Dollar Devaluation Talk Prompts Trade Shield Debate
The piece reports Secretary Connally’s plan to submit a dollar devaluation bill to Congress in early February from $35 to $38 an ounce. It details mounting protectionist sentiment in both chambers, the Hartke Burke bill’s hard quota measures, and potential impacts on multinational corporations and foreign investment.
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Leonard Silk
New York Times
Sec
The
Treasury
John Connally
Washington
San Clemente
Connally
Congress
Old Castle
Japan
U.S
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
United States
House
Senate
Banking and Currency Committees
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Vance Hartke
James A. Burke
Dmass
Adam Smith
Hartke-Burke
Opinion on Civil Rights and hiring bias in Alabama
A reader letters page argues the NAACP lawsuit on Black troopers could force discriminatory hiring if successful. The writer questions voter and policy effects, predicts slow progress to full minority representation, and urges fair hiring for all government workers. The letter also references a December 1971 Decatur Daily editorial on a Morgan County murder trial and character witnesses.
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Mason Drive
Hartselle
Alabama
Decatur Daily
NAACP
Highway Patrol
Thomas Reed
Danville
THE
James P. McDonald
Circuit Court of
Morgan County
Howard Hughes Memo Record Reveals Secret Motives and Battles
Washington column exposes Hughes’s late 1960s memos to Robert Maheu detailing plans against the AEC Nevada tests and a push to control media. It notes his ambition to steer public opinion, buy newspapers and TV stations, and his mixed views on race amid 1968 unrest.
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Nevada
United States
Hughes
Las Vegas
Desert Inn
Robert Maheu
AEC
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Maheu
Hawaii
A. EF. C
A. E.C
Martin Luther King
CBS News
Washington
Chicago
Bob
Nixon actions urged to secure peace in Asia and Europe
Viewpoint argues the Soviet Union’s naval expansion and India Pakistan tensions threaten Asia’s peace. It urges President Nixon to pursue arms limits and a broad understanding with China and the Soviet Union, including troop reductions and pacts to end war, to build a sustained era of peace.
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Washington
Soviet Union
India
Pakistan
Asia
Indian Ocean
Bangladesh
Red China
United States
Mediterranean
Pacific
Far East
Russia
Peking
Moscow
Nixon
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
Burma
Ceylon
Asian
Hanoi
Indochina
North Vietnam
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
When Money Fails In Endurance Of Life Beartooth Snowstorm
A sermon-like reflection contrasts wealth with spiritual values citing 1 Timothy 6 10 and Luke 12 15. It cites Minnesota Vikings Jim Marshall and Paul Dickson facing a fatal blizzard on Beartooth Mountain where a fire was started with five one dollar bills.
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S.A
Jesus
Minnesota
Jim Marshall
Paul Dickson
Beartooth Mountain
Rockies
Dickson
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Fredrick J. Bonfils
David E. Thomas
Kennedy
Niche
Howard Hughes
Jack Anderson
Hollywood
Viewpoint
David Lawrence
W. R. Shelton
Decatur
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
P.O
Ala
Associated Press
NATO
Billy Graham
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