The Concorde SST Faces U S Decision This Month
Hearings on British Airways and Air France Concorde intercontinental service to New York and Washington prompt Secretary Coleman to rule within 30 days. Opponents warn of health, noise, and economic costs while proponents push progress, but critics call the plane a risky, elite venture.
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William T. Coleman
United States
British Airways
Air France
New York City
Washington, D.C
Coleman
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Britain
France
England
American Airlines
Readers Send 448 Letters to The Messenger in Year
The Messenger logged 448 letters to the editor last year averaging 37 monthly with a December drop to 24. Athens led with 16 contributions among seven communities. Topics included foreign aid policy local deer hunting rules dog control and a push for merrier street Santas.
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the Messenger
North Pole
Athens
Southeastern Ohio
Nation Survived 75 but Will Old Ways Return
AP analysis assesses 1975 hardship and predicts a mixed 1976 with inflation and unemployment easing, rates falling, and more consumer buying. It notes lessons on spending, the danger of rising governmental outlays, and the public discovering many prior luxuries were not essential.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
Academe
Soviet Angola Statement Shows No Policy Change
Moscow analysts view Pravda editorial as reaffirming no shift in Kremlin policy toward Angola's civil war. The piece calls for ending foreign armed intervention while noting continued moral, material support to MPLA and its Luanda government. It argues outside forces seek to stifle Africa’s new sovereign state.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Angola
Kremlin
Communist Party
Pravda
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Luanda
Organization of African Unity
OAU
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
United States
South Africa
China
Africa
People’s Republic of
National Liberation Struggle of Peoples
Vietnam
Ohio lawmakers unlikely to vote pay raise shows risk
Ohio's 111th General Assembly faces a final year of deliberations with little chance of approving a salary increase. The Citizens Conference on State Legislatures notes public backlash and self-serving politics as deterrents, citing state comparisons from 1960 to 1975 and noting wage levels, session lengths, and leader pay differentials.
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Robert E. Miller
Associated Press
Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
111Th General Assembly
Citizens Conference On
State Legislatures
Denver
Colo
New York
California
Illinois
New Hampshire
Citizens’ Conference
The Brown Decision and its Enduring Impact
Review of Kluger's Simple Justice and its portrayal of Brown v. Board of Education as a watershed case. The piece argues the ruling changed law and society, shifting power from original intent to judicial interpretation, with lasting consequences like civil rights advances and busing. It notes Justice Jackson concerns, the unanimous result, and views on constitutional amendment versus court reinterpretation. January 8, 1928.
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Washington
Richard Kluger
Brown
Kluger
Hughes
District of Columbia
Hugo Black
Robert Jackson
Jackson
Earl Warren
Douglas
Frankfurter
James Byrnes
Byrnes
CB Club Thanks Donors For Leukemia Patient Aid
The Top 23 CB radio club of Southern Ohio extends thanks to clubs organizations and businesses that donated to Susan Smith of Logan who has leukemia enabling her to continue treatment. The letter also includes a critical remark about coverage of Sgt Hutchins and Ptl Mount,” stating the article was sensationalist and unnewsworthy.
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CB Club
the Messenger
CB Radio Club
Southern Ohio
Susan Smith
Logan
Susan
Sgt. Hutchins
Ptl
Mount
David Malawista
E. State St. Athens
Letter Briefs Welcome Signatures Include Address
Readers may submit signed letters to the editor on general topics. All letters must include the sender’s address and telephone number. The Messenger reserves the right to condense letters to fit space and maximize readability and reader interest.
Winger and Wing-spreaders Shape Democratic Primary Debate
Political analyst Richard Scammon describes two wing categories in the Democratic race. Wingers push single issues like McGovern, while wing-spreaders seek broad coalitions. Wallace and Harris are cited as examples, with Carter, Humphrey, Bayh and others as potential builders. Spoiler potential noted for Massachusetts and Florida early primaries.
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Richard Scammon
George McGovern
Franklin Roosevelt
George Wallace
Alabama
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
Sen. Harris
Judiciary Committee On
Supreme Court
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
South
Washington
Morris Udall
Arizona
Henry Jackson
Ashington
Massachusetts
Florida
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Soviet
By David Mason
The
Small Society
Gaebssse
Aparna Beal Sa
House
Senate
James Kilpatrick
Sgt
Teddy L. Hutchins
Ron Mount
Hutchins
Joseph Kraft
Companies
General Motors
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Sargent Shriver
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Birch Bayh
Indiana
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