditional guidance and discipline.
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Oregon
Oregon State Education Department
Midge Decter
Coward, McCann and Geoghegan
Israel
Why We Love A Federal Research Dilemma
A Minnesota study on why people fall in love, funded at 95000 dollars, questions the practical use of discovering whether love is a chemical match or a liver like snowflakes. Critics quote Senator Proxmire on keeping love mysterious and wonder how such findings would curb divorce.
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Rilen Bursheid
University of Minnesota
William Proxmire
Dr. Burscheid
Wen
Gershwing
George
Ira
Greenwich
Conn
George Gershwin
Ares
I Sory
Forecasters lose ESP as Ford enters 1976 race
Morrie Ryskind laments faded political foresight on Capitol Hill and media missteps. He recalls Newsweek’s Ford denial, a planted story by Reagan supporters, and a Gershwin anecdote highlighting the era’s inside story culture.
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Alibilke
Ford
Newsweek
Eapher
Rocky
Ronald Ream
Blene
White House
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John D. Ehrlichman
James Kilpatrick
Africa
Angola
Okavango
League of Nations
Func
Rogers
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Ozarks
Jim Fiebig
Morrie Ryskind
Capitol Hill
Delphi
Caesar
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