SALT pact hailed but argued as window dressing
Telegram opinion argues the Nixon Brezhnev SALT accord is economically driven and unlikely to end the nuclear arms race. It contends the summit served optics more than a turning point, notes China and Russia seek growth, and claims true peace requires free trade and private investment over subsidized aid.
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Nixon
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Moscow
U.S
China
Russia
Chou
Mao
United States
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Middle East
United Nations
Retailers Brace for Four Percent Price Hike Tied to Higher Wages
Retailers warn that a $2.00 minimum wage will raise payroll costs and trigger about a four percent price boost to offset higher labor costs. Store payrolls run 2 to 16 percent, and margins are slim, forcing price increases to preserve stability and inflation targets into 1972.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price Commission
Counting Bills in a Billion Dollars Law Proposal
A conversation mocks the idea of billions being unseen and proposes lawmakers must count any request over a billion dollars by hand. Duncan suggests Defense Secretary Melvin Laird must cash out funds in tens and twenties and recounts by hand with the Joint Chiefs and lawmakers counting to verify sums.
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Washington
Duncan
P3skee
Melvin Laird
Laird
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radical cash budgeting proposal sparks counting scheme
In a dialogue between Art Buchwald and Duncan, a plan emerges to have lawmakers count billions in cash after budget approval. They suggest using President and family to tally funds, hoping cash payouts curb fiscal excess and enforce responsibility during an election year. They propose letting the money be counted aloud to halt loose talk about billions.
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Capitol M1
Eacherson
United States
Duncan
Rirink
White House
Lincoln
The Telegram Freedom Message of 1972
The Telegram editorial argues for individual freedom over government control and urges readers to preserve liberty. It cites moral guides like the Covering Commandment the Golden Rule and the Peroration of Independence and ends with a call to peace beginning with the reader. The piece reflects a political stance from Columbus Nebraska dated Thursday June 29 1972.
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Jy Tirther
Brent Snoral
Columbus, Nebraska
Low blood sugar and diet guidance from Dr Lamb
Reader asks how low blood sugar can go and reports fainting. Dr Lamb reviews past columns, urges a balanced diet avoiding concentrated sweets and high carb loads, emphasizes lean meats vegetables and roughage, notes 40 mg/dl often triggers symptoms, mentions other causes like pancreas or adrenal issues, and advises ensuring proper medical evaluation.
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Lawrence Lamb
M.D
Dr. Lamb
Daar
Travelogue ACEOSS and a Patchwork of Clues in Fractured Form
A fragmented word puzzle reads like a travelogue of clues and stray phrases. It lists numbers, places, and scattered terms from India to Latvia, France to Ontario, weaving a maze of hints about rivers, seeds, birds, and legal notes while hinting at a larger game of definitions and connections.
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Aceoss
India
France
Malegalpaing
Great Lake
Virginia
Television pundits overstate gloom on Nixon Vietnam move
Analyzed TV commentators after Nixon's May 8 1972 bombing and mining of North Vietnam. Critics argue journalists overstated doom for the Moscow summit, driven by antiwar bias and a desire to paint the event in the gloomiest possible terms rather than balanced strategic analysis.
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Jet
Nixon
North Vietnam
Erle Sevareld
Richard Nixon
Charles Collingwood
Moscow
Collingwood
Marvin Kalb
CBS
NBC
John Chancellor
Richard Valerianl
ABC
Ted Koppel
Edmund Stevens
H.L. Mencken
St. Peter
Pearly Gates
Mencken
Glap
Europe
Kremlin
Hanoi
Universal
Netiworks T
Vietnam
Orbiting laser weapons raise global peril and ozone risk
The column warns Space based lasers could destroy satellites and ozone shielding, enabling deadly UV exposure. It cites Dr. Gordon J.F. MacDonald, five chem warfare experts, and Senate findings on Soviet high altitude tests. It urges Congress to press the Defense Department for full disclosure on orbiting super light weapons.
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Pentoon
Defense Department
Air Force
Earth
Federal Aviation Agency
Pentagon
Gordon J.F. MacDonald
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
Lyndon Johnson
hlacDonald
Mars
Dr. MacDonald
MacDonald
Marcel Fetigen
Michel Magat
Faculte Des Sciences
Orsay
Haiphong
Atomic Energy Commission
Hal Hellman
Jackson
Tower
Goldwater
Congress
Charles 5
Sheldon II
Congressional Research Service
Senate Committee On Aeronautical and Space Sciences
America
Sheldon
United States
Defense
Laird
Smuggling Elephants Tied to Rhodesia Trade
A Miami Herald report notes a brazen elephant smuggling operation tied to Rhodesia via false export documents. Elephants are flown or shipped secretly through Mozambique to evade UN sanctions, using methods like hidden compartments and disguise. The piece hints the chip in the trade may shift to smaller wildlife after exposure.
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Mozambique
Rhodesia
Sillsbury
Miami
Fin
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Ponte
Lowell
Wenea
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