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Columbus Telegram

Location

Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Oct 02, 1976

Page

3

Let Peace Begin With Me Editorial From Columbus Telegram 1976

This column expresses the Columbus Telegram editorial stance advocating freedom self control and moral action. It emphasizes equal creator endowed rights and urges readers to apply the Golden Rule and Declaration of Independence to daily living. It notes authority to reproduce editorials with credit and provides contact details for correspondence.

Nebraska Columbus Telegram P.O Columbus

The Wedge and Unemployment Policy Debate

A concise polemic arguing that high taxes and welfare create the Wedge between wages and take home pay. It asserts tax cuts would boost production and reduce unemployment, criticizes minimum wage laws, and cites Arthur Laffer and a 1976 Senate Subcommittee remark. It questions party platforms on employment policy.

Arthur Laffer University of Southern California Graduate School of Business Harvard Laffer Senate United States

Longest day longest day with threatened federal slowdown

A report describes federal employees threatening a work slowdown if President Ford limits their pay raises to 4.83 percent as White House advisers recommended. A journalist finds workers at a drinking fountain during a water break as the issue looms.

Ford White House

Coffee Break at the Fountain Office

The scene shows a crowd near a fountain moving to a coffee machine as a man from United Feature Syndicate interacts with the narrator. A conversation about federal pay raises and possible threats interrupts a tense moment before a lunch break ends.

Uneasy about Patty Hearst case returns to public awareness

A reader reflects on Patty Hearst and the SLA after her sentencing. The writer praises Steven Weed's My Search for Patty Hearst as the most illuminating discussion and notes the case remains a complex injustice in public memory.

Patty Hearst SLA Patty Steven Weed

Renegade Red Men AIM Confronts Media Coverage Debate

A 1970s lament argues the American Indian Movement is a violent, unrepresentative group. Senate findings link AIM to armed plots and clashes, while media coverage is blamed for portraying it as a movement for Indian people. Tribal councils denounce AIM leaders and reject their agenda.

Fourth Estate Bureau of Indian Affairs Washington Wounded Knee South Dakota AIM Senate Judiciary Committee Castro Cuba IRA Ireland PLO Middle East United States Weather Underground The Communist Party Black Panther Party Symbionese Liberation Army Eastland Committee

Memo to Jimmy No peeping allowed in George Lyons column

A long reader letter mocks Jimmy Carter and a prior editorial on sexual restraint. It fondly recounts a joking “Girl Watchers Association” and a tale of Peeping Tom, urging readers to stare and not forgive perceived transgressions, in a satirical churchly tone.

Memo Jimmy David Lyons Jimmy Carter Davey Jody Scheel Girl Watchers Association Alamo San Antonio Texas Oliver Wendall Holmes Supreme Court Pennsylvania Avenue Holmes George the Telegram Edgar Howard Nebraska Press Association Lincoln Edgar Thomas Coventry Godiva Old Thomas Old Tom

Patty Hearst and the SLA trial a judge should see

Jeffrey W Hart argues that the trial offered two simplified narratives the prosecution blaming Patty Hearst for joining the SLA and the defense citing coercion. He urges recognizing the deeper trauma and personality breakdown Patty endured under SLA terror and questions whether law can fully grasp free will and responsibility in such extreme circumstances.

Weed Patty SLA F. Lee Bailey Bailey Trish Tobin Emily Harris Harrises Oliver Carter Cinque Mizmoon Soltysik Charles Manson Patty Hearst

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