Pennsylvania Legislators Face Demographics and Careers Snapshot
A survey outlines the composition of Pennsylvania General Assembly members, noting averages: age around 48, six years in office, education levels, Catholic representation, and WASP dominance among Republicans. It highlights gender underrepresentation, with nine women, and the common occupation of lawyers. It also recalls a Nixon era plan proposing covert assassinations of drug lords, involving Liddy and interagency officials, which was rejected.
CIA nixes Burma opium plan and other drug war myths
The piece reports that CIA assassination squads for opium labs were scrapped by 1971 while interagency talks continued on harsher drug tactics. It notes Nixon founded a cabinet committee on narcotics control and hints at internal agency tensions surrounding Mike Balzano and the Action director role amid Ford’s cautious stance on leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
Foreign Service
U.S
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Manila
Phnom Pneh
Rangoon
Saigon
Vientiane
Nixon
Cabinet Committee
Honest crooks of the past and present in nostalgia
A column recalls old time crooked politicians who admitted guilt in contrast to modern figures. It cites Tweed, Hall, Hague, Butler, Walker, Croker, and Watergate figures, arguing the past proved honesty by confession. Lists several PA and national political figures and offices.
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William Marcy Tweed
Boss” Tweed
Boss Tweed
Tweed
New York City
Oakley Hall
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Frank
Nixon
St. Louis
Ed Butler
New York
Jimmy Walker
Tammany Hall
Dick Croker
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Croker
Phillip F. Dummey
Tweed Boys
Heeler Dick
Dock Walloper
Golfing Gripes and Jabs From a Weekend Scribe
A humorous column roasts golf folly from soggy weekends to weekend duffers. It mocks rules and self praise while painting players by attire, habits, and mishaps. The author also riffs on Kennedy Profiles in Courage and Pennsylvania legislators who vote by party, not conscience.
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Daddye
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania caucus power and reform hopes in legislature
William Ecenbarger argues that in Pennsylvania the party caucus drives policy more than committees. Reforms aim to curb excess partisanship, with House Speaker Fineman pushing direct committee-to-floor votes for nonpartisan measures and reserving caucus review for major bills.
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Pennsylvania General Assembly
House
Senate
Herbert Fineman
Philadelphia
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Pittsburgh
General Assembly
Peter Perry
Thomas E. Flaherty
Allegheny
Martin P. ‘Murray
Luzerne
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Burma
France
Lebanon
Turkey
White House
G. Gordon Liddy
United States
State, Treasury and
Justice Departments
CIA
Liddy
CIA Nixes
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
State Department
William Rogers
Defense, Justice and Treasury Departments
United Nations
Rogers
Shevchenko
Buckley
Balzano
Mike Balzano
Ford
James Buckley
R-N.y
David Keane
Spiro Agnew
Peace Corps
Vista
Corry Journal
United States Senate
Richard S. Schweiker
Washington,c
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Washington, D.C
Milton Shapp
Harrisburg
United States Representative Assembly
Joseph P. Vigorito
Cannon House
R. Budd Dwyer
Honorable Forest Hopkins
Jim Bishop
Tobochnokotsky
Sinking Swamp
Morris
By William Ecenbarger
Philadelphia Inquirer
The
Gleason Committee
Corry
Poppa
Mulligan
Milton J. Shapp
Shapp
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