Tradition Restores Veterans Day to November 11
The piece notes Congress reaffirms November 11 as the official Veterans Day date after years of a December shift. It explains 46 states already kept the November designation and cites a 1975 to 1977 transition period with full alignment due by 1978. The editorial also critiques television as a medium and shares assorted quotable jokes.
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State Department
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Don Jaser
D-Minn
Charles Seeger
Albert Johnson
R-Pa
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Seeger
Charles Teague
R.-Calif
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CIA exotic murder devices and assassination squad raised
Washington panel has documents on an arsenal of covert weapons including exploding light bulbs and remote controlled charges used by U S intelligence units. A domestically trained assassination team is described but no active operations are known. The CIA denies involvement while senators push for inquiry.
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Jack Anderson
Ith
Les Whitten
Washington
Senate Intelligence Committee
James Bond
U.S
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CIA
Hoffa
Michigan
Jimmy Hoffa
FBI
Congress
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Destroy the monster CIA must be abolished and reformed
The Nation argues the CIA hoarded deadly poisons against Nixon’s 1969 order and warns that unchecked covert power risks abuse in a democratic society. It advocates abolishing the CIA as configured, replacing it with a smaller, controllable intelligence unit under state or military oversight.
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Tom Wicker
New York
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Nixon
Nixon
PIA
CIA
Sen. Franck Church
Idaho
White House
Howard Hunt
Church Committee
State Department
New York Times
Love or Hate in Veterans Appeals to Contact Your Representative
The letter urges veterans to differentiate love from hate and to contact their representatives about rights and benefits that are changing daily. It stresses involvement, teamwork, and seeking help from a service officer at the old railroad station after 6 pm, offering confidential guidance for veterans to secure proper presentation of their claims.
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Biddeford Saco Fournel Obituary Lineup
Wm. E. Foster 1881 1963 Alta W. Foster 1891 1971 B F C Whitehouse 1889 1972 W Paul Casavant Publisher Charles C Sutton Editor Gladys M Whitehouse President Treasurer
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W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
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Washington Scene The militant doves
James Reston reports on Kissinger and Gromyko planning talks in Washington and New York to curb the arms race while Brezhnev’s visit nears. He notes rising arms shipments, global finance strains, and calls for disarmament surveys amid debates on ICBMs and cruise missiles.
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Washington
Kissinger
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
New York
Leonid Brezhnev
United States
Gromyko
Kurt Waldheim
United Nations
U.N. General Assembly
Ford
Waldheim
Middle East
U.S
Schlesinger
Ussr
Soviets
National Security Council
Robert McNamara
World Bank
Forissinger
New York Times
Tapes Should Be Destroyed, Nixon Papers Case Urges
The Washington Post argues the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act justifies destroying Watergate tapes. It says Nixon’s misdeeds and surreptitious recordings threaten privacy and public trust, serving justice rather than history or memoirs.
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George F. Will
Washington
U.S
Justice Department
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