Congress To Probe Securities Industry In 1972
Ray Cromley reports on Capitol Hill plans for wide ranging probes into stock exchanges brokerage firms and securities profits. Lawmakers consider reforms affecting investor taxes incomes and safety as SIPC linked firm liquidations reveal causes such as poor records capital gaps and mismanagement.
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Capitol Hill
New York Stock Exchange
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Tongue as Fire and Life Avoids Harm
A compact meditation citing James on the tongue as a small fire that can ignite vast harm, contrasted with Dr Osler’s remark that a clean tongue, clear head, and bright eye are daily birthrights. The quotes underscore discipline and daily virtue in speech and thought.
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Dr. Osler
Nixon extends wage price controls amid inflation battle
President Nixon extends wage price controls beyond April 30 and seeks a coordinated fight on inflation with input from business labor and government bodies. Representative Wright Patman says hearings will start while Congress asserts its independent judgment on continuance. Budget targets hover around 267 to 270 billion with a deficit outlook and a test of executive versus Congressional mandates.
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Nixon
Congress
Wright Patman
House Banking Committee
Pay Board
The
Price Commission
House
Senate
Smaller Nations Dominate U N With 132 Members
The 27th General Assembly showcased power of Asia Africa and Latin America as developing nations steered debates. Nairobi hosting a World Environmental agency and Santiago hosting the Law of the Sea meet gained wide support despite critiques of bias and limited local conditions. The session failed to produce substantive action on terrorism and featured sharp rhetoric between the Soviet Union and China.
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Asia
Africa
Latin America
United Nations
General Assembly
New World Environmental Agency
Nairobi
Kenya
Santiago
Chile
France
Maurice Schumann
Kurt Waldheim
Soviet Union
China
Israeli Labor faces farce over future of Arab lands
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report that Israel's Labor Party struggles to decide the fate of territories captured in 1967. Public opinion favors keeping most lands despite moral concerns, while doves within the party fear coalition damage. Immigrant voters and hawkish sentiment grow, with settlers insisting on retaining West Bank and Golan Heights.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Labor Party
Sinai Peninsula
Hawks
Golda Meir
Moshe Dayan
Pinhas Sapir
Sapir
Fortegn
Abba Eban
Yigal Allon
Sinai Desert
Soviet Union
Gahal
Hebrew University
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Jordan River
Golan Heights
Syria
Mehola
Jordan Valley
B’nai Yahuda
Lake Galilee
Golan
Anti busing bill eyed for early action in new Congress
Senate filibuster by a minority blocked anti busing legislation last year despite House approval 282 to 102. Leaders expect decisive action in the incoming 93rd Congress with a plan to pass the measure by spring and avoid further committee hearings. Senator James Allen predicts renewed Senate votes will show broad public support and thwart minority obstruction.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
House
Sen
Robert Griffin
Mich
Detriot
Richmond
Nixon
James Allen
Ala
Allen
Psychiatric Repression in the Soviet Union Exposed
A Senate subcommittee report details how dissenters in the Soviet Union are labeled mentally ill and confined in psychiatric hospitals. It cites General Pyotr Grigorenko and Dr. Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, describing inhumane treatments and the parallels to Orwellian methods.
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Soviet Russia
Siberian
Stalin
Kremlin
Senate
Subcommittee On
Soviet Union
U. S
Washington D. C
Alexander Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin
Pyotr Grigorenko
Grigorenko
Khrushchev
Far East
Krushchev
Tashkent
Moscow
Chernyakhovsk
East Prussia
Orwell
Roosevelt
Ezra Pound
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Washington
United Nations
Death penalty stance shifts as states push for mandatory punishments
A century of debate resurges as National Association of Attorneys General backs mandatory death sentences for felonies and certain murders. The piece argues mandatory penalties would increase executions, while cautioning about broader social impacts and the need for reliable justice.
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United States
Supreme Court
National Association of Attorneys General
Congress
U.S. Supreme Court
Warren Burger
Winter Weather Signs and Market Grumbles
A column riffs on weather signs and seasonal quirks noting gas shortages, New York as a magnet for winter offerings, and a contrast between earnings and living costs. The piece questions flu virus cycles and jokes about the treadmill, linking satire to public mood.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Hugh Ike Shott
Hugh Shott
Richard Wesley
Ray Cromley
Hell
James
Wage-Price Ltd Extension
U.N
Life Magazine
Mercer County
Princeton
Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
Paris
Tails
Harvard
Robert Allen
Russell Kirk
Red
Psychiatry
You and
Soaper
New York
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