Danville Council Clashes Over Ex Officio Pay Boosts
Danville City Council debated ending extra ex officio payments to constitutional officers. The circuit judge would keep a $7500 annual supplement through 1976, with a potential eight year continuation totaling about $360,000, while other officers also receive smaller extras. The council remains split on whether to cut the practice amid a no pay increase policy.
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Virginia
General Assembly
State Compensation Board
Danville
Danville Bar Association
Craig
A. K. Anderson
Corporation of
Far East Senate Tensions Inspire Foreign Alliance Talks
The piece notes tense affairs around a senator in the far east region stirring talk of new alliances. A bus dialogue mocks mainstream life while a bet on friendliness hints at uncertain relations. A warning on training a son to earn income contrasts with parental expectations.
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Far East
Terrorism Versus Civil Liberty Debate in 1968 74
An opinion piece compares casualties from terrorism and urban violence, arguing civil liberty may trump survival and criticizing approaches to transnational terrorism. It cites DoD figures: 46,397 killed in action 1961 to 1975 and 295 DC homicides in 1974, urging sympathetic views toward radicals while condemning terrorists. It notes Welson Rockefeller and Frank Church oppose CIA investigations.
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Washington, D.C
District of Columbia
Department of Defense
Welson Rockefeller
Commission
CIA
United States
Frank Church
Senate Select Committee
People’s Republic of China
Rockefeller Church
Rockefellers
Congress
Conservative politics and the rise of a new party plan
A discussion of Senator Brock's view on Ford's national and Republican ratings, the impact of William Rusher's The Making of the New Majority Party, and the prospect of a Wallace Reagan coalition forming an Independent Party. The piece weighs GOP weakness, liberal vetoes, and a 55 45 Independence Party tilt, amid terrorism debates and civil liberties concerns.
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Ford
William Brock
Brock
Senator Brock
William Rusher
National Review Magazine
Princeton
Harvard Law School
Harvard Young Republican Club
New York
Eisenhower
Goldwater
Senate
National Review
The
Advocates
Barry Goldwater
Republican
Rusher
Robert Novak
Nelson Rockefeller
Ron Dellums
Sonny Montgomery
Mr. Rusher
George Wallace
Wallace
George McGovern
McGovern
Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Independent Party
New Hampshire
Reagan
Folin Chamberlain Reclamation and Grassroots Energy Policy
The piece argues Ford's veto of a federal strip minining bill and praises grassroots reclamation efforts. It highlights Pierre Goodrich's Middle Western land restoration, TVA garbage to energy plans in Knoxville, and North Dakota REAP programs. It emphasizes local control, regional plan integration, and the Madisonian idea of community-led problem solving amid energy concerns.
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Ford
Wilfred Beckerman
Pierre Goodrich
Indianapolis
Goodrich
Kentucky
West Virginia
Alabama
Knoxville
Tenn
TVA
Tennessee
North Carolina
Mississippi
Appalachian
St. Louis
Baltimore
Nashville
Brockton
Mass
South Charleston
W.va
Menlo Park
Calif
North Dakota
Upper Middle West
Battelle Columbus Laboratories
Alaskan
North Slope
Powder River
Wyoming
Moriana
Four Corners
New Mexico
Arizona
Northern Great Plains
Montana
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Jack Horton
Saddlestring
Land and Water
U.S. Department of the Interior
Congress
Silent Rights? Western Bias on Global Tyrannies
Jeffrey Hart contrasts a hypothetical right wing Lisbon junta with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, arguing Western media outrage is skewed. He contends global press and elites only protest rightist oppression, while ignoring leftist atrocities and the Cambodian genocide.
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James Burnham
National Review
Lisbon
Congress
Amnesty International
Cambodia
Tamerlane the Great
Phnom Penh
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