Editorial on press freedom and Soviet and U S contrasts
The essay argues for freedom of expression as a safeguard of democracy. It cites jailed Russian writers Daniel Sin yavsky Yuri Daniel and Solzhenitsyn publishing abroad while criticizing censorship and urging respect for a free press despite government opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Sinyavsky
Yuri Daniel
Moscow
United States
John Mitchell
New York Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Pentagon
Murray J. Gurfein
Justice Department
House restaurant runs deficits while taxpayers foot bill
The House of Representatives restaurant shows a six month deficit of about 330000 dollars with 435 managers and subsidies by taxpayers. Critics urge private contractor control to end subsidies, but lawmakers defend privileges and perks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
House
Unbelievable In Another Color in Early Readers
The piece critiques white dominated Dick and Jane like world in early readers while noting a shift toward diverse characters in textbooks. It warns against replacing white children with Black Janes and Dicks, suggesting concern over representation in education textbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick and
Jane
Baby Ray
Subways and Holes Crossed in Washington and Moscow Tale
Art Buchwald reports a playful Cold War exchange with a Soviet spy who believes Washington’s holes are for a subway. The spy and Buchwald debate funding, Congress, and highway plans as the joke spirals around Washington power and Moscow suspicions.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
Russell Baker
New York Times
Moscow
Baker
Nicolai
House Today
District of Columbia
Metro
House
Guy Natcher
Kentucky
Natcher
South Carolina
Kremlin
Congress
Senate
Congressman Natcher
Readers Forum Voices on Kindness and Tax Gripes
Letters discuss kindness for a 12 year old brain cancer patient denied readmission for unpaid bills, critique hospital policy, and reflect on war, community roots, and a reader’s tax payment questions to the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howeyae
Egypt and US near east talks clouded by phantom memo
Cairo sources say Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmud Riad cites a 12 page dossier of broken American promises and the phantom memo as roots of renewed anti US rhetoric. He recalls the May 20 23 exchanges with Donald Bergus and the June 4 6 US Cairo Paris meetings. The piece urges clearer Nixon Sadat talks and reassurance to Moscow to avoid destabilizing the interim settlement effort.
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Cairo
Near East
Mahmud Riad
United Nations General Assembly
Israel
William Rogers
Riad
United States
Donald Bergus
Foreign Office
Sinai Peninsula
Suez Canal
United Nations
Bergus
Alexandria
Mohammed Hassanein Heikal
Anwar Sadat
Rogers
Paris
Suez
Foreign Ministry
Egypt
Washington
Nixon
Sadat
Soviet Union
Moscow
A Troubled Friend on National Security Power
James Reston argues that presidential power has grown since atomic age, aided by TV, and questions whether Congress or the press should review secret documents. He cautions against unchecked executive secrecy and warns it could undermine the Republic. He cites Madison on press liberty and the need for information and skepticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Republic
Congress
Capitol Hill
White House
Vietnam
Pentagon
Intercepted Message About Wine Pollution
A playful letter from Anne dated 28 1971 to Ted asks which is worse polluted wine or wine pollution. Amateur wine-taster Yeorge Theodore W writes from Bordeaux France. Story on Page 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted
Theodore W, Kheel
Bordeaux
France
Pentagon Papers expose clash of leaders and trust crisis
The piece argues the Pentagon papers hurt Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, casting Humphrey as a loser who backed restraint yet faced administration pressure, and Nixon as a loser whose attorney general’s handling linked two administrations. It laments rising distrust and the politics of paranoia.
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Washington
Pentagon
Hubert Humphrey
Nixon
Johnson
Mitchell
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God
Art Buchwald
D.C. Subway
the Gazette
Barbara Conley
Virginia St. Charleston
Marshall
Alden Marks
Minmora
Bauhop
Johnny Wauhop
Hinton
L. T. Anderson
Frances
Islip
Long Island
N. Y
West Virginia
William Goff
Pleasant Street
Nell Goff Davis
Robert Goff
Mother
J.C. Wise
Mary Bolles Bentree
Satchel Paige
Joseph Kraft
James Reston
James Madison
America
Anne
Yours
Yeorge
Tom Braden
Pentagon Papers
Humphrey
Pleiku
North Vietnam
Peking
China
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