Full speed ahead Editorial on Gulf tanker protection policy
The piece argues Reagan plans to place flagpinned Kuwaiti tankers under U S protection to deter Iran and safeguard Middle East oil, despite Stark tragedy. It notes congressional doubts and questions U S capability to defend ships if a frigate cannot be protected. It contrasts oil shares and urges broader patrol help from Japan and Europe. It then shifts to a highway safety study finding rural areas in the western U S have higher death rates than cities, highlighting Loving County Texas and Manhattan New York as extremes.
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Persian Gulf
Soviet Union
Kuwait
U.S
Iran
Middle East
Strait of Hormuz
Japan
Europe
Western Europe
Gulf
Loving County
Texas
Manhattan
el Paso
Rocky Mountains
Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution’s limits
Vincent Carroll argues against Thurgood Marshall on the bicentennial of the Constitution. He contends Marshall’s dissent misreads the framers and claims the Constitution excludes no group from civic equality. The piece defends the founding charter’s achievements and criticizes Marshall’s view as condescending.
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Supreme Court
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E.P. Thompson
Corman Outstanding Alumnus Highlighted in Sun Files
Fifty years ago Homer Evatt and P H Burnett joined T L Culpepper Furniture sales staff while Evelyn Spencer of Cedar Bayou prepared to attend Texas A M for 4 H Club work. Two narcotics arrests reported near Crosby involved New Orleans suspects with heroin and alcohol.
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Baytown Sun
Wilkenfeld Furniture Store
Mexico
W. Bruce
Tri-Cities Welfare League
H.W. Totland
Woolworth
T.L. Culpepper Furniture Co
L.S. Sanders
Annig
Evelyn Spencer
Cedar Bayou
Texas A&m College
Tri-Cities
AP News Quiz Highlights 10 Current US and World Facts
The AP quiz covers a range of topics from the Supreme Court ruling on pretrial detention to the Donovan trial acquittal, Soviet jamming, Israeli espionage inquiries, trade deficits, the Warsaw Pact meeting, a major forest fire, NEA school stats, Kentucky governor race, and NASA astronaut Sally Ride. Answers reference Blackmun, Marshall, Rehnquist, Shimon Peres, and other named figures and places.
On This Day in History June 4 Highlights
A concise look at June 4 events across centuries. Dunkirk evacuation ends in 1940, Churchill vow to fight on all fronts echoed in Parliament, the 1647 Charles I hostage seizure, 1812 Missouri Territory renamed, 1942 Midway began, 1944 Rome liberated, Taft-Hartley act passed in 1947, Khrushchev speech in 1956, 1985 Supreme Court ruling on school moments of silence, Pollard guilty plea a year ago. Birthdays include Metzenbaum, Merrill, Barry, Weaver, Dern, Fender, DeBarge, Jaeger. Thought by Elmer Davis.
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Associated Press
Dunkirk
France
Winston S. Churchill
House of Commons
Charles I
Louisiana
Missouri
Turkey
Cyprus
Henry Ford
Detroit
Midway
America
Rome
House of Representatives
Truman
State Department
Nikita Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Supreme Court
Alabama
Jonathan Jay Pollard
Navy
Washington
Israel
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
Robert Merrill
Bible Verse Proverb Emphasizes God Perception of All Acts
The verse Proverbs 15 3 declares the eyes of the Lord watch in every place observing both evil and good. It underscores divine omniscience and moral accountability across all deeds and spaces.
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