The Second Reconstruction and Voting Rights Controversy
The piece argues that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 imposes continued punitive limits on six southern states and 39 counties, likening it to a new Reconstruction. It claims motives include political punishment for Goldwater support and warns the act hinders equal justice, urging restoration of balance while noting minority voting gains. The piece ends with a satirical quip about a young motorist and fossil fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Union
South
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Virginia
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
U. S. House of Representatives
Thaddeus
Lyndon Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Supreme Court
Johnson
N. C
U.S
House Judiciary Committee
Texas
Alaska
Charles Wiggins
R-Calif
M. Caldwell Butler
D-Va
House
The Future Of USIA Voice Of America Plan
The citizens panel led by Dr. Frank Stanton proposes a five member VOA board. One State Department official handles information policy, one handles cultural activities, and three private sector members are Presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate. The Director would report to the board but under the Secretary of State. The plan splits information from culture, placing tactical information under State and cultural work under a separate agency, while preserving VOA as a body. The piece critiques this, noting past practice prioritizes national interest, and argues for maintaining access to diverse cultural voices and a strong, credible VOA independent of mere policy articulation.
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Citizens Panel
Frank Stanton
Voice of America
VOA
United States
State Department
Senate
Stanton
Voice
Secretary of State
America
USIA
Dr. Stanton
Percy
Solzhenitsyn
Wrongs Of Racial Balance Busing Critique By Scholars
In a series of recent reports three qualified scholars conclude that racial balance busing fails to achieve integration and can cause greater segregation. Coleman, Young, and Bress note the practice is simplistic and often worsens desegregation efforts, as observed across multiple studies and discussions.
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Washington
James Ss. Coleman
University of Chicago
Bilaine Whiting Young
University of Illinois
Grace Billings Bress
University of Minnesota
Woodrow Wilson
Harvard
Young
Bress
The
Kappan
Phi Delta Kappa
National Observer
Coleman
Mrs. Young
Supreme Court
Noes Yeses and the power to choose a new path
A reflective essay argues that life is shaped by responses to noes and yeses. It cites a seminarian story and moon mission aftermath to warn against fatalism, urging readers to seek new options, not wallow in helplessness, and to question desegregation busing and court policies shaping schools.
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Paul
Bithynia
Asia Minor
Black Sea
Troy
Macedonia
Athens
Corinth
Fife
Unifying Force and Civic Virtue in American Society
A opinion piece reflecting on political virtue in America citing Gerald Ford Susan Ford Jerry Brown and John Connally. It frames virtue as the glue of a republic and contrasts it with crime greed and party decay, citing Beeman and Wood and urging renewed focus on civic virtue and republican ideals.
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Washington, D.C
Gerald Ford
Susan Ford
Jerry Brown
California
John Connally
United States
Europe
Winchester
White House
Governor Brown
Connally
Patrick Henry
Richard R. Beeman
Henry
Britain
Iran
Soviet Union
America
Beeman
Virginia
Gordon Wood
Jerry Ford
Domino Theory Vindicated By Vietnam Collapse
Column remarks on Barry Goldwater's domino theory and the rapid fall of Southeast Asian nations to communism. Cambodia fell first, Laos followed with a Pathet Lao led coalition, and threats spread to Thailand and Korea. Critics in Congress and liberals are blamed for opposing a clear strategic warning, while military advice is dismissed as partisan.
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Vietnam
United States
Free World
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Laos
Pathet Lao
Thailand
Korea
South Vietnam
Congress
Department of Defense
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William F. Buckley, Jr
James J. Kilpatrick
L. D. Johnson
Furman University
Thad
Gene Cernan
Buzz Aldrin
Moon
Ed Mitchell
Jim Irwin
Air Force
Cernan
T Holmes Alexander
Danville
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