Nixon Looks Toward 1972 With Call for Renewal
President Nixon used a Christmas tree light speech to sketch a legacy for 1972 including foreign policy peace, clean air and water, and a stronger economy. He faces a tough two years, seeks a friendlier Congress, and aims to lift employment and stabilize prices to win back support.
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White House
California
Congress
Agnew
Bill Brown
Philadelphia
Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
Robert J. Brown
Sky
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Triad
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Charlotte
Bob Brown
Oregon Governor Plants Private Executives In State Work
Governor Tom McCall uses a Management 70s Task Force to inject private sector executives into Oregon state agencies for one year. Early results show projected savings of 25 to 30 million dollars over two years, with potential avoidance of 500 thousand dollars in hiring costs. Taxpayers and officials praise the program.
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Tom McCall
Oregon
McCall
Britain’s immigration bill aims to curb nonwhite influx
Britain faces a rising nonwhite population with 1.25 million likely to double in 15 years. A far reaching immigration bill will repeal five acts and tighten entry, amid debates over repatriation and police concerns. About 80 000 are believed to have entered illegally over the past decade. Welfare groups push for amnesty to regularize status.
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London
Britain
Bath
Commonwealth
Isles
Joe Rogaly
Financial Times
House of Commons
Sunday Times
Powell
Reginald Maulding
FTC Row Over United Fruit AMK Merger Secrets Revealed
Private memos show FTC Commissioner Mary Gardiner Jones blocked prosecution of a United Fruit AMK merger, despite staff evidence of consumer harm. Director Alan Ward urged a strong case, noting higher prices and reduced competition, while Jones later admitted flip flopping amid chairman ambitions.
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United Fruit Co
Chiquita Banana
AMK
Nixon
John Mitchell
FTC
Mary Gardiner Jones
Competition Bureau
Alan Ward
Ward
AAMCO
Leo Durocher
Ballyhoo
Durocher
Neiman-Marcus
Broadway-Hale
Senate showdown and Nixon era foreign policy tussles
The piece outlines Sen Harris pressuring Democrats to strip seniority from John Stennis and Jim Eastland over bi racial party credentials in Mississippi. It also reports Nixon’s anger over Soviet escalation in the Middle East and Caribbean, Kissinger urging a tougher line, and a Pentagon memo proposing hard news style propaganda in service media.
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Senate
Fred Harris
D-Okla
John Stennis
Jim Eastland
Mississippi
Aaron Henry
NAACP
Stennis
Henry
Eastland
Harris
Virginia
Harry Byrd
Washington
Nixon
Oval Office
Kremlin
White House
Middle East
Caribbean
Henry Kissinger
Defense Department
Pentagon
Snow falls and politics mix in a town with memories
The piece recalls a snowy spell while detailing post retirement life of former Congressman Carl T. Durham in Chapel Hill. It notes Durham’s lasting Washington ties, farm life, and his reflections on service, succession, and family as decades pass.
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Chapel Hill
Burlington
Washington and
Congress
Durham
Washington
Horace Kornegay
Richardson Preyer
Kornegay
The
Tobacco Institute
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