Demos Aim for Orderly Democratic National Convention
Analysis by Alan Ehrenhalt examines reforms for the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. Delegates will be elected via primaries or caucuses with minority representation goals, while credentials and floor procedures face scrutiny and potential challenges. Security plans emphasize controlled dissent and lower profile policing ahead of the event.
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Democratic Party
Chicago
Alan Ehrenhalt
Congressional Quarterly
Miami Beach
Richard J. Daley
Special Commission On
Arizona
Richard Murphy
Murphy
Rocky Pomerance
Miami
Hartsville council sparks debate over prepublication news approval
Hartsville South Carolina officials passed a rule requiring council approval before news about the town is released. Councilman Beattie framed it as accuracy protection, not censorship, after a Florence Morning News report claimed a 900 percent rise in drug arrests from 1970 to 1971. The paper condemned the move as censorship.
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Hartsville
S. C
P. H. Beattie
Florence
The
Morning News
ITT Pledged Millions to Block Allende in Chile
ITT officials discussed offering to assist financially up to seven figures to stop Salvador Allende’s 1970 election in Chile. Documents show covert talks with the White House, State Department, and CIA to provoke economic chaos or a military coup to prevent a Marxist government and protect ITT Chile investments.
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Washington International Telephone and Telegraph
ITT
Salvadore Allende
White House
U.S
Allende
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Chile
John Mitchell
Edward Kory
William V. Broe
Division of Clandestine Services
Broe
E. J.gerrity, Jr
New York
J.D
Jack) Neal
Washington
Kissinger
Them
Geneen
Harold Geneen
Charles
Chuck) A. Meyer
Chuck
Mr. Geneen
Mitchell
Eep Allende
Frei
Kerry
Gerrity
Roberto Viaux
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Nixon trip to China raises Soviet reassurance questions
Viewpoint notes Brezhnev's Moscow speech hints at secret China talks and nonaggression hopes with the Soviet Union. U S officials say Nixon's China visit aims for peace, not anti Moscow deals, while warning against new arms or sphere of influence moves.
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Washington
Nixon
Red China
Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev
Communist Party
Moscow
United States
China
Peking
Brezhnev
Kremlin
State Department
Charles W. Bray
Bray
Pla
London
Russia
Asia
Europe
Union
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Indochina
We are known by the company we keep saying
The text notes the familiar proverb about influence of associates and cites biblical verses from Exodus Proverbs and Corinthians. It argues that character is rubbed off by those we surround ourselves with and traces a chain of influence from a London boy to Wilberforce, using Tolstoy as a literary contrast.
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William Dean Howells
Tolstoy
England
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Edward Kerry
Sasanella
Viewpoint
David Lawrence
Decatur Daily
W. R. Shelton
Decatur
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Printing CO. Inc -P
Ala
Associated Press
Billy Graham
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