McGovern West Coast Win Signals Demand for Change
Editorial argues McGovern's six percent California victory shows California voters preferred change, while Humphrey's weaker stand leaves Democrats uneasy. It notes Wallace's Michigan win and warns party regulars may resist reform, urging broader tax, budget, and welfare reforms with a focus on Vietnam War stance.
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Estes Kefauver
Miami Beach
Humphrey
McGovern
Wallace
Oopele
Richard Nixon
Ig Ttn
West Virginia
California
Supreme Court backs private club racial exclusion
The court upheld a Moose Lodge in Harrisburg denying black guest access, reversing a 1970 ruling that would have linked a liquor license to ending discrimination. Justice Rehnquist led a conservative majority, with Burger Blackmun and Powell concurring, in a decision seen as moving the nation backward on civil rights.
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Aieft
Supreme Court
Wiliam HW. Rehnquist
Nixon Court
Warren E. Burger
Harry A. Blackmon
Lewis F. Powell
Moose Lodge
Esylvania State Capitol
Harrisburg
K. Leroy Irvis
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Irvis
Seine
Rehnquist
William J. Bresnan Jr
Pennsylvania
Nixon campaign fund drives report 1.22 million since April 7
ITT scandal era fundraising shows Nixon for president committees reporting 1.22 million raised since April 7 with more expected. Among donors are Pepsi-Cola President Donald M. Kendell and Merrill Lynch plus 51 others contributing 409,405 through May 31. Former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell withholds donor identities for about 9 million prior to the new law.
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Nixon
Pepsi-Cola
Donald M. Kendall
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Atty
John Mitchell
Environmental pact undercuts Soviet pollution parity claims
Washington briefings tout U S superiority in air and water pollution controls as part of a Nixon era treaty with the Soviet Union. A government spokesman asserts the United States leads in pollution technology and consumer culture, while joking about hidden weapons and the Soviets’ failure to match U S environmental prowess.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
U.S
Nixon
United States
America
Soviet Union
Los Angeles
Readers' Forum Letters on Industry and Hair Doctrines
Community readers debate economic policy and conservation criticizing strip mining and lumber use while urging balanced state action. A letter questions welfare counts and cost of living claims. Another writer ponders biblical hair norms in reference to Billy Graham with address included.
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the Gazette
West Virginia
Laird pushes Pentagon budget hike amid arms pact push
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird signals a major rise in defense appropriations for 1973 to fund Vietnam costs and new weapons. He cites 3 to 5 billion extra for Vietnam, plus about 1 billion for a Trident submarine and 445 million for the B 52 upgrade, aiming to secure support for the Moscow arms treaty.
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Laird
Pentagon
Armed Services Committees
Congress
Johnson
Sina
Joint Chiefs
Moscow
Nixon shifts on military spending amid arms treaty push
Joseph Kraft argues Nixon overreached to win military backing for a 1963 testing limit pact. Kraft says Nixon could have secured broad support without pressuring submarines and bombers, noting Nixon’s 1962 California gubernatorial loss and the danger of alienating right wing Republicans.
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Keseody
Nixon
Ucee
California
Republican Party
Humphrey Eyes McGovern Endorsement Amid 1972 Question
In 1970 Hubert Humphrey urged Democrats to back one candidate in 1971 to avoid fratricidal battles. By 1972 McGovern emerges as the strongest survivor, with party leaders urged to unite behind him to prevent a Nixon victory and avoid divisive battles at Miami Beach.
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New York Times Service
New York
Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey
John Lindsay
Eugene McCarthy
Edmund Muskie
Henry Jackson
George McGovern
South Dakota
McGovern
California
New Mexico
New Jersey
Humphrey
George Wallace
Michigan
Wallace
Muskie
Rhode Island
Kennedy
Miami
Umphrey
Houston
Richard Pettigrew
Florida
House of Representatives
Mystery theater plans teased in intercepted note
Intercepted message dated June 14 1972 addressed to Howard hints that X does not mark the spot for a new theater. The note signed H F Robinson Family Man references a story on page 168.
Disappointing Vietnam diplomacy report surfaces
A top secret summary reveals eight years of halting diplomacy between the U S and North Vietnam toward a settlement. Intermediaries, few written messages, and reliance on ear and bias characterized the process. Sweden and France are cited for influence. Rome and Norway noted for limited impact. The piece also touches on political polling and a Playboy article by Mike Gravel.
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U.S
Vietnam
NVN
Hanoi
Sweden
America
Rythine
DRV
Peking
S. Tatians
Ani
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