Guest editorial Southern span's desperate hour
The Southern Crossing project for the San Francisco Bay area faces extinction unless Governor Reagan vetoes the Crown bill. Critics argue veto preserves options only if BART fails, while supporters press for immediate action to keep the crossing alive amid external and internal pressures.
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San Francisco Bay
Reagan
Robert Crown
Layoff Insurance for Public Hands Gets Legislative Move
The Assembly Finance and Insurance Committee passed a bill to make state employees eligible for unemployment insurance and sent it to Ways and Means. The measure argues public workers deserve the same protection as private payrolls amid budget cuts and rising layoffs.
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Assembly Finance and Insurance Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Alameda County
Reagan
Hayward
California retools un American Activities oversight panel
A new four member civil disorder committee replaces the defunct Un American Activities Committee. The move aims to sustain scrutiny of subversive groups while granting California readers insight into official actions. Senators Carpenter and Harmer join Mills in shaping the panel’s early course.
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State
Senate
California
James Mills
San Diego
Dennis Carpenter
FBI
John Harmer
Glendale
Rules Committee
Un-American Activies Committee
Barry Goldwater Red China's Hanoi bluff
In the war of nerves in Southwest Asia the Chinese Communists use saber rattling as a warning. Chou En-lai’s Hanoi visit signals concern for Laos and aims to unsettle U S policy while China pledges material aid to North Vietnam without deploying troops.
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Southwest Asia
Chou Ga-lai
Hanoi
Chon
United States
Laos
North Vietnam
Europe
Chou
Red China
Mao Tae-tung
Hed China
Peking
Soviet Union
China
Chow
California schools trim staff amid state aid doubts
California districts dispatched notices to hundreds of administrators and thousands of teachers about potential layoffs next fall. Officials blame a state funding squeeze though per pupil aid remains planned to rise. declining enrollments press districts to cut staff and reassess positions.
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San Francisco
Berkeley
San Diego
Oakland
Sacramento Unified
Cupertino
Santa Clara County
Alameda County
Castro Valley Unified
Hayward Unified
Yreka
California
Thhe
Cishes
James Kilpatrick Knight of Washington Faces Passport Battles
Washington's Frances Knight, longtime director of the U S Passport Office, confronts a swelling workload and bureaucratic friction as The New York Times questions the lookout file. Knight defends its purpose while battling pushback from superiors and seeking overdue pay and reforms.
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Washington
Chaucer
Hobe Sound
State Department
Miss Knight
Frances
New York Times
Times
Passport Office
Warren Commission
John Kennedy
Lee Oswald
Commission
FBI
CLA
Secret Service
York Times
U.S
Fist
Lookout
Free Speech a shield and a sword in wartime policy
Morrie Ryskind argues free speech is not absolute in peril and notes that nations cannot defend themselves if the enemy is granted safe havens. He critiques antiwar theatre at Fort Bragg and questions morale and bipartisan support for Vietnam while praising Dayan’s decisions in the Six Day War.
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Justice Holmes
LBJ
Lee
McNamara
Hanoi
Coene
Israel
Moshe Dayan
Laos
Cambodia
North Vietnam
Ohat
Indochina
Egypt
Lan
Ho Chi Minh
Saigon
Fayetteville
N.C
America
Jane Fonds
Dick Gregory
Elliot Gould
Iwes Feiffer
Mike Nichols
Fort Bragg
Eugene McCarthy
U.S. Campa
Vietnam
Hantol
Bem
Fonda
Panda
Castro
Malcolim X
Tokyo Rose
Lord Hanlan
Ezra Found
Mussolini
Vietnam War Gains From Offensive Strategy
Opinion piece credits Gen Ira C Baker with an offensive shift and praises Nixon for permitting tac tical offensives. It argues South Vietnamese troops tiro like better antiguerrilla fighters and cites Camb extia and Tins campaigns as pivotal, noting air power limits and calls for end to antiwar sniping as withdrawal accelerates.
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Nixon
U.S
Boston
Frenay
Vietnam
Cambextia
Tins
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