No Truth in Rumor Beame Sold Manhattan for Beads
The piece argues New York City faces bankruptcy due to long standing overspending and debt funded by borrowing. It contrasts city and national debt dynamics, warns inflation harms private wealth, and contends deficit spending must be limited to aid the unemployed without wrecking credit.
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Beame
Manhattan
New York City
Gotham
New York
Congress
Film deals with Lidice massacre recalled by reader
A reader born in Prague recalls June 1942 and the Heydrich assassination, describing Nazi reprisals in Prague and Moravia, mass executions, house searches, and identification cards. The letter links the Lidice story to a Prague high school film Higher Principle and hopes such massacres never recur.
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Lidice
Czechoslovkia
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Lezaky
Moravia
Germany
Heydrich
Commentary on Rockefeller Report Defends CIA Role
Lee Roderick argues the CIA conducts vast but justified intelligence work. He claims Communist officials in the U.S. are numerous and that CIA activities, while extending beyond mandates, are outweighed by benefits and counterintelligence needs.
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United States
CIA
Rockefeller Commission
Rockefeller
Saigon
U.S
Help Wanted Ad Highlights Hiring Quotas and Bias
Washington satire on federal affirmative action rules shows a personnel officer juggling mandates for minorities women veterans youths handicapped welfare ex offenders and Spanish speaking communities. He faces potential lawsuits as he tries to fill quotas while avoiding discriminatory advertising.
Reader laments rose theft at Greenwood Cemetery
A reader reports half the roses were stolen from a grave at Greenwood Cemetery earlier this month. They question why someone would steal roses and ask for reasons behind such acts.
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Greenwood Cemetery
Appreciation Note For Bemidji State Convention Helpers
The Crookston Square-naders thank Bemidji State College and Hall's KOA Campground for hospitality and arrangements during the State Convention at Bemidji State College.
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Bemidji State College
Hall
CIA FBIS service offers worldwide broadcast texts
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service provides daily translations of foreign broadcasts to subscribers for 1000 dollars per year or 125 dollars for one region. Materials are available to the public via the National Technical Information Service, with access expanding from government use to news organizations, universities, libraries, and members of Congress.
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New York
Asia and
the Pacific
Middle East
North Africa
Western Europe
Sub-Sahara Africa
People’s Republic of China
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Latin America
National Technical Information Service
U.S. Commerce Department
CIA
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FBIS
U. S
Congress
Bergland survey shows energy support in Minnesota district
A survey of 12 000 responses from Minnesota's 7th Congressional District shows strong backing for more energy research and new energy sources with 92 percent prioritizing new sources and 93.5 percent calling for more research funding. Public transit funding and higher auto taxes with low mileage were favored by many, while foreign aid and refugee resettlement views varied.
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Washington
Minnesota
7Th
U.S
Bob Bergland
7Th District
Southeast Asia
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