Nixon Under Pressure As Polls Show Sliding Support
A conservative view notes Nixon faces growing doubt as Harris polls show his popularity dropping from 61 percent to 28 percent over two years. The piece cites war, economy, and political pressures, including YAF critiques, with hope that accelerated troop withdrawals might regain support.
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Richard Nixon
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Harris
Nixon
Congress
Paris
Missouri
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Laird
Vietnam
Spiro Agnew
Dr. Svengali
Eugene McCarthy
Tricia
Publisher notices from Athens H Messenger header
The readable text lists staff names and roles at Athens H Messenger including W. Bush Publisher arora G. Kenne Fred W. Weber circulation director M. W. McDargh advertising director Charles W. Reamer managing editor Richard R. Paynter assistant to the publisher.
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G. Kenne
Fred W. Weber
M. W. McDargh
Ish
Charles W. Reamer
Richard R. Paynter
Labor Campus Alliance Formed Amid National Tensions
Radical professors and labor leaders create an alliance of faculty students and unions to combat perceived reactionary forces. Founders include Harvard’s George Wald MIT’s Noam Chomsky Seymour Melman and Richard Barnet with UAW head Leonard Woodcock and Teamsters VP Harold Gibbons guiding labor. The group plans to organize locals nationwide and foster worker student ties during shared struggles such as the GM strike.
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George Meany
Organized Labor Movement
Afl-Cio
Meany
Alliance
Harvard
George Wald
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Noam Chomsky
Seymour Melman
Columbia
Richard Barnet
Institute For Policy Studies
Washington, D. C
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Harold Gibbons
Teamsters
Aflcio
National Student Association
David Ifshin
Woodcock
UAW
General Motors
Defoliation Verbiage and Jargon in Indochina War
Stanley Karnow surveys how euphemisms and bureaucratic jargon mask realities of the Indochina conflict. He notes terms like incursion protective encirclement defoliation and Vietcong shape public understanding while both sides craft multifaceted point plans and shifting rhetoric in Saigon Hanoi and Washington.
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Washington
U. S
Laos
Cambodia
North Vietnam
Donkey traffic tale ends with a sore ass lesson
A village chief and planners tear down the old bridge to speed traffic but install a candle and mirror signal device that slows the line of donkeys. Traffic stalls, riders complain, and the chief on his donkey finally admits waiting long makes even an ass share sore.
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the Messenger
Rocky
Cackleberry Drive
The Athens Messenger Publication Details and Rates
The Athens Messenger publishes daily except Saturdays with weekday single copy ten cents and Sunday twenty cents. Delivery by carrier or tube routes offered. Mail rates posted for Ohio West Virginia and elsewhere with weekly and yearly options. Entered as second class matter at Athens Post Office.
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Associated Press
D&s
Ohio
West Virginia
U.S
Possessions
Athens
the Messenger Publishing Co
W. Union St
Laos War Evidence Shapes Vietnam Policy Debate
The Laos operation reveals mixed results with Fire Base Lolo fallen and truck traffic reportedly fluctuating. Analysts question Route 92 progress and the overall strength of Communist resistance, arguing substantial American support remains essential for Saigon and for successful negotiations.
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U. S
Hanoi
North
Laos
Vietnam
Saigon
Washington
Lolo
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Nixon
Creighton Abrams
South Vietnam
Central Intelligence Agency
Joint Chiefs of Staff
John Vogt
Route 92
Tchephone
Pentagon
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