Taxpayer Control: Virginians Demand Budget Oversight
The Virginia Taxpayers Association, led by Delegate T Dix Sutton and Delegate David A Sutherland, urges taxpayer control over schools and regional government. They criticize bureaucrats and advocate limiting programs not directly approved by voters. They call for continued legislative and public support beyond the House of Delegates.
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John Philpot Curran
Dublin
Virginia Taxpayers Association
T. Dix Sutton
I-Henrico
David A. Sutherland
Rfairfax
Sutherland
Sutton
Virginia General Assembly
House of Delegates
China Hands Hustling for New Liaison Office Posts
In Foggy Bottom about 70 Chinese speaking Foreign Service officers vie for assignments to the new liaison office near Peking. The head will have ambassadorial status in fact but not name, offering career advancement and regional postings. Top candidates include Hummel Holdridge Jenkins Leonard Osborne, all fluent in Chinese, as U S China relations move toward normalization.
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Peking
Arthur W. Hummel
John Holdridge
National Security Council
Alfred S. Jenkins
Department of State
James F. Leonard
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
David Osborne
Hong Kong
Welfare Mayors Rally For Federal Welfare Funds
Mayors aligned with the National Welfare Rights Association travel to Washington to demand all funds Congress has appropriated for welfare and related programs. Winston-Salem’s mayor says the outlook is brighter for continued funds, while critics accuse spending of harming the nation as President Nixon seeks inflation control. Local officials push for more municipal programs, some seen as wasteful or nonessential.
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National Welfare Rights Association
Washington
Congress
Nixon
Winston-Salem
The
National Welfare Rights’ Association
Governors Cry Wolf Over Nixon Fund Freeze
Democratic governors in Washington lament the Nixon federal fund freeze for state projects. The Tax Foundation study released with their complaints projects state-local general revenues could exceed spending by 13 billion in 1975 and 9 billion in 1980, even after revenue sharing and some aid programs are extended.
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Washington
Tax Foundation
Ryneceen
Ford
Ca Hill
Nixon
Senate
House
White House
Southern Governors Defend Budget Shift Debate
The discussion centers on charges that President Nixon shifted the Federal deficit to states while raising costs for subsidies. Governor Wendell Ford of Kentucky cites this, echoed by Georgia's Jimmy Carter and Arkansas's Dale Bumpers. The southern Democratic governors defend their states as exceptions, but they did not.
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Nixon
Wendell Ford
Kentucky
Georgia
Carter
Arkansas
Dale Bumpers
Academic myths and rituals on campus examined
The author surveys academic life through anthropological lenses, noting myths rituals and incantations shaping faculty culture. Books by Andrew Greeley and Thomas Sowell frame debates from McCarthy era to race and virtue, showing how the academy creates and sustains its own myths and responses to society.
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Greeley
Andrew Greeley
Senator McCarthy
McCarthy
South Africa
Thomas Sowell
Can Peace Come To The Middle East Considerations
Ralph de Toledano analyzes how factors shape Egypt's Sadat toward peace with Israel. He notes Arab restraint, internal pressures in Egypt, Libyan influence, and shifts in Soviet and U.S. roles that affect Sadat's leverage and risk. The piece weighs war consequences and the path to a conference table amid competing incentives.
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United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Middle East
Sinai
Anwar el-Sadat
Egypt
Israel
Sadat
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser
Farouk
Syria
Iraq
Soviet Union
Kremlin
United Nations
Soaper Soothes Skeptics On Emotions And Life Woes
A columnist riffs on emotions in machines and everyday life. The piece touches on a vacation morning alarm, a town’s changing landscape, government checks and balances, and a quip about Polonius and borrowing. It also mentions a hungry man named Shotgun Schultz and nostalgic basketball.
Buckley Favors Permanent Radio Licenses And Cable Growth
In a provocative speech William F Buckley Jr argues the Nexon Administration seeks to censor news via Dr Clay Whitehead and urges permanent license ownership through amortization and public auction while praising cable and pay TV expansion. The Danville Register cites his critique of Nixon era media policy and calls for a freer, less politicized broadcast landscape.
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Fred Friendly
Ford Foundation
Nexon Administration
Clay Whitehead
the. Telecom
Mithous Nixon
New York
van d
Washington
Cronkite
Sevareid
Brinkley
Mr. Friendly
Whitehead
Friendly
Milton Friedman
Pay. TV
Eric Sevareid
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Polonius
Shotgun Schultz
William F. Buckley, Jr
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Pastore
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