Howells Agency Fee Plan in Virginia Right To Work Debate
The Godwin Howell campaign clashed over Virginia Right To Work. Howell promoted an agency fee proposal to compel nonunion workers to pay union dues if a contract exists, effectively undermining Right To Work without repeal. Godwin attacked the plan as a backdoor repeal, noting Howell’s AFL-CIO ties and past sponsorship. The controversy centers on worker choice versus management influence and campaign honesty.
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Godwin-Howell
Virginia
Godwin
Howell
Senate
Mills E. Godwin, Jr
Fredericksburg
Kiwanis Club
Richmond
General Assembly
Clean Up The Smut and Redefine Obscenity Standards
The Supreme Court overturned the 1957 rule that obscenity needed “utterly without redeeming social value,” replacing it with a standard that a work taken as a whole must have serious literary artistic political or scientific value. It rejected a national standard, urging community decency standards to prevail with offensiveness as a fact for local judges or juries to decide. The ruling strengthens enforcement by police prosecutors and local governing bodies, signaling broader cleanup efforts this weekend and beyond.
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Burger
High Court
Parting Shots on Politics and Ironies
A string of wry observations about politics and public life. The piece jokes that calls for dedication resemble ribbon cutting photos and notes the challenges of protest. It skewers executives, cyclists, air travel, and Brezhnev’s smoking habit with sharp, dry humor.
Buckley on Brezhnev and Soviet trade relations debate
In a critique of U.S. Soviet policy, Buckley recalls Brezhnev pushing for improved relations and opposing the Jackson Amendment and emigration tax. Brezhnev lunches with leaders, using a forceful approach, while critics question what the U.S. truly gains from a broader trade agenda.
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Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Israel
Getting The President
An underground Washington paper L Street Pravada chronicles its editorials and methods in a 1973 Ervin Committee session, claiming a vendetta driven push to undermine Nixon and the presidency. It juxtaposes media behavior, political outcomes, and Soviet-U.S. dynamics with pointed satire and denials of fair play.
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Washington, D.C
L Street
Pravada
Ervin Committee
Sam Dash
United States
Ervin
Rome
Jeb Magruder
William Sloane Coffin
Washington Monument
Magruder
Senator Twouye
Nixon
Gurney
Barry Goldwater Oil Crisis Urges Prompt Action
A call for immediate congressional authorization to start building the trans Alaska pipeline dominates the piece. The speech warns that delays risk a nationwide fuel shortage, increases foreign pressure, and invites blackmail while urging a unified push to boost domestic oil supplies. It cites Libya's oil nationalizations and quotes Senator Bartlett on the crisis needing urgent, bipartisan action.
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Congress
Alaska
Middle East
Libya
Bunker Hunt Oil Co
Dallas
Texas
American Oil Company
Muammar
Khadafy
United States
Bunker Hunt
Washington
Israel
Dewey F. Bartlett
Oklahoma
Senate
Kilpatrick on Sports Nature and Watergate Reflections
James J. Kilpatrick muses on sports honesty and national ethics amid Watergate hearings. He contrasts batting order fairness with political corruption, noting Magruder’s plea for honesty and the snake’s hunger as a metaphor for moral decay. He warns that power corrupts and urges learning from nature and sport about enduring values.
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Scrabble
Red Smith
Norman Podhoretz
Thomas G. Bergin
Intellectual Digest
Podhoretz
Smith
America
Watergate
L. Patrick Gray
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Sen
Howard Baker
Magruder
Blacksnake
Cowbird
Danville Daily Subscription Rates and Notices
The Danville Register lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday delivery by carrier at 50 cents per week, and by mail at 20 dollars per year or 10.50 for six months, 5.25 for three months, and 1.75 for one month. Notices are mailed 10 days before expiration. renewals should be prompt.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Justice White
Leonid Brezhnev
William F. Buckley
Mr. Brezhnev
Frank Church
Him
Holmes Alexander
National Archives
Weicker
San Clemente
Caesar Chavez
Secret Service
California
Florida
Hyannisport
LBJ
Ney
Church
Hiroshima
Baltet
Russia
Pravda
Moscow
Voice of America
Radio Liberty
Richard Nixon
Jackson
James J. Kilpatrick
Danville
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