Language traps in governance and the language of reform
A critique of bureaucratic and political jargon argues that terms like governance accountability and viable inflate meaning, cites budget shortfalls and tax bill phrasing, and mocks education and governmental rhetoric while noting FBI information practices and public figures' coverage. It laments gloss and seeks plain speech.
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New York State
Shapp
Tegral
New York
RITEC
FBI files reveal coups and covert notes from the era
A trove of alleged FBI documents references plots to hijack a plane to Israel and a 1968 memo about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The report describes a secret White House briefing, plus a Pentagon peanut butter controversy led by Maj. Gen. Herron Maples. Details include coded messages about sensitive topics and a reference to Formula 409 being pushed for commissaries.
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FBI
Lyndon Johnson
Martin Luther King
White House
Pentagon
Vietnam
Gen. Creighton Abrams
Opinion on farm subsidies and free market reforms
Grassroots readers in Punxsutawney reflect on the Presidents approval of an eight billion dollar agriculture appropriation. They note his likely veto would have stalled subsidies but argue subsidies should be eliminated to restore farm production to the free market disciplines.
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Punxsutawney, PA
Congress
Kaufman
Russia
Long Island
Calley My Lai case seen via mixed culpability analysis
A Corry Evening Journal column argues neither side in the My Lai verdict is fully right or wrong. It urges recognizing higher command responsibility for Lt. William Calley, notes mitigating factors, and supports a guilty finding with mercy. The piece stresses psychological factors, following orders, and the need to balance accountability with context.
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William Calley
My Lai
Calley
United States Army
Pri
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marine
The Rosenberg Lens Mould Trial and Death Penalty
A lengthy retrospective recalls the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case centered on a tiny lens mould used to trigger an atom bomb. It details the espionage network, the Far East and Soviet links, the 1951 trial before Judge Irving Kaufman, and the sentences that followed.
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Soviet Union
Julius
Ethel Rosenberg
Anatoli Yakovlev
New York
Moscow
Alamogordo
New Mexico
Edward Teller
George Kistiakowsky
Robert Oppenheimer
Ernest Lawrence
Niels Bohr
Enrico Fermi
Kistiakowsky
America
U.S
Rosenberg
Yakovlev
FBI
Greenglass
Rosenbergs
Morton Sobell
Irving Kaufman
Federal Court
Kaufman
United States Supreme Court
Irving Saypol
Emmanuel Block and Son
Corry voters weigh governor tax plan and Waterhouse vote
In Corry high interest swirls around Governor Fine’s proposed statewide income tax with Assemblyman W W Waterhouse among those voting to revive the measure. A birthday party honored six year old Brian Pantie at his Wayne street home, and plans for Life League baseball may come to Corry this summer per Corry Schools athletic director Lou Hanna.
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Fine
W.W. Waterhouse
Brian Pantie
Paul Pantie
Lou Hanna
Corry
Law questions on attorney consent and traffic hearings
The guidance covers that a lawyer should not settle a negligence case without client permission and may quote ranges after client briefing. For traffic offenses a hearing time is not fixed by law, yet immediate hearings may occur if arrested on view with bail options, while 9 speedy hearings are often granted upon request.
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Justice of the Peace
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Richard Kleindienst
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Kleindienst
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J. Edgar Hoover
Clark
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
New York City
King
Herron Maples
Europe
Circus
Piknik
Maples
Pentagon Communications Center
Army Support Services
West South Sirmt
Pusihners Gimols
Gereret Marageri Witten Bate Balfors
John Metoughiln
Carriar
Rosenberg Review
Jim Bishop
David Greenglass
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel
Sobell
Hitler
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Roman Colosseum
Wayne Street
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