Iowa Park User Fee Debate Faces House Committee
The last session passed a bill to charge annual and weekly park use stickers, with funds aimed at park maintenance. Governor Ray supports it but Ways and Means opposes the enforcement plan. Critics call the bill impractical and unnecessary, urging proper funding instead. Wisconsin is cited as a better maintained example.
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Iowa
HOUSE
Senate
Ways Means Committee
Ray
Ways-Means Committee
Town Conservation Commission
Iown
Wisconsin
Why has the Equal Rights Amendment stalled in 1970s politics
A discussion notes that after twice as many than before states backed the Equal Rights Amendment, opponents question its weight for a constitutional change. Campaigners warn time is running out as only 27 states have endorsed, with the deadline looming. The John Birch Society decries gender equality, while supporters say the text simply guarantees rights regardless of sex.
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Republic
Iowa
John Birch Society
Noise Racetrack of City Life Critics Warn of Persistent Clamor
Carl Riblet Jr notes scientists warn against urban and village noise from argument, TV, hi fi, traffic, and constant stimulation. He laments the persistence of sound as long as parties refuse to yield to quiet. The piece frames noise as a societal stench in the ear and cites Ambrose Bierce.
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Ambrose Bierce
KISS notes trigger alarm at AT&T microwave station
A Green Beret unit left spoof notes at AT&T’s transcontinental microwave station near Flagstaff Arizona last October prompting alarms from sheriff FBI and Bell system. The notes were a drill by Special Forces team 155 revealing vulnerabilities in vital Washington linked lines and provoking a costly security response. Bell officials demanded reparations and advance notice before future military entries.
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Ashington
American Telephone and Telegraph
Flagstaff
Ariz
FBI
New York City
Ma Bell
W. R. Smith
The
KISS
Special Forces Team 155
Washington
Bell
D. J. Lyons
Green Berets
Long Lines
Mountain Bell Security Office
United Feature Syndicate
Nixon risks mirroring McGovern in reform push
James Reston argues Nixon may repeat McGovern’s error by pushing radical budget cuts and program changes. Public reaction shows some support for modest reforms but mounting protest from labor and consumers as prices rise and subsidies face elimination. The piece notes shifting opinion in Congress and White House as inflation and devaluation affect policy reception.
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Ashington
George McGovern
Nixon
Washington
Congress
White House
Treasury
George Shultz
Florida
McGovern
New York Times Service
Airbags face debate from a defender of choice
James J. Kilpatrick argues against federal compulsion in airbag regulation while supporting the device. He cites tests and real-world use showing reliability, notes safety benefits could cut highway deaths, and endorses voluntary purchase once airbags are available.
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Senator Jackson
Washington
Jackson
Hal Needham
Needham
Lada Edmunds
Allstate Insurance Company
Allstate
Coalition to back Southeast Asia peace by trilateral cooperation
The piece argues for a threepower pact among the United States, China, and the Soviet Union to secure a durable peace in Southeast Asia. It stresses tacit or formal commitments to prevent aggression, driven by improving Sino American ties and Moscow Washington talks, with no single nation dominating the region.
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Ashington
Paris
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Indonesia
United States
China
Soviet Union
Pacific
Peking
Washington
Moscow
Russia
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Indo-China
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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Dale Cochran
Women's Rights Puzzler
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Interocean Press Syndicate
At&t
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Anderson
By James Reston
Capitol Hill
James Reston
By James J. Kilpatrick
Car and Driver
American Automobile Association
Ford Motor Company
Federal
Department of Transportation
Fairchild-Hiller
Wayne State
General Motors
Washington Star Syndicate
James J
Roscoe Drummond
People’s Republic of China
Western Pacific
Japan
Thailand
England
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