South Africa’s Nuclear Fears and Global Repercussions
The piece surveys a nuclear scare over South Africa’s potential test and decoy claims, noting international reactions, Carter era efforts to curb threshold nations, and France’s dual role as arms supplier and advocate of disarmament. It shifts to the Koreagate scandal, Leon Jaworski’s ethics probe, and calls for truth amid political stonewalls.
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Soviet Union
France
South Africa
Dr. Strangelove
United States
Pretoria
Ft Kalahari
Institute For Strategic Studies of London
Israel
Taiwan
Pakistan
Leon Jaworski
House
South Korea
Secon Park
Korea
Suzi Park Thomson
House Ethics Committee
Miss Thomson
Mr. Park
Mr. Jaworski
Danville Register Calls for Signed Letters to Editor
The Danville Register invites letters to the editor and requires signatures and addresses to be printed. For verification writers may list telephone numbers. All letters are subject to editing and may be shortened if space is tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Danville Register
Buckley calls for international force to invade Cambodia
William F Buckley Jr urges Congress to authorize an international military force including Asian, Southeast Asian and other volunteers to intervene in Cambodia. He argues the Khmer Rouge regime causes massive deaths, condemns Western inaction, and contrasts with past aims like saving Jews, urging decisive action despite complex geopolitics.
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Congress
Cambodia
North Vietnam
China
Hitler
United Nations
Congress Stretches Deficit Drawn Into Election Year
Washington analysis notes Congress widened a 60 billion deficit to fund farm veteran and student aid while preserving only a nominal budget review. Muskie and Giaimo faced a partisan retreat as 188 members opposed the final resolution, with few genuinely upholding fiscal restraint. Senator Talmadge pressed agriculture boosts amid Carter’s concessions.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Set
Edmund Muskie
D.-Me
Robert Giaimo
D.conn
Mes
Colege
Ways and Means
Gillespie Montgomery
D.-Miss
Democratic Congress
Carter Risks Major Push on Iran AWACS Sale
President Carter moves forward with a $1.2 billion AWACS sale to Iran despite strong opposition within his circle and Congress. The White House faces liberal skeptics and a hostile Senate, raising concerns over executive power and foreign policy control.
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Washington
Carter
Ftee
Congress
Iran
Vietnam
Mr. Carter
Central Intelligence
Stansfield Turner
Adm
Turner
Jessica Tuchman
National Security Council Unsc
Miss Tuchman
U.5
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA
Administration
Saudi Arabia
Washington Post
Thomas Hirschfeld
Capitol Hil
Brown
Jimmy Carter
Lee Hamilton
Indiana
House International Relations Committee
Oval Office
House
Senate
Sen
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
Frank Church
Church
U.S
Labor clash over Farah boycott ends in stalemate
A critique by Harald P. Coxson Jr. argues the 1972 to 1974 Farah boycott produced no clear winner. Farah Manufacturing faced lost sales and stock declines while workers gained only modest wage increases and limited long-term organizational impact amid a costly, bitter labor battle.
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Washington
Labor Relations
Harald P. Coxson, Jr
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Coxson
Farah Manufacturing Company
el Paso
Willie Farah
Farah
San Antonio
Fortune Magazine
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Pittsburgh
Boycot
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Gary Gilmore
Sam
Stephane Grouet
Soir
Egypt
Khieu Samphan
Presidium
Samphen
Stalin
Ralph Hochhuth
Charles Bartlett
Herman Talmadge
D.-Ga
Talmadge
Evans and
Novak
Lynn Davis
James Kilpatrick
Boyce of Farah Products
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