Nixon should cultivate trust to push Vietnam talks forward
Editorial urges President elect Nixon to seize on the prisoner exchange as a chance to back Harriman and Vance in building mutual trust with North Vietnam. It warns that delaying an observer threatens progress, risks renewed bombing, and could derail Paris peace efforts.
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Saigon
Radio
Vietnam
Paris
Marquis W. Childs
Washington
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Nixon
Johnson
W. Averell Harriman
Henry Cabot Lodge
Germany
Harriman
Lodge
Nguyen Cao Ky
Childs
Cyrus R. Vance
Vance
Nguyen van Thien
Hanoi
Thieu
North Vietnam
Harriman-Vance
Russia
China
Haiphong
Richard Nixon
America
Readers Forum Intemperate replies spark editorial clash
A Letters to the Editor section shows readers and editors trading barbs over a Dec 7 editorial about mine disaster coverage. Correspondents defend or denounce editorial tone and reference politics, convictions, and religious rhetoric amid local civic questions.
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the Gazette
West. Virginia Coal Assn
Chilton, Hoffmann and Co
Billy Graham
Billy
West Virginia Legislature Faces Ongoing Reform Efforts
A four day prelegislative conference in Charleston highlights WV legislative reforms since 1941. Changes include professional drafting, the Office of Legislative Services, open committee meetings, and reduced reliance on lobbyists to improve independence and modernize handling of budgets education and environmental issues.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Jesse Unroh
California Assembly
Ivor Boiarsky
House of Delegates
Liamentarian
Bolarsky
House
58Th Legislature
Office of Legislative Services
Boiarsky
Senate
Jackson
Nixon's early cabinet push shapes a brisk administration
A 1968 analysis says the Nixon team in Washington is building an atmosphere of confident authority. It notes tensions in moving from private to public life, questions about foreign policy prudence, and concerns over crime and economic policy under Mitchell and Kennedy loyalists.
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Washington
Nixon
Horatio Alger
Vergil
Cabinet
Herblock
William Rogers
Soviet Union
Rogers
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Gen. de Gaulle
Saigon
Ramsey Clark
Supreme Court
Mitchell
Richard Nixon
Economic Troika
Treasury
David Kennedy
Continental Illinois Bank
Kennedy
The
Bank
Robert Mayo
Council of Economic Advisers
Paul McCracken
Congress
Final Two Minutes First in Football Watching Guide
Washington column by Russell Baker lampoons televised football culture. It mocks fan rituals and announcer clichés, defines terms from run to daylight to another third down situation, and suggests moving on during halftime to shorten Sundays for American women.
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New York Times Service
Washington
O’bramovich
Jackson Hole
Strom Thurmond to wed Miss South Carolina 1965
Potomac Fever notes Strom Thurmond will marry Miss South Carolina of 1965, praised as a smart match by the senator. The column humorously suggests his seniority and politics color the choice, while a presidential panel debates merging Western Union with the post office.
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Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Presidential Commission On Communications
Western Union
Post Office
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