Yugoslav Court Sentences Writer for “No Freedom of Speech”
A Yugoslav court jailed Mihajlo Mihajlov for seven years on charges tied to an article in Western press claiming there is no freedom of speech in Yugoslavia. The ruling underscores the regime’s limits on dissent and mirrors Cold War totalitarian rhetoric.
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Josip Broz Tito
Socialist Federal Republic
Yugoslavia
Aleksandra Solzhenitsyn
Siberia
Kremlin
Mihajlo Mihajlov
Mihajlov
Solzhenitsyn
Mihailov
Totalitaria
Soviet Union
China
North Vietnam
Ford moves toward compromise on energy and tax issues
President Ford, after talks with congressional leaders, delays the second and third dollars of the import oil duty for 60 days. He vetoes a bill to suspend the import duty for 90 days and seeks a bipartisan energy and tax program by May. Al Ullman supports the move as feasible and urges quick action to ease energy shortages and unemployment pressures.
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Ford
Congress
al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congressional Energy Program Legisl
Essure
Big Bills Remain In Circulation And Demand Grows
The United States has not printed currency larger than the 106 bill since 1946, yet hundreds of millions of dollars remain in 500 and 1000 bills and a rising demand for 50 and 100 bills appears. Banking experts offer theories from inflation to under the table use while noting big bills stay legal tender unless deposited.
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United States
Meany Signals Quiet shift Toward Socialism in Energy Plan
At a Bal Harbour executive council meeting George Meany of AFL-CIO proposed breaking up big oil and questioned a $20 billion crash program for energy, hinting nationalization or socialization of oil could occur, marking a surprising socialist tilt for labor leadership. The move contrasts with Gompers and Lewis who built power but never embraced collectivism.
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George Meany
Afl-Cio
Bal Harbour
Florida
Executive Council
Meany
Soviet
Russia
America
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
AFL
John
Lewis
AFL CIO energy plan criticized at Bal Harbour meeting
The author attacks Meany and the AFL CIO energy program arguing dependence on government stifles new development. The piece warns that big oil may buy coal resources, undermining exploration while suggesting subsidies would raise taxes and inflation, hurting American industry and workers.
How Well Has 25th Served
Birch Bayh aints, at 47, Maine to Indiana senator who led the 25th Amendment drive after Watergate. He says the amendments saved the country from a harder impeachment path and helped pick Ford and Rockefeller as leaders. Critics doubt the 25th’s reach and ponder interim presidents and the people’s right to choose a first citizen.
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Washington, D.C
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Senate
Bayh
United States
Constitutional Amendments
House Judiciary
Peter Redino
Richard Nixon
Carl Albert
White House
Hig
Nixon
Congress
Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Indiana
William Hathaway
Dmaine
Hathaway
Eisenhower
Piety Hill Burned Down Buried by Bulldozer After Ash Wednesday
Russell Kirk recollects the destruction of his ancestral home Piety Hill a tall Italianate house built in 1878 by Amas Johnson. Fire destroyed the structure despite fire crews effort leaving only a cheap cup. He reflects on ghosts family memories and plans for a new brick house binding dead and living with virtue and faith.
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Piety Hill
Amasx Johnson
Ruskin
Isaac Pierce
California
Walter Scott
Annette
Gustave le Bon
Edmund Burke
Tno
Towering Inferno boosts city buzz and elder woes
Senator Spaper News notes aging citizens face issues beyond Congress. Bus talk vents frustration as a tall, angry man welcomes a new film about him. February’s two inch snow draws more notice than prior month’s inch. The piece highlights how a large share of the workday funds taxes, even at lunch, with restaurant owners bearing the cost.
Buckley critiques Hoover leaks on congressional peccadilloes
The writer questions Time Magazine’s use of the term peccadilloes in reports about J Edgar Hoover detailing to Lyndon Johnson the moral lapses of critics. He argues the sensational details reveal a muddle about public morality, FBI surveillance, and political culture, while defending Hoover’s legacy. He notes the paradoxes in public reaction and the awkward boundary between private indiscretions and public responsibility.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon Johnson
Mr. Hoover
America
FBI
United States
Congress
Congressman Jones
Jones
Soviet Union
It&t
Hoover
Jonson
Congressman Smith
Time Magazine
Canterbury
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U.S
North Sea
Britain
Bal Harbair
Sche Kine
Holmes Alexander
Russell Kirk
Senator Spaper
Tee Wife
Restaur
William F. Buckley Jr
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