Buckley Says Jackson Amendment Bears Fruit on Emigration
In a June 25 1974 column William F Buckley analyzes how 78 senators threaten Russia MFN status to push Jewish emigration rights. He notes Soviet brinkmanship at the UN and Kissinger, questions Soviet credibility, and argues economic credits push Moscow toward higher emigration while Arab pressure eases.
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America
Senate
Soviet Union
United Nations
Gromyko
Kissinger
Jackson
Syria
Egypt
Israel
Mideast
Nixon
Henry Jackson
Sleeping Beauty Part 3 Patty Plans for Future
Patty Hearst weighs independence against family expectations as she moves toward Berkeley with Steve Weed, plans her major shift to art history, and begins work while balancing wedding plans and reflections on wealth, status, and a possible SLA link.
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Patricia Hearst
Associated Press
Linda Deutsch
Steve Jenning
Richard FE. Meyer
Patty
Patty Hearst
Emmy Brubach
Emmy
Stanford University
Steve
Berkeley
University of California
Randy
Catherine Hearst
Menlo College
Menlo
Greece
Acropolis
Steve Weed
UC Berkeley
Weed
Capwell’s
Oakland
University
Mrs. Hearst
Stanford
Ruth Regan
Steven
Rubens
Randolph
Hearsts’ Sierra Ski Resort
Hearsts
Hearst
San Simeon
Tiffany’s
SLA
Sleeping Beauty
Underground
Patricia Campbell Hearst
People’s Army
Tania
Che
Bolivia
Sai Patty Hearst
Paris Louvre six minute record remembered on anniversary
Art Buchwald recalls Peter Stone who in 1954 ran the Louvre in six minutes and 12 seconds, earning fame and a telegram from Eisenhower. Now, 20 years later, Stone muses on aging, tourism shifts, and the Mona Lisa’s relocation to Japan.
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Louvre
Peter Stone
Louvre Museum
Eisenhower
United States
Stone
Peter
Prado
Spain
Tate Gallery
London
Hermitage
Leningrad
John Foster Dulles
Japan
Representative Vanik Calls for Broad Tax Reform
U S Rep Charles A Vanik Ohio urged House members to reform tax laws after showing an advertisement on tax avoidance. He warned of inconsistent sentencing across districts and urged a unified tax structure to curb forum shopping and ensure equal application of the law.
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Henry Heilbrunn
Associated Press
Columbus, Ohio
U.S
Charles A. Vanik
Ohio
House of Representatives
Vanik
Virginia
Washington
Congressional Record
Traditional values become tactic in a sick society
A critical commentary argues that traditional values no longer hold social weight, labeling the modern society as one where such values have lost practical usefulness and moral guidance amid cultural decay.
Penny shortage prompts use of scrip in grocers
Treasury allows stores to offer customers change in scrip during a penny shortage. The AP report notes the change seems minor but gains value when pennies are bunched in transactions.
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John Cunniff
AP Business Analyst
New York
The
Treasury
Inflation hits basic foods and scrip use in price shifts
A price rise from 23 to 26 cents for a can of peas stirs shopper ire though a penny per sale seems small. The piece notes how a penny per customer can equal significant store profit when sales rise, and questions whether scrip will be kept or traded. It also discusses inflation’s uneven impact on the poor versus the rich and cites Labor Department budgets showing food as the main driver of urban cost increases from 1972 to 1973, with geographic disparities across Austin, Boston, and Anchorage.
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Labor Department
Austin
Tex
Boston
Anchorage
Alaska
On This Date in History June 25 1974 Highlights
On June 25 1950 North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea starting the Korean War. Virginia ratified the U S Constitution in 1788. In 1918 American forces drove Germans from Belleau Wood. In 1934 16 million Americans were on relief. In 1967 talks at Glassboro pledged no crisis would trigger nuclear war. Other items note racial violence in St Augustine 1960s, a Jersey City murder case, Watergate context, and birthdays of George Abbott and Lord Louis Mountbatten. Thought for today by James Barrie.
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Virginia
U.S
Belleau Wood
France
Lyndon B. Johnson
Alexei Kosygin
Glassboro State College
New Jersey
U.S.S.R
St. Augustine
Fla
Jersey City
N.J
Rafael Tormes
John Dean
Senate
Nixon
George Abbott
Louis Mountbatten
Britain
James Barrie
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