Pentagon Papers and After The Era of Secrecy in U S Policy
A June 1971 New York Times overview traces how the Pentagon Papers revealed flaws in official explanations of Vietnam policy. It covers court battles, Ellsberg’s trial troubles, and ongoing leaks through the mid 1970s, highlighting the clash of secrecy and public right to know.
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New York Times
Vietnam
Pentagon
U. S
Tricia Nixon
White House
Neil Sheehan
Pentagon Papers
Robert S. McNamara
U. S. District Court
Times
Penagon
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun-Times
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The
Republic
Nixon Administration
United States
Supreme Court
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg
Watergate
Senate Watergate Committee
CBS
Daniel Schorr
House Committee
Village Voice
New York City
Schorr
Ballard school K through six in Ballard urged to stay
Letters from Ballard residents voiced strong opposition to changing Ballard school to K through four. They urged the Ballard community to keep K through six citing petitions and moral concerns, while fearing consolidation and impact on local education. Other letters touch memorial gifts to the Heart Association and public views on government and surveys.
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Ballard
Monroe County
Darrell Echols
Peterstown
Echols
Gap Mills
Greenville
Monroe Watchman
Memorial Fund
The
Heart Association
Buckley Kennedys Money Clash Charts Federal Spending
The column sketches a back and forth between William F Buckley and Senator Kennedy over federal spending and GNP ratios. It argues the rise in spending from 13 to 23 percent of GNP since 1951, notes defense cuts 1952 1972, and cites nondefense and total government spending trends while challenging Kennedy’s War era explanations.
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Senator Kennedy
Joint Economic Committee
Buckley
Kennedy
Mr. Buckley
Mr. Kennedy
Critics Warn Against Comprehensive Federal Planning
The author denounces four decades of federal planning across welfare, energy, education, housing, and more as failing. Hubert Humphrey and Augustus Hawkins push a full employment plan with a planning council and executive mandate. A new book, The Politics of Planning, argues planning cannot compute all economic factors and urges voting against planning proponents.
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Washington
Department of National Life
Feds
Congress
Svepenne
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Augustus Hawkins
Humphrey
Hawkins
Humphrey-Hawkins
Visory Council of Planners
Institute For Contemporaryies
Humphrey Hawkins
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
Brando buys Tahiti refuge amid doomsday fears
Marlon Brando explains buying the Tahitian isle of Tetiaroa as a self sufficient refuge for his family amid apocalyptic worries. Gregory Henderson warns that Korea’s arms buildup and potential nuclear expansion threaten global peace within a decade.
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Marlon Brando
Tetiaroa
Tahiti
North
South Korea
Middle East
Korea
Gregory Henderson
Tufts University
Soviets Waiting to Aid Ford by Steering Angola Move
Soviet documents suggest Moscowordered Castro to withdraw Cuban forces from Angola to boost Ford in November elections. Kissinger's Stockholm trip and U S policy shifts are seen as capitalizing on the maneuver while warning of broader race wars and foreign intervention.
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Washington
Africa
Ford
Fidel Castro
Angola
Castro
Sweden
Olof Palme
Henry Kissinger
Stockholm
Kissinger
Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Nixon
George McGovern
Kremlin
Vietnam
Cuba
Russia
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Middle East
White House
U. S
South Africa
Botswana
Mozambique
Congo Brazzaville
Liberia
Senegal
Ivory Coast
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Bluefield
West Virginia
United States of
U.S
Country
Potomac
Robert L.sanding Huntington
Hill’s Department Store
WKOY
WHIS
WBOY
J. Murp
Efield, Va
Berry's
NEA, Inc
William F. Buckley
Funny
Sten
M. Stanton Evans
Jack Anderson
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