McNamara reshapes reserves amid merger clash
Defense Secretary McNamara announces phasing out 750 organized reserve units and creates a new National Guard special force with 145 000 personnel to receive expanded training and pay. Reservists may join voluntarily or enter a pool. most reserve units will be dissolved, and the move is framed as modernization rather than merger.
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Army Reserves
National Guard
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Guard
House Armed Services Committee
O. F. Edward Hebert
Louisiana
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AMA Chief Warns of Wider Social Medicine Battle
Dr James Z Appel head of the American Medical Association urges doctors to drop medicare boycotts and focus on thwarting government financing of health care for all under 65. He warns that social medicine could expand beyond the elderly as New Deal reforms evolve, increasing taxpayer burdens.
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American Medical Association
James Z. Appel
Appel
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Chicago
Finest generation may be the most virtuous yet says Oklahoma psychiatrist
D L Jolyon West head of the OU psychiatry dept tells a national conference that the present generation may be the finest ever citing Peace Corps success and optimistic youth rather than rising delinquency. He argues many past pranks now count as minor offenses and that increased policing misses the broader trend.
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D. L. Jolyon West
University of Oklahoma
National Conference On Physicians and Schools
Peace Corps
Jolyon
New International Currency and Food Bank Ideas Face Obstacles
Ten nations discuss a composite reserve unit while Japan proposes a food bank financed by surplus food nations. The plan would loan funds locally to boost agriculture, but mistrust and political risk threaten adoption amid concerns about communism and starvation.
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de Gaulle
France
United States
Latin America
Shei Nakayama
Industrial Bank of Japan
Japan
Alexander Hamilton
Nakayama
Canada
Australia
Argentine
Asia
Africa
Middle East
Food Bank
Brazil
Red China
Soviet Union
Taiwan
Watts riots trigger white backlash in Los Angeles
Inside Report notes that after Watts the white community hardens toward Negroes, sparking disciplinary avoidance by authorities. Deputy Chief Murdock rejects a Negro leader’s plea, illustrating a widening backlash that affects politics and employers in Beverly Hills and Bel Air.
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Watts
John Buggs
County Human Relations Council
Buggs
Los Angeles County
Roger Murdock
Murdock
Beverly Hills
Bel Air
Democratic National Committee
Martin Luther King
King
Watts Riot Backlash Shapes Gubernatorial Calculus
The Watts backlash strengthens a white-leaning tilt in Southern California politics with Mayor Yorty eyed for a possible Democratic gubernatorial bid against Gov. Brown as Reagan also taps the white sentiment. Police Chief Parker’s stance complicates reform while John McCone urges crisis remedies including 5000 temporary jobs to avert renewed violence.
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Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Orange
San Diego
Yorty
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Pat) Brown
Ronald Reagan
Brown
Trator
Parker
John MceCone
AEC
CIA
Washington
Gov. Brown
McCone
Secrecy in illness of Grover Cleveland contrasted with modern disclosures
The article recalls Grover Cleveland's 1893 cancer surgery kept secret until 1917 and contrasts past secrecy with the open reporting of modern presidents' health events such as Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. It notes Cleveland's public panic over the silver act and a public leak by a dentist.
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Cleveland
Treasury
John Stuart Martin
American Heritage
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New York
Battery
Oneida
Elias C. Benedict
E. J. Edwards
Philadelphia Press
White House
Edwards
William W. Keen
Philadelphia
Dwight D Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
Pope Paul VI Visit Noted As Memorial Event
The Messenger describes Pope Paul VI's US trip as a memorial journey with theme World Peace. His pastoral sermon at Yankee Stadium touched global audiences and fostered interfaith goodwill. The visit to the UN raises questions about advancing peace, with speculation on its lasting impact. Donald R. Calvert, Buchtel, O.
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Paul VI
United States
Yankee Stadium
New York
Holy Father
Donald R. Calvert Buchtel, O
Ohio Supreme Court Habeas Writ Rule Could Send Prisoner Appeals Back
Columbus Ohio. A Wednesday ruling may require prisoners seeking freedom via habeas corpus to sue in the sentencing court rather than the Ohio Supreme Court. About 100 appeals to the high court may be dismissed as the court notes a July 21 effective law bars habeas petitions in alternative courts.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio
High Court
Asst
Attys
William T. Baird
Leo Conway
Jerome B. Freeman
Hamilton County
Trick
Supreme Court
Ohio to Issue Plastic Licenses Starting February
Ohio will begin issuing plastic drivers licenses in February for nine years, replacing the current three-year paper certificates. Full adoption for all drivers occurs by March 1970 while renewals continue every three years. A $600,000 rotary fund supports the system with revenue from a $1 fee.
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Columbus
Highway Safety
Warren C. Nelson
State Controlling Board
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Rotary
Bureau of Abstracts
Dear Abby Left Handed Etiquette and Family Strain
In a Dear Abby column, Norman asks his wife to curb nightly visits with her mother after her father’s trips, suggesting the mother stay at home or a guest elsewhere. A second letter from Elsie the Lefty complains waitstaff misplaces left handed patrons’ cups, recounting a $5 gift to a waitress who recognized his rights.
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Mother Bea
Norman
San Francisco
Elsie
Delivery by mail of US aid assets in three months
Brief note outlines a plan to deliver US aid assets by mail within three months. Mentions one week and six months as time markers and references possesions and delivery by mail.
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Peny Surday
Ohis Ora
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