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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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