Cities Face Expanded Liability For Police Misconduct
High Point's Police Review Court illustrates stricter standards while the DC Court of Appeals rejects the rule shielding cities from civil rights liability for officers. The ruling holds a city, even when a specific officer is unnamed, legally liable for constitutional violations due to training and supervision failures, potentially broadening future lawsuits and prompting better police training.
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High Point
Police Review
U.S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Washington
David L. Bazelon
Nixon's New Economics Targets Unemployment Prices and Deficit
President Nixon's plan aims to raise employment by boosting spending through tax cuts and reduced federal outlays, with pump priming around 4.8 billion annually. Prices would be stabilized for 90 days, while the balance of payments and dollar value shift as gold ties are cut. Americans abroad may bear the short term effects as the dollar adjusts.
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Nixon
Mr. Nixon
Israeli Leftists to Tour Soviet Union for Jewish Fate Report
Reports indicate six Israeli leftists will tour the Soviet Union to observe and report on the fate of Jews there. The group is expected to portray events in a sympathetic light toward their Soviet hosts, seeking to improve strained relations since 1967.
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Israel
Soviet Union
Secrecy Clash Through 18th and 20th Century Press Battles
The piece contrasts the 1798 Sedition Act fight over Federalist secrecy with the Pentagon Papers controversy, highlighting government classification, the Espionage Act case against Daniel Ellsberg, and debates on public access versus national security. It notes officials, scholars, and a retired Pentagon officer weighing the impact of secrecy on democracy.
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Pentagon
Albert Gallatin
Pennsylvania
Federalist Party
Republican Party
Daniel Elisberg
Elisberg
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
United States
Ellsberg
Vietnam
House
William G. Florence
Nixon era economic alarm and Cheyenne helicopter scandal
Editorial warns US economy is slipping behind Japan amid corporate excess and union squabbling while the Cheyenne helicopter program faced cost overruns and a questionable Lockheed contract amid White House pressure. It cites Ford price rollbacks and Meany opposition as signs of instability.
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Treasury
Lockheed
Penn Central
Zoological Gardens
White House
Ford
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Army
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Europe
Air Force
Marines
Seventh Army study doubts Cheyenne air support value
A draft congressional report questions the Cheyenne helicopter’s effectiveness in European combat under poor weather, noting limited night use and vulnerability. It cites seven of eight officers doubting survivability and favors fixed wing AX and Marine Harrier as better close air support options.
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Cheyenne
Seventh Army
Europe
Charles ‘Mac’ Mathias
R-Md
William Proxmire
D-Wis
John Seiberling
D-Ohio
Seventh Army Air Cavalry
Air Cavalry
Air Force
Marine Corps
Congress For Peace Through Law
Proxmire
California
Martin Lobel
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Wisconsin
University of California In
Presisaan
A8l Ik
Toma
Sodialistate
International YMCA visitors boost Amity at Camp Cherrie closure
Japanese teen age students joined Roaring Gap and Burlington youngsters for Camp Cherrie closing week. They played softball, staged judo and karate exhibitions, and shared positive person to person ties under International YMCA Student Exchange sponsorship.
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Camp Cherrie
Roaring Gap
International Ymca
Cheerio
Burlington
YMCA
Robert Scott
Governor’s Mansion
Japan
Moscow
Peking
Uncle Sam
America
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Asheboro
Darrell Corder
Kernersville
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Murphy Osborne
Ralph Gurley
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